Chrono’s Fear

Looking back at the first day’s I used a mouse, makes the old look like the caveman’s discovery of fire and the wheel. First mouse I had was a old Packard Bell 2 button. Comparing it to what I have today, being mine now is wireless and optical, 1080dpi and invisible laser tech. Makes it look like a antique.

Technology sure has come a long way from day’s of the old way’s we even attempted to use PC’s for. Now only if we had those ‘replicators’… haha.

Read more on: Humble Mouse Turns 40 - Technology news | Newser

(Newser) Its been 40 years since the computer mouse made its public debut, and though innovations have been legion, the basic concept is still the same. Macworld takes a look back at some key moments in the devices evolution. * 1963: The first recognizable mouse prototype is built. It only had one button, but more were to come well, not for Mac users. * 1972: The first all-digital mouse is conceived; previous attempts needed to translate analog signals for computers to understand. * 1981: The first commercial mouse is produced for a $20,000 Xerox system nobody bought. * 1984: The debut of the classic, and enduring, Apple one-button mouse. * 1987: IBM starts selling PS/2 computers, and with them PS/2 mice, which would become the standard for PC clones. * 1999: Optical tracking is freed from the need for a special mouse pad, and Microsoft releases the first viable wireless mouse.

Well it’s been a boring, storm here and it knocks my music off when I’m laying down. Get up and notice the Last.fm icon in Songbird, and I look through their image/badge/sig creator links to other sites. So far the only good one I’ve seen is this one.

Songbird - Open Source Music Player

Well seems Microsoft is once again in hot water over the faulty Xbox 360’s either scratch disks or more of it’s faulty-ness and disks cracking. Glad I’m not sue happy, I’ve had 2 Halo 3 Disks crack and my Rock Band’s got a small hairline crack in the center pressed ring. Kotaku:

Microsoft Sued Over Scratched Xbox 360 Game Discs

A Madison County, Illinois man has had it up to here (hand at chin level) with the Xbox 360 that scratched three of his video game discs. He’s suing Microsoft, seeking more than $50,000. Xbox 360 owner Jason Johnson filed suit against the company after his console scratched his copies of Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV, rendering all three unplayable, according to the Madison County Record. Johnson claims he heard "unnatural, grinding noises while the game disc was spinning," determining that his console was defective and to blame for the damage. Johnson’s defective console was a replacement for a Xbox 360 that red-ringed in 2007. The complaint contends that Microsoft "violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act" and that Microsoft stands to profit from issuing paid-for replacement discs to compensate those harmed by Microsoft’s own product. Microsoft was hit with a class action suit for the same issue in 2007. The suit also claims that "the Xbox 360 was not of merchantable quality or safe or fit for its intended use, because it was unfit for the ordinary purposes for which it was used, because the Xbox 360 cannot play any discs during normal use without permanently damaging those discs." Johnson is said to be claiming $50,000 in punitive damages on top of attorney’s fees and regular costs. Man claims Xbox 360 scratched games in suit against Microsoft [Madison-St. Clair Record]

Well Seems Blizzards at it again on the Private Server scene for Emu (Not the Bird) Servers for WoW.

OnyxBlack:

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as Digital Rights Management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works and it also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.

Considering that the letters sent to the private servers did not include an actual subpoena, some feel its just a warning before blizzard takes further action, while others feel its a hoax. As well it would cost tens of thousands for blizzard to go to court if some stood up to them. Where it is a bit iffy, if they would win at all. The server is not illegal as it was written from the ground up, their arguement is that the clients that are being used to connect to the server are illegal copies (How many of you guys actually bought the game?) Also considering that the DMCA is a United States law, they would have to get the government involved to go after Rockstar which is based in Canada. Which would be more money down the hole for blizzard. Its truely not cost efficient. Some may argue that the servers them selfs are illegal which is not true as you can see that blizzard did not go after the emulater websites, they went after the people who where running them (All of those they did go after being based in the US). The cost in how much their losing relative to people that would normaly be charged monthly is hardly worth the cost to go to court. Though never the less, I think everyone is keeping a close eye on the matter.

DMCA - be careful RS! - RockStar WOW Funserver

WordPress.Org

Well I went ahead and upgraded to the Release Candidate 1 for Word Press 2.7. So far I have to say it looks great and even the admin panel looks better than it did before. So way to go WP Dev’s. Also the BD Icon theme looks great that they added to this Release Candidate. If you want to check it out, go and look here.

WordPress : Blog » WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1

December 1, 2008 WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 By Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases. With the release of RC1, were in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs. We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try out. Please download RC1 and help us make the final release the best it can be. As always, back up your blog before upgrading. Get RC1.

So lets see, my xbox has been acting up since I bought it back around my 25th birthday. Sometimes the graphics will distort and cause colors to be matrix-like or even unsee-able. Finally was able to show a friend, it seem’s that when it done it during my avatar creation it caused it to save the avatar with my distortion problem. Pretty funny and cool in a way, but does get annoying after awhile.

Example:

Still very weird that it does it, it’s nothing like a RRoD but still noteworth to show to others. I’m probably gonna send the xbox in anyways to get it fixed. I’ve had some bad Halo 3 matches due to my screen going full white on me due to this problem.

We get the inside word on the new story in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

2Moons

Well been playing a game called 2Moons by Acclaim. Pretty fun game, but painstaking to level at all, nothing like WoW. But still fun in the end. Me and a friend Khatrie have been playing it for a while. I’ve gotten to lvl 45, I think he’s around 48ish. Just hope its worth the long leveling in the end and we see lvl 1xx lol.

Video:

Well got this little blurb of a space up and going finally. Thanks to

Better to try these since Godaddy suspened me for not asking first. Anway off to bed I go will do more later.