Cybra.Net : Geekery Abounds

For anyone else confused on the new graphics options on the March 3rd iMac release, here's how to compare them:

GeForce GT 120 = 9500GT
GeForce GT 130 = 9600GSO = 8800GS (a rebrand of a rebrand)
Radeon HD 4850

Tom's Hardware has a nice chart of the relative power of each: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-radeon,2151-6.html

Since I'm going to be consolidating my 'game' machine and my mac into one, I think it's going to be well worth it simply to upgrade the 24" all the way to the 4850.

This is soley because I'll forget (again) and then I can look it up.

Set top to whatever, left to 50%
Then if the element is say, 200 px wide
Set the left margin to negative 100

Easy. If you actually remember the trick.

#logo {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 50%;
margin-left:-100px;
}

Last week the HD in my desktop went bad with no warning. The status still showed normal, but attempting to repair, format, restore, or reinstall the OS failed on every attempt. I've been using Mozy to store the supercritical stuff offsite but the real savior of the day was OSX's Time Machine. Ordered a new HD next-day, installed it, and 'restore from Time Machine' got me back up and running like nothing ever happened. I'm very thankful I got a new external HD for christmas.

If you're running MacOS 10.5.x, you can run the latest iPhone SDK kit even if it's not an intel mac. TBradford has the start of it, but didn't quite get me there. Here's the full process:

1. Download the current iPhone SDK. Install everything that it lets you install.
2. Open up the Packages folder in the Disk Image, install everything that starts with iPhone, and the DeveloperDiskImage.pkg
3. Move everything in the /Platforms folder into /Developer/Platforms

Finished making a quickie PDF for the card&block game the kiddo and I came up with: StackIT
Let me know if you actually try it, or something similar. We've had load of fun making and playing it.

Fixed up the code for my book price grabber to Bookgrab2. Got rid of the tables for pure CSS, and fixed the parsing code so all four prices are grabbed and parsed correctly. I've been surprisingly productive lately.

Since I work with a CMS all the time at my day job, high time my own site actually uses one. It should make it a lot easier to work with and hopefully update a bit more often. I spent a great deal of time looking at various options, and Drupal turned out to be the most viable option of the ones I looked at. The only hitch was getting the database set up correctly, since my host defaults to using ASCII encoding instead of UTF8 when creating a new PostgreSQL database.