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Saturday, December 17, 2005

tobygpeters.com 2.0

Tobygpeters.com 2.0 has just launched. I would like some feedback on changes to make in the future. I also will not remove the frames but I made it so that all of my links open on _top. I now have both my blogs on my site and a new graphic. Also if there is anything else pclug related that should be added email me tobypeters@gmail.com. The link to my site is http://www.tobygpeters.com

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Sony Doesn't Get It

I just heard that Sony is now working on a new DRM technology for there ps3 that will only allow you to play ps3 disks on (eventually) one home console. There goal is to stop people from copying ps3 disks but this is a bad idea. Sony is going to cause massive problems with compenies like gamesnflix.com and blockbuster. I personally have had problems with Sony in the past. I had Star Wars Galixies accounts back in the day when the game first came out and one day they were gone. I could not get ahold of them because they don't even have a toll free number. I finally called them after a month of not having my accounts,the phone bill was insane and They had scrambled my account data... Lets compare that to Microsoft who I have delt with on many occasions and never had a problem with. They have a toll free number 18004MYXBOX (ms windows has a number two but I don't know it off hand). I also had a launch xbox, one that came out on the first shipment of xbox's from the manufacturer, and they took it back and fixed it two years after the warrinty ran out. I can tell you one thing though I'm not getting a ps3 if they have this DRM technology.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Flock, Ubuntu, My Blog

I finally switched back to Ubuntu from windows xp (3rd attempt to completely make the switch). I had started using windows again because I tried to install my video card drivers and ubuntu went nuts... Last time I used it I even heated Evan's warning and did not install anything from source. This time however, the first thing I had to do was install a program from source. I have started to use the web browser flock. If your like me and like firefox but also want to have blogging, rss feedreader, and syncing with your del.icio.us account in your browser then it might be worth checking out (It is still bata/alpha and if you open a lot of tabs it will become a system hog). The only problem is there are no deb packages for it. I had to compile it from source, which took way longer than it should have cause im an idiot. I'm back to being able to blog in my browser window now though. I've been wanting to do more blog posts but it seems most of the pclug members aren't posting to often and I don't want my name to be on the pclug main page more than once for blog posts. My content isn't as important as most of the other members that blog... there content is more task focused and mine is more focused on what i'm doing.

Friday, December 02, 2005

Wow its been awile

I finally am updating my blog... I have done some changes and am slightley busy lately due to school finals and projects ive been putting off (Cit150...). I have to create a web site and put flash content on it. Im one of the few people who will say this but I hate flash. It doesn't entgrate very well with firefox... and it slows down web pages. (if you want to see the integration problems vew this page in firefox http://home.pct.edu/~pettob94/cit150/6/index.html and then view this page http://home.pct.edu/~pettob94/finishers/tna/tnaajs.html in in firefox the first ones flash content doesn't display but in the second one the content doesn't desplay in IE (and I found out the hard way when one of my friends tried to view the site...), I have to pick a browser to use when I display flash content. I switched over to a browser named flock that is based on firefox and it desplayed both of the videos correctly. I also would start to add content to my site http://www.tobygpeters.com and remove the picture of me from the main page... Its starting to even scare me. I cant get much done till after finals though because I have to do well in them. I dont know what im going to do when I go "home" for the holidays because I will be without a internet connection (actually they have dial up but I can only get online after they go to bed and I have to go upstaires to do that).