I really hoped to get this uptime over 1 year, but troubles with the collocation service provider probably will not allow this …

Linux scrat.saneprojects.com 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:29:32 UTC 2006 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
root@scrat:~# uptime
22:02:41 up 350 days, 8:08, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.24, 0.19

Linux manfred 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
root@ns1:~# uptime
21:55:58 up 316 days, 7:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

If they have to go down, I promise to tell you the whole story.

UPDATE: seems they can stay online after all and we are going to make the 1 year uptime *PHEW*

CCP made my day. They have released the client for Mac and Linux. I don’t know when it has been released and the fact that they haven’t announced it yet scares me a bit. On the other hand it’s an official download so I guess it’s meant to be quite stable. I haven’t had the chance to test the Linux client, but I downloaded the Mac client right away and it worked like a charm. It’s fast (same speeds as on windows), the starmap works, there’s sound … and I don’t have to emulate or change to windows any more. Thumbs up for CCP … got to make another patrol run now! Dearaek out!

Update: announcements have been made: patch update - news update (you have to be logged in for this one)

System requirements:

Cedega:

Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, Linspire 6
CPU: CPU speed equal to or greater than 1.8 GHz Centrino
RAM: 1024 MB
HD space: 6 GB
Video: NVidia 6600, ATI is not supported.

Recommended system configuration for running EVE Online:
OS: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, Linspire 6
CPU: 2 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
HD space: 6 GB
Video: Nvidia 7600 or later, ATI is not supported.

Cider:

Minimal system requirements
OS: OS X 10.4.9 or later.
CPU: Intel based computer with CPU speed equal or greater than 1.8 GHz , the client does not run on a PPC.
Video: ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300
RAM: 1024 MB or more
HD space: 6 GB

Recommended system configuration for running EVE Online:
OS: OS X 10.4.9 or later
CPU: Intel based CPU 2 GHz or better, the client does not run on a PPC.
Video: ATI X1900 or Nvidia 7600
RAM: 2 GB
HD space: 6 GB

The migration from Windows to OSX is going rather well. Everything works the way I like and sometimes even better. Or not?

A huge advantage of OSX is the fact you can open up a terminal screen and have the full power of linux commands. You can ‘grep’ yourself through logfiles or quickly edit some configs … pause … NOT! (Thx to Borat for this joke). Ok, the power is there, but Apple must be thinking:

SCREW YOU DUTCH PEOPLE, we’ll only give pipe and backslash keys to the qwerty users … that for being dutch. But because you have the best chocolate we’ll give you an easy accessible @ symbol on the topleft, 16 functions buttons and some other buttons even we don’t know the function of. Should you have any troubles you can always press the ‘HELP’ button that we have included on your keyboard. Ok we admit, it doesn’t really help you for you keyboard problems … but hey … what other keyboards have a help button?

After a long websearch (yes this took me more than 5 minutes to find) I found out that shift + alt is the solution!
Shift + alt + / gives me a nice \ (no DO NOT use the / on the keypad, that would be the-to-easy-way)
Shift + alt + L give me the much wanted | symbol (and I do hope this is the pipe symbol and not just some vertical line)

So we Azerty users are not left in the cold, only in the dark if it comes to information! Oh by the way Apple, thanks for including an easy accessible £ button, we really needed that since they introduced the … (goddamned where did they put that euro symbol???)

Today I finally bought an Apple Imac, after years of doubt, thinking, comparing … but now it’s here. My first impressions are super and if it continues like this, Apple is going to be a part of my life for a long time.

The reason why I made this step is not only because I like the Apple community, their design but especially because I am a complete Apple noob and I get more and more Apple questions. It will also help me test future websites for compatibility … and I even tend to design and layout future websites on this machine.

Does this mean Windows and it’s pc/laptop is history? Not at all, Windows and even Linux will continue their existence in my work and personal life, they’ll just have to share the time with the white, shiny, oh-so-good-looking Imac … and we’ll reconsider their positions when Leopard hits the stores

A few days ago I installed Battlefield 2142 again. Playing on one of my computers went without problems. However, when I installed the same game on my home-comp I was kicked out of the game every 5 minutes or so. Reason: ‘PUNKBUSTER’ … no further information. Different sites suggested that I should uninstall punkbuster, reinstall, blablabla … in short: nothing helped. I didn’t search any further and stopped playing BF2142 for that day (well ok, not playing …).

Yesterday I installed good ol’Battlefield 2, as looking at some pictures did me think about hours and hours of pure action and fun. Five minutes later … blam … kicked by punkbuster. Reason: ‘PUNKBUSTER …. insufficient O/S rights” !!!!! Being an administrator on the machine apparently isn’t enough for playing the game. In other words, it’s again Vista’s UAC who’s giving me a headache (and that’s not the first time). Cause this is my home-computer I really need UAC, so the only option for me is every-time I want to play the game, execute it with run_as administrator. Or play on my other computer of course (which has a faster GPU as well).