The Rim Of Hell » Computing

Virus, Virus Everywhere

RevMortis — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:40:11 +0000

And not a drop to drink. Oh wait, I believe the quote is ‘water, water everywhere’. Meh, you get the idea. I’ve spent the better part of two days fighting a nasty little trojan virus on my daughter’s computer. It’s a renaming, Spybot blocking, anti-virus hiding piece of crap that reroutes webpages when you do Google searches and all sorts of fun stuff. And to be honest, I think my attempts to ‘fix’ the situation may have actually made things worse. It happens sometimes.

It’s looking like a full HD wipe is in order. Yee haw.

“Space Internet” is Coming

RevMortis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:31:49 +0000

Albuquerque Express – According to this linked article, NASA will have a viable “space internet” by 2011, which will allow for broadband access between planets, space stations, shuttles etc. Sounds frivalous at first until you realize how much that kind of communication is a necessity for continued space exploration.

Which begs the question – how long before we get the first “Twitter From Mars”? Sounds like a porn title, doesn’t it? Or how long before an astronaut is busted for illegal file sharing (UFO – Unidentified Filesharing Object)? Or the first Facebook break-up IN SPACE??

These are the things I think of when sitting on the toilet at 4am.

Thanks to my buddy Steve for submitting the article.

REVISION: PORN! I totally forgot about that which the internet was created for. . . downloading PORN! I’ll bet 50 bucks that a 10 year study in 2032 shows that 85% of internet bandwidth is used for I-Tunes 2020 and downloading porn! Now I just hope to live long enough to see if I’m right. . . .

The Ultimate Black Metal Video

RevMortis — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:56:33 +0000

If every black metal band had a decent video budget (ok, and maybe a world class team of CGI artists), I believe THIS would be the type of video they would produce.

Best. Black Metal. Video. EVAR. And no, Satyricon’s “Mother North” is NOT better – even with it’s hot topless chick. Thanks to Steve for pointing this out to me. In reality, it’s a trailer for World of Warcraft that has been fan overlapped with Heaven Shall Burn’s “Endzeit”. Fucking awesome! That sword is BADASS!!

Just What the World Needed: Iboobs

RevMortis — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:03:47 +0000

Gizmodo – From the “Pointless Iphone Apps Department” we have the unofficial release – Iboobs. It’s exactly as bad as it sounds; a pair of breasts in a bikini top jiggle as you move the iphone. TA DA! Technology at it’s finest. Follow the link to check it out for yourself.

And yeah, I may have to go buy an Iphone just to download this app (although it’s rumored to be unavailable due to content).

Thanks to my buddy Steve for keeping me ‘abreast’ of this situation as it ‘developed’.

Humanity Will Never Reach It’s Potential. . . Due to Facebook

RevMortis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:55:24 +0000

Yep, I’m pretty sure we are doomed as a human race, and it’s all Facebook’s fault. I mean, man – what DID i do before spending an hour or more a day saving the rain forest, passing along virtual drinks to friends, sharpening up my Texas Hold-em skills and maintaining my Mafia? I don’t know how I had time to. . oh, I dunno. . . WORK!

I wonder if there is a scientific study analyzing the number of people who’ve been fired due to Facebook apps? Or the number of ruined relationships (declaring yourself single when married has probably claimed it’s share of victims).

And when you really think about it, the games aren’t really THAT much fun. I mean, you probably wouldn’t pay for them, not much anyways. But there I am, every night – makin’ sure my freakin’ Blue Cove is clean. Hell, my house could literally be hiding a dead body and I wouldn’t notice – but by GOD there better not be a pelican in my damn cove!

I can’t afford to even take a psychological vacation but I’m out kidnapping people and sending them to Capetown or Vegas. What the hell is wrong with me!?

Worse, you can see which of your loser friends are out there too. So I know how lame you really are, but then. . . you know that about me too. Guess that’s why we’re friends.

Well enough chatter. I gotta go pick out some Harley gifts and mail’em out to everyone I know. Damn social networking.

Fun With Computing

RevMortis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:43:00 +0000

I haven’t been posting much due to the fact the my computer was deciding to arbitrarily crash on me. Kinda hard to get anything done when that happens.

After a little research, I had narrowed it down to either power supply, CPU fan or video card. Was really hoping it wasn’t the video card; it’s only 2 years old & it would be the most expensive thing to replace. So guess what it was? Yep, the video card.

I’m writing this using a second, older card I had laying around. A little hardware swap, a simple driver update – badda boom, badda bing! I’m back in business.

Now I’m off to Hooters, where I understand ‘elves’ will be appearing tonight. Gonna celebrate my computer being fixed by. . . not doing anything on it until tomorrow. Unless of course I get to drinkin’ and need to play some Texas Hold’em on Facebook later. We’ll see. . .