Oct2005 23

Haiku HD Images and Blog

Posted In Haiku

Over the past week or so, I've been busy working on providing the Haiku OS HD Images for the community.

These images are for testing purposes ONLY and are not to be used for product reviews. The images have been made available to test on real Hardware or Emulation, such as BeBochs and/or Virtual PC.

You can check out all the progress over at my Haiku Pref Team blog.

Oct2005 15

Serenity Movie Review

Posted In Apple

{mosimage}On Saturday, I went to the Southbank Parkland's cinema
to see Joss Whedon's movie length Serenity, a continuation of the
Firefly 14 episode TV show, that was shown on late night free-to-air TV, so I never got to see it. Whilst my
other half didn't like this movie at all, I thought it was not bad. The
overall production had a very TV-like quality to it, even though some
of the scenes were movie-like kick ass.

The dialog was very Whedon-witty-like and the story generally flowed,
however, there were a few uneasy things such as there
being no chemistry between Zoe (Gina Torres) and Wash (Alan Tudyk), and why was River (Summer Glau) being trained ? To fight the Reavers ? Jayne (Adam Baldwin)
had some of the best lines in this movie, and I felt River looked stunning in her
buffy-esque fighting moves againsts the vamp...err reavers.

I really like Nathan Fillion (Captain Mal or to Buffy fans Caleb, the Evil
Priest) as an actor. so I would like to see this project develop
into something else, either another movie or a new series for TV.

Rating:

Oct2005 13

iTunes 6, Video Store and new iMac

Posted In Music

{mosimage}Apple is at it again ... once again giving it's current products a
facelift - the iMac, now comes with a Remote and a built-in iSight.

The
list of features the *new* stock iMac comes with pretty much compares
to ALL
THE EXTRAs I forked out on less than 6 months ago. Good one Apple. It's
almost as though they are
trying to get as much money as possible out of their "old stock" (PPC)
before going to MacIntels. I guess it's a "smart business move" on
their behalf, since all company's goal ae to make more money, still I
have a problem with Apple's "let's keep everything secret" attitude.

At least, we have a revamped iTunes - gosh, what happened to 5 ? Was it
that crap, we needed a 6 ? And the Video Store - hey Steve, how
about getting a Music Store in Australia first before you work on a new
model that hasn't even been proven.

Oct2005 09

m0n0wall 1.2 Released!

Posted In

{mosimage}"After many delays and almost a year since the last stable
m0n0wall release, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of m0n0wall 1.2.

Several new features have been added, existing ones have been improved,
the webGUI has been made even easier to use, and many bugs
have been fixed."

Oct2005 06

The Return of the LifeDrive

Posted In

{mosimage}The LifeDrive is back ... My brand new replacement arrived today from Handhelds Online.

Ever since getting my Palm LD, it's had battery issues where it would
only hold 80% of it's charge.

Here's hoping this new unit doesn't have
the same issue.