mkdir /mnt/dvd
mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
The simple things that I do every couple of weeks I keep forgetting.
(added slash, thanks Bernard!)
Month: December 2006
It’s Pearl Harbor Day. There should be a national 9/11 holiday. Instead of a pointless war against a country that had nothing to do with it. Bush, that man got stellar approval ratings when he promised cowboy like to ‘smoke them out’. Well, he failed, if you simplify the issue as the administration actually did for a while: OBL is still at large.
When going to a website with a password both firefox and safari ask if they should save the password.
Which is an ok thing to do. But who thought that it would be a good idea to ask this BEFORE you know that it was the right password. Ideally the browser would ask you after the page has been loaded. Then you know if it worked or not. Sure, that is a little bit more work for the coder. But that extra day of coding would be well spent. After all, that’s what we are doing all day: Getting those odditiies out of your computer uses. Allot of work, but it seperates crap from things that you would like to use tomorrow as well.
Panavision in an Article of the LA Times
According the LA Times Panavision does well. They are planning to make twenty more Genesis this years. Sounds like allot, but their own subsidary “Plus-8” has added that many of the competing Viper cameras to their rental inventory last September.
Just forty days left to overcome the fear to speak in front of crowds.
HD for Indies did a roundup of articles around Zodiac.
For the longest time I wrote that the PS3 would be doomed. Then, apparently unimpressed, it shipped anyway. There they were the stories about long lines at the stores. People getting thousands of dollars for the console on eBay. Just this very moment a PS3 sold for 820 + 55 shipping on ebay. Unoppened. Of course. Retail is 599. EA hints that 200K PS3s have been shipped. Ebay is pretty brutal. Demand and supply. EA also claimed that around 20,000 PS3 have gone through the eBay mill. Nintendo managed to make and sell 600,000 Wii consoles in the first eight days of availability. They are aiming at 4 Million by the end of the year. That’s what Sony aimed for. Years ago. Now they settle for an eight of that.
These are the people saying that ‘next gen’ would not start before they said so.
In other words: The Wii won. It outsold the PS3 3 to 1 by now. It gets good reviews. People like it. The PS3 had allot of hype. Now and it exists, and way to many people shrug their shoulders. Having 45% markup on a product that have 200,000 of and wanted to sell twenty times more? Not realistic. If there would be 4,000,000 eager PS3 buyers (for 600 US$) then the ebay price would be way higher than it is now.