http://www.facepwn.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:10:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well I got my G1 yesterday, and it's really cool, i'll post more about it later. One of the big pitfalls is that Google didn't put a video player on the phone when it shipped, they left it to a 3rd party developer to write one... The current one on ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/10/ffmpeg-command-for-the-android-video-player/ Finally decided to upgrade from my Treo 650, which is pretty cruddy, to one of those new T-Mobile G1s with Android on them :). I ordered it on Saturday, and it'll be shipping on Monday. Hopefully I'll have it in my hands by Wednesday or Thursday. I'll post all the ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/10/im-getting-an-android-phone/ I decided to start overclock my PC again (now that it's fall it won't be quite as hot outside), I looked at a few forums to see what settings people have had success with, and I noticed that all of the guides turned Intel's SpeedStep off, and gave no reason ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/10/intel-speedstep/ If anyone noticed, the site was down for a number of hours on Thursday, my VPS host had a catastrophic hard drive failure (apparently the whole machine almost went up in flames), thankfully after the DC Tech beat rush hour traffic he was able to restore my data and put ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/10/hard-drive-failure-sucks/ I haven't posted here in a while, or logged into the admin panel, but I saw there was a new wordpress update, so I figured I might as well update to be safe.When I logged in I saw that there was 1,094 comments awaiting moderation, and they're probably all spam ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/09/blog-spammers-suck/ Mine does :D If you haven't seen it yet, google has just made a new browser called chrome, which uses webkit (the open source renderer behind safari). You can get it at http://www.google.com/chrome?open. They've also built a new javascript engine, called V8, which seems to be MUCH faster then firefox, or any ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/09/does-your-site-work-with-google-chrome/ Facepwn.com / www.facepwn.com are now hosted on my VPS, despite the machine being much slower, the site loading times are MUCH faster. The new IP address is 216.66.9.147, so make sure you've migrated before telling me something is wrong :). In order to get lighttpd to work with wordpress, I had ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/08/migration/ For the next few days, i'll be away (not like anyone cares), on vacation to Mexico. I'm not sure if the hotel we're staying at will have internet (if it does the I'll pop in every now and then), otherwise i'll be out for a few days, try not to ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/08/driving-to-mexico/ Well I managed to semi-hose my Server 2008 install (no idea what.. but it only works half the time now!). So I decided to *try* ubuntu. I'm not linux pro, but I've used it quite a bit (usually on servers), and usually when I try on my desktop it fails ... http://www.facepwn.com/2008/07/ubuntu/ Isin't a PC a "Personal Computer"? Last time I checked, Macs are "Personal Computers" as well.. Shouldn't it be Mac vs Windows, not Mac vs PC? That's always bothered me.. http://www.facepwn.com/2008/07/mac-vs-pc/