Archive, Operating System, Security

Mac – Eve of destruction

So less bytes and so deadly:
maceve
524946464407030057415645666D7420
1000000001000100007D000000000000
000000006461746120070300

I’m starting to get angry now, as I filed in this bug 1 year ago,
and there’s still no fix for such a trivial bug.
Also I filed it in as a security issue since you can crash every
Mac from remote with these little numbers, but Apple degraded it to
be cosmetic only as it is not possible to alter or execute
code.
I guess they’re not anymore interested in fixing Tiger, as the
Leopard is waiting for its victims…..

Hint: Check for zero values before dividing…..

Archive, Japan

What about the Tanuki ?

You might have heard it or not: A
Tanuki, seen almost everywhere around temples in Japan,
is a famous native japanese animal there. To be more precise it’s a
racoon dog.
While looking around for a nice picture of a Tanuki for my website
layout I just found an explanatory figure to better understand the
eight lucks a Tanuki is a symbol for.
tanukitanuki-statue

Archive, Hardware, Japan

Plen Skating Robot

This is the newest toy on the japanese
market, its name is PLEN.
And you’ll be surprised how easy this construction is balancing its
movement without any complicated sensors.This is PLEN skating,
controlled by a bluetooth mobile phone:

Here, you can see PLEN
skateboarding, in perfection, he’s a real pro:

And finally PLEN can
also play soccer:

The price for this toy is also very promising its only 2000 US$,
thus being the perfect gift for…. yeah someone you really want
something. Winking
Anyway, try to compare this price with the AIBO
or QRIO
?

Ah, one last thing:

My delivery address is on the frontpage Happy

Archive

More Theme Wrangling

to be continued… not yet finished,
stay tuned.More changes happened as you might have noticed.

The fresh green vine leaves are gone, and finally sakura
cherry-blossom is to become my final layout, for the springtime
at least.
(Hopefully browser-caching didn’t steal my show. So if you’re still
seeing a green/blue layout SHIFT-RELOAD your browser, or clean your
cache.)

I hope you like it, (too).

Kobaan

Archive, Games

MMORPG Fever – Guild Wars – Nightfall Campaign

Almost one week since my last post, so
what happened ?About 1 year ago I build a gaming PC, and the only game I
did play was X3 –
Reunion, well meanwhile getting a bit bored of it, or didn’t
play anything else at all, I decided to enter world of MMORPG
(Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

Having played Neverwinter Nights a certain time ago, which was a
offline role playing game, I searched for a transition game to
enter the “for myself mysterious” world of online gaming.

And there I found Guild Wars – Nightfall, usually online role playing
games do charge a monthly fee for gaming and storing your data,
while Guild Wars gaming is for free. And the best thing is, the
latest add-on Nightfall, is a complete standalone game, which
further can be played “online”, but without the need to build
guilds with other online-players. An ideal transition for
“single-players” to get into guild playing.
gwn-scr028-lrggwn-scr038-lrg
So within the last 4 days of gaming (yeah right not one complete
week), I’ve already reached level 13 as a
derwish/elemental-magician.
Here are some screenshots
of the Guild Wars World.
gwn-scr043-lrggwn-scr050-lrg
It also has its own wiki in
english and german.
Guild Wars Screenshot 055Guild Wars Screenshot 062
So, what’s next ?

Just in a few days the “non-game-based” MMO-World SecondLife will be released
for the german
market, as it becomes more and more hype recently, I’ll
certainly give it a try, but as of now, I still can’t get the
“sense” of SecondLife other than making virtual/or_real money in a
virtual world without any aims/targets.

May the magic power be with you, and your guild !
Kobaan.

Archive

RapidWeaver Theme Wrangling

Getting bored of the old “Autumn-Fall”
RapidWeaver theme, and further getting told by my
friends over and over again, that it looked like grandma’s
paperwall, I finally invested some time searching for new a theme
for my site.
header_bg
Not easy to find themes for free, and those which are usually
destroy some of my blog formattings, or do have other
difficulties.
Well, as you can see I finally ended up with an already shipped
default-theme “Medieval”, which I pimped a little bit to get some
more space in the blog section, and further the heading color is
changed.
Since I’m not yet completely happy with the result, as I’m missing
this piece of art here:
sidebar_top
it’s likely possible that I’ll tuned it a bit more within the next
days.
Stay tuned.Kobaan.

Archive

Permalinks Rollout

A friend of mine (Hi Marcus) gave me
the valuable hint to not use auto-magically hashed blog URLs
created by my blogging software, but instead use customized
perma-links, the help search engines like google, to better index
and categorize my blog-entries.The times where search engines were driven by keywords in the page
headers are all over, meanwhile it’s most
important to have meaningful keywords in your page-title and/or
your page-URL. Unfortunately Rapidweaver‘s
blogging module does not yet support per blog entry page titles, at
least I didn’t find out yet if it should work already.

Thanks to Marcus.
If you want to check it out, he has a great site about the Dominikanische Republik and
its small town El Limon. And there’s lots of delicious recipes
there.

Archive, Japan

Dining – Ninja Style

Having seen a few adventure
restaurants already in Tokyo by myself, there now opened a ninja
theme adventure restaurant in New York.
It is called Ninja
New York, everything is built like a small village and ninjas
appear and disappear silently as you select your menu. But, see for
yourself:
As for a comparison you can take a look at some picture on the
website of The
Lock Up in Tokyo where you’re getting arrested by attractive
police office girls in uniform, and where you can mix your own
cocktails in chemistry vitro glasses.

Or for the more video type of you, check out Tokyo’s Alcatraz
(Prison-Hospital) adventure restaurant:If you’re interested into more of the ninja stuff, be sure to take
a stop here: http://askaninja.com Winking