Apr 24 2008
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Just found this little gem hiding at 0×2603 in Unicode. He looks cute in Kozuka fonts, detailed in Microsoft’s East-Asian fonts, Jewish in the Hiragino font faces and retarded in ‘Arial Unicode MS’.
Unicode has so many awesome characters hidden away, I think I might make a scene up filled with them.
Apr 22 2008
UPDATE: Most of the problems I’ve been having with EyeTV are resolved in EyeTV 3.0.2. I have written an update article that has more detail.
New Zealand recently launched Freeview|HD, a High-Definition free-to-air television service.
There are now two Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) services in New Zealand. The first is a satellite service which launched last year and the newest is a terrestrial High Definition service.
Last year, I bought a satellite-based Freeview box because the television reception at our flat was shocking and there was a Sky satellite dish on the roof when we moved in. Setting that up was a breeze, just plugged in the cables and it practically set itself up.
Two weeks ago, I decided to buy an Elgato EyeTV Hybrid to see whether it could handle the new terrestrial service so we could watch television is crazy resolution. The answer was a resounding “sort-of”. The software that comes with the EyeTV Hybrid and all Elgato’s products is regarded as the best native Mac PVR software, so I really wanted to give it a go.
I took it all home and plugged it into our Mac Mini. I got the software installed and then mucked around trying to figure out which cable coming from the wall was the UHF aerial. There were three cables, one I knew was the satellite as I had our old Freeview box plugged into it. It didn’t take me too long to find which of the other two it was and then it was on to try and get everything set up.
Apr 22 2008
I has been an awfully long time since I last posted here. Many things I could’ve written about, maybe I will in the next few weeks.
Anyway, this post is about Windows Vista. More specifically, installing Windows Vista Business (64bit) onto a Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa).
The Apple Bootcamp drivers that came with my laptop don’t support Windows Vista 64bit so I had to do some digging around to find the drivers that worked and get everything running smoothly.
This information is out there on the web but I found some of the instructions on exactly which driver to choose a little had to understand. Below is a list of the drivers I used to get Vista Business 64bit working on this Macbook Pro.
Hardware: nVIDIA 8600M GT with 256MB RAM
Drivers: nVIDIA ForceWare X 167.62
Drivers: RealTek R190
Drivers: Input Remapper 1.0.04
NB: Screen backlight control is not supported on the nVIDIA card yet
Drivers: Atheros v7.6.0.83
Drivers: Marvel Yukon v10.57.3.3
This information is mainly from two sources:
http://rumblingsfromdeveloper.blogspot.com/2007/12/macbook-pro-and-vista-64bit-x64-issues.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=149395
With these drivers I got a Windows Experience Index of 4.9
Processor: 5.2
RAM: 4.9
Desktop Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.5
Primary Hard Disk: 4.9
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