Jul/080
Rush fails at their own song in Rock Band
Sort of sad, really, but understandable. I doubt they’ve ever seen the game before.
Jul/080
Why So Serious?
Holy mother fuck. The Dark Knight is fucking unbelievable! Seriously the best comic book movie ever created, and definately ranks in my top 5 best action movies ever. God I want to see this again, it’s just that good. This time though, I really want to see it in an Imax theater for the full glory of the shots they took using those cameras.
Everyone needs to see this movie…
Jul/080
One Day As A Lion
Finally, Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine has released something from his 8 year solo project, . It’s actually really really fucking good. Sort of helps that the drummer is none other than Jon Theodore, formerly of The Mars Volta, one of my personal favorites.
The song is up on their Myspace page. Can’t wait to hear more from the EP.
Jul/080
Age of Conan running under Fusion 2.0b1… Sort of
So I was messing around with the VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta today, hoping to be able to get Age of Conan to run. Sadly, it didn’t work out that great. I was able to, after some finagling of the copied directory files, get it to start up, ask for credentials, and then present me with the above character select screen. It was actually fairly responsive in full screen mode (don’t even bother trying windowed – it works, but only barely and it takes forever to load in the assets), however once I selected a character and tried to load the game, it deteriorated from there.
The loading screen took forever to process, most likely due to poor disk performance. Having the vmdk file on the same disk as the OS is a pretty bad idea, particularly on a 7200RPM drive. I don’t typically have I/O problems on my Raptors, but because this is a hackintosh, it’s the best I had laying around.
After the loading screen finished, the art assets would slowly start loading in, almost to the point where it seemed playable. That quickly faded as soon as I tried to move my character… the entire screen started to distort, textures were missing on a majority of everything, and I lost all of the UI completely.
Oh well. It’s a huge stride forward for virtualization, I have to say. Hopefully they can get all of the DirectX bugs worked out and make it fully functional. If they can, this could be a great way for Mac users to be able to play games without using Bootcamp.
Jul/080
I really want to eat at the French Laundry
God, I want to eat at this place so bad… I think I’m going to plan a trip to go there on my next birthday. A 9 course tasting menu for $240 seems like a steal with the quality of food you get. I saw this Anthony Bourdain show this week where he went there, and it looks absolutely amazing.
Jul/080
10.5.4 update installed!
I just installed the 10.5.4 update to my hackintosh… I grabbed the .dmg from Apple and did it that way, rather than risk the Software Update install. Had to replace the patched kernel and system.kext with my original 9.2.0 T0h one, but it booted just fine and runs perfectly.