Monthly Archives: October 2009

Movie: The Inglorious Basterds

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ[/youtube] First glance: Oh, another WW2 movie. First whispers from a random review: Tarantino. Doing a war movie. With very little pew-pew. Sounds odd, but intriguing. Another look: So it’s a fictional story about a team of Jewish black-ops killing … Continue reading

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Tech: GoogleTalk in Pidgin

Using Pidgin, after setting the basic account information for your GoogleTalk account, you also need to do the following in the Advanced settings: Force old (port 5223) SSL: Checked Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams: Un-Checked Connect Port: 443 Connect … Continue reading

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Movie: The Lazarus Project

One gimmicky idea. One Sixth Sense moment. 1hr 35min to tell the story. And it’s not even a blow-your-mind 6th Sense moment. It’s a crazy person is really government conspiracy kind of story. Granted, that for a moment the movie … Continue reading

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Book: The Lost Fleet – Jack Campbell

The Lost Fleet is currently a series of 5 books. To describe it succinctly, it is an attempt to be Horatio Hornblower in Space! I was introduced to this by Saleem. The premise was very interesting: two galactic federations have been … Continue reading

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Tech: Microsoft Hyper-V part 2

FRACK!! Bottomline is, the free Hyper-V is hardcore hypervisor. Bare metal. Using the PowerShell Management Library, I’m able to create and manage virtual machines… But there’s no way to create a session to connect to those virtual machines. Not locally. … Continue reading

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