“Images with ICC profiles now render properly on all monitors.” via Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 Release Notes. I just upgraded and color management is working for me now.
Author: Jan Dembowski (page 42 of 96)
The arms and shoulder are completed.
Next up come the legs.
I’m continuing to go through my backlog of master grade Gundam models and I am now working on the Harrison Madyn blue F91. When I built the other MG F91, I left off all the decals. This time I plan to put on most of them.
I’ll post more photos as I continue building this one. After this one is built I may assemble the MG Gundam Exia Ignition Mode next.
While going through reddit (serious time wasting) I ran into this cool video on Vimeo.
That’s a lot of walking and one way to grow a beard.
The whole debate over health care makes me shake my head. Horror stories are told on both sides but this one has to strike a cord in anyone reading it.
In a statement issued yesterday after it had approved the transplant, the company said the procedure “was outside the scope of the plan’s coverage.” “… and despite the lack of medical evidence regarding the effectiveness of such treatment, Cigna HealthCare has decided to make an exception in this rare and unusual case, and we will provide coverage should she proceed with the requested liver transplant. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nataline and her family at this time.”
via 17-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Dies After Transplant Is Finally Approved By CIGNA – cbs2.com.
Nice job Cigna, but the horses are truly gone. I don’t really believe anyone at Cigna really did this maliciously, and really, Mark Geragos is an advocate for the health insurance downtrodden? A lawsuit might get the ball rolling but the law needs to change.
Organ transplants are not an elective surgery. If the doctors were willing to perform the operation, then the most informed people on this case said go ahead and the insurance company was the road block. When people complain that the government will take out doctors from the decision making process, they need to see what insurance companies are doing today.
Saw this on Ngee Khiong:
It’s a scary diorama that anyone who collects and builds Gunpla can relate to. Not that I’m like that, no, no way…
What a pair. NY is lucky to have such characters in the state senate. Monserrate is headed to trial and Espada has his own problems. If either or both of these self serving senators have to resign then there will be no stale mate for Albany anymore.
Nice to see somethings don’t change. Last night Far Cry 2 created a BSOD on Windows 7. Still a fun game but it crashing all the time ruins it.
My Dell XPS720 has been locking up and staying dead for hours. The only thing that would bring it back was unplugging the PC from the power and wait till it forgave whatever offense I committed.
This week I backed up all the data on my PC onto my 1TB My Book and today I wiped out the PC and installed Windows 7 RC.
Just wiping and installing the OS from the burnt ISO image did not work. The Wndows 7 install DVD wanted to find a valid Microsoft OS on the PC before installing.
I had done this dance before so I did the following.
- Removed one bank of RAM to make my PC 2GB
- Began to install Windows XP MCE (it came with my PC)
- Aborted the installation during the file copy portion
- Booted up the Windows 7 DVD and installed a fresh copy
- Put back the 2nd bank of RAM to go back to 4 GB
What a pain in the ass. My next PC will come with Vista SP1 and a free Windows 7 when it’s released. Hopefully I will not have to go through so many hoops then.
I’m currently importing my 18,000+ photos into a fresh installation of PSE 7. I’ve installed Far Cry2 and the 1.03 patch (no DVD check!). Running Far Cry 2 lately cause my PC to crash and get become frozen for a couple of hours.
I’ll see if Windows 7 on my PC is as unstable as my old Vista install was.
My Acer Aspire One netbook is good but the 8GB SSD drive that it shipped with is still the biggest drawback. When I want to view HQ or regular YouTube clip (forget about HD), the SSD gets accessed and performance takes a dive. Videos stutter and playback is horrible.
After looking at the ApireOne community documentation page again I came across two tweaks that really helps a lot. These are covered here at the Geek Sheet.
The first tweak is to mount the SSD switching the option from “relatime to “noatime”.
From the article:
Tweak #3: Change the file system mount options on SSDs to “noatime”. On certain Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, the default is “relatime”. This tells the kernel to write the Last Accessed Time attribute on files. Conversely, “noatime” tells the kernel not to write them, which considerably improves performance. Linus himself suggests using it in circumstances such as this, so therefore, I consider it to be gospel.
The second tweek is on the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, right after splash, insert the option “elevator=noop”. This will let you use the “noop” I/O scheduler. The SSD is not a hard disk and there is no platter to optimize.
These combined reduces the amount of writes to the SSD and I am now able to view this whole episode of Gundam 00 in HQ. Before these changes I could not have done this.
Considering that my main desktop PC is dying and needs to be replaced, having an optimized netbook is not a bad thing at all.
