Pure Digital Thought

I was really surprised to see that both DreamWorks and Paramount have exclusively picked HD-DVD as the format for their movies. The reason cited is because of the cheaper players that are available. The XBox360 player can be purchased for $180 and standalone players are less than $299.
Personally, I think it […]

I kept running into a problem where I would try to restart apache and in error_log I would get a message stating:
[notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
Apache would just appear to hang for minutes. Stopping and restarting would result in the same thing. I looked around on google and others had […]

IBM’s World Community Grid has teamed up with scientists at UTMB in Galveston, Texas to help search for drugs that can cure a family of diseases such as dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and yellow fever. The project is called “Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together”. The fact that this project is […]

So I’ve heard so much babble on 1080p and XBox360 with much coming from people who have no experience with it and are simply repeating rumors of what they have heard. Today when I went to pick up my HD-DVD drive for the XBox360, I picked up the VGA cable and a KVM switch. […]

So, I’ve taken the dive into WordPress plugins. Yes, Saccia is still alive. I’ve been busy doing lots of stuff. Anyhow, I thought I’d drop this little tidbit on the blog.
On the right, you’ll see the link to the WordPress plugin I wrote called 360Voice Bits. It’s a simple plugin so […]

While poking around on a few blogs discussing E3 and news from Nintendo and the Wii, someone posted about Le Stick (scroll about 7 controllers down that list). I never knew the Atari 2600 had a motion sensing joystick. This was all the way back in the 80’s. Let’s see… that makes […]

Here’s a fun but useless (to most everyone but a few) Java fact.  I found this while digging through some config files when I was setting up this new server.  I don’t remember which one it was.  But here it is.
The magic number for a Java .class file is CAFE.  A magic number is the […]