Mupen64 (N64 emu) has an OSX port.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:38 AM on March 12, 2008 marked best answer

And how could I forget ScummVM?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:48 AM on March 12, 2008 marked best answer

Belvedere is a Windows knock-off of the Mac-only Hazel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:32 AM on January 10, 2008

One other consideration: isn't there a way of looking up the previous registrants of a domain name? I'm sure I've seen a 'historical WHOIS' service somewhere before. This means that, even if you do transfer the registration to another individual, your original registration details may still show up with a historical search.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 1:11 PM on January 8, 2008

Same problem - BT Broadband. A traceroute on MT's IP (64.207.129.35) gets as far as ukcore.bt.net and then times out. Problem only started a couple of hours ago - I tested it when I read this post earlier this evening and all was fine.

There's nothing on the DSL Reports UK forum about it, at first glance.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:39 PM on December 6, 2007

My Greasemonkey got corrupted a few months ago, and uninstalling and reinstalling didn't help. Once I'd manually deleted the entries in about:config (search for 'monkey') it reinstalled perfectly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:51 AM on November 8, 2007 marked best answer

Desolation Row. You know, for that jolly-happy-leap-out-of-bed feeling in the morning...
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:18 PM on October 17, 2007

Seconding ill doctrine. This is fucking awesome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:34 PM on September 12, 2007

Vogon are the big daddy of UK data recovery experts - they certainly aren't cheap but a client recently used them to recover data from a fire-damaged (!) drive and were very impressed.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:19 AM on August 15, 2007

Wasn't there a bug in XP where a malformed divx .avi file would become undeletable? Seem to remember that something like shmedia.dll would try to read the file, hang and keep it locked. Perhaps that bug is also present in Vista.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 9:23 PM on August 14, 2007

Font Finagler (free demo). Delete your font cache and restart. Works for me every time this happens, which is about once a month...
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:31 AM on August 11, 2007

The problem is that you're trying to do two conflicting things with this machine.

A HTPC should be as small and quiet as possible: there's nothing more annoying that trying to watch a film at low volume and having the sound drowned out by the noise of the fans. But, you also want a gaming machine with decent framerates which usually requires a large-ish graphics card with whiny fans. If it were me, I'd concentrate on making the PC as quiet as possible and buy an Xbox... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:55 AM on August 9, 2007

Seconding what the others have said about unreliability: it may work now but fail unexpecedly in the future. If it's needed for police work, I'd be wary about relying on it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:41 AM on August 9, 2007

Make sure the bulb is insured, or insure it separately. If it blows and you're responsible, you're looking at a few hundred quid to replace it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:39 AM on August 9, 2007

Worth1000 do commercial contests too - the standard is variable, but there's normally one or two good concepts in each.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 3:47 PM on July 10, 2007

All phones do. Except the iPhone, 'cos Apple is about to launch downloadable ringtones from the iTunes store, and they'd prefer you to pay for them rather than get them for free.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:11 PM on July 6, 2007

A point of reference: I'm using a previous-model C2D MBP: 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM. I'm currently running Ps, Ai & Dw, plus 7/8 smaller apps including 1 which requires Rosetta. Memory usage is currently 1.92GB and the disc is swapping like mad whenever I switch apps.

My advice would be to try and live with 2GB but keep the upgrade in mind - you may need it sooner than you think. And, yeah, forget about the 2.4GHz - you won't notice the boost at all.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 3:04 PM on July 5, 2007

Warrick is a command-line utility for reconstructing or recovering a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the Internet Archive, Google, MSN, and Yahoo for stored pages and images and will save them to your filesystem.

posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 1:41 AM on June 29, 2007 marked best answer

Happy to help.

Merdryn: as far as I know, it's the only one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:09 PM on July 1, 2007

Didn't Google announce a new email migration system only this week?

It may only be for Apps, though, and you'll still need the IMAP mailbox. Haven't tried it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:01 PM on June 28, 2007

Each of these apps make a 'schhht' noise:

1. The Bloody Search Dog
2. Trillian (or other IM application?)
3. Skype

but the phone idea is a good one, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 9:14 AM on June 18, 2007

Slim Server?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 3:06 AM on June 14, 2007

Alternative solution for running old games in XP: DOSBox.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:05 PM on June 11, 2007

Bytemark. Very knowledgable, excellent prices.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 3:19 PM on June 7, 2007

I've been using Billable for the past few months - it's pretty basic (no CRM, just a basic directory of clients) but that's a very appealing factor to me. I send out <10 invoices a month, though, so your needs may differ. Anyway, there's a free trial available.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:37 AM on June 6, 2007

Why not get your developers to write a Flash slideshow which loads external images specified in an XML file? Then you'll just need to drop some pictures into a directory and edit an XML document. You may even be able to get the actionscript to read in the contents of the whole directory - no XML editing required.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 12:52 PM on June 5, 2007

A quick Google came up with this Flash slideshow which automatically displays the contents of an 'images' directory. There's an included PHP script which gathers the information on each image - no XML editing needed. I've checked over the source .fla and it looks pretty straightforward - it should be easy for your guys to customise. They probably won't have to mess with the Actionscript at all, just add a new layer containing the template. Hope this helps.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:58 PM on June 5, 2007

Meant to say - if you're still having problems, drop me an email and we can sort something out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:18 PM on June 5, 2007

Heh. I bookmarked this page last week for exactly the same reason: The Almost Complete Life on Mars Soundtrack

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant SongDavid Bowie - Life on MarsBlue Oyster Cult - Stairway to the StarsLou Reed - I’m So FreeThe Who - Baba O’RileyDeep Purple - Rat Rat BlueDeep Purple - FireballCream - White RoomWings - Live and Let DieDeep Purple - No One CameWillie Lindo & The Charmers’ Band - Drum SongThin Lizzy - Saga of the Ageing OrphanDeep Purple - LazyPink... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 8:55 AM on May 29, 2007

I've been using Tracks for a while - I really like it. I run it locally through locomotive, though, so have the benefit of Quicksilver integration.

If you want to try it out, you can get a free hosted Tracks account at tracks.tra.in
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:06 AM on May 12, 2007

frijole writes "The WD MyBook drives in large sizes, eg: 1TB and above, are 2 HDs inside. I've read that you can set them to mirror instead of striping (the default)."

I can confirm this - I've got a 1TB WD MyBook set up in what is effectively RAID1. They're also meant to be user-serviceable - the cases are apparently easy to get into to replace drives though I haven't tried this. The only problem is that the internal fan is surprisingly... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:02 PM on April 23, 2007

I also had a similar problem - GM's first install screwed up and left monkey crap in my config which prevented me from installing it again. Visiting about:config and deleting all entries related to GM (searching for "greasemonkey" was quickest) did the trick.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:01 PM on April 19, 2007

Another data point: if I use Mail to send an attachment to a particular (Windows, Outlook-using) company then I have to make sure that I drop the attachments onto the end of the email. If I drag-and-drop an attachment into the middle of the email, the part of the mail following the attachment gets truncated. Very frustrating.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 2:14 PM on April 16, 2007

Seconding chrismear and Silentgoldfish - I've got the 24" Dell and the component input works brilliantly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 2:40 AM on April 13, 2007

It sounds rank but I'd roll each slice into a tube - base outward - and then dip it in a glass of water for a few seconds to prevent the dry base from getting stuck in your throat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:16 AM on April 10, 2007

1) Forward all your mail to GMail (a .forward in your home directory is the quickest way)
2) Use the GMail Java client software
3) Never want to use webmail on a phone ever again
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:52 PM on March 19, 2007

Seconding Morgan - I've got a couple of ex-corporate laptops from them in the past and they've been solid.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:09 AM on March 15, 2007

I realise that it isn't exactly what you asked for, but I have to second the Mindstorms suggestion. I (late-20s) bought a set last year. Holy crap, I would have killed for it as a kid. Seriously. Next birthday present?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:49 PM on March 4, 2007

Holy ass! Storing your credit card statements on a shared host which allows other users to browse your files? You'd better have some *really* good encryption...
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:54 PM on February 27, 2007

Despite what emptyinside has written, I really do think that Flash is currently the best medium for transmitting video over the web. However, in this situation, I think you need to do a bit of client management...

640x480 30fps video is NOT suitable for distribution via the web. As you've found, it will crash browsers, hog memory and soak up bandwidth. Not to mention the fact that even on a broadband connection the viewing experience will still be jerkier than Michael J... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 2:13 PM on February 21, 2007

Wrist guards wrist guards wrist guards. Broken wrists are depressingly common.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 9:58 AM on February 21, 2007

Hmm. If I had to take a wild stab in the dark, I'd go with Police. These have a similar shape but the bridge is wrong and the lenses are curved.

Do you know roughly how long ago he bought them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 8:09 PM on February 20, 2007

Not an answer, but be careful: a friend replaced the 8 halogen bulbs in his hallway for LED equivalents. They suck - they are noticably less bright and the light is very directional, leaving pools of light on the floor. Imagine shining a Maglite from your ceiling. I'd strongly advise you to try one bulb first, before replacing the whole lot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 2:35 PM on February 20, 2007

Remember that the version of Java on your phone isn't 'real' Java in the desktop sense. It's a stripped-down version called J2ME which places a lot of restrictions on what actions you can perform.

For reasons of security, J2ME apps run in a 'sandbox' which isolates them from the rest of the phone. It is very difficult to access, for example, the phone's internal functions (camera, phonebook etc.) from within a Java app. Accessing the filesystem is also a very difficult... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:59 AM on February 20, 2007 marked best answer

Not sure if you can buy it through the Apple Store, but I've been meaning to pick up a docking station for a while now. Very useful if you're using it as a desktop replacement.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:37 AM on February 20, 2007

Seconding all of that. Nothing - really, nothing - comes close to the SKY+ box in terms of ease-of-use, convenience and reliability.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 5:16 PM on February 15, 2007

That's awesome. It sounds like Aphex Twin.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 8:17 AM on February 14, 2007

jmd82: if the poster is able to get to Windows' splash screen, it's unlikely to be the boot sector at fault.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 6:49 AM on February 9, 2007

Seconded. Print-friendly pages went out with rock & roll - CSS print styling is supported in every major browser and doesn't require any additional crap on your pages.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 7:30 PM on February 8, 2007

n-thing the "no". The mobile phone thing just isn't going to happen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blag at 4:52 AM on February 3, 2007