Life is Full a Vit

This summer started out rough with rain and rain in June… but then July just kicks you in the nuts. WTF.

… are delicious. That’s about all I wanted to say.

http://techbuket.net/did-not-fit-in-my-laptop-28.html

No way, really? Who could of imagined a card that’s as thick as your laptop, and probably half the width of your laptop, did not fit?

I swear, some people just couldn’t be any dumber.

Words do not begin to describe…

These pictures can be described by one word: Cavaqueer.

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I ran the PeaceKeeper benchmarks last September ( http://fullavit.com/press/20090923/106 ) and I figured it was time for a redo. I was a bit surprised to see Opera’s position jump, bumping Safari down to #3. Chrome still remains holding the crown at #1.

It’s been a long time coming for AT&T. For someone to stand up and say “We don’t care that you have the iPhone, your 3G network is terrible and everybody knows it”. This Engadget post summarizes the possible legal battle between Verizon and AT&T. I’m sure AT&T’s lawyers realize their claims are laughable at best and they’re grasping at straws. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to take a look at Verizon’s 3G map and AT&T’s 3G map and notice how absolutely sparse AT&T’s offerings are.

Down with overpriced and shitty cell service!

Just got most of the new toys for the Si in the mail today. Our friends from UPS and Fedex made quite the delivery today. So here we go.

First, the Unorthodox Racing crank and alternator pullies.

Second, a much nicer header to replace my DC Sports RH that’s broken two flex pipes until I finally welded a 2.25″ collector and flex pipe in. This new header is absolutely beautiful. Beautiful bends and welds. But it’s a pain to assemble, so I’ll just let the shop do it… The primaries are beautiful.

And now the biggest money maker. Go-Pwr KSi cams provided courtesy of Go-Pwr. These things are beautiful. Comes with a complete valvetrain setup: springs, retainers, seals. The works. The cams are actually ground by Webcam Shafts. Specs on these cams?

Intake:

• High-cam (VTEC) lobe: 272* duration @ 1mm & .538″ lift.
• Low-cam (non-VTEC) lobe: 226* @ 1mm & .410″ lift.

Exhaust:

• High-cam (VTEC) lobe: 268* @ 1mm & .483″ lift.
• Low-cam (non-VTEC) lobe: 226* @ 1mm & .410″ lift.

And of course the photos!

Contrary to what every single Mac and Apple fanboi would have you think, Mac’s do not “just work”. In fact, they are full of more fail than the Linux distributions I have run and even more fail than Windows XP/Vista/7. I have never seen kernel panic or BSOD when plugging in a USB device into my PC’s running Linux and Windows. My now-year-old MacBook Pro? Yup, kernel panic when it doesn’t like the USB device. What happened to graceful error handling?

How about handling Windows shares (SAMBA)? Linux (and of course Windows) handles them just fine. My MacBook totally barfed and completed refused to recognize my media server. Total failure when it came to copying my photos from my Mac to my media server over the network. Well this was the last straw. Out of five (5) computers I regularly use in my household, the Mac is the ONLY one consistently having issues and also gets the LEAST use. Why does it get the least use? Because it simply is NOT useful. My Windows-based laptops do everything the Mac can do, and do it better and with less fuss. Hell even my Linux laptops were less of a PITA than my Mac. So this is how we say farewell to a piece of shit Apple computer.

And this is also how we pry the hard drive out of said piece of shit Apple computer. Then we use the Windows based laptop to transfer all my data off the HFS formatted drive (which, I’m shocked to say, survived the impact of tossing the MacBook hard at the ground and then snapping the LCD clean off).

In conclusion, friends do not let friends buy Apple. If you think your Mac is the greatest thing since sliced bread, then you are retarded and extremely delusional. Go buy a $500 Acer laptop, which will cost you 2x-3x less than a comparable Mac, and it’ll browse the internet and word process just as well as that overpriced Mac. If you think your Mac “just works”, then you obviously don’t do anything more than simple email and web browsing and you don’t need a $1500-$2000 machine anyway. Any of us sane people actually paying $2000 for a laptop are buying much more advanced hardware than Apple is stuffing in your overpriced Mac.

To come: photos of me unloading shotgun shells into the remains of the MacBook.

FutureMark has long been providing benchmarks for gaming (and their related PC rigs), but they also provide a benchmark suite for the latest and greatest web technologies. This is a browser benchmark labeled PeaceKeeper. It runs a suite of tests to see how fast the browser can execute the underlying code. I ran it about 3 months ago when Safari was the quickest browser, just barely beating Google Chrome for the #1 spot. Well things have changed since then.

PeaceKeeper Results

Chrome is the top dog and my favorite browser to boot. It’s developer tools are outstanding and make my web development tasks much more streamlined, especially when it comes to JavaScript debugging and inspecting elements on my page (why in the world is it doing THAT?). Of course, FireFox 3.5 has improved as well, but the coolest thing to note is that FireFox is still improving, look at the results of the 3.7 Alpha 1 release! It’s biting at Safari’s heels. The results are to the right, click the image to view the full results.

Of course, Internet Explorer is still right where it is… dead last and not really looking like it’s going to go very far, very quickly (try getting 30fps of animation out of IE8… ha!)

Now I know those aren’t the biggest #, but this was run all on the same device. My Dell laptop, 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a nVidia 8400M video card.