Rubenerd

Ever wondered what a tropical PowerPuff girl would look like?

Kawaii!

Tracking my progress in setting up Ubuntu on my ultra-modern B&W Power Macintosh G3, specs: Open Firmware 3.1.1, 300MHz, 80GB, 512MB. It's almost as fast as my MacBook Pro ;).

Ubuntu Forums: Problem booting B&W G3.

By using the BlackBerry Java Development Environment you can simulate a BlackBerry device on your Windows machine:

The BlackBerry® Java™ Development Environment (JDE) is a fully integrated development environment and simulation tool for building Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME™) applications for Java-based BlackBerry devices.

It is a Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) compliant J2ME environment for developers who wish to maintain seamless portability in their wireless applications. In addition, the BlackBerry JDE provides a full suite of interfaces and utilities to take advantage of some of the unique features of the BlackBerry device.

Mac or *BSD version anyone? :(

If I get one more lungfull of exhaled cigarette smoke from another ignorant, stupid, selfish, "too cool for school" person I will not be held responsible for my actions.

Get it into your fat heads, you're not cool, you don't look smart; wise up, or get out of my face.

And don't get me started on the filth of discarded cigarette butts which you seem unable to extinguish except if they come in contact with the soles of you shoes. Hey, here's an idea for you smart people, why don't you put them out on your face; then you can see what your body tissue looks like on the inside.

And Ruben ends his rant here!

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10:00 – Boasting girl on the train claiming to be able speak Italian, Indonesian and "Chinese", swearing in Singaporean Hokkien, another Sorry State of Aussie TV rant (commercial late night news programs, Channel 10's pathetic "Sports Tonight" program, Lateline on Channel 9). Ran out of time for listener mail, I apologise!

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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10:00 – Ruben trying to speak Mandarin, talking to a Chinese high school girl in Starbucks (Japanese school uniforms not suited to the cold), Adelaide weather (freezing, the "heat factor"), high school not best years of my life (local Singaporean girls at work nicer), another John Howard Joke, and is drinking coffee masculine and macho?

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

I've recently brought back a Blue and White Apple Power Macintosh G3 to life, and I was going to put a flavour of BSD on there (instinctively), but I changed my mind and decided to dump Mac OS 9 on there, for nostaligic reasons ;).

Anyway finding a basic web browser that's still being compiled for that OS is a real challenge, but some digging around did produce some links:

WaMCom
This is the 2003-07-21 release of WaMCom, the Web and Mail Communicator.

Unicode in Mac Browsers

Information regarding unicode support in Mac OS 9 browsers; it’s actually very useful simply because it lists all the browsers!

More when I find them.

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10:00 – Housekeeping (Rubenerd Blog update, hits), dropping speakers, getting a call from Israel Brown from Crap and Stuff, and unfortunate community church number, and a John Howard joke! Bit of audio overdrive distortion this episode, I'm correcting for tomorrow's episode.

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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Okay so I was watching television before the Hungarian Grand Prix started and I saw and advertisement for "all new episodes of Futurama" on Channel 10 (Australian TV network). I thought it was awesome they were putting it on during primetime, but I thought it was supposed to be taken up by that new "Yasmine's Getting Married" show.

"Yasmine's Getting Married" was another "reality" TV show created by the already reality saturated Channel 10 Network with the idea of aiding the protagonist Yasmine in her quest to find true love and ultimately marriage.

YASMIN’S not getting married, after Channel 10 has left its would-be bride at the altar, canning reality TV series, Yasmin’s Getting Married, after just one week.

The show – playing cupid to find a young woman a husband – was dumped today after a pitiful ratings debut.

Less than 800,000 viewers across five capital cities tuned in to watch the series premiere on Tuesday. Numbers dwindled to daytime levels by the end of the one-hour curtain-raiser.

Ten will replace the program with US cartoon Futurama weeknights at 7pm (AEST) from tomorrow while it considers the future of the prime-time slot.

~ News.com.au

But wait, there's more!

After only one week. “Yasmin Is Getting Married” has been dumped in a screaming heap.

I wonder what happened? Was it the fact that the ratings for it made a Ten viewing graph look like lightening hit the transmitter at exactly 7pm? Was it the fact that, even though I am sure they ment well and were going into it for fun, the men who had been shown thus far all had a massive ‘stalker’ vibe about them.

Or was it simply that Yasmin was one of the most anoying people on Australian Television outside of the Big Brother house.

Any way you look at it… The end of this nightmare is a victory for common sense and a true tribute to my theary that there was a line that viewers wouldn’t cross and a network finally heard our angry screams for justice.

~ WhiteCain on LiveJournal: TV Australia

I hate most reality television with a passion, and Channel 10 seems to create the worst. Big Brother is pathetic, Australian Idol is just boring, The Biggest Loser is misguided and irritating, and this latest show seemed like just another crappy done-on-the-cheap show the network created just so they wouldn't have to hire actors or scriptwriters (assuming of course that "reality" TV isn't scripted, which I'm inclined to believe is true, but let's not get into that yet!).

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with Yasmine and I wish her the best in her quest, but believe me I'm not the least bit upset to see this rubbish go off the air.

Less than 15 minutes ago, Jenson Button has won the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, his first Grand Prix victory in over 100 races! Good on you Button, we knew you could do it! Congratulations also to Honda F1 racing, with Rubens Barrichello also receiving points on the scoreboard they must be feeling pretty damned good right now!

The race was pretty amazing tonight, I'm interested to see how the authorities react to Michael's corner cutting too. Pretty eventful stuff!