I'm Going To Start Calling Them 'Papa No-Emails Pizza'

alternateorg on December 31, 2000

Now, I’m all for the online ordering of pizza, and I’ve used the Papa John’s online ordering system a number of times now. Tonight, I just realized something. Every time I go to order, I have to re-signup for the stupid thing because they never send me an email of my username and password. And if you have them email you your password, it takes up to TWO DAYS to get it, which is great, because I didn’t want pizza tonight, I wanted it next Thursday, I don’t think. So it’s just easier to sign up again every time. I guess I could actually use my tried-and-true username password combo, but for some reason, I didn’t use the same password last time that I normally use, hence making me come up with a less-rememberable combo. So I won’t be surprised when I have to re-sign up again next time.

Maybe BlogVoices Isn't So Great After All

alternateorg on December 29, 2000

So the discuss links probably won’t be working right now, because I had to disable the BlogVoices script, because there’s something wrong with their site, hence fucking up Alternate. So it’s disabled for now. Boo hoo.

Best Stock Photo Site

alternateorg on December 29, 2000

Are you a designer? Do you not have the same photographer friend I do? Then you might find some use in Photonica. It’s a badass stock photo site, with some awsome photographers and not-so-normal photos that you can hopefully talk your clients into buying. So check it out. The design is fucking awesome, too. Wow. I just used ‘fucking’ for the first time in weeks.

BlogVoices Slowing Site Down

alternateorg on December 29, 2000

If you happen to have a problem loading the site (the homepage in particular), it’s because BlogVoices seems to be overloaded right now, so it’s not responding. The script is hosted on the BlogVoices server, so I have no control over that. Sorry.

VaporWare2k

alternateorg on December 28, 2000

WiredNews has announced the reader-influenced ‘VaporWare 2000’ list of products that were supposed to be hot-shit this year, but turned out to be hot air instead. The number one? It’s what I believe to be a wrongly-accused MacOS X. Apple never said they were going to ship it this year, and they even got the Public Beta out in time. The reader comments Wired chose to publish were not only misinformed, but ridiculous. So whatever.

To spare you the retarded reader comments, here’s the list (4 of the 10 are games):


10. Tribes 2 (game)
9. Wireless Web Pads
8. Bluetooth (wireless technology… long live 802.11 (Airport)!)
7. Silicon Film’s Electronic Film system (a technology allowing the conversion of 35mm cameras to digital ones.. I never heard a thing about it)
6. Warcraft III (game)
5. Intel Itanium chips (64-bit processors)
4. New Linux Kernel
3. Black & White (game)
2. Duke Nukem Forever (game)
1. Mac OS X

Oni Demo

alternateorg on December 28, 2000

I just downloaded the Oni demo, and I would highly suggest anyone with the means (DSL or T1 and at least 96MB RAM) to get it now.

More Netscape Woes

alternateorg on December 27, 2000

I just viewed the site in Netscape 4.7 for Mac, and the survey table on the left is looking a little funky… and I can’t figure out why. So please, if you care about that kind of thing but want to continue using Netscape, use Netscape 6, cause it works fine in that or IE5. I hate doing that to you, but the code looks fine to me.

DJ Mixman Megasucks

alternateorg on December 27, 2000

If you like house/techno/jungle/trance/whatever and want to mix your own MP3s without the expensive purchase of some tables, vinyl and a mixer, DON’T buy Mixman Technoligies Megamix software. It blows.

I bought it for my brother for christmas (who also received a couple tables), with the intention that he could use the $30 software to mix at home or practice without waking up the whole house. And, being the guy I am, I even offered to install it for him. The first problem I saw with it was that on the install, I noticed a lot of .swf files being installed, giving me the feeling that it’s Shockwave-based (never a good sign for commercial software). The second (and fatal) problem was a combination of these things:
1. The software WILL NOT run with virtual memory running.
2. The software REQUIRES 32MB RAM, without aforementioned virtual memory
3. The iMac my parents have has 64MB RAM, but with virtual memory off, the OS takes up around 33MB of its own, leaving 1MB less than the software needs.
4. The software refuses to work with even that 1MB less RAM.

Now, I know that I could have gone into the extensions manager and stripped the OS down to its bare naked system, leaving only the appearance stuff and sound and graphics stuff, but quite honestly, it would be too much for my brother/family to manage extension sets and whatnot. And they shouldn’t even have to, just to support a 30-dollar software package I bought at MediaPlay. Maybe I’ll sell it on eBay or something.

I know I bitched before about the lack of game availability for Mac, but this is even worse. The software exists, but it won’t run correctly, even though the system in question does in fact meet the minimum system requirements on the box. And it’s not making my dad any more confident in his Mac purchase. Which is never a good thing.

Internet Goes Postal

alternateorg on December 26, 2000

Well, it has finally happened. Killing rampages have changed venues from schools to internet consulting companies.

Seven employees of Edgewater Technologies were killed in Wakefield, Massachusettes by employee, software tester-gone madman, Michael McDermott.

“Michael McDermott, 42, walked through the offices at Edgewater Technology carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and the other two weapons, authorities said.”

The gunman came to work on Tuesday and apparently open fired at 11a.m. There is not a motive to this madness but McDermott had recently been coming in late and having work performance problems.

Very scary…..Watch your back.