Packing up and moving

Sadly, my time has come at WordPress.com. I’ve finally got my own server (rather, a friend gave me some webspace on his server), so I’m moving on to a dedicated blog on a dedicated server.

It can be found at http://anti.necrolounge.org/blog/ . All my posts have seamlessly carried over, so you aren’t missing a thing.

Update your RSS readers and such.

IRC Client duel (Mac OS X)

Many people in an IRC chat I frequent have told me that Xchat sucks. Well, I figure. I’ll take on a few IRC clients for OS X and take them on a test run. All clients tested are the most recent versions as of this blog post’s date.

Diablo II Sorceress guide updates.

Let me begin with the big part of this small post. Version 3’s development has begun. It’s going to be a total rewrite with no Copy and paste used with v2. None at all.

Next: Version 2.1 is also being worked on. I’ve got some email feedback and a few updates via email, so that’ll be hitting in a week or so.

Kickass Customers and the iPhone

Today was an interesting day at work. This lady I know who always comes through the checkout (She always wants two packs of Winston regulars) showed up today. The checker I was helping out said “Oh, the lady with the iPhone? The one who uses Macs?”

I looked at him, like “Whaaaa?”

I found out what he was talking about when this lady came through the line. She pulled out her iPhone and started to mess with it. I took notice of it and said “Well, hey. That’s two of us.” And pulled out my iPhone.

She then told me “Get a load of this.” She fired up Mocha VNC on her iPhone. I’m no stranger to VNC. I’ve used it many times on my home network. But this was different. She was able to VNC into her home Mac (Which was running Tiger. Points for that), and control it. Over the cell network. (This was EDGE, so it was slower than molasses. But it still worked.)

My jaw must have hit the floor no less than three times.

I simply replied: “I DID NOT know you could do that over the cell network.”

As such, I confirmed it when I got home today. I flipped on the DMZ mode for my computer, set my VNC server to my IP address (On the iPhone) pressed the big yellow button and crossed my fingers.

After one false start (My computer didn’t pick up it’s new IP, I had to renew it’s DHCP lease), it worked!

I’m definitely going to be using this. A lot. I think I’ve found a compelling reason to keep 3G on now.