Colin Sullivan

Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI

lol this kid is badass.

Dell Pointed Out Vista Mistakes, Internal Documents Show – New York Times

Now this is absolutely ridiculous…Even Dell publicly makes statements about Vista’s faults. I didn’t even know about that dual sticker thing. Their ignorance is amazing. Actually, it is not really ignorance, because they know that these things are ocurring, they just don’t care about the end-user enough to make a piece of quality software.

So I installed Office 2008: Mac. Yes I know, “Why the fuck did you do that?!?!?”. Well I just couldn’t resist I guess. They made such a hype about it, I thought there would be something amazing to see. Unfortunately there isn’t, and the loading time is about half what 2004 is running under Rosetta (which is not very fast at all). Whatever. Anyway, I thought this was funny.

It’s probably an actual error with my grammar, but what rule tells it to do this?

So today was somewhat unproductive.  I decided to watch “Boogie Nights” instead of working on Banshee!!!, and let me tell you that movie is amazing.  I want to watch it again already.  The first shot was like 3 minutes.  So sweet.  I’ll write more later about it maybe.  I just did a little bit of work.  The opening scene will be awesome when it is done.   I will be getting to bed now.

AppleInsider | MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)

Pretty sweet. I wish my MacBook Pro had 250GB solid state That is wicked fast.

A Farewell Note From a Departing Yahoo – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog

Good to know that they are a good company…I’ve never thought of “Yahoo!” in this way. Hopefully I’ll have such an opportunity some day.

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? – New York Times

I don’t want to have to reboot my Hillary.  On the other hand however, Obama may not be compatible with all of this country’s programs.   Hence, my dilemma.

Joanna Foss

is my friend.

SHE IS AWESOME.

So I have been listening on my Sennheisers for at least a week now straight…I haven’t been using my Klipsch’s because there have been people in my room and I’ve wanted to mix it up a bit anyway. So I feel that the HD280s are the best sound you can get for $70, straight up. I haven’t been proven wrong yet, so if someone has another suggestion for me let me know…I’ll try them out.

With that said, the HD280s definitely have their flaws. They do possess this incredible bass range, which includes sub-bass frequencies that my Klipsch set certainly doesn’t pick up. The first time I listened to “Lateralus” (the song) with them on, I was blown away that they mixed that recurring 4-beat rhythm in there from the very beginning. It is just so low that I never heard it. The HD280s flaws come in the low mid-range frequencies, where the bass should really cut through (in my opinion). Hence, I have found the following EQ settings in iTunes to be useful for these purposes.

The Sennheiser’s highs are pretty well balanced, but those are my settings after many tweakings.

So the point of this story is that I decided to jam out on the Klipschs today, and to my surprise the EQ I was using was dreadful. These speakers really are amazing, and they require little to no modification to make them sound amazing. The “Subwoofer” knob is pointing to the Klipsch suggested dot at about 10:30 on the knob, and my “Main Volume” is at approximately the same (10:00) point. I went through my usual EQ playlist to work on my settings and came up with something very different than what I had. I don’t know what I wasn’t smoking when I made those settings. Christ. Anyway this is what i’m using now and it sounds amazing.

Incase you were wondering…And I know you were My EQ playlist is as follows:

Eulogy – Tool – Ænima
Lateralus – Tool – Lateralus
Speak To Me/Breathe – Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
Deep Inside – Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Jambi – Tool – 10,000 Days
20Khz 20Hz (Slow Sweep) – USAC Bass – SPL Shootout

(all high-bitrate of course )

I was working on this masterpiece of a suggestion to apple about a key-command shortcut in Safari when I accidently closed the tab and was not able to retrieve it.I hate my life and i’m switching to Firefox.  I felt bad for Safari because it was so lonely, plus I didn’t trust Firefox with Leopard just yet.  But it’s over now.