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The weekend has been a alright right one, even though most of it was spent sleeping.. Right now I am waiting for episode 64 of Diggnation to download. Today has been mostly a day of getting everything I should have been doing done. Cleaned up the fish tank and took out some of the growth that didnt look as nice as it could (sometimes nature just looks less nice). A interesting thing also happend where I was banned from last.fm for a little today. There way of banning is rather interesting.. See I was playing around with a site someone told me about the other day called bugmenot, and decided to test one of the logins they had on last.fm, just to see if it worked.. Well they must have been hip to that account because when ever I would try to goto there site I would get a “You have been banned from last.fm”. First thing I did was login on a remote system to see if my account was still active and it was. Next I waited a while to see if it was just a timed thing. After a little while I tried on another computer at home here and it worked. So I cleared my cache and cookies on the box that I had tried to login with the bugmenot account. This sorted out my issue and I was good to go again.

If there ever was a “killer” for the DS this would be it for me. Sim City DS is set to be released and I can’t wait! I remeber killing a huge amount of time on the PC Version and SNES version of this game. I have also played a fair amount of the other “Sim” games like Sim Tower, The Sims, and 2000.

The Sept 20th show of off the hook is now up for download, you can grab it here.

The nice people over at Press the Buttons ran a good like story on Nintendo’s stance of M games on the Wii. This is great news to me, because if I can get all the M type games that I currently look to Sony for in a unfamily created package for the Wii, I would no longer need to look else where. Mind you I still stand behind the PS3 in that it will be the grand daddy of sexy graphics, but with the tag we are looking at on it… I dont think I will be picking one up anytime soon…

This is pretty close to the little bash script I use to check if I am connected to the internet and load checkgmail. This time around I have just added it to my cron jobs to check if my laptop is on battery or ac power. If I am on ac power start up distributed.net client other wise shut it down. Its a little bit of a messy way to do this, but for my needs it work for now.

This is assuming that you are using acpid for you power management.

#!/bin/bash
cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state | grep on-line
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
/etc/init.d/distributed-net start
else
/etc/init.d/distributed-net stop
fi