All posts by Tim Eian

A foreign film recommendation

Der Krieger und die Kaiserin is a fantastic contemporary German movie, directed by Tom Tykwer (Lola rennt), featuring the talented Franka Potente, as well as a great performance by Benno Fürmann. Both of them can also be seen in the bone-chilling thriller Anatomie. If you like this kind of recommendation, please let me know. I like foreign films and I’d be happy to post links to whatever I watched and liked.

Bodyworlds (Körperwelten) to come to the Science Museum

jumping_man.jpg The most controversial exhibit of the year will definitely be the Bodyworlds exhibit. Bound to be in the St. Paul Science Museum for the summer, it will surely raise some eyebrows and stimulate conversation. I was fortunate enough to catch this amazing display of human anatomy in Mannheim, Germany. I would consider it to be a life changing experience. Tickets supposedly go on sale early February and if it is anything like Germany, get ready for some serious waiting in line. But who knows, maybe the Midwest thinks very differently about this. IMHO, you don’t have to be a geek to appreciate this one. See you at the Science Museum – anybody know a good babysitter? ;)

iChat video chat kaput in OS X 10.4.4

All Mac Users got really excited when Apple introduced the encrypted iChats under OS X 10.4.4. Turns out, video chats are not too excited about this feature. Actually, they don’t even work at all – at least from what Grant and I can tell. Please note, this only occurs when being used between encrypted parties (on .Mac for example). Turn the security feature off (and restart the app, is this Windows or what?) and voilà, video chats are online again. Just in case you cared… Happy Unsecure Video Chats!

RAM for sale

2 x 256MB PC2-4200 DDR2 SD RAM non ECC, compatible with any PowerMac G5 (late 2005) and probably others – came out of a DualCore G5 2.3GHz, has not been used. Goes for about $65 today. $32.50 or best offer.
512MB PC4200 DDR2 RAM, compatible with PowerBook G4 (15-inch double layer SD) and probably others – came out of a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, has not been used. Goes for about $65 today. $32.50 or best offer.

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Let’s make this thing public

Geeks,

Even though we are still working on some details of the blog, I’d like to propose to go public (meaning inviting the rest of the mailing list). It seems that we are already making good use of it, and therefore a broader audience would be wonderful. Any objections? Michael, do you still have the mailing list?