Yearly Archives: 2010

The Problem With Improvisation

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 1, 2010

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument. Brian Eno, from a Pitchfork interview

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Fallout New Vegas, Week 2 Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 29, 2010

I’ve played a little bit of Fallout New Vegas almost every day in short spurts since it launched about two weeks ago. My takeaway is that New Vegas is much truer to Fallout 1 and 2, in a very good way. The writing, environment and myriad of not-so-black-and-white factions and alliances feels like playing the [...]

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HTML 5 Now

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 12, 2010

The big difference with HTML 5 compared to HTML 3 or 4 is that it’s still in draft form yet already supported in many browsers. Then you have to consider that HTML5 gets mentioned in mainstream tech news, partly thanks to Flash issues with mobile devices or more specifically the Adobe vs Apple spat. I [...]

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iPad Irony

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 18, 2010

As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.

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my complaint about mr. eric a well “anusapple” peacock

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 30, 2010

my religion as taught me not to be afraid to call someone wrong whun he does jerkin, says somethin, cracks one off fa fingerfucking, or engages in somethin dat violates da values in which i believe. da plowin nitty-gritty of wot i’m about to write is dis: mr. eric “motherfucker” a peacock consumes, infests, and [...]

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UDP Port 4310

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2010

Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]

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My Complaint About Mr. Eric A Fucking “Anusapple” Peacock

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 23, 2010

My religion has taught me not to be afraid to call someone wrong when he does jerking, says something, wanks for fingerfucking, or engages in something that violates the values in which I believe. The plowing nitty-gritty of what I’m about to write is this: Mr. Eric “Motherfucker” A Peacock consumes, infests, and muff sniffs. [...]

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Make a Bootable OS X USB Flash Drive With SuperDuper

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 8, 2010

If you have an Intel-based Macintosh computer, a copy of the excellent SuperDuper ($27.95) from Shirtpocket and a 5 GB or greater USB flash drive, you can easily create a faster bootable copy of any Mac OS X installer disc. It’s easy: Format the flash drive with Disk Utility making sure to select GUID from [...]

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