“[It is] one of the largest merger and acquisition scandals in U.S. history,” Greenspan said in his statement. “Deliberate steps were taken to withhold and manipulate information; money was improperly gained and laws were broken. It is my hope that regulatory bodies will begin their investigations quickly before evidence is destroyed.”
Yup. That first acquisition is always the toughest.
yet still, an eerily accurate summary:
you don’t want to applications. You
better at solving software
, and how to exploit
in between sips of a martini.
random text from internet spammers is the new stichomancy.
seriously. how did they know?
So it’s almost 3am. Hey, blogging time!
I came across this post by Sree Kotay, former Viewpoint CTO, and it reminded me of those early days when Viewpoint was still MetaStream, and it was all about putting fast and beautiful 3D content on the web. It was all cutting edge, exciting and new…
A big contrast to the reputation the player ultimately got, which is, I think, a little unfair. Read Sree’s comments here, if you want the details.
But anyway. Today I got prompted to install the Viewpoint Media Player upgrade. C’mon, are you kidding me? I haven’t installed that since like, 2001. But AIM installs it, and I finally just got around to trying Triton (no small deal for me, since I’ve been using AIM 2.3 for, oh, a few years now) . There are probably still a few other things that slip it in, too (you can tell who finked you out by looking in the MetaStreamID.ini file).
So as a public service announcement, and because I feel at least a little responsible for that damn installer, here’s the easy way to disable that little turd (mostly) forever.
Step 1. Go here:
Step 2. Change this:
to this:
Step 3. Then, just save the file.
Easy as pie. VWPT can’t launch anymore, because you’ve just reminded it that you never gave it permission to launch in the first place. Worst you’ll ever get is a little EULA prompting you to click OK, which I hope you can figure out how to take care of on your own.
“What kind of circle packing algorithm are you going to use tonight?”
“Right rectangular lattice.”
youtube is SO not ready for that video.
Just posted Making Textured Text in Photoshop. Simple, fun and pretty.