Something Odd!

Cube – This looks like an interesting game. It’s got some pretty screenshots and the blurb makes it look appealing.

Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines.

I won’t pretend to know what all that means but I’ll give it a whirl over the weekend!
Here’s the linuxgames.com review that pointed me towards this game.

Further to my previous post on this topic, Liam on #linux pointed me at this report.
I really need to store my backup DVD-Rs standing up and in a dark place instead of having the jewel cases lying on an old PC in my room..

So I finally managed to get the “Nokia Suite” software working in Windows (it doesn’t seem to like an almost fully patched WinXP!) and I have my phone backed up over Bluetooth.
Now, how do I go about deleting 827 texts? I could go through them and pick out the ones from the ex but that would take too long, and by using p3nfs I hoped to do grep -r "ex's phone number" /mnt/psion/C:/Mail/| xargs rm -f but I don’t think p3nfs is stable enough to handle that much traffic. It certainly fell over when I tried to backup my phone using it. I’ll give it a go tomorrow, it might work! Anyway, deleting her number from my contacts is a lot easier! 🙂
If you know of any 7650 app for doing mass-deletes of text messages please leave a comment!
Update! Just figured out that I can “Mark All”, and I then delete the texts with a few clicks of the Option button. Sorted!

Zimran has an interesting but brief analysis of the housing market in Boston. The linked article has more, including this nugget:

… shortly after 2010, housing prices in most currently hot markets are going to fall off a cliff, as boomers downsize.

I don’t expect that to happen here in Ireland at least. Has it happened already? What about the boomers of the 60s here in Ireland? They’re all living in bigger houses now!