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I now have much more respect for Mike Gundy. He stood up for one of his players and showed little concern for himself. This is going to be looked at as bad by the public, but it really shouldn’t. It is about time we had more men willing to stand up for what is right.

This is just a question, but are the police going to far? I know in some of the cases people push to far, but do they always have to go to far. I am not sure and I have not been doing much research so I am just looking for your opinion.

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As many Mac users where, I was extremely excited when EA started releasing games for the Mac. The other day I was at an Apple store and decided to pick up a copy of BattleField 2142. It installed fine, but when I went to run it the game crashed. I started trying to trouble shoot what was going wrong and noticed something strange. EA is using wine or more to the point Transgaming’s version of wine.

The first place I noticed it was in the config file on the Library directory.

WINE REGISTRY Version 2 [Drive C] “Path” = “@BUNDLEPATHRESOURCE@/transgaming/c_drive” “Type” = “hd” “Label” = “Dos Drive” “Filesystem” = “win95″ [Drive D] “Path” = “${HOME}” “Type” = “hd” “Label” = “My Home” “Filesystem” = “win95″ [Drive E] “Path” = “/tmp” “Type” = “hd” “Label” = “tmp” “Filesystem” = “win95″ [Drive G] “path” = “@BUNDLEPATHRESOURCE@/transgaming/g_drive” “Type” = “cdrom” “Label” = “cdrom” “Filesystem” = “win95″ [Drive P] “Path” = “@USERPREFS@/p_drive” “Type” = “hd” “Label” = “Dos Drive 2″ “Filesystem” = “win95″ [wine] “Windows” = “c:\\windows” “System” = “c:\\windows\\system32\\” “Temp” = “e:\\” “Path” = “c:\\windows\\;c:\\windows\\system32\\” “GraphicsDriver” = “sdldrv”

If you have ever played games on linux this will be familiar to you. After discovering this I started poking around. I decided to look into the Battlefield 2142.app directory under applications. This is what I found.

I personally feel that this is a good thing for the open source community. What bothers me is I have not heard anything announcing this. So does this mean they are doing it on the down low? Do they really want the word to get out? With there resources why did they not just rewrite the game? These are just a few of the questions I would like answered.

I have been using firefox for some time now and I am still a huge fan, but it does have some issues. The main ones I am seeing are slowdowns and crashes when I try to load several sites.  So with that I am going to try and make a go with Safari. There are going to be several issues I must solve for, but I feel it will be a good experience.   

The main issues are: 

1. Bookmark syscing cross platform ( I think I can solve with with del.icio.us or Google bookmarks) 

2. Extensions, some of these things are life saversSo once I solve those I will be posting about my experiences. You might also stay tuned for incremental updates as I face the challenges that are ahead of me. 

EDIT: Seems the vidual editing postion of wordpress does not work with Safari. I am not sure if it is Safari’s fault or WordPress, but I am going to have use two browsers for the time being.

So we have increased the debt ceiling 4 times since bush has been in office and now this. I think we need major reform and now.