Archive for April, 2008

Vint Cerf on World of Warcraft (yes, really!)

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play World of Warcraft with your son. But you’re actually interacting with each other. You’re solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you’re solving them. You’re posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You’re on a quest to gain certain capabilities. I haven’t spent a lot of time playing World of Warcraft, because my impression is that it takes a serious amount of time to play it well.

For more of his many thoughts on a multitude of subjects:

http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/vint-cerf-0508

Solution: Winamp opening offscreen

Friday, April 11th, 2008

As I had this problem for some time with no solution, I thought I’d make this post to get more search results out there… Hope this helps:

Option 1: Use a different skin

Simple enough, if you don’t mind it… Which is what I did for a few releases of Winamp…

Option 2: Scale the skin

Right-click the taskbar button, go to Winamp -> Window Settings -> Scaling and choose Custom. On my system, as soon as I changed the scale, it popped the window onscreen. The tip I read said to scale it small, then you should have the top part of the window to drag… Either way, hopefully that’ll work for you. :)