Thu, 28 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 9 pm
Holy Coolness, Batman! Talk about an interesting hack. I hope this bodes well for more solid state storage.
cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/hardware/pb150/
The guy has replaced the internal hard drive of a PowerBook 150 with a Compact Flash card and just a 32 megger!
I really hope we eventually see the end of spinning hard drives. Why make something mechanical when you can go fully solid state?
I hear the other day that 1, 2 and 3 Gigabyte Compact Flash cards were going to be made available, but hell, in the space of a PCMCIA hard drive, you could easily drop in a set of 4 Compact Flash cards which you could upgrade quite easily. And then if you were to RAID the compact Flash cards you could get some rockin’ speed and reliability plus the durability of the solid state.
In fact there’s really very little reason why tomorrow’s computer, be it laptop or desktop couldn’t be a shell with a dozen PC Card slots + Compact Flash and SD/MC. Each would handle anything from memory, to networking to video display. Of course the only thing missing is the processor…
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Posted in General
at 9 am
Wow, Tog, one of the father gods of Human/Computer Interface design missed a tornado by this much. He details it in is sadly rarely updated personal pages.
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Tue, 26 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 11 pm
Giggle. Geeky Humor. That is much more fun than this.
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Mon, 25 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 8 am
My ‘73 Karmann-Ghia is now fully broken in. Literally.
Last night, someone attempted to remove my CD player from the dash of Viva and ended up just messing it up. The stereo no longer works when I attach the faceplate that I took inside with me last night.
This is the second time some one has gotten into her. The first time, the person took my mileage book. This time this person just messed with the stereo.
Damn it.
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Sat, 23 November, 2002
Posted in Apple, Tech
at 10 pm
Finally! Apple has come to their senses and are going to release the Titanium Newton G4! Yay! Looks like it will even have a replaceable skin!
EDIT 2007: The old link to www.lindkvist.com/titanium_newton/ now redirects to somewhere else. Damn you changing content!
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Sun, 17 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 12 pm
In web design, if you create something that looks good in conformant browsers and is usable in less capable browsers, you’ve done your job. - Jeffery Zeldman, http://www.zeldman.com/daily/1102b.shtml#brokenheart
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Wed, 13 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 12 pm
I heard a caller to a radio show say that the previous caller was “way out in left base.”
I love good mixed metaphors and I found a pageful of ‘em, some better than others, but it sounds like they all came from the same person. They’re funny as all kneeslappers…
“They’ve got us wrapped over a barrel!”
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Sun, 10 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 11 am
Strange things are afoot: http://news.com.com/2100-1033-965070.html?tag=fd_top.
Hoping people will drop by for free Web access and stay for a sandwich, Schlotzsky’s Deli is offering no-cost wireless access at some of its eateries.
The company on Saturday will officially launch its Schlotzsky’s Deli Cool Cloud network, which will allow people with Wi-Fi wireless setups on their computers or handhelds to get online for free. Wi-Fi, also known as 802.11b, is a technology that allows the creation of wireless networks with a radius of around 300 feet.
“Free Internet access just makes sense to us,” said John Wooley, Schlotzsky’s CEO. “Now that we have the signal in our restaurants, we’d like to share it with the neighborhood and communities where we operate.”
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Tue, 5 November, 2002
Posted in General
at 9 pm
Okay, I understood about 90% of this and only recognized 50% of the names. Not too bad for a Mac user… Linux Quotes of Humour. Duplicate in the Read More.
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