02.24.05
Cool Kitchen
Coolest kitchen organizer EVER:
02.17.05
Fifty Years of Great Design
From the Interesting E-mails Column…
hi,
in 2005 the karmann ghia wil be 50 years old. the great german karmann ghia clubs celebrete it at the original places in germany, georgsmarienhütte. this event will be from july 14 till 17 in 2005. if you want, you have the url from the meeting at your homepage.
http://www.50-jahre-karmann-ghia.de/
tell your friends and your customers about this event. it will never be again…
Udo Dreisörner,
Karmann Ghia IG Lippe
Karmann Ghia Coupe 1956
Permissions with SMB or Samba for Mac OS X
By default the Mac some a little *too* secure for working with other people on a common file server. I’m hoping that Apple will make this easier in 10.4 Tiger. Thankfully there’s kind people who write up nice articles and point to helpful tools…
From Codebase : Articles : Workflow Permissions
“Many smaller organizations don’t have centralized file servers, relying instead on ad-hock networks of workstations using personal file-sharing. Luckily the great shareware universe provides for them as well. Michael Horn’s excellent utility SharePoints not only returns much of the lost functionality of Mac OS 9’s personal file-sharing, it also returns Groups creation and adds SMB configuration as well. Most importantly for us, it also enables the Inherit Permissions functionality of Mac OS X Server on Mac OS X Clients hosting personal file-sharing.”
02.13.05
Get your LSD On
Ah the joys of tech support:
All my neighbors around me are on it and they spend all day on the internet.
That was hilarious Bo! More, More!
02.08.05
Iterative Dialog
[Some thoughts last weekend…]
Iterative Dialog
The inevitable evolution of 21st century learning
Beyond print, beyond the television screen, there are concepts regarding educational communication that most media producers are now starting to grasp. We are breaking out of the stream-based, one-way messaging and language that drives yesterday’s educational materials, both low- and high-tech alike. The frame of reference of traditional materials is to provide pre-digested chucks of knowledge, hoping that students will be able to assemble these pieces, without further direction. Delivering these pieces has improved, and today we have a variety of platforms; print, audio, animation, even the web can provide this sort of experience.
But now, thanks to the growing amount of material that has been digitized and can be found though cooperating resources on the internet, we can begin to focus on Iterative Dialog as the standard for learning and exploration. ID takes the stream information that is provided to the student and gives them the tools to reflect that stream back to the source and peers that are sharing the experience. This reflection takes the one way stream and turns it into a loop, a loop which has amplifying properties. By providing truly iterative dialog structures, communication, formulation of ideas using raw knowledge become the primary means of learning and teaching.
Beyond the subject matter at hand, ID can provide a student with strong learning abilities, enabling them to grow their knowledge using their own inner tools, allowing them to rely on the parts of processing that they feel best suits themselves. In this way we work outside of the ridged structures of learning modes that have been recognized as barriers, and place the learning directly inside the mind itself.
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02.06.05
The Gift of Lift
If you were planning on getting me a forklift as a present, could you be sure to make it one of these?
Thanks.
02.04.05
Playstation Two Online
So I wrote up, what I think might be the only page explaining how to get a PlayStation 2 online via a wireless connection thru an iBook. It really seems odd that more people haven’t tried this. It was a bit difficult to get going, mostly because you can’t tell when the PS2 is going to activate the Ethernet port.
From the article: “The biggest problem I’ve run into is getting that little red dot to change to green. Unless the green dot shows up, your connection to the online servers will not get through the Dynamic Network Authentication System (DNAS) screen. A couple of solutions that I’ve found so far are: A) flailing around, setting and unsetting all sorts of settings until finally something happens or B) getting everything ready to go, telling the Playstation to go ahead and login, and then while the DNAS screen is up, switching the iBook from the “Playstation2” location (In the Network system preference) to some other location and then back to the “Playstation2″ location.”
That’s the only real tricky part. The rest of it pretty straight forward network configuration.
The online play for Ratchet and Clank has been really quite fun. It’s interesting to see the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that the players can communicate with each other, even without the microphone.
For instance, there’s a particular screen where you signal your readiness to play a match. The interesting thing is that while some of the people are waiting, if they are getting impatient, they will flash the green ready light. Ending the flashing with the light being on means you want to get the game going and are frustrated about the lack of game play or inattentive players. Ending the flashing with the light off seems to signify the desire to have the teams change, usually to be more balanced, such as having a better spread of mic’ed players or higher ranking players vs. lower ranked players.
I’ve got a built-in limit of time that I can play the game. After about an hour of play I get a bit queazy in the stomach. Otherwise I might find myself playing for hours on end…
01.18.05
New Division at Intel
Google News makes such funny juxtapositions sometimes, like this announcement of Intel’s announcement of it’s reorganization. It seems that they maybe taking a big chunk out of the middle of the pastry division.
01.16.05
Portland: One of the best city flags
From the NAVA – American City Flags Survey:
“The following table shows the results of the survey in numerical order, with #1 representing the flag with the highest overall score, and #150 representing the flag with the lowest overall score.”
Take that Indianapolis! Actually, if they had taken this survey just two years earlier, we would have been way below #7, since the Portland flag used to have the city’s seal in the upper left field (canton). Thank you to Douglas Lynch and local NAVA’ers for getting us there!
Just what caused all this to take place?