11.28.02
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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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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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11.26.02
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Giggle. Geeky Humor. That is much more fun than this.
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11.25.02
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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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11.17.02
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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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11.13.02
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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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11.10.02
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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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11.05.02
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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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10.26.02
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This is funny. Buying Bush a PlayStation, plus a couple of ‘war’ games in order to keep him from invading Iraq.
If only it would work.
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10.23.02
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The news is reporting that the police were asked to say “caught like a duck in a noose” for the sniper who has been terrorizing the Washington DC area. I wondered what it could mean so I did a Google search.
Some of the results are below. Most of them revolve around a story about a rabbit who gets a noose around a duck, but the duck then flies away, carrying the rabbit with him.
Perhaps he’s leading the FBI on a wild noose chase…
Choice returns from Google:
Searched the web for duck in a noose. Results 1 – 10 of about 5,880. Search took 0.07 seconds.
Native American Lore for October 1997
… caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose. …
www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html – 8k – Cached – Similar pages
The Rabit, the Otter, and Duck Hunting. —
… among the remaining six ducks. He quickly fastened his noose around the neck of the closest duck. Startled, the duck began to struggle …
tsalagi-l.net/rabduck.html – 7k – Cached – Similar pages
Marty’s Trading Company – ducksupply.com – Duck Decoys and Goose …
… Decoys Runamuck Decoys “Keeping the art of hunting decoy carving alive” As duck … Goose Noose Decoys Goose Noose decoys The slightest breeze brings to life the …
www.ducksupply.com/decoys.html – 14k – Cached – Similar pages
Daffy Duck on Laserdisc!
… Person to Bunny 54. Daffy’s Inn Trouble 55. Quackodile Tears 56. Good Noose 57. Fast Buck Duck 58. The Million Hare 59. Aqua Duck 60. The Iceman Ducketh 61. …
www.geocities.com/bugsvideo/daffylaser.htm – 19k – Cached – Similar pages
Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting
… The duck took him. Rabbit threw the noose over the duck’s head. The duck went flying out of the water into the sky. Rabbit got tired of holding on. …
www.dnet.net/jparker/duck.htm – 4k – Cached – Similar pages
ARCTIC STRING FIGURE PROJECT
A Man Throwing a Duck Noose (Indian Point) 1. Position 1. 2. R1 distally catches up L5f from the near side (fig. 149a). … 149q – A Man Throwing a Duck Noose.
www.isfa.org/arctic/149.htm – 7k – Cached – Similar pages
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