Update 3 (March 8): The Quadra800 as AIR is totally stable, I’m enjoying all the fun things on other sites (using a SE/30 as workstation) and playing with getting screenshots converted back and forth. My ImageWriter Network card should be arriving to day and so I will have print sharing up and available. Looking for…
Category Archives: Interesting
Sparcbook 3
The Tadpole Sparcbook3 was dug up out of storage in time to submit it for the Reddit Portable Battlestation contest. Â This one came from a Craigslist buy at least a decade ago, and I promptly just stuck the whole box in storage. It came with a couple of CDROMS, batteries and accessories (scsi cable, 2…
PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC :: Overview :: OpenCores
Fig D-1: A PDP-11/70 Console. These display and switch consoles were the hallmark of the PDP-11 computers in the 70ties. Picture courtesy of Henk Gooijen, see also Henk’s PDP-11 collection. The project contains a complete DEC PDP-11 system: a PDP-11/70 CPU with memory management unit, but without floating pointunit, a complete set of mass storage…
Amazon.com : Aspire Switch Laptop $139
Amazon.com : Acer 10.1″ Aspire Switch Laptop 2GB 32GB | SW5-012-192E (Certified Refurbished) : Computers & Accessories Amazon has a refurb 32GiB Switch 10 for just $139: Source: Amazon.com : Acer 10.1″ Aspire Switch Laptop 2GB 32GB | SW5-012-192E (Certified Refurbished) : Computers & Accessories And the 64GiB is $199…
Switch 10 CPU
The Switch 10 uses the Intel® Atomâ„¢ Processor Z3735F which has 4 cores, is 64 bit and and can burst up to 1.8Ghz. It’s part of the Silvemont family.     …
Products (Formerly Bay Trail)
Products (Formerly Bay Trail) comparison chart and links to detailed product features and specifications. Source: Products (Formerly Bay Trail)…
The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary – Rusty Russell’s Coding Blog
Source: The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary – Rusty Russell’s Coding Blog…
Mac ADSL OmniGraffle Stencil
I’ve always loved OmniGraffle, and I’ve always loved the simple lines of the Mac ADSL Stencil. I don’t like Graffletopia and paying for free stencils. I finally found the original location for the MacADSL stencil…. it’s here:  http://www.macadsl.com/actu/network-stencil-omnigraffle-macadsl  It’s so old it’s still a .sit file, so I’m attaching a .zip here so…
Plex vs. XMBC on AppleTV
So now that XMBC is available for AppleTV2 it’s time to compare it to Plex. I’ve played around with them for the past few days and can say that: Plex is worth the extra complexity. I’ve been told (never having used XBMC) that Plex was ‘just a port’ of it, so why not use XBMC…
Installing Plex on AppleTV
http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/install-plex-appletv-2g…
iPad – custom wallpaper from web
Want to change your desktop wallpaper to something you just saw on the web? It’s pretty easy with the iPad. Use safari to navigate to a page that has your image. Touch the image and choose to save it. Then go back Home and touch desktop and wallpapers. Now you will see a folder of…
EEE PC 1201N Motherboard Photos
Some photos I took when upgrading the HD on the EEE PC 1201N. There is a spot for a 3G connector on the MB, but nothing is soldered onto the MB to accept a SIM chip. 1201N Motherboard top: This is what you see after you remove the keyboard, unscrew the screws for the shield…
Droid Maker – free ebook
I stumbled across and amazing free ebook recently- DroidMaker (the link takes you to the authors blog, where he’s release the PDFs). The story is an amazingly detailed history of the formation of Lucasfilm and the evolution of what became Pixar. I done some 3D modeling and rendering in the past (using Lightwave) and it’s…
Conficter- sick
Next, Conficker A enters an infinite loop, within which it generates a list of 250 domain names (rendezvous points). The name-generation function is based on a randomizing function that it seeds with the current UTC system date. The same list of 250 names is generated every 3 hours, i.e., 8 times per day. All Conficker…
Lepoard Firewall – not your ipfw anymore
Browsing the net I came across a great site that answered some questions I had about the new firewall in Leopard. Using it now on the company macbook, and it’s nice. Having the 4 gigs of ram helps also. My poor macbook was pushed to the limit with just 2. The site is worth checking…
Asus Eee PC $250 Linux Laptop
$250, 16Gb flash drive, 512Mb RAM, 7″ LCD, 2 lb., full keyboard. Runs Linux. Has Firefox and Openoffice, Skype. 3 USB ports, VGA out, SD card reader, ethernet, wifi, webcam. Linux. On sale worldwide in August from Asus. Is this going to be a hit or what? I’ll pick one up for that. It’s less…
Amy Banse Interview on Wallstrip
Our boss at Comcast Interactive Media, Amy Banse talks about CIM: 3:00 into the interview is talk of fancast.com…
Fancast announced
So the site we’ve been working on at my new job was announced yesterday, in conjunction with the larger announcement that CIM (Comcast Interactive Media) has purchased Fandango. Fancast has been consuming all my time since I joined Comcast back in September, and it’s going to be cool destination. As you can see, the announcement…
Desktop Tower Defense
Normally, I don’t like little flash games. Even normal games, for me, require a delicate balance playability and strategy before I grow tired and bored with them. But I stumbled across DTD a few days ago and gave it a shot. A few hours later, I realized that DTD is so addictive, so engrossing, that…
Blog Changes and Updates
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted here- but it’s nothing I’m sure you haven’t read on dozens of other blogs. I’m in a gadget deficit, and I switched jobs to one that keeps me much busier than I was before. I’m now working back in an office, for Comcast Interactive Media, and I…
KRZR on Sprint in November
I’ve been with Sprint for a while, and have had good phones and bad phones… but now I’ve just grown tired of carrying around the big Treo 650. I want a small phone. With my new job I don’t need access to my email — they provide me with a BlackBerry. But I want a…
My.Opera.Com – free portal for your 770
Want a really excellent web experience with your 770? Want 300 free megs to host your blog, pictures, email and probably more? Check out http://my.opera.com. You can sign up for a free account and get all that stuff- plus it looks perfect and feels responsive using the Opera Mobile Browser on the 770. It should…
Theming for the Syncing Apple
I’ve settled on Blix for now. I really like how it has its CSS layout- the first layout that actually made sense to me. I’ve modified it a bit to better fit into the SyncingApple style, and I’ll make further tweaks as time permits. I really love how it handles the code by wrapping long…
MarsEdit 1.1 is released
Don’t forget to grab 1.1 – it was just released yesterday and it is a welcome improvement…
Updated to WP2
So I felt bad about all the people who maybe were going to use IE no matter what, so I just upgraded to the new WordPress 2.0, and the new K2 theme from BinaryBonsai. So things are going to be in flux as I begin to mess with and screw up the CSS for this…