ouch, apparently even if you logout, you’ll still be tracked by sites that have the ‘like’ button…
Well that just sounds creepy so I’ll remove them from my site. Â I don’t think there was all that many people mentioning this blog on facebook outside of some brief ‘save officer spock‘ thing but at the same point I don’t want to participate in some larger big brother thing.
I just hope G+ doesn’t do anything like that (haha!)
Old guy with old tech
Personally I’ve never been into calculators. Â Oh sure they are ‘fun’ typing in 80087335 and other vital things, but what I always wanted was a real hand held computer.
Yes the HP graphing calculators could be programmed but really, it’s 2011 and the fact that the market is largely unchanged is just freaking criminal.
Then enter the new / old HP 12c.  This is interesting as it isn’t some ancient 1980s era junky calculator but rather an ARM embedded processor emulating the old software.  And of course that means that this baby is 100x faster than the old 1980’s model.  Well that is refreshing since the last time I looked at a calculator it was frustratingly slow today as it was then.
What is more so interesting is the price, $80 for the financial version and $100 for the engineering version.
But I digress what I’d rather have is something like the old OQO, a hand held PC that can run any real software.
What is interesting to me is a small resurgence in old machines repackaged, and of course resold to their original nostalgic market.
What I’d really be interested in is some DEC VT-100 terminal that comes with its own VAX-11/780 emulator… It’d be a midrange system in a terminal form factor! Â But I don’t see HP doing that anytime soon. Â In the meantime I guess I can always score a Commodore 64.
A typical 'beats' user trying to look smarmy.
First of all let me say I’m sick of the spam I’m getting for this crap. Â Second of all ‘Dr Dre’ isn’t even a physician. Â Instead he just hires wankers in the media to hock his overpriced headphones.
Really who buys audio equipment from someone who tries to pass themselves off as a physician, who doesn’t know the first thing about the inner workings of the ear?
What makes it even better is the paring of such audiophile nonsense with star power, in the hopes of bigger and better sales.
Justin Beiber Approved!
I mean really, who on earth would buy this crap?
This must be brought to you by the same people that make the ‘super SATA cables’ that magically improved the playback of MP3’s. Sheesh.
It really comes as no surprise that these “high end wankophile” electronics are manufactured by none other than…
Monster. What a surprise!
Indeed it just goes to show that some old ‘stars’ from the 80’s will whore themselves out to no end for whatever shitty ‘audiphile’ product, because a dollar is a dollar, meanwhile in the rush for some bucks they team up with Beiber. lol.
 The only thing missing here is beats for Dre’s wallet, and of course the insane in the brain special edition to anyone who buys anything from Monster.
So there you go, I’ve reviewed your shitty product “dr” Dre, now leave me the fuck alone!
So I was reading through a friends blog (wintellect!) and I came across this page about ownCloud… Â Well I thought this was very interesting as I’ve pulled a lot of my external email mess inside (on my own Exchange 5.5 server on MS Virtual Server 2005!) .. So I like this whole idea.
I’ve got this VPS that has a few extra gigs of space, and it’d be SUPER convenient to map some drives for backups, or even back it up by copying some files.. Â It’s a simple AMP program setup, so I had it up and running in a few seconds. Â The ‘hard’ part was mapping the drive from Vista. Â Naturally it came down to reading the instructions, namely:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\BasicAuthLevel from 1 to 2http://ADDRESS/files/webdav.phpI saw this creep up on a mailing list, and it never really occurred to me that there really was a difference.  But there is.  Anyways a simulation is done 100% in software with no hardware assist.  While emulation has some kind of hardware component (Originally it was microcode on the IBM 709 to run IBM 704 programs).
So there you have it, programs like SIMH, Qemu are simulators, while programs like KVM-Qemu and VMWare are emulators.
Hope that clears that up.
AKAÂ shiningsilence.com, right here.
Le sigh. Â I knew I should have wgetted it or even rsync’d it.
But the people I rent this VM from have had troubles. I know it kind of feels like that week long blogger outage all over again…. 😐
But I do like these guys in that they are far more open & honest about what is going on.
For the two or three people that care, their report on the outage is here.
Since we are running on some kind of USB dongle it is a hint that more outages are about to be ahead… I guess the hint here is to BACK UP!… So, let’s hope this Uncle Joe’s EZPC OCB is going to work.. !
In the off chance you want your asterisk phone switch to sound like a cisco…
Turns out it’s by Darrick A. Deel and Tim Carleton, and it’s called Opus Number 1. It was recorded in Tim’s garage sometime in the late 1980’s. Â Darrick works for cisco so it found its way into cisco’s call manager.
Phew that was interesting, wasn’t it?
*UPDATE* For those of you interested, a stereo copy has been located! I have more information here!
I found this on Microsoft… Gordon Bell‘s page.
Sad to think the PDP-1 really shifted us away from the mainframe, but DEC couldn’t just wrap it’s head around the micros. Oh and remember the computer is behind the people, yes *ALL* those cabinets.