Projects to think about on the road
Linda and I are off (at 4:30 AM) to Milwaukee, of all places, tomorrow. Long story, but the Giants are playing the Brewers, I have an old college buddy there and a good friend from Chicago is coming up. I plan to use the travel time to think through a couple of very important projects.
One […]
New gizmo from Newertech
Newertech has announced a SATA/IDE/ATA to USB interface: you can plug your old hard (or CD or DVD) drive into your new computer and copy over data: alternately, you can recycle older drives for backup (Time Machine?) or other purposes. Some months ago I bought a no-brand USB to IDE interface at Fry’s, and used […]
NYT weighs in on Linux
I somehow missed this Larry Magid report on Linux in the NYT last week. I think his conclusions are fair… LInux continues to give savvy users a viable, stable platform for most common computer chores, certainly for email, web-browsing et al. Where it may fall down is with issues like hooking up cameras, music […]
Water prompts a podcast
First Blush has an almost painterly photo of water gushing from a Stanford culvert this morning. Which gets us to the topic of water, which was a really big deal at the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in Davis last week.
Water is already in short supply in many parts of the world, and climate change has […]
Algorithms
The NYT’s Week in Review has a piece on Algorithms. It turns out the word ‘Algorithm’ comes from a corruption of the Latinized version of the name of the Baghdad scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, author of the Arabic treatise “On the Hindu Art of Reckoning†which introduced the decimal number system to the West […]
The inbox shrinks: rethinking World HQ config
So we put the Leica D2 on our lightweight Quantaray tripod, and caught this image, of moi at the Happy Hacker keyboard working the controls of World HQ. The inbox stack has shrunk, but much remains to be done, including improving our paperless office and better integrating GTD. Our whole backup strategy needs work, […]
A simple podcast about… podcasting
So, we have been determined to learn about podcasting, and the audio recording that goes along with the deal. We have just been too busy with the ‘new life’ (and dealing with spouse’s long lists of ‘to-dos’ now that she has a mate that she regards as otherwise not gainfully employed).
Anyway, yesterday we hooked up […]
Google Browser resurfaces
Google recently grabbed the domain name gbrowser.com, according to Chris Smith an item also picked up by CNET. Google also has hired well-known browser hacker Michal Zalewski - more grist for the rumor mill. A Google Browser could mean a better experience with Google apps and Docs, but I’d be happy if they would just […]
A new OS for our AMD machine
We did get the AMD 64-bit machine tucked in to the cheesy crate as planned, and have decided that Fedora Core 7 - at $9.95 from Linuxcentral.com - is a better OS choice than Vista, which comes in at a minimum of $215. Vista will probably have more drivers for cams et al., but I’m […]
The LAN upgrade ‘commenceth’
Here’s gulker.com’s LAN rack after the new Iomega 500 GB NAS drive went in. The Iomega shares the top shelf with a couple of switches, while the shelf below has the old, full, 250 GB Western Digital NAS drives, along with the 2 Gigabit switches that make up the core wired network.
Next up will be […]