Dropsafe

showering this morning I sang khoomei, karygyraa, AND sygyt, via louis armstrong + alvin & the chipmunks. woot! http://tinyurl.com/997hnf # “You wait ages for an atheist bus, then 800 come along at once” – http://tinyurl.com/9jpe76 # New Blog: hdffxvrt: open-source tool to convert AVCHD/M2TS video into iMovie Quicktime – http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/2657 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

(more…)

Cumulophile: one who raves about the coming importance to “end users” of “Cloud Computing” without acknowledging that the functionality of a client/server service is more important to the “end user” than the shape of the infrastructure which provides it. Contrast: “Everything’s HTTP nowadays, who cares what’s on the backend so long as it scales for…

(more…)

Geoff writes: In 1982 I was working for Raytheon Data Systems (RDS), a company whose main business was supplying IBM-compatible terminal systems to airlines. One day I was invited to join a meeting that included various VPs and corporate lawyers from IBM and RDS, who were haggling over the licensing terms for an IBM specification.…

(more…)

Test, test. 1, 2, 3… is this thing on?

(more…)

Deeply cool… BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Spookfish’ has mirrors for eyes A Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths, scientists have revealed. The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured. Last year, one…

(more…)

Last year I got (occasional) access to a Sony HDR-SR8 camcorder – a lovely if rather somewhat expensive little AVCHD video camcorder… the only problem was that none of the machines I have were beefy enough to edit the material that it generated; I have an old G5 iMac, and a MacBook Air, and a…

(more…)

Yes it’s The Onion. Yes, it’s a spoof (I hope). But some of the stuff they write is entirely familiar… Apple Employee Fired For Thinking Different | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Apple spokespersons said the firing was necessary because Barlow “consistently failed to adhere to the normal standards of conduct and daily…

(more…)

I just posted this to Peter at risks-digest, but what the hey… Hi Peter, ObDisclaimer: I work for Sun, but this is really *neat*: it’s a demonstration of what happens when you shout at hard disks / other loud noises, visualised as performance impact – watch the latency spikes: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 It makes you think…. maybe…

(more…)

Jeff Nolan writes: Slate asks what does it mean that the top Amazon laptop sellers are netbooks. It is pretty stark, the top 20 sellers are windows netbooks or Macs, you have to get to #21 before a full size Windows laptop makes an appearance. It probably means that low priced laptops are capturing a…

(more…)

If you are getting spammed on AIM by the likes of BraveCoho, FastCoho, RigidCoho and so forth, you need the following links: http://www.musingsforadarkenedroom.com/social-media/i-just-became-a-statisti-in-a-social-experiment/ http://morouxshi.com/2008/10/27/aim-the-trout-salmon-coho-screenname-and-how-to-stop-it/ http://www.guidetoworlddomination.com/2008/10/aim-coho-salmon-trout-bots/ …which tell you what it is and how to turn it off.

(more…)

What with all this technology at my disposal – the digital-whiteboarding, the HD video-cameras, the wikis, the word processors, the fabulous diagramming tools… I find it deeply ironic that the most effective, fastest, cheapest, bombproof means of communication at my disposal is the combination of: a ream of paper a box of sharpies a small…

(more…)