Dropsafe

A train of thought, brought on by having several “energy efficient, long life” bulbs die on me, within days of each other… In the future, everyone is going to have to use energy-efficient lightbulbs. These things are quite complex bits of technology – chips and all – but are disposable consumables Look at what happened…

Bart gifted me an OLPC XO-1 to play with, and I’ve been updating it to use as a Netbook. I am running Teapot’s build of Xubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) on a 4Gb SD-card, and it’s a tad slow but it works well; it’s best to avoid video (and some audio) but everything else is fine. The…

HELP OpenSolaris: How do you change kbd type to USA/UNIX? The S10 man pages suggest console-login as root + “kdmconfig”, but not possible! # OpenSolaris: more, not possible get text/tty login on console, not possible log in as root role; eeprom keyboard-layout=US-English failed… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

http://tinyurl.com/a8gdxy – See Number 148 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Unstated observation: so if you don’t want to be found, switch your phone off… BBC NEWS | Technology | Google search finds missing child […] Since 2005, US law says that mobile phone providers must be able to locate 67% of callers within 100 metres and 95% of callers within 300 meters. This requirement has…

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.

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…

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.…

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

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…

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…

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…