Quick post during lunch… There were some crazy posts on Slash Dot and Gizmodo today:
So any of that stuff sound like science fiction?
I used to work at a company called iPIX. Like many other companies, it was struck down during the dot-com-bomb of 2000-2001. My job there was my dream job — and it stayed that way for the first 18 months. After that, things went downhill but not for what I was doing, but just things…
The specs for the LG Nexus 4 sound great: quadcore Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB internal RAM, lovely screen, Android 4.2. Allegedly different amounts of space will be available: 8 GB, 16 GB, etc. T-Mobile is offering the phone on their network, so I’m getting notices that I’m eligible for an upgrade… So I checked out…
After many hours of searching and trying software, I have a unicode text reader/editor called AnyView on my cell phone that is capable of opening the artifact list for epona.net! WHEE!! This might not sound like much of an accomplishment, but for a linux-based mobile phone with only 8 MB of RAM to open a…
The guy I purchased the Acer Aspire One from Craigslist also had an OS X desktop system available. He originally quoted me a very good price. However, from the time I bought the Aspire One to when I emailed a few days later about the desktop system, the price had gone up by $150. The…
Remember the game Mousetrap where you put together a trap that was triggered by a ball and wound through counter weights? Here is that same idea on a huge scale — it seem to take up a warehouse. Really cool. Coordinating this must have been a nightmare. Related Images:
This portable is SLOW. Not just slightly slow, but right-click-wait-15-seconds-to-redraw-menu slow. It is painful to use. The hard drive clicks whenever the machine boots, and about 50% of the time it won’t even load Windows. It throws a hard drive and ethernet card error message (boot disk not found and PXE error on ethernet recheck…