Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
KetelOne returns to the fold today with a brand new logic board etc. Went through the usual motions of reporting the updated MAC address to the local sysadmins to get back on to the network at work etc. and launched my productivity back through the roof. Call me superstitious but VNCing across the two machines […]
My AppleCare honeymoon ends today when I came home to a “drop-off attempt” notice from DHL at my home address. This coming after Friday’s call where I was assured that I’d put my request in to them well in advance of when it was scheduled to ship back out. There I was on Friday, all […]
With deep apologies to J. Jacques (but this was just too good to pass up…): (see full size in a new window…) currently playing: God Lives Underwater “Try”
OK, terrible pun… …but: (via /.), how the Feds can 0wnx0r yr WiFi. (Read! But watch out for the embedded Google ads…) After about three minutes of capturing and cracking, the FBI team found the correct WEP key, and displayed it on a projected notebook screen. Agent Bickers, still speaking to the audience, turned around, […]
To expand on my last post a little… The “good” qualities of this customer service experience have only continued. First off, the box arrived when they said it would. But then inside the box, past all the foam packaging etc. that they told me would be included, there was a stack of these tape strips […]
After approx. 2 years of steady, happy use, I had my first serious hardware failure on my dear ol’ KetelOne. Indeed, I got stung by the Faulty Logic Board issue. It was the weirdest thing, I was just plopping numbers into one if my Excel spreadsheets when out of nowhere the screen just goes blank. […]
Probably the most important story published in Wired in the last 5 years: “How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship…” And won. My favorite parts: Szwankowski was impressed by Oscar. He launched into an in-depth explanation of the technology, offering details […]
Neat little plug on InformationWeek >Information Week on IBM’s Blue Gene/L and how it has surpassed Japan’s Earth Simulator, hitting 135.3 teraflops (more than twice its September record). Still, I may need someone to explain the following statement to me: “…simulate the performance and safety of nuclear weapons…”
Feeling worse before I’m feeling better, I suppose. Ugh, usually I’m at least feeling OK enough to fit some work in from home (for half-credit on the day where applicable…) but this has really knocked me on my ass. It’s not even like full-blown “Hi! My name is Severe Nausea!” or “I’m Major Nasal Congestion, […]
Add it to the wishlist: Quicksilver plug-in that ties in directly w/ System Preferences and other system utilities. (E.g., use Quicksilver to turn AirPort on/off…) Or I could get off my ass and become the developer myself.