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Firefox: Review after 2 weeks
I’ve been using Firefox for two weeks now. Some really great features. Here are the highlights. The net is that it is as nice as Opera in many respects, but has a better customization model and better compatibility with sites. Here are the high lights: * Tabbed browsing. A small feature, but I really like…
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Amazing Wheels
HeadAngle – And I thought my wheels were expensive…. _I’m getting well enough to actually get on the bike again, so on to reading about more cool gear._ Reynolds has carbon wheels at $1,500. Campagnologo Hyperon Ultras are $3,000 at 1,345g per pair. Interesting to see that the Topolino wheels are a relative bargain (if…
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DRM is a Folding Chair
Furdlog :: DRM Is A Folding Chair. One of those great analogies that seems strange but makes sense when you think about it. Sort of like saying IT doesn’t matter or Marketing is not Mystery Meat(tm).
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Congressional Medal of Honor
Types of Medal of Honors: Congressional Medal of Honor Society. OK, this probably wins some obscurity award, but in playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault, I ended up on the CMOH Society page and there is a description of all the variants of this award. I’ve heard it also described as Coffin wtih Medal Handles…
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Google: A good buy?
Is Google a Fat Pitch?. _Hat tip to “Peter Atkins”:http://permianpartners.com_ for pointing this piece out to me. Great point about Netflix (although I still wish I’d bought the stock, when it went out 3 years ago, it was a 10, dropped to $2, now is at $30, wow!). On Google, great points about how to…
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ATI R420 equals nVidia NV40
AnandTech: ATI Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition: R420 Arrives. Incredible as it may seem. The new nVidia NV40 chip (6800 boards) shipped a couple of weeks ago. ATI has responded with their R420 chipset that will ship on Radeon X800 XT boards. Amazing as it may seem both vendors have essentially doubled performance.…
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Dave and Marianne Getting Married
Weddingchannel.com. Amazing how cyber weddings have become. Wedding Channel is a great example of a .com that actually makes sense. Bet they are making lots of money. I expect there are lots of site like this or “Classmates”:http://classmates.com or “Reunions”:http://reunions.com that make sense is the expense structure is low enough.
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Tears of the Sun: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Netflix: Tears of the Sun. I must be getting sentimental in my old age. This was a hard movie to watch. The acting certain isn’t anything to write home about, but the story is incredibly compelling (at least to me). Its a dramatization of what happens in Africa, with ethnic cleansing in the most graphic…
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Touchscreens are out in California
Freedom to Tinker: California Decertifies Touch-Screen Voting. _Hat tip to Ed Felton_ Touchscreens particularly by Diebold are in trouble over there for security reasons
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Hawaii 2004: Lanikai and Kailua
BNB-Hawaii.com. We had a great time in Hawaii. Connie has a way of picking particularly wonderful properties. If you have kids or want to get away from the Maui/Waikiki tourist scene, the Kailua area is just great. Its about 20-30 minutes from Honolulu, but feels a world away. It is on one of the most…
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Virtual PC for Windows
a little ludwig goes a long way: VM software. It’s amazing that there aren’t more VM things coming out particularly given all the hyperthreading, Palladium and other things that Intel is doing.
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Money, Oil and Power
The Agonist: Money, Oil and Power. Agonist is an interesting read. Here’s a good piece about the highground of global politics. Also points out where the UK may be headed and China too.
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Gmail reviews by Adamb
Adam Bosworth’s Weblog: GMail, et al. Adam’s one of the very best and smartest. Great comments on gmail vs. mailblocks. I’ve tried gmail and I have to say I love the user interface. Reminds me of vi in its parsimony.
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Ludwig picks up a cool notebook
a little ludwig goes a long way: JVC Interlink 7310 at Dynamism. Now that my Compaq laptop has died, I’m down to just an iMac and Blackberry at work. Seems like I need more. John’s right, an ultra light notebook plus a fast desktop is a better combination than a huge notebook that’s heavy. He’s…
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Essential Software
Essentials | Gadgetopia. Great list of essential utilities. The ones I don’t have but have to try are: * Sharpreader for RSS feed reading. I tried RSS readers, but gave up because there were too many blogs to read. * “irfanview”:http://www.irfanview.com/. Simple image editing * “editplus”:http://www.editplus.com/ on Windows.
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Hitachi 7K400 – 400GB Drive!
www.hardwarezone.com? Hitachi 7K400 Review. First review of the incredible 400GB drive from Hitachi. Seems like it is super for AV applications. Main issue is that it will run *hot* with 5 platters of 80GB each. Cost is about $400 in limited quantities and there is also a 400GB DVD recorder called the Hitachi MS-DS400 that…
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8x DVD-Burners…
AnandTech: Spring 2004 DVD Performance Roundup: More DVD Dual 8X . A good roundup. They liked the NuTech DDW-082 the best. Just $85. The major caveat though is that you should wait until this summer to buy a DVD Burner if you can. The new 16x drives are coming and they support dual layer, so…
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King County Fishing Lakes in
King County Fishing Lakes in Washington State. I think I noted this already, but if you want to fish on Lake Washington, here’s the site to check out. The other thing to go is to visit Lincs on Rainer Avenue. We never caught a single fish in Lake Washington until we visited them. They just…
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Ed Felton
Freedom to Tinker: What is a Speedbump?. Wow, this guy is sure smart. He’s a Professor at Princeton and I had the privilege of meeting him recently. Good notes on speedbumps as a way to slow down security and privacy issues. _hat tip to Ludwig for that_
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Techie links
a little ludwig goes a long way: Around the web this week. Ludwig has started the tradition of a weekly tour of the web. How useful to see how his mind works. Particularly good references to Ed Felton on security and also the Google file system.
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Great phtoographer
Zagula spells trouble: Great Photographer. Hat tip to Zagula, Tim is a great guy and a good photographer if you need professional portraits and shots done.
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MediaWiki Usage
MediaWiki development. Well, I loaded this up on “Tongfamily”:https://richtong.org/wiki/. Now the question is how to use it. Here are some notes: * “User Guide”:http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User’s_Guide. Naturally, the documentation is itself in Wiki format, so here it is. The main interesting things are that you can edit any page you want. The default is there is no…
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Baseball stuff
_Hat tip to Darryl on this one_ Most of the equipment is overkill for our guys but I have been looking for a good catch net and came across at “baseballtips.com”:http://www.baseballtips.com/
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AMD Athlon 64 Overclocking
X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3400 CPU Review Overclocking. A good piece about the latest AMD processor. The net is that the design of the current chip (Newcastle) limits the actual clock frequency to less than 2.4GHz. The folks at Xbit think that this is due to the design of the chip.…
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AMD $200 PC
AMD’s Emma: $200 Internet PC :: AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998. . Wow, now that’s an amazing idea. That appliance, when attached to a keyboard and a screen and an Internet connection, could deliver Internet access for less than $200
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Computers you can't get…May dreams
Funny thing about this months computer recommendations is that they are all for components you can’t quite get yet. So, here is the dream system: * AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 939 Socket. Also known as the Newcastle. It only has a 512MB cache, but promises to be around for longer. Not shipping yet, should be…
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Shuttle SK83G
Sudhian Forums – Shuttle SK83G. Shuttle announces their next Athlon 64 machine. Uses a variant of the VIA chipset that has integrated graphics. Not clear how well it overclocks. It uses the older 754 pin socket, so most discussion is about whether to wait for the upcoming 939 sockets that will come in May. So,…
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Wiki, wiki ho!
Well, Ludwig got a Wiki, so it was inevitable I needed one too. As usual, there seems to be no simple guide on the web to get started building one, so here it is: # Wiki – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Here’s a good general overview of what the heck a Wiki is and a…
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PHP Gallery Installs
NukedGallery ? Forums ? Gallery Integration – PHP/NSN-Nuke ? Setup Errors – not even getting to Config Wizard. OK, so I got this error message bq. Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getos() in /home/tongfamily/public_html/gallery/init.php on line 101 No problem, google shows us the problem is that the FTP of PHP gallery didn’t take. Seems…
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PHP Gallery 1.4.3 is awesome
Gallery v1.4.3 is now Available! :: Gallery :: your photos on your website. I haven’t added to my photo gallery in forever. Of course, this means that all that software is old. Biggest pain is that since the move to a new backend server set at tqhosting, I’ve never been able to logon. Sigh, I’ll…