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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…
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April Hardware Review
X-bit labs – Articles – April 2004 Hardware News Overview. X-bit really does a very good job of summerizing an incredibly broad industry every month. About a 10 minute read, but it covers just about every bit of gossip happening.
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Cool guy I met today Jon
“Jon Kertzer”:http://www.kexp.org/programming/progpage.asp?showID=2&1413=38096.75-1&96=38096.75-1&20=38096.75-1&256=38096.75-2 knows so much about african music. You should check his show on KEXP. Its interesting to see how hard it is to find experts on a given topic. For instance a search for google:”African Music” leads you to quite a bit of junk. There is a something called “African Music Encyclopedia”:http://africanmusic.org that pops…
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April Hardware Recommendations
Well, the short answer is that I wouldn’t buy a computer just yet because there are so many changes in the AMD product line in the next few weeks and then AMD are making big changes in 2H04. So if you can, wait a little for the near updates and get a better idea in…
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Far Cry: Another Cool Game
Tom’s Hardware Guide Games & Entertainment: Far Cry Comes Close to a Perfect Game – Tech Demos Making Gaming Memories.. I’m beginning to curse Ludwig. My goodness what amazingly cool games he finds. First there was Battlefield 1942, then Call of Duty and now Far Cry. This new one really pushed the graphics card hard.…
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Seattle Shorelines
Been trying to figure out various zoning issues. Amazing how much is on the web now: * DPD – Land Use Related Codes & Rules. The Department of Planning and Development (used to be called DCLU) has put all the regulations on the web. They even has the “Shoreline”:http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/2360.htm regulations in detail. Almost impossible to…
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Home Theater Recommendations for 2Q04
David Koh was asking me about Home Theater equipment and what he should buy. Great questions. Things as usual are in transition particularly on the video side, but here’s a good equipment set to things about: * Home Theater SPOT. YOu should register for this site and pay the $25. Best thing is that it…
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NV40 (a.k.a. nVidia 6800) Released
AnandTech on the NV40 vs. NV3x. A great piece on the differences between the current nVidia family (5900/5700 called the NV3x series internally) and the latest 6800 (called the NV40 internally). My brother works over at nVidia, so its great to see them getting back on their feet. The performance of the new NV40 is…
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Portable Basketball Backboards
Well, the boys want a basketball hoop. Another great example of how trying a sport like B-ball creates a lifelong interest. Anyway, we don’t have room for a full hoop (although I tried lobbying for that!). Instead, a portable one seems like the ticket, but which one to buy? * “Gart Sports Guide”:http://www.gartsports.com/info/index.jsp?categoryId=222829&backTo=686679&savePath=711651.726616&infoType=infosport. Gart is…
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Watching DVDs on Airplanes
So, we are off to Hawaii pretty soon and Connie asked me, how do we get a movie for the squirmy kids. Here are the options: * “Inflight Movies”:http://www.inmotionpictures.com/. This is one of those .com businesses like Netflix that don’t seem to make sense, but we’ve actually used quite a bit. You rent a DVD…
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Call of Duty: 48 Hours Later
Well, I’ve gotten Call of Duty and gone through it. Nice thing is that in single player mode, it is fast to get through. It is one of those games that at first seems just completely amazing, but as I play more, I realize it is a very sophisticated Doom. It is sort of like…
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Cute Digital Cameras: Buying a Pentax S4
Jennie is looking for a new digital camera for her trip to parts unknown. Some amazing ones are around now. She’s been looking at a bunch and as usual Pentax like every other consumer manufacturer has made a complete hash of the model numbers and names, so here is a decoder ring: * Pentax Optio…