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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:21 pm

FCKeditor – The text editor for Internet

Interesting concept. Now if I can make time/energy to give it a try…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:11 pm

VentureCake » Blog Archive » 10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don’t Already Know. Really, we swear.

Cool!

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 11:08 am

Van Os Keuls – Innovative building materials from everyday tin cans: eco-artware Recycling Rag Newsletter
A Can-Do House: A New Twist to Aluminum Siding

Van Os Keuls lives in a 1953 brick tract house, to which he built a 230 sq. foot addition on to the back in 2000. The nearly-finished plywood and insulation board structure was covered with building paper, waiting to be sided or otherwise finished. He found bricks too expensive, and didn’t want the usual siding alternatives. After some thought and consideration, Van Os Keuls decided to try a new medium no architect and none of his clients had used before — flattened aluminum soda and beer cans.

Interesting concept. Just not sure of the practicality of it but that could just be me.

I’ve built several wall sections of aluminum cans and cement but am not gonna do any more that way. I’ll recycle the aluminum and use the cash to buy cement to use with glass and plastic bottles instead.

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 11:03 am

CorneliOS, the virtual web OS – Home

Now this sounds more like it. Web based multiuser OS with virtual file systems and applications. Another one I am gonna have to try out.

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 10:30 am

Plywood bike

Interesting concept and from what I can see cool design/construction of the bike.

Horrible website design, construction and execution. They didn’t even bother to title the main page. When I went to post this on the blog I had to add the “Plywood bike” in place of the “Untitled page” that showed up when using the WordPress add entry link. Pissy little pix with no link to larger versions in the gallery that are just too artsie fartsie to convey any real info. And the tiny pixtelated text on the specs page sucks. I could use the the text larger in my browser to increase the size but after looking at the rest of the site just didn’t bother.

These folks need to get someone that knows what they are doing to build them a real site to show this bike design off.

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By Dave, June 16, 2007 4:54 pm

Candid storm chief gets a lashing – 06/16/2007 – MiamiHerald.com

Note that the “White House” was in the list of idiots that are upset with him about this. Got a WHOLE bunch of idiots running this country into the ground…

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By Dave, June 16, 2007 3:59 pm

US prof plans to send message back in time | The Register

Bit late posting this but I do find it interesting that DARPA isn’t interested. Will be interesting to see what if any results he gets/publishes.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 9:44 pm

Linux.com | Feed your content cravings with Liferea

Trying this as my new feed reader. Good interface but a few small glitches now and then. Restarting the application seems to clear the problems up. Biggest complaint is that the scroll bar on the feed articles area in the upper right box disappears at random. Or seems to be at random. Will keep on using it for a while and see how it goes as otherwise I like.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 2:15 pm

TorrentSpy ruling a ‘weapon of mass discovery’ | Tech News on ZDNet

Tis truly a pity that there are folk in responsible positions that can’t find their arses with both hands, a Grey’s anatomy, AND a mirror.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 12:30 pm

The Red Hot Jazz Archive

For those with a taste for old Jazz, here ya go! Lotta good stuff on this site. Real player format but I suspect that there is some way to convert them to mp3 or ogg. Enjoy!

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 12:06 pm

Boing Boing: Steampunk computing

Now this is just awesome as hell! I love it and want to build one! Won’t copy this but gonna have to see just what I can do as far as using stuff that is collecting dust and rust in the storage buildings and barn to turn my existing system into a thing of beauty somewhat along these lines.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 12:01 pm

eyeOS Home | Web Desktop – Web OS – Web Office – your files and applications everywhere

This looks verrrrry interesting. Gonna have to try it out and see fer me self but from what I seem to be reading tis just the ticket for folks that use more than one machine. Suspect the bad part is gonna be having to install the os on each one but have only skimmed the first page of the site so far.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 11:56 am

b e a . s t . . . Lightbulb – a kinetic sculpture

Floating light bulb part 2. Interesting concept and execution.

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 9:36 am

Groklaw – Novell SJ Hearing Transcript – May 31, 2007 as text

I have tried to read the arguments, really I have, but the “logic” that they are using is “not” logical at least to me. I don’t think. Then again it may be that my brain just exploded in trying to follow this crap that SCO’s lawyers are dishing out.

It seems that they are saying that if they had won the case in 2003 that SCO would have still been making money and now they want Novel and Linux (all the distros I think) to pay them back the money that they would have made along with damages. And they want the judge to award them this whether they own the unix patents or not. Or something. But I ain’t sure.

Good luck if you follow the link and try to read this crap.

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By Dave, June 13, 2007 11:25 am

Tony Blair has turned Britain into a land where we are all prisoners | the Daily Mail

Boy, really makes me want to visit… Not that it’s much if any better here in the USA. 🙁

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By Dave, June 12, 2007 9:40 pm

An Ultra-Lite MEPIS Derivative, AntiX “antics”, is Available for Testing | MEPIS

Interesting distro. Will have to dl it and see how well it compares to some of the other small distros.

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By Dave, June 12, 2007 8:57 pm

Ural | Russian Motorcycles

Neat bikes! Love the on demand 2 wheel drive. Specs say a 5 gal tank but no info on mpg. 40 hp out of less than 800 cc so about the same hp per cc as the small front wheel drive cars. Price doesn’t seem bad either. Wonder if there is a dealer around this neck of the woods? Not that I am in the market but would like to look at one none the less.

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By Dave, June 3, 2007 4:56 pm

Sitting out another shower in the Registration Office.

Been working on another small building for Tim to use as a sales stand. This one is built out of scraps and more scraps.

Floor is plywood and osb scraps screwed to 4 foot long 2x6s set on 16 inch centers supported on two outer ends by 10 foot long osmose 6×6’s and in the center by a osmose 2×6 on edge. sections are joined by pieces of plywood screwed to to the sides where the 2×6’s join on the 2×6 upright.

Walls are 1×4 shipping frames put together in a lego fashion with a 4 inch overlap between them. Harder to discribe than to do. Again screwed together.

Front side posts are osmose 4×4’s 8 feet long. Or one of them is. The other is made of two pieces cut so they could be overlapped a foot and then screwed together.

Takes longer to build out of pieces and scraps but the only expense to date on this is fuel to get the materials, and cost of the screws.

Wall covering and possibally roof covering will be the plastic the other buildings are coated with. A bit of caulk and the roof seams should be quite tight.

Will be interesting to see how much can be done without additional funds being spent.

Still sprinkling a bit. So glad to see this rain. It’s started to settle the worst of the dust. Just need a few inches more of slow stuff over a month long period to bring some of the plants back.

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By Dave, June 3, 2007 12:52 pm

MathsNet Interactive Geometry: 3D

An interesting set of 10 3d puzzles. For help there is a link to some of the solutions posted on youtube. Good 3d visualization skills a + (must?).

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By Dave, June 3, 2007 9:31 am

PIA Homepage

Looks like the Philippines are on the road to computer freedom. And are using my favorite Linux distro, PCLOS according to the article. Great to hear!