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BBspot – Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart
By Dave, February 4, 2007 1:23 am
BBspot – Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart
This flow chart should help anyone that is thinking about upgrading to make the proper choice. FYI – The best linux distro out there that I have found is pclinuxos
Ironmonger Armory
By Dave, February 3, 2007 10:40 pm
Armor and blacksmithing tools. Cool (HOT) stuff!
VirtualBox
By Dave, February 3, 2007 9:33 pm
No, it’s not a porn site and (as far as I know) is safe for work. This is a VMware alternative that is open source and appears to be free. Has a high memory overhead and as such I am not even gonna download it to try… yet. Gonna have to get a bit more memory first. But then will certainly get and try it. Sounds quite interesting. They are working on a Mac OS X version. Say they have it working in Alpha now. Also say Vista (BOO-HISS) runs fine. Supports most versions (?) of linux and they claim even OS2. 😉 Come to think of it, I believe I have a copy of that around here somewhere. Never run it but would be a hoot to see if it would run on my current box. Will see if I can find it…
Linux Genuine Advantageâ„¢
By Dave, February 3, 2007 7:46 pm
For all linux users who want to spend money and do less with their machines (just like ALL Micro$loth users get to do). 😉
P.S. PLEASE NOTE that this a joke site and I DO NOT recomend downloading the software available there. This public service announcement is for those who might actually decide that this is a good thing to do. Like all the idiots that buy Vista so they have less freedom and can do less with their own machines… 😛
Programming in Malbolge
By Dave, February 3, 2007 4:55 pm
Programming in Malbolge
Introduction to Malbolge
Malbolge, for those not familiar with it, is a language designed to be difficult (or perhaps impossible – until recently, there was not even an informal argument showing Turing completeness) to program in. For example, the effect of any instruction depends on where it is located in memory (mod 94, of course), all instructions are self-modifying (according to a permutation table) and both the code and data pointers are incremented after every instruction, making it hard to re-use any code or data. There is no way to initialize memory except to one of the 8 instruction characters, there is no LOAD or STORE operator, and the only available memory operators (both of them) work in trinary and are designed to be opaque. The only control flow construct is an unconditional computed jump, which is also nearly worthless since there is no way (or certainly no obvious way) to set memory to anything except the 8 instruction characters.
Okay, if they say so, but I sure as hell ain’t gonna try it…
Schiva’ blog
By Dave, February 3, 2007 11:49 am
Interesting, but very not safe for work, artwork. Some fantasy, some macabre, some old masters, all interesting.
True Stella Awards: the 2006 Winners
By Dave, February 2, 2007 11:57 pm
True Stella Awards: the 2006 Winners
The 2006 True Stella Awards
Issued 31 January 2007
(Click here to
confirm these are legitimate.)
#5: Marcy Meckler. While shopping at
a mall, Meckler stepped outside and was “attacked” by a squirrel that
lived among the trees and bushes. And “while frantically attempting
to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, [Meckler]
fell and suffered severe injuries,” her resulting lawsuit says.
That’s the mall’s fault, the lawsuit claims, demanding in excess of
$50,000, based on the mall’s “failure to warn” her that squirrels
live outside.
#4: Ron and Kristie Simmons. The
couple’s 4-year-old son, Justin, was killed in a tragic lawnmower
accident in a licensed daycare facility, and the death was clearly
the result of negligence by the daycare providers. The providers were
clearly deserving of being sued, yet when the Simmons’s discovered
the daycare only had $100,000 in insurance, they dropped the case
against them and instead sued the manufacturer of the 16-year-old
lawn mower because the mower didn’t have a safety device that 1) had
not been invented at the time of the mower’s manufacture, and 2) no
safety agency had even suggested needed to be invented. A sympathetic
jury still awarded the family $2 million.
#3: Robert Clymer. An FBI agent
working a high-profile case in Las Vegas, Clymer allegedly created a
disturbance, lost the magazine from his pistol, then crashed his
pickup truck in a drunken stupor — his blood-alcohol level was 0.306
percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Nevada.
He pled guilty to drunk driving because, his lawyer explained, “With
public officials, we expect them to own up to their mistakes and
correct them.” Yet Clymer had the gall to sue the manufacturer of his
pickup truck, and the dealer he bought it from, because he “somehow
lost consciousness” and the truck “somehow produced a heavy smoke
that filled the passenger cab.” Yep: the drunk-driving accident
wasn’t his fault, but the truck’s fault. Just the kind of guy you
want carrying a gun in the name of the law.
#2: #2: KinderStart.com. The
specialty search engine says Google should be forced to include the
KinderStart site in its listings, reveal how its “Page Rank” system
works, and pay them lots of money because they’re a competitor. They
claim by not being ranked higher in Google, Google is somehow
infringing KinderStart’s Constitutional right to free speech. Even if
by some stretch they were a competitor of Google, why in the world
would they think it’s Google’s responsibility to help them succeed?
And if Google’s “review” of their site is negative, wouldn’t a
government court order forcing them to change it infringe on Google’s
Constitutional right to free speech?
And the winner of the 2006 True Stella
Award: Allen Ray Heckard. Even though Heckard is 3 inches
shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball
star Michael Jordan, the Portland, Oregon, man says he looks a lot
like Jordan, and is often confused for him — and thus he deserves
$52 million “for defamation and permanent injury” — plus $364
million in “punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering”, plus
the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, for a grand total
of $832 million. He dropped the suit after Nike’s lawyers chatted
with him, where they presumably explained how they’d counter-sue if
he pressed on.
©2007 by Randy Cassingham,
StellaAwards.com. Reprinted with permission.
SonnyRadio.com :: The Amazing Art of Jim Warren
By Dave, February 2, 2007 12:39 am
SonnyRadio.com :: The Amazing Art of Jim Warren
My mother sent me this link. Wonderful artwork! Interesting combinations of human/critters and landscapes.
President Bush is a f***ing moron.com
By Dave, January 31, 2007 8:15 pm
President Bush is a f***ing moron
I wonder why these folks don’t come out and say what they really think? 😉
Not safe for work language throughout. You have been warned…
Umami,Monosodium Glutamate, and MSG
By Dave, January 31, 2007 11:35 am
Umami,Monosodium Glutamate, and MSG
Interesting stuff. Not happy about some of the ways the manufactures and packagers have taken to hide the fact that their products DO have MSG in them but would rather know than not. If you have any sensitivity tis a site to bookmark and READ!
OtherUnix
By Dave, January 31, 2007 11:27 am
Other products using the Unix name don’t smell as sweet… 😉
Upgrade done
By Dave, January 23, 2007 11:00 pm
And everything seems to be working fine. Went back with my standard (slightly modified) theme as the plugins that it requires work with the new wordpress 2.1 so the look is back to the normal abnormal. 😉
On another subject, managed to get out and work a bit outside this afternoon, crushing aluminum cans to take to the recycling center Only a few hundred pounds left to do. Also managed to get over to the repair shop and get some work done on a computer. Not done with it (windoze XP with major virii) but at least got it to boot with the new (beta) pclos liveCD and get the customers “My Documents” folder copied to the hard drive of the gateway machine. Or it should be by now. Said it would take two hours about that long ago. I cut lights and monitors off and came back to the compound where it was a bit warmer. Will see if it actually got it done in the am…
And now to read a bit and then call it a night. Say goodnight Gracie…
Upgrading WordPress
By Dave, January 23, 2007 1:52 pm
Am getting ready to upgrade the WordPress installation so the look will be a bit different till I get all the bits and bobs changed over.
And yes, I do feel a bit better today. Not much though and not gonna push it today in the hope of being back to at least 50% tomorrow…
Long time down
By Dave, January 23, 2007 12:12 am
Think I am starting to get better. Not sure yet but should be by the morning. Hope so as getting the food together for the game this weekend is gonna take a lot of prep that I had planned to get done last week but didn’t cause of this crud. Guess the round house will be as it sits in the last pix too. Had hoped to get some more done on it prior to the event but tis the breaks. Still gonna try to get a couple of more picnic tables built if I get out and am able to do anything tomorrow. If not will just go with what we got…
More as I feel up to it…
Still ill
By Dave, January 20, 2007 8:59 pm
Seems that the earlier patch of feeling better was just a lull in this crap. Back to the head spins and problems breathing. Gonna make a early night of it me thinks and see if I can sleep it off. Of course that is what I have spent most of the week so far doing. Onward and upward as it were…
Getting better, I think…
By Dave, January 20, 2007 2:13 pm
Been down for most of the week with some kind of bug. Nasty sucker but seem to be coming out of it a bit now. Hope its done its worst and is leaving for others to enjoy… 🙁
Hate it when I have to put everything on hold like this. Got a game coming up next Saturday so gotta get a bunch of stuff done before then. Was hoping to have the roundhouse a lot more done than it is but such is life.
Before I went down completely I did get most of the repair shop going. Now to see if I can find the rest of the stuff from the last one (Ace Electronics) that’s in storage in the barn.
One of the first pieces I fixed in the new shop was a Realistic 8-track recorder. Really took me back as that model was new on the market when I first started at the old Stereo Shack back in 1974. Got a Panasonic AM/FM/Reel to Reel on the bench now. Had to make a gear for the motorised tuning assembley for it. Now to figure out why the FM is muted. AM and the Reel to Reel works fine. Did a full clean, service and lube on the RR. Still got to find my old test tapes to check it. The tape it came with is showing a channel as being low but as the record/playback switches were really dirty and I think the tape was recorded with them in that condition.
Have also done clean and service on 3 Sony Betamax and 1 Sony VHS machines and a remote. So the work seems to be out there. Just gotta make sure that I don’t get so piled up with crap that I get burned out again.
Hoping to get 2 or 3 more of the 14 foot long picnic tables built this week. First one only took Cat, Bill and me 2 hours to build and most of that time was just me cutting the pieces. 5 full length 2x10x14s (3 for the top and 2 for seats), 6 legs, 3 top supports and 3 seat supports. Will add 2 additional top supports and 4 leg to top support pieces to the next ones.
This coming week will also be taken up with cooking. Gonna do both lunch and supper for the troops this game. Glad I got the other fridge and big freezer going… 😉
Hands are telling me I need to quit with the typing so will close for now…
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