I just want to figure out which Jim left the posting tonight on one of my previous posts. Is that you Voodoo? Or is it army Jim “the computer guy”?
Let me know! Email me at paul@pauloflaherty.com or leave your email in the comments here and I’ll get back to you.
It could be good to catch up!
I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I’ve trapped
Have all become my pets
And I’m living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it’s ok to eat fish
Cause they haven’t any feelings
Something in the way
Yep.. Good old Kurt Kobain of Nirvana summed up today perfectly with that one.
There’s definitely something in the way of my internet connection which is “intermittent” at best at the moment. What the hell am I paying for this for?
On a side not: When I spell check this in blogger, it gives me” soybean” for Kobain!. Kurt Soybean! Nirvana fans everywhere will rise up in outrage!
iMac G5 – the bread board?
Technical specifications
aside, I think that the new G5 looks like a fat
bread board.
"
If the platform you are using supports a standard method of
uninstalling programs, your game should use that method. Violation of
this clause shall result in RealPlayer being installed on the
developer’s machine."
I’ve been known to rant about the state of PC games, on occasion. Still, I
think this piece is priceless and a definite "must
read".
If you’ve got a spare wad of cash in the region of $10,000 to $100,000 then
you can have your own personal "supercomputer" beside your desk,
courtesy of
Orion Multisystems.
The company is offering two models of its Cluster
Workstations.The
first is a desktop model the size of a pizza delivery box with
room for 12 computer processing chips.
The second is a “desk side” model that has room
for 96 processing “nodes” or chips. Both rely on Transmeta chips.
Orion’s DS-96 desk side Cluster Workstation
is capable of handling 150 billion calculations per second on a regular basis
and up to 300 billion operations at peak moments. It offers hard disk capacity
with up to 9.6 trillion bytes of storage. The Linux based computers also
have a key innovation in the area of power consumption.
The system is able to control the power consumption
of every component so that the whole system can be run from a standard electrical
socket.
The cost of the machines is in line with standard
prices for research workstations, officials said. The basic 12-chip model
runs around $10,000 and the 96-chip computer costs upward of $100,000.
Orion, which has received an undisclosed amount
of funding from Battery Ventures, said it has won backing from leading researchers
in genomics, engineering, finance and other computer-intensive fields.
Skype Technologies. has released a Beta of version of its free software for making phone
calls over the Internet for Mac OS X.
Skype VoIP software features contact management functions, call and message
tracking, file transfers up to 2GB, instant messaging, end-to-end encryption
in all transmissions and more.
It also includes the company’s paid SkypeOut service, which enables you
to pre-pay for calls to landlines and cell phones anywhere in the world for
as little as €0.017 (US$0.02) per minute; a rate sheet on the Skype Web
site breaks down the prices.
The software requires Mac OS X v10.3, a G3 running
at 400MHz, 128MB RAM and 20MB free hard drive space and a net connection of
a minimum 33.6 kb ps.
Hewlett Packard have released their own branded version of the iPod under licence from Apple.
HP’s iPod will come in a 20-gigabyte version capable of holding 5,000 songs, for 299 dollars, and a 40-gigabyte model
that can hold 10,000 songs and costs 399 dollars.
HP’s alliance with Apple on the iPod provides a boost for Apple and its AAC music format, against other
rivals including Microsoft, which has its own WMA format.
This move places HP firmly in the middle of the Apple camp in the digital music format war.
I knew it was to good to be true. All of those "awesome" new features such
as the Win FS and Avalon have undergone a rethink so that Microsoft can release
the next version of the Windows OS in the second half of 2006.
Many sites had been speculating that Avalon,
the new GUI, would get the chop, however it turns out that it is in fact the
new file system "Win
FS"
which is to be removed from the system. The decoupling of the Win FS file system
is not all doom and gloom however, as it has been stated that the file system
will make an appearance for the OS at a later date.
The delay of integral parts of the Longhorn OS also means that Win XP users
will not feel such a need to upgrade, as many of the features of the new OS
are being made available to Win XP. The same good news transcends to developers
as it now appears that Longhorn will run existing applications.
Still, you have to question Microsofts logic in cutting back Longhorn. I know
I’d be willing to wait until 2007 or 2008 for a new "full featured" operating
system, with a Win XP SP3 somewhere along the line. When you consider how long
Win XP has been in circulation, and then consider the volume of Win98 users
still out there, you begin to wonder what Microsoft are going to do to entice
users from XP to Longhorn, with some of the key "features" of Longhorn being
available to Win XP users.
Apple has released AirPort 4.0.1, with separate installers available for Mac
and Windows.
The new version adds improvements to “Profiles” support in the
AirPort Admin Utility, and also improves handling of Wired Equivalent Protocol
(WEP) keys with third-party access points.
It’s available
for download from Apple’s Web site.
I have about 400 VHS movies, countless DVD’s and cable television.
Do you think I can find something to watch tonight? Not a snowballs chance in hell!
According to researchers in the US, obesity is not a disease it’s a product of a healthy society and feminism.
Man is this going to rattle so me cages!
Check out the story here.
© 2009 Paul O'Flaherty
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