ars technica has a discussion on the new cnet ads.
the qikdrive uses 8 standard pc100 ecc sdram to provide up to 8gb of solid state storage space. it uses an external power supply to help keep state. $5,000 is a lot to pay for it, but the super performance probably makes it worth it for any memory intensive usage (web/db, media editing, etc). has drivers for linux and free bsd too.
wow, amazing. these genetically modified goats produce spider’s silk (via milk). they’re guarded in a us airforce concrete bunker. this quote is particularly funny:
Nexia is tackling a materials-science conundrum that has stumped even DuPont for 20 years: how to synthesize spider silk. Milking the spiders themselves is out of the question—they’re cannibals. “Put a bunch of them together and soon you end up with one big, fat, happy spider. It’s like trying to farm tigers,” says Turner.
ok, who wants to milk the spiders this morning?
mozilla usenet post on how a patch to nsXULElement.cpp speeds up mozilla seamonkey page load time by 21% (wow).
sun bitchslaps .net in style.
super fun /. David Korn q&a – interesting microsoft anecdote c&p’d for your pleasure
Was the story about you embarrassing a Microsoftie at a conference true? Specifically, that he was insisting that their implementation of ksh in their unix compatibility kit was true to the “real” thing and trying to argue the point with you. The argument ended when someone else finally stood up and informed the speaker who he was arguing with.
Just curious …
Korn: This story is true. It was at a USENIX Windows NT conference and Microsoft was presenting their future directions for NT. One of their speakers said that they would release a UNIX integration package for NT that would contain the Korn Shell.
I knew that Microsoft had licensed a number of tools from MKS so I came to the microphone to tell the speaker that this was not the “real” Korn Shell and that MKS was not even compatible with ksh88. I had no intention of embarrassing him and thought that he would explain the compromises that Microsoft had to make in choosing MKS Korn Shell. Instead, he insisted that I was wrong and that Microsoft had indeed chosen a “real” Korn Shell. After a couple of exchanges, I shut up and let him dig himself in deeper. Finally someone in the audience stood up and told him what almost everyone in the audience knew, that I had written the ‘real’ Korn Shell. I think that this is symbolic about the way the company works.
whoa, speaking of cool open source posters, check out the Linux Kernel Graphing Project: 2.4.0
you know, i really can’t fathom why it took me about 15 minutes to write a (imo) great one page paragraph (which i could easily expand upon) on a weekly reading prompt for my east asian religions class, yet it took me well over 8hours to pound out a measly 6-8 page paper on much of the same subject matter. perhaps this points to a hang-up not necessarily with any substance but of form: ie, some deep seated aversion or psychological block towards paper writing?
or perhaps it is simple too late at night and i should simply retire now?
insert poll here.
recent favorite: B15 Project – Girls Like Us, old favorite: Artful Dodger feat. Craig David – Rewind
so, i decided to take advantage of active desktop finally. the blog this popup now sits comfortably on my second monitor.
with all these links being thrown around, i think that it’s definitely possible that some great gems just get lost in the rush. so, i thought i’d just take the time to say again, that All Your Are Base Belong To Us.