I wonder how different computers would be…
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »If there was no longer a dividing line between hard disks and memory? IE, if you just had a big huge slab of memristors that could be both the RAM and Hard Drives at the same time. Just a weird ...
IPHONE
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Computers | No Comments »This is just a test of the wordpress iPhone app. Not like anyone reads this damn thing anyway.
How NOT to seed your (pseudo-) random number generator…
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »This is how you write a function to generate a random number BEFORE you remember how PRNG's normally work: int randomGender() { double rand; int gender; //if rand
I’ve coined a new term, and I’d like you all to use it
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »The term is "anecdotal failure rate", and it's quite important. It's a term for the "I've heard lots of people say their whatever has broken". I've been weighing the options of either an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3. 360 Positives ...
It’s become quite clear that the music industry will curse me to it’s last dying breath
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Computers, General Life | 2 Comments »First we get MP3's, and the Music industry was like "wuht's that?". I buy CD's and rip them to MP3. (Napster, suing, etc., skipped) Next we get stores like iTunes and emusic. iTunes, great selection, but DRM'd. emusic, not ...
Something that Google should add to their toolbar…
Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas, General Life | No Comments »They have their "Safe browsing" toolbar. It puts up warnings for possible phishing sites, malware sites, etc. They should also add a "Not Safe For Work" (NSFW) aspect to it. It doesn't prevent you from going there, but sometimes ...
You know what would be cool?
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »It would be cool if my RSS reader, shrook (or any RSS reader, for that matter) could figure out when boingboing, engadget, gizmodo, etc. all post an entry about the same damn thing (the "self timing egg" is the most ...
User… err… backup failure.
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 Posted in Computers, General Life | No Comments »Looks like while backing up the server and getting it ready for an OS upgrade, I didn't actually get up to date files... I think this may have had something to do with the fact that the drives were in a ...
Contributing To Open Source Community: Sniffing in a Switched Network
Monday, August 1st, 2005 Posted in Computers | No Comments »Contributing To Open Source Community: Sniffing in a Switched Network I've always wondered if this was possible. We have a switched network at home, and it sometimes comes in handy to be able to sniff what's going on, for troubleshooting ...
I’m afraid I’ve gone and done something rather rash…
Sunday, May 15th, 2005 Posted in Computers | No Comments »I can't believe it. I've gone and bought... A MOUSE!!! THE SHOCK!! THE HORROR!!! (A mouse for a computer, you sick fucks). Those that know me know I've been a trackball man for a very long ...