Category: Geekery
Luddites beware.
Sun Solaris 10 11/06 (aka Update 3) is out
Sun released the third maintenance update for Solaris 10 yesterday. The What’s New documentation covers all the features it adds to Solaris 10. There’s so much Good Stuff in this update that’s it really should be called “Solaris 10.5”. The ones most exciting and immediately useful to me: Storage Networking Read More …
The hard drive: 50 years old
Here’s something that should be dear to any storage manager’s heart: the 50th birthday of the hard drive. CNet has posted a silent video of IBM’s first hard drive which held a total of 5MB of data. IBM announced this new technology on September 13, 1956. Click here to view Read More …
lithium.elemental.org has faster CPUs
The primary server for my home on the ‘net, elemental.org, lithium.elemental.org (a venerable Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris 8) has been upgraded to two 400Mhz UltraSPARC-II CPUs with 2MB of L2 cache each. In the coming months lithium will be replaced with a new server. Most likely this’ll be in Read More …
New computer in the house
After 5 years of being a Macintosh user and owner, I purchesed the parts to make my own x86 system. I did it to play the odd Windows-only game (CoD2 and the upcoming Spore) as well as for working on OpenSolaris. It’s a Athlon64 3200 CPU, 1GB of Corsair RAM, and Read More …
Upgrade to mobile phone joy
A few weeks ago, I finally got fed up enough with my slow and buggy Nokia 6600 phone and took advantage of T-Mobile’s 2-year plan renewal discount on the Motorola RAZR V3 phone. If you know me, you know that I despised flip phones for their tendancy to break faster, Read More …
Scanner goodness
I finally went out and bought a flatbed scanner today. The model I got is a Canon LiDE 500F, a fairly recent one which includes a 35mm film scanner and was a pretty decent deal, clocking in at $129 at the local CompUSA. The main impetus behind buying this is Read More …
I’m back!
So I decided to give the old blog a kick in the teeth and redo it. Here it is, now powered by WordPress. Sorry if some of the links fail to work, it’ll get worked out.
Because I care
Law of Universal Gravitation Every object in the Universe attracts every other object with a force directed along the line of centers for the two objects that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the separation between the two objects. God I Read More …
Mr. Spacely
Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright; The spiral light of venus, rising first and shining best, On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon, While crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune, Terrapin station.
Orion Inteliscope Cable and Adaptor
Alright, so now I figured out the RS-232 pinouts on the telescope control computer interface. On its 4 wire RJ-11 plug, I found that Pin-1 was xmit, Pin-2 was recv, and Pin-3 was ground. Pin-4 is apparently unused. Bare basic RS-232 with no handshaking or CTS/CTR. I managed to work Read More …