Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Wednesday, June 29
Cool Toy Of The Day
Is the
Maxtor Shared Storage Drive. It's a file server. It looks like an external hard disk, but it's a file server. It's got two USB ports, but that's for attaching more disk drives. Or printers, because it's also a print server.
$549 for the 300GB model, $449 for 200GB. (Australian pricing.) That's $100 more than the plain external drive.
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Posted by: Kean at Thursday, June 30 2005 01:12 AM (/pZTX)
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My first reaction to it is to the case. In the last few years I've bought several external USB2 drives which have similar cases, and most of them have ultimately bit the big one, taking my data with them.
The reason? That kind of case has no ventilation, and the drive runs hot. That shortens its life.
I've had five such drives die on me. However the two earliest USB 2 drives I bought are still working fine. Both of them are larger cases, and they include cooling fans and have real air flow inside.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, June 30 2005 11:49 PM (CJBEv)
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The hard drive destruction bunny makes house calls.
My current external case has a fan. My old one didn't; I don't know how much that contributed to its flakiness, but it was indeed flaky.
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Interesting Steven, I've had an old 40G(!) USB drive for 4 - 5 years now (it just accepts the weekly Monday 3AM backup, so speed is not an issue). Still runs like a top. BUSLINK makes some fairly durable drives in my experience.
I like this new box, but can it slice bread or change a flat? Will it record my favorite TV shows? If I add it to my washing machine, will it get my clothes clean? I demand a universal appliance!
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We'll All Go Together When We Go
What a comforting fact that is to know.
| You scored as Moltmannian Eschatology. Jürgen Moltmann is one of the key eschatological thinkers of the 20th Century. Eschatology is not only about heaven and hell, but God's plan to make all things new. This should spur us on to political and social action in the present.
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I think it might be pointless for me to take this one. How can an atheist have any eschatology?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, June 30 2005 11:50 PM (CJBEv)
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Well, yes. Note that I scored 0% for everything. :)
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Tuesday, June 28
Desperately Seeking CMS
I'm looking for a CMS. My own development attempts have foundered on the twin reefs of lack of time and scalability (mainly database problems).
I'm not asking for much. All I want is:
- Unlimited blogs, forums, wikis and portals feeding from a common pool of articles and comments. That is, a post can appear on a blog and a forum and a wiki, with its comments and other details intact.
- Sub-sites with their own domains - and their own layouts
- Group-based permissions
- Semantic markup
- RSS feeds
- Page, block and template based site construction
- In-line and out-of-line editing
- A few nice clean themes to start with
- Absolutely no PHP or SQL coding required of - or indeed available to - regular users
- Plugin / module architecture
- Web services API
- Runs on Linux
- Doesn't cost more than US$2000 (Free is good. Open source is better.)
- Fully integrated and self-contained. I don't need a choice of three different blog modules, each using a different commenting system.
- An application, not a service.
- No usage restrictions. None of this "you can't run a hosting service" stuff.
- Background processing for big tasks like spam removal.
- Scales to thousands of sites.
PHP, Perl or Python, I don't really care. Even Java will be considered.
Any ideas?
I have a list of nice-to-haves, but it's kind of long. I'll post that later.
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I was sort of hoping you were writing it....
Posted by: Any A. Mouse at Tuesday, June 28 2005 11:45 AM (kCb5q)
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Sounds great. Let us know when you finish it.
Posted by: TallDave at Tuesday, June 28 2005 07:07 PM (H8Wgl)
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You want:
- Plugin / module architecture
But also:
- Fully integrated and self-contained. I don't need a choice of three different blog modules, each using a different commenting system.
Most of the open-source CMS I know are very big on modularity, and none of them match all your criteria. You might want to try
a commercial alternative, although it is slightly more than $2000. :)
Posted by: Jojo at Tuesday, June 28 2005 11:01 PM (08+db)
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The core features must be fully integrated and self-contained, and blogs, forums, wikis and portals should be part of the core, not four (or fourteen) different plugins from four (fourteen) different authors that don't interoperate at all. (See: PostNuke.) But it should still be extensible.
And I'm paying for this out of my own pocketses (if I ever find anything suitable). So multi-million-dollar five-year-implementation type stuff need not apply.
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Anyways:
Most of the open-source CMS I know are very big on modularity, and none of them match all your criteria.
That's what I've found too. The packages available are all either (a) elegant but very limited in their functionality or (b) mazes of twisty little modules, none of which work quite right or integrate with any of the other modules.
Or (c) cost $70,000 for the basic package, and even more if you want actual
features.
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I really like
Pivot, for example. And it does about 20% of what I want. Which is about the best I seem to be able to get.
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Mambo looks like it might come
close. But not all that close - there'd be a lot (templates, etc) you'd have to construct yourself.
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I'm using Mambo for another project, and I'm gradually falling out of love with it.
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As I have been confused about wikis for a few days now, you can bet the rest of this is way, way over my head.
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Monday, June 27
Karma Chickens Redux
My computers have been working fine just lately, so I was waiting, and there, my washing machine (the new one) just blew up.
It doesn't turn on at all, so it's probably just the fuse. Do you think they provide any indication at all of where the fuse is or how to replace it?
Yeah. Right.
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You can find a lot of info at repairclinic.com. For instance exploded pictures of washing machines you can hover a mouse over, and get explanations of different parts, and suggestions for possible repairs.
I don't think washing machines have fuses, but perhaps there's some overload-control that might need to be reset. I'm sure you are saavy enough to have tested the circuit it's plugged into...
Good luck.
Posted by: John Weidner at Monday, June 27 2005 06:16 PM (u8iRz)
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Well, I hope it has a fuse, because otherwise it's broken. :(
At least it waited until I'd finished the washing before it went splut.
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The fuse is in the most inaccessable location on the machine. That's where it ALWAYS is.
Except when the fuse ISN'T the problem. Then it's right out front where it's easy to get to.
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Saturday, June 25
Double The Fun, Double The Money
One local store has the new Athlon 64 X2 in stock. Starting at $885 (for a 2.2GHz 512k cache) and going up to $1639 (for a 2.4GHz 1MB cache). Compared to $408 for the 2.8GHz Intel Pentium D, it's not exactly a bargain.
Meh.
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Geez, that soundfs like what they were originally talking for the
Opteron dual cores!
Lemme see what they come out at in Canada. Maybe it'd be cheaper to send you one from here?
P.
Posted by: Light & Dark at Saturday, June 25 2005 12:42 PM (+Ds2b)
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Those are australian dollars, right?
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Yep, Aussie dollars. They start at about US$600, which is A$800, plus 10% GST, so unlike the case with books it's pretty much parity.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGHHH!!!!!!
One of those weeks.
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Figures, I'd choose this post to comment on for the first time... All I can say is, I feel ya on that one! What a week.
Posted by: Slack at Saturday, June 25 2005 06:34 PM (bZ1qg)
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*nod* Indeed, a week for the ages all around. However, I am happily surprised to say that "Batman Begins" is quite good. So maybe the weekend has a chance to be better than the week...
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*tosses m&m's® at Pixy*
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Thursday, June 23
Well, In That Case
Intel's dual-core Pentium D is out, and at a reasonable price (around A$400 for the 2.8GHz model). I'd love to put one in my Windows machine, because the rue for making Windows run at a reasonable speed is "One CPU for each application, plus one more for Windows".
Unfortunately, it's only available as Socket 775, where my machine is Socket 478. That's not too bad, I can get a Socket 775 motherboard pretty cheap.
Except that it won't run on just any Socket 775 motherboard; you have to have one based on the Intel 945 chipset. Those motherboards aren't quite so cheap, but they're not unreasonably priced.
Except that they only support DDR-II memory, so I'd have to replace all my memory. And they only support PCI Express, so I'd have to replace my video card.
So it ends up costing $1400 rather than $400. I might as well wait for the dual-core Athlon 64, which will at least use my existing memory.
Meh.
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Intel? Feh! Only good for running Apple OS/X version 5 "Leopard".
Otherwise, use AMD.
Posted by: Any A. Mouse at Thursday, June 23 2005 01:27 PM (kCb5q)
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Everything I've seen indicates the AMD X2's are a much-superior dual core architecture too. My supplier (sounds like I'm an addict huh?) is an AMD Launch Partner, so I keep bugging them about when to expect availability. No answer yet.
P.
(And can you imagine a nice zippy dual core cpu fed by one of those Gigabyte ramdisks? Might actually make Windows a serviceable OS?!)
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Yeah, the AMD X2 is definitely a better architecture, but it will cost twice as much - for the chip, anyway. But since it will use my existing memory it ends up about the same.
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Life's Little Disappointments
The asian supermarket closest to New Pixy Central doesn't sell the strawberry Pocky that I like. It does sell two other types of strawberry Pocky; just not the one I like. I'm not sure about the asian supermarket second closest to New Pixy Central. The asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central does sell the strawberry Pocky that I like, but that's another four minutes walk.
The asian supermarket near the office (or rather, the new asian supermarket near the office, not the old asian supermarket near the office) also sells the strawberry Pocky that I like, but it charges ten cents more than the asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central.
On a side note, your Pocky has not expired. That first date is the date it was made. The second date, roughly a year later, is the use-by date. Enjoy your fresh, crunchy Pocky.
Oh yeah:
what flavor pocky are you?
[c] sugardew
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Heh, my gf got me strawberry Pocky a couple months ago. I'd never seen it or heard of it before.
Posted by: TallDave at Thursday, June 23 2005 02:57 PM (9XE6n)
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Turns out I'm Green Tea pocky. Funny, I drink like 50 oz of green tea a day and 10 cups/days in equivalent extract.
My gf was Chocolate. Delicious!
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Wednesday, June 22
Wile. E. Pixy
| Your IQ Is 135 |
Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Exceptional [damn!] |
(Swiped from Margi Lowry)
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Your Logical Intelligence is Average
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Above Average
Your General Knowledge is Above Average
Does this make me CHA 18? This might be the first time I've ever scored higher on the math section of a test than on the logic.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, June 22 2005 01:51 AM (G2sf8)
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I got the same (135).
I missed the question on the most widely spoken language; I thought it was Arabic but turns out it's Hindi. I assumed "widely" meant # of people, but I guess they meant geographically.
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I agree, the "brain" on the person should get progressively smaller as IQ goes down, and he should look less happy.
For the lowest scores, he should also be drooling.
Posted by: TallDave at Wednesday, June 22 2005 01:53 PM (9XE6n)
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I only scored 125. Maybe I should eat more pocky.
Posted by: Evil Pundit at Thursday, June 23 2005 04:57 AM (gNnpG)
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Actually I think he should look happier as his IQ goes down... ;-)
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Hmm I like your idea better Kane.
But still drooling.
Posted by: TallDave at Friday, June 24 2005 12:13 PM (9XE6n)
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Hmm I like your idea better Kane.
But still drooling.
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Tuesday, June 21
Whoops
Expect more than the usual level of chaos for the next few weeks - Pixy Central is moving. This should be
lots of fun.
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Meaning A.I. is moving or as in Pixy Central being Pixy's lair aka su casa?
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