Meet you back here in half an hour.
What are you going to do?
What I always do - stay out of trouble... Badly.

Wednesday, June 29

Geek

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.


mss_unit.jpg

$549 for the 300GB model, $449 for 200GB. (Australian pricing.) That's $100 more than the plain external drive.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:22 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 70 words, total size 1 kb.

Cool

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.

Left Behind

0%

Moltmannian Eschatology

0%

Postmillenialist

0%

Premillenialist

0%

Preterist

0%

Amillenialist

0%

Dispensationalist

0%

What's your eschatology?
created with QuizFarm.com


(Via Owlish)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:58 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 93 words, total size 2 kb.

Tuesday, June 28

Geek

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.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:02 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 228 words, total size 2 kb.

Monday, June 27

Life

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.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:56 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 62 words, total size 1 kb.

Saturday, June 25

Geek

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.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:16 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 56 words, total size 1 kb.

Life

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGHHH!!!!!!

One of those weeks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:41 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 6 words, total size 1 kb.

Thursday, June 23

Geek

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.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:24 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 172 words, total size 1 kb.

Life

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

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:50 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 162 words, total size 2 kb.

Wednesday, June 22

Cool

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)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:08 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 40 words, total size 1 kb.

Tuesday, June 21

Life

Whoops

Expect more than the usual level of chaos for the next few weeks - Pixy Central is moving. This should be lots of fun.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:48 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 26 words, total size 1 kb.

<< Page 1 of 4 >>
77kb generated in CPU 0.1657, elapsed 6.9634 seconds.
60 queries taking 6.9337 seconds, 397 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
Using https / https://ai.mee.nu / 395