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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
4:19 PMall mac related things
The iBook is fine. It is running and happily playing songs again. I just need to import my photos and some movies and some files and I'll be done. It looks like some things are gone for good, my last backup was not as complete as I thought it was. But none of it was critical, and only 1 lost document has me unhappy. (Now once I get my Strongspace account backups will be extra helpful as they will be in 2 places, that is only if I get the account.)
Of course I am now drooling over the new Intel Mac mini. The only thing that dulls this excitement is the onboard shared Intel video. I wish that it was a separate video card, like the old Mac Mini. I now feel that I have to wait and see frame rate specs and other such crap, when all I want to do is buy it. Hopefully everything will measure up.
Or I'll just buy it anyway. It's not as if I need it for games, that is what the AMD box I'm still building is for.
I am looking at a future purchase of the Duo with 1GB of memory, the 100GB HDD, with Apple Care, and that comes to $1013[1].
Just need some money.
[1] Edited, forgot about my Education Discount, old price was $1098
Thursday, February 23, 2006
7:07 PM
Not to get ahead of myself
But I think my iBook might finally be coming back to life. Thanks to iFixit.
Got a 60GB refurbished hard drive for $70 at Microcenter and now Panther is installing as I type.
Cross your fingers.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
1:50 AM
Why did I wake up?
I was thinking, of all things about Captain Kangaroo and Romper Room and 321 Contact and Picture Pages and other weird shows that were regional or were they national, and who remembers them?
The past of kiddy shows.
The only reason this may have popped into my head was because of Pulp Fiction.
3, 2, 1!
Contact
Is the secret
Is the moment
When everything happens
Contact
Is the answer
Is the reason
Why everything happens
Contact
Let's make contact
3, 2, 1, (4 quick drum beats) contact!
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
10:00 AM
BU wins 27th Beanpot
That's half of the 54 years that the Beanpot Tournament has existed.
It's Terriers town: Sophomore's goal gives BU 27th Beanpot (Boston Globe)
This is BU's 11th straight win this season, 10 out of the last 12 Beanpots, 27 out of 54 Total Beanpots.
Go Terriers! All the way to the Frozen Four.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
4:26 PM
This will be fun to drive tomorrow
Saturday, February 11, 2006
9:54 PM
Space Saturday 3
After 26,389 Miles, Adventurer Sets Nonstop Flight Mark (NYTimes)
"Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer, completed the longest nonstop flight in aviation history on Saturday, flying 26,389 miles in about 76 hours."
Spirit Mars Rover Reaches 'Home Plate': Formation Has Researchers Puzzled (Space.com)
Milky Way Steals Stars from Nearby Cluster (SciAm)
NASA To Send New Oxygen Generating System To ISS (Space Daily)
Man in the Moon's cataclysmic birth revealed (New Scientist Space)
NASA unveils its toughest challenges yet (New Scientist Space)
New prizes ranging from $500K to $5 Million
SpaceX Scrubs Falcon 1 Launch Debut for Third Time (Space.com)
Not looking good for SpaceX with 3 scrubs. But it is rocket science, it isn't easy.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
11:04 AM
Delay
SpaceX Delays Inaugural Falcon 1 Launch at Least One Day (Space.com)
New launch date Friday Feb 10th
Sunday, February 05, 2006
4:13 PM
Governer's Island Remake
Sleeping Beauty (NYTimes)
I was on the island in 2004 for OHNY, it is very beautiful and very alone. It would make a great park, I would love to see a theater, and a museum and improvements on both of the forts on the island to make them more open. Maybe a colonial New York.
1:15 PM
Falcon1 to launch Wednesday
A Bold Plan to Go Where Men Have Gone Before (NYTimes)
Delayed twice before because of technical reasons.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
10:50 AM
Space Sarurday 2
NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness (NYTimes)
A response to the article I linked last week.
Deep Impact mission reveals comet's icy cargo (New Scientist Space)
Water in space. Maybe Ice Pirates is a true story. :)
Bush Seeks 1-Percent Increase for NASA in 2007 Budget Request (Space.com)
Engineers Compete To Find Best Trajectory To Intercept An Asteroid (Space Daily)
'"Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas," said Dario Izzo'
MSG-2 First Images (Space Mart)
A color picture of Earth taken on January 25th.
Heir to Apollo: Making of the CEV; Part 2: Inside ESAS (Aerospace America, PDF)
I linked to Part 1 last week
Thursday, February 02, 2006
11:11 PM
MyWife on BlackMal.E
I was just about to turn off the TV when Channel 4 news started their first few minutes of the 11 o'clock news.
They had a bit where they were going to tell the users about the "new threat to your computer and what you can do to protect yourself". The video they were showing was of a person operating an old iMac.
I just laughed.
Hillarious.
W32.Blackmal.E@mm (Symantec) (aka Kama Sutra, Nyxem.E, MyWife, Blackworm, etc.)
Update: Kama Sutra worm threat shrivels (News.com)
11:52 AM
Quick Links
The Big Apple’s Nametag (The Morning News)
NASCAR in the Clouds (Wired)
Coyotes Take to City Streets (Wired)
Coyotes on the streets of Boston, coyotes on the streets of Cleveland, why have all the Coyotes come.
and of course how could we not say anything about the animal of the day:
Punxsutawney Groundhog Sees His Shadow (NYTimes)
If it is 6 more weeks of the Winter we have been getting here in Boston so far, I say hell yeah! (If it turns cold, hell no!)
12:08 AM
Unpaid Bike ticket + NYC Cops = Jail Time
My friend Keith was arrested recently. It was one of those things that happen in New York City, and most of those things that can happen have happened to Keith. He is telling the story on his blog, Mindless Drifter, in his usual witty and wry style.
Part 1: Tha Bookins
Part 2: The Shawshank Urinal
Part 3: Keep in Touch
Part 4: The Passenger
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
11:03 AM
Space links
I Spy (Wired)
Hobbyist's who track spy satellites using binoculars and math.
Russia Hopes To Launch Reusable Spacecraft In 2012 (Space Daily)
We are building a new capsule and the Russians are building a new resuable space craft. What a topsy turvy world we live in.
Sleepless Nights Pay Off in Giddy Joy at Stardust's Success (NYTimes)
Video of Stardust re-entering Earth's atmosphere. (JPL website)
"Movie taken from a NASA DC-8 aircraft as the Stardust sample return capsule entered the atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2006."
Proposed Federal Budget to Spare Shuttle Flights (Space.com)
