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Discovery channel had an interesting little series of shows on called 2057. I can’t say I agree with all of the predictions but it is an interesting show just the same.
They have a web site for the show with more info
Hey anyone know what happened to The IT Crowd? That came out some time ago but I haven’t seen anything but the original 6 episodes. Did it get canned?
The best part of the Super Bowl… I don’t even know who played the game.
http://www.youtube.com/superbowl
I was poking around looking to see where we were at with thin panel solar and found this item for sale… 15 foot long 20 Watt rollable solar panel… Marine Grade 12V application… Only $350. They have smaller options available as well. I wonder if they sell this type of stuff in Marina’s, I certainly would take something like this out on a big boat.
http://www.siliconsolar.com/shop/catalog/Flexible-Solar-Panel-20-Watt-p-60.html
I think I mentioned a while back but if not I loaded Vista Ultimate on my 17″ HP laptop shortly after Vista went RTM. Well I was getting a non-occasional opportunity 🙂 to experience the exciting “Blue Screen of Death” (BSD) with no common cause, it was all over the map. When I ran the laptop on the XP or Windows Server 2003 I had absolutely no issues.
I had read multiple times that Vista was sensitive to the quality of the RAM being used but I had run the memory test that is built into the Vista Boot Screen multiple times and it never detected an issue. Never. However, if you recall, when I first bought the memory for the laptop I had an issue with putting 2GB in it, if it all went in, the system wouldn’t boot, but if I used one or the other chip and the 512MB that came with it it was fine. So I already had kind of a hint that the memory I had bought was less than optimal. Certainly it wasn’t the approx $800 per GB chips that HP wanted to sell me (which I would NEVER buy – that is ridiculous pricing HP, fix it) but I didn’t think the memory was too bad when I bought it last summer – just no name.
Well after the BSDs I finally decided to take a shot and buy some newer name brand RAM and see how that went. I found some Crucial brand memory on NewEgg for only $100 a GB so bought a couple of chips (along with a couple more 500GB Western Digital SATA drives for the Media Center because they were only $130 each) . I received the shipment from NewEgg in three days (I love NewEgg) and inserted the RAM and “cheer!” the laptop immediately saw all 2GB and in constant running of several heavy duty programs over the last few days I haven’t had the opportunity to experience a BSD since. Certainly I would have hit a BSD before now with the older RAM in it…
So if you are hitting random BSDs and even if the RAM test is saying RAM is ok, still consider changing out the RAM for some better RAM.
joe
If you are wearing pants with a zipper in them, chances are the zipper has the letters YKK on them. But why?
This is just one of those odd type questions that I occasionally come up with. I happened to notice in a single day that three different pairs of pants by different manufacturers all had zippers with YKK on them so went looking for the reason.
That reason is that most zippers are now made by a company called YKK Co. Prior to being renamed to YKK Co it was called Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha and was established in 1934.
I agree, useless trivia. But who knows, it might be a good ice breaker some time for you.
joe
[JD is holding a copy of “The War in Iraq for Dummies” and is on about page 20 of about 420 pages]
I felt like an idiot so I’ve been reading up on this Iraq situation. You know what’s so messed up? I just got to the part where President Bush gave his mission accomplished speech on a battleship, and I’ve still got like 400 pages to go.
– JD
Futureweapons the TV show rocks… If you are a geek in any way shape or form, you have GOT to watch this show. Your propeller will fly at about Mach 2.
Are we still out there Defending Infrastructure Security….. err no was it Defending Security Infrastructures? Whatever… I received two emails today about the same basic topic and at first I was annoyed and then it cracked me up…
Someone unmentionable at Tandon Endeavors seems to have recently decided that he or I guess it is his “company” called Paramount Defenses was worthy of a Wikipedia entry… So went out and created it. I always kind of figured you had to actually accomplish something to get an entry on Wikipedia but I guess not, anyone can seem to just stick any old crap in that they want.
You can see the new article here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Defenses. It is just as fluffy, cheesy, and ridiculous as the press releases they write and distribute themselves (no believe it or not that isn’t media folks writing those saccharine releases). That all gave me a chuckle. What really cracked me up though was how obvious the contributor was about it…
The history for the entry linked to above:
And then looking at this contributor’s history:
Any guesses on who YogicTechie is… See the comment “Added Founder Info based on new received Press Release“. We are supposed to believe that some random person who has never written a single entry for Wikipedia sees a Press Release for some random company and then goes out and creates a new Wikipedia entry for it? Sorry, not buying it here and from the sounds of it, others aren’t either or else I doubt I would have heard about it. Thanks to those who emailed me… I needed the chuckle.
I heard they will be out at the RSA conference in a week or three whenever it is. If you are out there, stop by and try to see if you can get any hard technical details on what the Golden Finger is about. Nothing with any actual meat has been published anywhere to date; I don’t expect it will be much if any different at the conference because… well just because. I do hope someone with the ability to judge the tech hears something deeply technical though, I wouldn’t mind hearing about it and being surprised. Getting reports on access rights throughout an enterprise is something that I have written about on several occasions in ActiveDir org and explained why it is currently impossible just in a Windows environment let alone across all platforms. I would love to be proven wrong on that but it isn’t going to happen no matter how pretty the web pages are. Even Microsoft doesn’t have the power to solve it on Windows and they have truly good developers who really understand Windows security. Anyone who says they can solve the problem absolutely doesn’t actually understand the problem.
joe
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