2nd hand iBooks causing iRiot
Hmmmz…
What do you get when you combine 1000 used iBooks being sold for $50 and 1000 5,500 people desperately wanting to buy them?
iRiot ! ;-)
...and t-shirts to match afterwards :-)
btw, posted from my own 2nd hand iBook ;-)
UPDATE: out of my logs… ain’t Google nice? ;-)
1:41pm client-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx.henrico.k12.va.us
google.com/search?hl=en&q=I+survived+ibook
OS X(eon)², not quite yet
Well, of course I had to try the floating-all-over-the-internet OS X86-image. For several reasons… to see if it’s not a hoax or such and to see what I have to do to get it running on my dual Xeon workstation….
Well, here we go, on y va!
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The test-setup of this afternoon… my workstation, ibook for surfing for additional info and I put a 2nd disk in my workstation, solely for OS X…
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Hmmz… how nice, a Mac-screen of death… I booted several times, also in verbose mode and it seems this Darwin-kernel doesn’t recognize my Xeon(s)...
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Then I thought, let’s put the bootdisk on my Media Center (Athlon XP 2800+) but not much luck there either… I didn’t put much time in this, since I wouldn’t have a use at this moment to have OS X there :-)
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I wanted to be able to make alterations to the image, but I can’t mount it on my linux-workstation somehow (maybe with a kernelcompile, I don’t know), but I thought, let’s try this disk as a USB-disk on my ibook and tada! that seems to work!
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Here you can see that the ibook can see the OSX86-bootdisk, so now I have to find a Darwin-kernel which will like my Xeons and then I can continue…
So… I’m glad I have the tools, as it seems, to do some work on this OS X on X86-thing, now I only need the time and additional information… I guess I have to read my way into Darwin/OpenDarwin and such…
...to be continued…
Quake III source to be released!
Just of the press at QuakeCon 2005, which is being held in Dallas, TX area: the QIII Arena-source code is getting released!
click on Tux to go to /.-article
So, what does this mean? One hell of a game-engine, even though a little dated, is going to be Open-Source :-) So expect tons of spin-off with such a great engine, spin-offs will be games of course, but also projects like DEVMAP and QQQ
General Lee
Always wanted to have your own General Lee?
Well, maybe you can, first, find a Dodge Charger, then contact these guys:
click picture to go to buildagenerallee.com
Somehow I’d rather have the original Dodge Charger, or even better (imho) a Hemi Cuda:
click Hemi Cuda to get some more pics
NetBSD Controlled Toaster
Finally it’s there… the NetBSD Controlled Toaster…
click toaster to go to productpage
Well, allright… do I want it? No thanks…
stamen: vox delicii
Wow…
click on the picture to go to stamen: vox delicii
This is an adaptation of In The News, a project that heat-mapped Google News mind-share from Spring 2004 through Summer 2005. I have stopped collecting information from Google News, and started looking at the Del.icio.us Popular list of highly-linked websites.
The stripes you see at top are a near-realtime cumulative view of popular sites posted to the Del.icio.us social bookmarking service organized by date and popularity.
imho a *mustread*
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
just stop what you’re doing and start reading…
I really can’t emphasize this enough, but go read this! It’ll get you the perfect mindset for this new century we all live in… (imho of course)
...and if you’re not sure you should read it… try if this triggers you:
“I suspect professionalism was always overrated—not just in the literal sense of working for money, but also connotations like formality and detachment.”
“The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed. And it’s not just the way offices look that’s bleak. The way people act is just as bad.”
“That is one of the key tenets of professionalism. Work and life are supposed to be separate. But that part, I’m convinced, is a mistake.”
“I mean business can learn about new conditions the same way a gene pool does. I’m not claiming companies can get smarter, just that dumb ones will die.”
“What you’re doing is business creation. And the first phase of that is mostly product creation—that is, hacking. That’s the hard part. It’s a lot harder to create something people love than to take something people love and figure out how to make money from it.”
via ...now that figures, doesn’t it? ;-)
definition of "hacker"
...there are millions of definitions out there and almost as many wrong ones imho, but gapingvoid sure does understand:
click the picture to go to the corresponding gapingvoid-post
and from the comments:
In a meeting this week the word ‘hacker’ was brought up in a negative way. I butt in and said how much I admired hackers, that they do brilliant, vital work and how hackers are exactly what we need more of…. then I suddenly realised it was silent. I could hear a pin drop. Eyes looking at me. Like I had farted really loudly or something.
They kind of don’t get it, do they?
Posted by gia at August 7, 2005 01:37 AM
BTW, I hadn’t visited gapingvoid in weeks (or maybe months) so boy, did I have some catching up to do (which I loved!)
Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft?
Now on /. “Given most comments on Slashdot, it would appear that anyone with even a slight knowledge of computers hates Microsoft. An article on CoolTechZone, though, argues that not everyone should dismiss Microsoft outright. According to Varun Dubey, Linux is over-rated, Macs aren’t worthy and Windows deserves respect and some love.”
Sure, ...so what do these geniuses come up with today? (and this is only today…)
Windows Vista demands monitors with copy-protection for best viewing
Right… one loveable company who’s goal it is to get us a splendid userexperience, instead of just making money, right?
So, imho, is it wrong to love Microsoft? No, of course not, but don’t expect me to understand…
some wonderful jazz(2)
Ain’t it nice some people actually read your blog? :-)
a couple of posts down I wrote about this great Jazz-CD I only had a couple of tracks from… and take a look now:
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Thanks Folkert, for lending them to me (that’s not a copyright-infringement is it? ;-))
