Monthly Archives: December 2006

Unless you live under a rock, you probably already seen these already. I seen them surface on BoingBoing, Meta and dozen assorted random blogs. But these BSG Characters drawn Simpsons style are just awesome enough to link to them anyway. … Continue reading →

This is apparently a 5MB hard drive for a IBM 305 RAMAC produced in 1956: image © popular-pictures.com We have came a long way since then. Compare this to the 5.25″ 1TB LaCie Big Disk™: image © lacie.com This little … Continue reading →

Over the next 2-3 weeks posting here will likely be scarce. I’m planning to invest most of my free time into finishing up my thesis work, so that I can hopefully defend it before the semester ends. So if you … Continue reading →

Go and read the article called The Big Bang in the online version of the Aurstalian [tag]The Age[/tag] Magazine. I found it via Ben Hourigan’s blog and I thing it is a very thought provoking and philosophical review. You got … Continue reading →

Unquestionably, the best part of a long, arduous process of implementing a complex algorithm is when the code finally compiles, runs and gives you correct results. Conversely, the worst parts are when the code compiles correctly, and runs without errors, … Continue reading →

You can get a relatively accurate taste of how it will feel to run [tag]Windows Vista[/tag] without actually buying it.[tag] Microsoft[/tag] doesn’t want you to know this, but you can actually [tag]emulate Windows Vista[/tag] at home using only WinXP or … Continue reading →

It seems that my company fell victim to the nefarious SLOT (Squirrel League of Terror) today. This evil organization of rodent extremists has sent a Suicide Squirrel to crawl into the power transformer and blow it up from the inside. … Continue reading →

I’m kinda impressed. My host (dreamhost) has revised it’s policy towards non-profit organizations, and decided to give them a free ride. So if you are an official, registered non-profit or charitable organization you can get their top tier offering (500GB … Continue reading →

A relative gave two old, defunct laptops to my dad. He gave them to me to see if they would be possible to fix. images © me; click for larger versions First of them (see the image on the left) … Continue reading →

I like to let MySQL generate unique keys for most of my tables by making them numerical and using the AUTO_INCREMENT feature. It is both an easy and convenient way to deal with primary keys. It has one disadvantage though. … Continue reading →

Vista installation appears to be very different from the multi-reboot procedure known from previous versions. Apparently the Vista DVD’s will simply contain a compressed disk image (in a proprietary Microsoft .wim format) which will simply be copied onto your drive. … Continue reading →

Speaking of insects, here is the real Spider-Man story: comic © explosm.net; click to see the original Here is a lesson for you kids – if you are going to a place where you can expect to encounter radioactive animals, … Continue reading →

Nature is freaky! Watch this video in which ant gets infected by a fungi which takes over their brain, and grows spores out if its head: YouTube Link This fungus specializes in insects, but imagine if there was one that … Continue reading →

I can’t believe it’s December already. The year is almost over! And so is the semester which seriously freaks me out. So much stuff to do, and so little time. Sigh… I really wish I wasn’t so damn good at … Continue reading →