This is a fantastic little tidbit of information, aparently the “media companies” stepped in and told Microsoft they must limit and or disable HD playback on 32-bit machines as they do not have the ability to enforce copy protection like 64-bit systems do. The full blurb: Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior [...]
Psycho Killer Raccoons Terrorize Olympia, Washington
I already hate raccoons after an incident when I was younger and some got into our yard and just started systematically dropping our turtles off the roof, killing them, then tearing them open and eating them. Naturally while shooting them with a pellet gun, they sort of sauntered around the roof until they decided to [...]
Shuttle XPC: Step Aside Mac Mini
For those that haven’t caught it yet, have a glance at the new Shuttle XPC X100 Mini PC: The stats on this are surprising powerful and to boot, Vista capable, have a gander: Intel Core Duo 1.6Ghz – 2.0Ghz Intel 945PM Chipset Up to 2GB DDR 533 Ram 250GB 7200 RPM SATA Drive ATI Mobility [...]
Having the Right Grilling Equipment
Just got this from a friend in email… got a good laugh out of me:
Eclipse 3.2 Running ontop of Swing
Well the “Eclipse on Swing” discussion is heating up again. I have to admit that I do not see the allure to this. Assuming of course there is some benefit to doing this port, by the time it reaches parity with native SWT/JFace I imagine both Swing and SWT will be fast/flexible enough that no [...]
Kickoff – The new KDE start menu
This flash movie represents the new startup menu for KDE that will be in openSUSE 10.2. The menu was designed by the KDE team and the SUSE usability group.
Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers
Very interesting write-up on the Software by Rob blog about the personality traits that the best programmers have. How many of you read this list and think “That’s me!”… sort of like reading those lists “What makes the perfect husband?” or “How to know if you are a good lover” type lists: “That’s definately me!” [...]
What are closures in Java?
I first ran across an explanation of this new buzzword for Java 7 in the JavaLobby front page. I saw Rick’s comments about Neal’s ability to describe complex topics easily so I went ahead and clicked over to his explanation of what colsures are and why I should care. 10 minutes later I was completely [...]
PostgreSQL compared to MySQL 4.1 and 5.0
Ran across a fairly good tabular comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.1/5.0. I’ve personally always held the belief that a good way to determine which one you should use is to ask yourself: Do you want Oracle or MS SQL Server without the commercial prices? NO: Using MySQL is fine YES: Use PostgreSQL Do you [...]
Software Contractor Invoices Bill Gates for Lost Data
An upset software contractor sends Bill Gates an invoice for £1,200 sterling to cover work lost after leaving his machine to take care of a family emergency only to come back to it to find the damn thing has rebooted itself because of a “critical update”, obviously closing/killing everything that was open. He goes on [...]
Linux Laptop Installation/Device Support Results
Ran across this excellent survey of thousands of writeups about installing different Linux distrobutions on all different types of laptops. I’m thinking of getting a ThinkPad T60 or the Core 2 Duo update after the T60 and was really curious how Ubuntu did. It was really easy to click the ThinkPad series and then scroll [...]
Optimal user settings for the Samsung HL-S7178W
If you or someone you love has purchased or is purchasing the 71″ Samsung HL-S7178W behemoth: ‘paxi’ pointed me in the direction of recommended optimized settings from Eliab on AVS (Professional ISF calibrator). These are the settings you can realized out of the box using the user menu, no need to enter the service menu: [...]
Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for “Green Haze” or “Green Blob” SXRD Problem
PLEASE READ FIRST Welcome! This post was written years ago when people first started discovering the “green blob“, “yellow haze” or “blue tinge” discolorations on their 50″, 60″ and 70″ SXRD rear-projection HDTV’s from Sony. Years later (and many updates to this story as we went through the discovery process together) it was discovered the [...]
Sony KDS-A2000, more "Green Haze" problems
More confirmations in the KDS-A2000 thread on AVS that the “green haze” issue for the Sony SXRD sets is not fixed in the A2000 model. User ‘buccikong’ provided a faint but good image of the green haze being displayed in the following scene: It may not be that evident right off the bad but he [...]
Professional ISF Calibrators on AVS Forum
The question of professional ISF calibration for new HDTV sets has been coming up a lot in the Mitsubishi 731/732/831, Sony KDS-XXA2000 and Samsung thread… most likely others as well. The reason it keeps coming up is that there is a set of 4 or more common posters to AVS that are infact professional ISF [...]
Worst toString method ever
Erik threw up a post with the worst toString() method he’s ever run into… I have to admit, this is pretty incredible: public String toString() { if (this != null) return “**** implement me”; return “i am null”; } That is like set-yourself-on-fire-and-do-society-a-favor terrible. If this != null on a non-static method? Nice. Maybe the [...]
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