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Here's a new mailing list for working with the holy trinity: Apache, MySql, and PHP. Looks like the place for figuring out how to get these running on OSX (well, Apache is already running, I mean the other two.)
Dave and I once had an idea for a bar that would have lots of T.V.'s connected to vintage home video game consoles. Pong, Atari 2600, intellivision, colecovision. We had Pong when I was in second or third grade, but that was the last machine I had. I remember going to my friend Chris' house down the street and playing missle command on his 2600. That machine was sweet. The joysticks looked like something Apple would make today. Anyway, here's a page by some guy who is way more nostaligic about the 2600 than me. He built his own portable unit. The original cartridges plug right in. He even imitated that great 70's styling. Of course the site could be a fake, which would raise the interesting question of which activity is more disturbingly geeky: faking all the pictures in photoshop, or actually building the thing IRL. Sure, I was wrong on the potato powered web server (fake,) but this one seems legit. Apparently he's going to build another one, and at that point put the first one up for auction on e-bay. Some newly rich thirty year old is going to pay a lot of money to be able to carry around all those childhood memories. You didn't throw out all your cartridges did you?
"To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Thank you for your recent Power Mac G4 order.
We have experienced an unanticipated supply delay and we are unable to ship your order in the time frame originally communicated. We expect to resume shipping late next week or early the following week.
We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may have caused.
Thank you for your patience."
Basic, but very informative pages on scanning and printing. Good primer if you are working with digital pictures (either scanning, or downloading from a digital camera and printing.) Covers scaling images and resampling. (this link is from this excellent thread addressing same issues.)
Threatening skies, but I'm going to try to make it up to the park to meet Alex. Then a sort of anniversary dinner at chez Wheel. Another year passes. I have been blessed.
"I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop." Ever had one of those projects?
Thinking of buying a laptop from Dell? You might want to read one person's experience. Thinking of installing linux on any sort of laptop? You definitely want to check out this page.
I'm not quite getting it. Handspring, maker of the popular Visor PDA (a Palm compatible with the proprietary Springboard expansion slot) has announced a cellphone springboard plug in module. This will turn your Visor PDA into a cell phone. (Other modules give you more memory, turn your Visor into an MP3 player, and I think there is a camera module.) The cellphone module costs $300. Already that's more than almost any cellphone, and that's not even counting the original cost of the Visor. Plus, if your phone is your PDA, you can't really look up a number, or open your calendar, while you're talking to someone on the phone. I guess you could say it saves space, but the module is only marginally smaller than today's smallest cellphones (like the startac or the new flip open samsung/sprint/qualcomm phone.) I can't think of one reason why you would want this over a regular cell phone; worse, I can think of several why you wouldn't. Who's going to buy this thing? And as long as I'm complaining, I'll throw in a little dig at the proprietary expansion slots that Handspring and Sony (memorystick) keep trying to peddle. Don't trust them. Don't buy it. Why don't they just use compact flash, or PCMCIA? (Answer: because they want you to be locked into their products instead of trying to provide the best product to their consumers.)
Genetic art project creates green glow in the dark bunny.
What an amazing day. I wish I could put this weather on hold for Saturday.