Hardware

2009.05.01

2009-05-02

software Finnix, ‘Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) for system administrators, based on Debian testing"; I came across this while looking at what common distros were out there for PowerPC since I recently acquired an iBook. Open64, the Open Research Compiler, “an open source, optimizing compiler for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium), AMD Opteron and Intel IA-32e architecture” GCC UPC - extensions to GCC to provide a compilation and execution environment for Unified Parallel C “UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg.…more

2008.08.22 - 2008.09.26 or something like that

2008-08-22

Reference stuff National Criminal Justice Reference Service - good collection of papers and resources from the DOJ Secrecy News - “Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy”, FAS=Federation of American Scientists Stanford Engineering Everywhere - free online courses from Stanford in CS, AI, and Linear Systems & Optimization; includes transcripts and video lectures “Life Incorporated” by Doug Rushkoff, or “How We Traded Meaning for Markets, Society for Self Interest, and Citizenship for Customer Service.…more

2008.07.10 - 2008.07.26 debris

2008-07-10

**Food-related ** Chai recipe I tried Using fresh and ground ginger - which I looked up because I had a lot of ginger root left over than just the 1/4" that I used for the chai Wikibooks cookbook - I don’t know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here. Stuff to do with cloves which doesn’t really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses…more

2008.06.18 - 2008.07.09, really overdue notes

2008-06-18

Hardware http://www.ucapps.de/ - “Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks” http://midibox.org/ - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects Nvidia Tegra - “features a GPU, media processor, system memory, peripherals and a CPU all in one ultra-low power chip, smaller than a US dime (10-cent piece).” Ethernet Mini Board Geek Articles/Software An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (William Kahan)…more

Alix.1C board & Edirol repair

2008-05-05

I guess I’ll repeat what some other people do, and put up blog entries about what they do with hardware… Alix.1C My Alix.1C mini-ITX board just arrived, hopefully to replace the server that’s sitting in the closet collecting dust, and making a lot of noise and heat due to having 5 hard drives (all of which could be replaced by a single drive for about $30).…more