The coolest commercial I’ve seen since a long time …. http://www.bigad.com.au/! No, it won’t hurt your system, despite the security warning that shows up eventually, but this is so freakin cool!
Cats are just cool! They are most independent from us humans but sometimes they let us get closer to them. If that is happening, it is also sometimes possible to use them as a storage space for all kinds of things from pizza boxes to babies! Yes, cats are actually more trustworthy than one might think! Here is the witness: stuffonmycat.com! It’s even better than the Infinity Cat Project, an endless loop of cats sitting in front of computer screens and seeing the photo of other owners cats who are sitting in front of the screen. It makes me want to have a cat again because cats simply rock!
Found this classified a while ago in a BBS signature …
… And damn I thought that’s the guy I saw last month when I traveled back into 1629 by modifying my microwave oven into a time machine! You can never say that there are too many boring people in the world!
We’ve been to the Star Wars Science and Art exhibition in Ueno yesterday. It was held in the Basement halls of the National Science Museum and I can tell it was worth the visit!
They had tons of models present which were used in the movies, from the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers to AT-AT walkers and the original sized Pod Racers. Also most of the costumes where put on dummies and it was very interesting to see how lo-fi the costumes from the ‘old’ episodes actually are but how real they look in the movies. The space ships were probably the most impressive things there! The 61x76x21 inch model of the Falcon was a good example on how to make a space ship model look authentic, it looked rusty, dirty and had details like laser shot holes in the hull.
… or things in the spring! I got my new rig set up finally! Almost done with installing all the stuff that I need for a convenient usage. This is what came out finally…
CPU: Pentium4 3GHz 800MHz FSB
Motherboard: P4C800-E Deluxe (excellent board!)
“Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when geeks were geeks and floppies were really floppy.”
Though GUIs did not really change over the past 20 years and seem to become a little bit outdated today everybody wonders what will be a better way of communicating with our computers.
Listening to the latest Mac-rumors “Spoken Interface” is expected to be implemented within the next major update of Mac OS X (10.4) in 2005. But is this the way we will control our computers in future? I do not think so. Why? Read this old but interesting article!
Anyway. I always liked the simple and “to the point” design of early Mac OS interfaces.
This was how I’ve felt when I entered the Ginza Apple Store some days ago!
It was like “Hey everything is nice and easy and good” … but in a strangely artificial and rather canting way. I’ve opened my not so bad and somewhat stylish flash portfolio on one of the apples with lamp-screen and went up some floors and when I came back, the apple was set back to it’s screen with boring landscape pictures like it was before. Sounds rather like a bourgeois PC store, doesn’t it?! Let’s watch this again just for a lark (and then this one! 
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I feel I rather want to visit the 8-bit Museum and admire some of the old machines! An excellent informed website about obsolete computers with tons of detail, screenshots, photos and extended information that old.computers.com doesn’t provide! Old computer goodness from A like Nintari to T like Hexers Instruments. Unfortunately the site’s text is only in german.
It’s about time! We’ve finished a rather big job by now and it’s time for some coddling! I’m still loitering around with my outdated AMD 1.2GHz with yesterdays hardware so I prepared to buy components for assembling a new system. I will go with a Pentium this time, hoping to have not so many hardware probs, freezes and incompatibilities.
After some investigations and review study on several hardware testing sites, I’ve compiled my raw list of selections which includes a new CPU, motherboard, RAM, harddisk and additional stuff like PC case, power supply and CPU cooler. Maybe a new graphics card but that’s not primarily important for now. I came up with these …
… was a quote from Bill Gates from 1981 according to the book Computers – An Illustrated History from Christian Wurster which I had a sneak look into some days ago in a well sorted book shop and which her majesty now surprisingly presented me as a birthday gift.
This book covers the whole history of computers from the very beginning when they filled a whole hall and were based on relay’s to current computer high tech while leading though the chapters for scientific and military computers, mainframe computers, minicomputers, then microcomputers and to desktop computers.
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