From a recent email spam - that was sorta funny… Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his new shotgun to show Jack. 2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ
I recently began a quest to replicate my house data with a hosting service so if my house goes up in a fire I still have my data elsewhere. The utility that seems to work the best for this is called rsync, and is available on most flavors of Unix, including Apple’s OS X. Why is it good? Well, rsync talks to the remote host and compares file meta-data like modified times, checksums, etc. to determine if a file needs to be transmitted. It can handle partial file retransmission which is very nice if your dealing with large files. It’s much more efficient than other methods that clumsily send all data over the line to have the destination server determine if the data should be discarded or not. Here’s an example of the command I use (disk1 is a directory with a bunch of directories and files): ...
Last year HP Labs was able to create the long theorized electrical element, the Memristor. While most people have not heard anything about the memristor, it will soon change the whole face of our electronics world. The Memristor was a theoretical element in electronics that was postulated in the late 1960’s and was finally created in 2008. Our entire electronics work today is only based on the other 3 elements - Resistor, Capacitor, and Inductor. Why should you care? Imagine your next computer with 10 terabytes of RAM, with no hard drive and no need to “load” programs. Imagine the same computer powered off without loosing any information, requiring no voltage draw and at a fraction of the size of the smallest computers today - heck I could have described the iPhone of the future. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Analog processors, extremely fast crossbars, and others are on the near horizon. 20-50 years? No. I’m talking about the next 2-5 years. Here’s a few links regarding the memristor: ...
Tesla’s birthday is today! Here’s a cool video of the person who invented modern electricity and the death ray….
This is my next dream car. I saw one of these beauties in Ft. Lauderdale and it was so sexy. 100% Electric, quick charging, 0-60 in 3.9 seconds… Awesome.
For a ex-wrestler and gov, Jesse can still impress at times… http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/13/jesse-ventura-i-coul.html
Off to the Glenn to Celebrate Rachelle’s B-day. Earlier I started work on my main wing assembly for the F4U Corsair. 2 weeks to flight! # Just got to my hotel in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Feeling kinda sick. Hopefully it’s just jet crud # Wrapping up at the customer site in Ft Lauderdale. Going home tomorrow! # Powered by Twitter Tools.