For those of you without rear wheel drive vehicles (with light beds or too much torque or, even better, BOTH!): Learn to turn like a big wheel! (via Jalopnik).
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Yearly Archives: 2004
Great EULA clause
This has to be one of the best End User License Agreement clauses ever:
4.1 Permission to utilize Your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, you hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilize the processor and bandwidth of Your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between You and other Skype Software users.
Lots of searching on the web yields very little about Skype that isn’t “it’s the greatest thing ever”, but there is this blog post where the author talks about the fact that Skype makes open hosts on the Internet into “supernodes” to facilitate conversations between computers behind firewalls and NAT devices. Smells a little fishy to me.
portage update
looks like the newest portage (2.0.51) comes with stricker dependency and blocking checking. As usual, the forums are all over it.
1976 Cadillac Eldorado on Ebay
Oh yeah, just what I need, a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado once owned by Wayne Newton! Let me get my captains hat and raise the mainsails. I wonder what kind of mileage a vacuum line hell, smog addled 500 cubic inch V-8 gets? (via Jalopnik)
New Hardware
Well, I caved late last week and ordered a new Shuttle SB81P, a 3.0 Ghz processor, a couple of 200GB SATA drives, 512MB of RAM and a cheap Asus CD-S520 CDROM drive. The build was very simple, following the instructions in the manual, but I did run into a couple of snags.
- The Asus CDROM tray is just slightly taller than the opening provided. A little filing and sanding solved that
- The SATA connectors are formed with the wires coming out on what seems to be wrong side. (very minor)
Now, I think I’ll wait with the gentoo install until this weekend (but, I’ll be using these instructions.)
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
In case you didn’t see it, here’s a roundup of the various links to videos and transcripts:
Videos:
Is it a car or is it a truck?
The Hard Edge
As a long time reader of Computer Shopper, I have to mourn the passing of The Hard Edge. Alice and Bill have long been the one shining star left in the ever shrinking Shopper. And now they are officially gone from it. But, like all things techy, they are setting out to learn a new skill, blogging.
And, even the founder of the Shopper sees the writing on the wall.
DEA Reports on drug smuggling
Interesting ways to try to transport or package illegal drugs, courtesy of the DEA. (via boingboing)
Sinclair Broadcasting
With all the brew-ha-ha (start there and read up) about Sinclair Broacasting and the fact that I’m blessed enough to live by a Sinclair affiliate, I figured I’d relate this little story:
I was flipping through my local news broadcasts tonight and on our local Sinclair Broadcasting affiliate was a “story” about the ramifications of running this “documentary”. They proceded to use a short bit of an interview of a Democratic National Committee person (who is complaining to the FEC) and then they “interview” one of their own opinion people. He states that:
- They are running this film because other media outlets are ignoring the story.
- They would run a similar film about George Bush if the other media outlets were ignoring it as well.
Wow. I am officially dumbfounded.