So I had my $25 flash drive in a public computer when I accidentally hit it with my leg (the box was under the table). More like a tap really, but still the USB connector ripped halfway off its board>_>

Lucky for me I have a ton of soldering stuff and I fixed it in less than 5 minutes! Maybe voided warranty 'n whatnot but anything else would have ( Read more... )

I like how many of the "new" elements of Windows 7 seem to be ones which Mac OS has had for a decade or more :P

This is about a month old, but I didn't have time to read it at the time I actually received it :

IEEE Honors the People Behind Everyday Technologies

From lowendmac:

"The midrange PowerPC-based computer was code names Carl Sagan, and it was in a Centris 650 case, and the top of the line machine was code named Cold Fusion.
Sagan took issue over the use of his name and sued Apple to prevent the company from using it. Apple complied and renamed the machine BHA, for Bone Headed Astronomer or Butt- ( Read more... )

So today after restarting, I got a BSOD. Very quickly I realized it only happened when I attached my external USB HDD. This hadn't happened before, though. I thought, well, maybe it had contracted some bad piece of code and windows was locking up to protect itself, since that's where I keep some of my more questionable downloads, lol. The theory ( Read more... )

http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futman.html

GRANDMA KNOWS WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

http://www.allspectrum.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=28

We have to write a 15 page report on the architecture of any chosen microprocessor, from a technical standpoint. I wanted to do the 68000 series from motorola/ibm/apple (aka the processor in my first computer EV0R) but the professor for some reason doesn't want anything that's not currently mass produced :( It has to be basically modern, so I guess ( Read more... )

Oh my lord ( Read more... )

Basically over it seems. This should be interesting, given a Democrat majority in Congress as well.

Living in a historically vastly Red state, I can say there is quite a bit of disappointment, but I think McCain made a great concession speech addressing that. This was a fairly emotional race I think, as far as they go.