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November 14, 2008

PIctures from the Lafayette Reservoir Run

I'm amazed at how long it has taken, but they've finally posted the pictures. And while I wasn't really planning on buying them, I am truly amazed at how much they charge for these pictures, especially to actually get the high res originals. At those prices, the low res, watermarked versions are good enough for me.

     

Click here to download:
PIctures_from_the_Lafayette_Re.zip (99 KB)

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November 10, 2008

You know that you're a geek when...

Every time you hear Old MacDonald, you think Enforce In-order Execution of IO.

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November 06, 2008

Presidential History



Thanks to my brother for the forward.

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November 05, 2008

More on Firefox and Ubuntu

It looks like at least some of the Firefox font issues are fixed in Ubuntu 8.10. The fonts are comparable in size to Opera now, but Opera's fonts still look slightly better. They also seem to have fixed the "use system proxy settings" so that it actually works, which is neat. The thing is, Opera does have a lot of nice features that I do like about it, like the fact that it groups popups in a per-tab basis, and you can configure things like popup blocking and whatnot on a per site basis. If it wasn't for the fact that it seems to have weird issues with flash performance (today I was watching Zero Punctuation, and the audio kept on going fine, but the video would stop and then run really fast and then stop and then run really fast.), and I have had flash actually lock up the browser, so that only one tab locking up thing must have been a fluke. It's really too bad that I actually want to use web content that needs flash, since my life would be so much easier without that plugin. Anyways, I'm contemplating switching back to Firefox, for reasons that are completely not even remotely the fault of Opera. We'll see where this goes.

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November 05, 2008

Dark Clouds Gathering In the East

I took this picture on my run yesterday. The dark clouds over Mt Diablo just requested a picture.

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November 03, 2008

Free Daptone Records Sampler

Daptone is the home of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. 14 free tracks. You know you gotta cop this.

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October 31, 2008

As if I needed a reason to avoid Palo Alto

Apparently, you don't even have to be driving in Palo Alto to get stopped by the police if you happen to be colored. I can't do anything but laugh.

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October 30, 2008

More HP Netbook news

Because I'm insanely excited that HP is making a computer that I actually want, here's even more coverage. Linux Devices has some impressive pictures of the Linux version, and hints that the Linux one may even have higher specs than the Windows one. Imagine that. Even better, Laptop Mag has a video of the Linux one in action. Apparently, the Linux thing is based on Ubuntu, which is promising. Here's the weird thing: No one on HP's internal Linux mailing list seems to know anything about the Linux software on this thing (or they're not allowed to tell the rest of us), which is really odd. Anyways, hopefully I'll find out more as January approaches.

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October 30, 2008

What was so revolutionary about Chrome again?

I just had flash cause Opera to have a conniption fit. And you know
what? The only thing that crashed was that one tab. The entire rest of
the browser went on working just fine.

I don't know what happened in the few years since I last used Opera, but
they sure have injected a lot of awesome into it in the meantime.

(And try using ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab in Opera sometime. It sure
seems like Opera has beaten Google to the punch with the whole "you've
got some of your OS in my browser" thing)

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October 29, 2008

Mini Note 1000 actually released

HP has released the new Mini Note 1000. It actually looks pretty nice, and has an Intel Atom in there as well as an Intel graphics card, so it should be pretty easy to get running with Linux. They also made it available with a 10" screen, which is a big improvement. Yes, it's still only 1024x600, but that's not all that bad, especially in something that weighs 2 pounds. I'd like to see what reviewers say about its battery life, and how it stacks up against the Dell offering. (Though it probably makes more sense for me to snag the HP one, since I actually get a discount on that. =)

According to a couple of news sources, they will be releasing a version with some HP custom Linux on it. That's pretty cool, but I'd still have to pave it and put Ubuntu on it. Which means that the one that comes with a Windows license might end up being a better deal, especially if the Linux one is only available with low end hardware.

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