Category: Technology

Leopard

I’ll be upgrading to Leopard today. Why am I mentioning this? Cause out of the 300+ ‘new features’ the biggest one I’m looking for is TinyMCE support in Safari 3. Right now when I’m writting a post in Safari 2.0 I don’t get all the cool editing features. All I get is this:

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In fact, most posts are written while using Firefox. Shhh! Don’t tell anyone. I’m always defending Safari and if they find out I use Firefox I’ll have my membership revoked!

Xbox 360 Diagnostic Error Code

I found this in the comments on Cabel’s blog. He’s on his 5th Xbox 360.

By the way, it’s not a single “Red Ring of Death” error. The three red LEDs signify many different possible failures (hardware, firmware, and software). If you hold down the binding button on the console and press the eject button four times, you can read out a more specific (undocumented) diagnostic error code.

Never would have known that if I didn’t have the intertubes.

When I was 15

When I was fifteen my biggest concern was passing Drivers Ed. William Kamkwamba’s biggest concern was trying to figure out how to build a windmill out of spare parts. It’s purpose? To power a couple light bulbs and a radio.

I think it goes without saying that William’s life is a lot more complicated than anyone I know.

Operating Systems as Presidents

  • BeOS was JFK. – They both got gunned down before we could possibly see any downsides to them.
  • MS-DOS 1.0 was Herbert Hoover, aloof to the problems of the common man but friend of the engineer in all of us. Also discovered Transformers.
  • Mac OS 7-8-9, all Franklin Roosevelt, very competent, lead us through difficult times, but left a legacy of programs which have become quite a mixed bag.
  • Windows 3.1, Dwight Eisenhower, amiable enough, competent, but leaving historians (and many contemporaries) very wanting.
  • Windows 95 thru ME, Lyndon Johnson, one of the boys, very able at getting things done, but in the end a disaster, rightfully ceding his throne.
  • Windows NT, Richard Nixon, the archetypal back-room politician, ruthless, and ultimately brought down by little faults, but many believe he was a great president and did much to modernize the Republican Party.
  • Windows XP, Ronald Reagan, everybody who hates him never met him, he could charm anyone, the Great Communicator. Bought Iranian weapons for contras with drug money.
  • Mac OS X, Bill Clinton, cheerful and smart, if not the most productive. Known for his speeches.
  • Vista, George W. Bush, elected because of his name, even though the prior iteration wasn’t especially respected or well-liked. Introduced instability and performance issues, all in the name of “security”. Many of the corporate interests who promoted him early on are having second thoughts.

Taken from this discussion on Slashdot. Credit to cmowire and iluvcapra.