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SGI O2 in Lexx

Just when I was watching Episode 23 from Season 4 of “LEXX - the Darkzone”: “Lyekka vs. Japan”, two SGI O2 machines came to my attention, check it out in the following screengrab:

Cheers
-Richard

March 28th, 2008 · Tags Hardware, Geek Documents, Lexx, SGI | No Comments »

USB-Hardrives considered harmful

Hi,
I own a 1tb WesternDigital hard-disk, that kept in an USB hard-drive enclosure to connect to my laptop. It works fine so far, but as soon as I start put a little load on it, (like rsyncing 200GB) it just “stops”. It seems as if the USB controller chip just crashes, and nothing works anymore, […]

March 24th, 2008 · Tags Hardware, Geek Documents | 3 Comments »

Apple Update

Jeez, it seems as if I am not the only one to realize that there are certain disturbances in the Force.

March 18th, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

propirate brand: worth $257 USD

Today I recieved a generous offer, that is so hilariously comical that I just have to post it here.

Recently, propirate.com expired and went into a
domain name auction. We acquired it and, since you
own the .net version of this domain name, we
wanted to provide you with the opportunity to own the
preferred […]

January 28th, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

Dear Shareware Developers on the Mac

Dear Shareware Developers on the Mac. Has it ever come to your mind/attention, that I would need to buy an over 100 $/€ upgrade from Apple, before I could run your under 100 $/€ Software?

January 24th, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

I want one: Project VGA

Project VGA, a project which aims to develop a Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible video card.

I wonder whether it would be possible to use this hardware to create a FPGA based compositing engine for image scaling and alpha blending, and then meddle some modlines and use something like in this VGA to SCART Converter […]

January 18th, 2008 · Tags Development, Geek Documents, Technologie, Open Movie Editor | No Comments »

Making the web so much more pleasant to use!

Jeez, I just can’t take those toolkit-fanboys seriously. I don’t want to dismiss or offend anyone, and I respect that people work on stuff they have fun with, and I recognize that a little polish for an app every now and then is totally ok and welcomed, but sometimes I feel that some opinions are […]

January 3rd, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | 1 Comment »

Why I use Linux

Others might not agree
Common Movie Players for Windows:

Common Movie Player for Linux:

Another rebuttal
Have fun,
-Richard

October 16th, 2007 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | 10 Comments »

The luxury of short cables

I got myself a now laptop computer, and decided on a specific Model because it had a specific feature that others were missing, namely a DVI connector.

I decided to take that model, even though it came with a number of stupid stickers.

But another thing that I noticed was the totally ugly power-supply that came with […]

May 31st, 2007 · Tags Hardware, Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

Respect User Data

Hi,
One very essential rule in software development in my opinion is “Respect User Data”, which means essentially that a program should not put data that belongs to the user at risk unnecessarily. Actually unless it is physically absolutely impossible to keep the data it should be kept.
Unfortunatly not every software developer follows that rule. I […]

April 13th, 2007 · Tags Development, Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »