Author Archives: dru

Well, I succumbed to the lure and got another computer to tinker with. Did I need it? Nope 🙂 So, the computer was a Fry’s CPU / Motherboard combo. I always tell myself that I will never get these, but … Continue reading →

About 4 years ago, I put up a whiteboard in the garage. I put up a list of the areas where the world would have some big issues or trends. I made money only on one of them, energy. Here … Continue reading →

If I don’t blog about this, I will forget this. I know I’ve probably researched this before. Larry Osterman posts about the origin of the file IO flags under Win32. He goes all the way back to DOS. Why is … Continue reading →

Recently there have been a few grreat memes that have described some new and relevant patterns. The Long Tail is a great example of this. As I was watching the events of recent, I’ve been noticing a pattern too. I … Continue reading →

Just recently, I was researching some CG stuff and I had an impulse to look up an old system I had to work with. The system was called Graphics Kernel System, or GKS. It was an ISO standard and it … Continue reading →

I never want to lose this picture 🙂

I was cleaning out my old email, and I ran across this old message to myself from from December 3, 2003. I was telling myself to remember some of the great things about OS 9. If I remember correctly, I … Continue reading →

I talked about this chip on my blog back in October. Today, though, there is an actual review over at Anandtech of the new Ageia Physx GPU. The results are less than spectacular, unfortunately. Go read the review (yeah, it’s … Continue reading →