Category Archives: General

OS X for $200

Here is the article describing the technique. I already saw this running on a more compatible system a while back. If you read the article, you will see that this system can outperform a Mac mini in most operations. $200 … Continue reading

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People Just Don’t Get It

There are many programmers in the world. Then there are the few programmers or CTO’s with very large megaphones. Here is one of them: Making programmers more productive It is 2005, and I love what this guy finally says. “The … Continue reading

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Interesting Comparison

Apple products are priced a little higher than others. This is not news. Check out this benchmark comparision. http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=129700&doc2=135353 The interesting thing here is this: that Athlon can be picked up with a motherboard at Fry’s for like $400. Wow. … Continue reading

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New White LED

Neat stuff! Very efficient: Link

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Apple has nailed the laptop market

At this point in time, if anyone is looking for a laptop… I would only recommend an Apple. Why? Over the years, the PC guys have just gotten worse and added more cruft on the PC side in order to … Continue reading

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106.9 FM

When I’m in my car, I listen to FM radio. The CD changer in the trunk broke a long time ago and I don’t own an iPod. Over the last few days, I’ve been listening to 106.9 FM. I don’t … Continue reading

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Watching the kids this weekend…

Should be fun. We have several colds/viruses running through the Nelson compound right now. If the chaos settles down, we may get to go on some hikes…

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GIMP Shop – Open Source Photoshop

Nice! There is a picture of Wilber. Essentially, these guys have taken the GIMP – the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, which was already really powerful, and made it even more Photoshop like. It has a simple windows installer as well. … Continue reading

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