Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Minority Report Living

Here’s a TED talk on some wearable technology that excites me a whole lot. Ever since seeing Minority Report I dreamed of seeing this kind of thing made a reality. I must have said “sick” at least a dozen times while watching this.

I Was Here.

I was surfing the internet, doing the usual searching random things on Google, Flickr or Youtube. I happened upon this video by searching “Boat House Norfolk” on Youtube. It’s very funny to me, I went to this show with Justin. We went to see Primus, I think it was first (of three [...]

How the Internet Works

Ars Technica published an interesting article yesterday talking about how the internet works, how is in how your computer connected to your ISP is able to connect to machines (websites) anywhere else in the world connected to the internet.
Interesting read, not too technical.
How the ‘Net works: an introduction to peering and transit

Best Dumpster Dive EVER

A company in my parents’ town was throwing out some old gear - my Mom saved it all from the dumpster. She was going to dismantle it to use in art pieces - until I found out what she had.

Pictured above is a g4 400 mhz powermac which I got working. I had to [...]

Two Types of People

They say that there are two types of people in this world - those who back up their data regularly, and those who’ve not yet lost anything important due to misconfiguration, mistakes, or hardware failure.
This week I was asked to help somebody whose hard drive failed, they had a ton of pictures that were important [...]