The new Apple store in New York, New York is absolutely incredible looking. At least from the outside. The rather pedestrian looking Apple stores in the Los Angeles area are entirely unworthy of visiting now. What really kills me is that the store is supposedly to be open 24/7!
I live in a […]
The pictures to the right from Richard Stiennon’s post on Threat Chaos show the paths of the system calls used by IIS on Win32 and Apache on POSIX to service a single HTTP request. This pictures demonstrates, fundamentally, why IIS on Win32 is simply a bad engineering choice when it comes to security.
Every system […]
Everyone is a twitter about the Evergreen DN-2000, which brings the no-frills mp3 playback possibilities down to a rock bottom JPY999 price. Frankly, USD 8.50 is pretty cheap for an mp3 player, however the catch is that you supply your own storage in the form of an SD card. Even at USD50-100/GB, that’s […]
A good discussion of darknets, copyright, drm and the MPAA went on at the SXSW conference. One thing that is a must-see is the video which was put together by J.D. Lasica. I highly recommend that you watch the video, download the clips from the discussion and read the commentary put up by […]
Here we have a wonderful example of why you don’t run a general purpose OS in an embedded environment. Adam Gaffin was visiting New York and came across the world’s largest windows error message when he was visiting the famous Times Square.
…across the square, I saw it: the world’s largest Windows error message - […]
I’ve finally got my multi-head setup back. I went from a triple 21″@1600×1200 plus a single 1920×1200 to merely three 1920×1200 flat panel displays. It took a ton of doing and nearly eight weeks of effort, but I now have two nvidia 7800 GT boards driving two Apple 23 inch cinema displays plus […]
Well, after fighting with my motherboard, ram, power supply and bios for two long weeks, I finally determined that the problem was, in fact, the CPU itself. I had a defective AMD Athlon 4400+ X2. This being my first AMD box, I had no spare to swap in its place to verify it […]
When it comes to my efforts to build an AMD based system, I’m pretty much back where I started.
Here’s what I can reliably reproduce on my A8N-SLI:
Using a stick of ancient DDR ram (from a ca. 2003 box) IF I clear CMOS and cold-boot, bypassing bios setup (bios defaults loaded, F1 to continue), I can […]
Finally giving up on my video upgrade woes, I decided that they only way to drive my three flat panels is a new video card that uses the PCIx slot format. Alas, this means a new motherboard. New motherboard means new CPU/RAM/Power Supply, and at that point, you’re only a couple bucks from […]
Configuring Xinerama in Ubuntu is straightforward and only has two real steps (if you’re lucky). The first is to set up your video boards so they are identified by X11. Then you simply need to tell X11 how your screens are aranged and then that you want them to be one large […]
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