I've been spending all my time working on my basement. I'm turning it into a studio (building a bathroom and kitchen, and finishing the walls/ceiling). I've taken pictures as I progress, so when I get a chance I'll throw up a page for the whole project.
2005
A New Personal Best Windows Uptime!
Well, my Windows XP Pro system just broke my personal best for the uptime of a Windows computer. Previous record was 54 days without requiring a reboot. So far, this computer has been running for 57 days and still has enough free resources to play a game of Wolfenstien! I guess Window's computers can run properly, as long as they are treated properly. Here is evidence of the uptime (as shown by the CPU time in hours from the Task Manager):
What OS does iPod run?
The following was a comment posted by Fred Fredrickson in response to the following article on ZDNet: "PalmSource sale won't kill Palm OS".
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What OS does iPod run?
iPod is the most sucessful device since the original Palm, yet I've never seen a single comment on the OS - I wonder why.
I am sick of people comparing devices based soley on the OS. Palm OS will like morph into a version of Linux - most mobile phones are already heading that way. The most popular phone OS (symbian) is already Linux.
In the end, people don't want to install applications on their PDAs, phones, personal devices. They don't even want to be bothered with the concept of files or files systems - they just want to work with data, be it music, voice, imagery, text, whatever. They don't care about networks - LANs, bluetooth, GPRS, etc. - they just want to use the thing and for the device to just work.
Music decices don't ask where you want to store songs, they are just stored. That's where the future is, and that is where PDAs are going too.
There will be a huge variety of devices offering different combinations of functions, but the underlying concept of a compter with an OS, applications and files will vanish.
The secret is standards. If vendors build to open standards then it won't matter what to OS or applications are, they'll just work - just like iTunes/iTMS. Granted that's an utterly proprietary model, but it shows the way.
Posted by: Fred Fredrickson Posted on: 09/10/05
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I couldn't agree more with what he said. The general public doesn't care how something works or why, so long as it works the way they expect. The future won't be full of people who are more understanding of the technology they use. Sure, there will be a lot more people dependent on technology, but they will understand so little about it. If I asked you to take apart your car and put it back together, could you? Are you expected to be able to do that when you get your license? No, but you still depend on every major part in the vehical to work properly every day; and you stake your life on it. Your not worrying about whether the breaks will stop working when your traveling 75 mph on the highway.
Technologies such as the internet will become as commonplace as a telephone. Access to media and communication will become seemless; as if those methods have always existed.
9:11
Why do I keep looking at the time and it says 9:11??? I've counted it. In the past 2 months, I have looked at the time and seen it say 9:11 over 50 times now. Is that unusual? Beucase of 9/11 am I just remembering seeing the time as 9:11 more often? I noticed when I'm looking out for a particular car I'm interested in, I tend to see a lot more of them on the road. Of course it's just my brain remembering seeing that particular car becuase I'm looking for it. Therefore, it seems like I see a lot more of them. Either way, that 9:11 thing is eerie.
EDIT: Damn, I just realized that the numbers 9 and 11 are my two favorite/lucky numbers!
Excercising a little too much?
You know you've been exercising, and taking exercising a little too seriously (since when am I not serious?), when after using the elliptical machine exclusively for the past two weeks, you step on the treadmill and unconsciously say to yourself "Hello there, I haven't seen you in awhile!"
Passion of Christ – The Odyssey
If you havent already, watch both these movies!! Passion of Christ is very dramatic and graphic. Because of its obvious connection with the christian religion, it has a stronger effect on people than a regular movie. I'd say 90% of the people in the theater were crying half-way through it. I'd give it 9 stars out of 10.
Another movie, a little older (1997), The Odyssey is also awesome. I actually liked it a little more becuase it's more of a complete movie, with a long story line. It's two parts and is based on the poem by Homer. Excellent movie. 10 out of 10 stars.
Debian Linux Rocks
w00t! Here's how long Jabba (my Debian Linux box) has been running!
16:50:18 up 182 days, 9:03, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
My record for a Microsoft OS is 52 days! Lets see if I can keep Jabba up for another 6 months!
Life
I've been living life because it's there to live. Most of the time I feel like a zombie; driving down the same roads, going to the same places, seeing the same people, worrying about the same things. Life feels like a long journey around a horse track. Me being the horse, racing towards the pointless end of starting over at the beginning. And what for? Money? Happiness? Success? How about death? Thats the one thing each and every one of us are certain exists at the end of the tunnel, right? We have no way of knowing whats after that, so we might as well assume theres nothing. Yes, I live my life, because it's there to be lived. Because it's a precious gift that not everyone has the luxury of enjoying. So enjoy life. Don't waste it, because when your time comes and Death is at your doorstep, you'll give up everything you lived for, for just for another moment of life.