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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Suboptimal Procedure for Installation of a CPU Upgrade, in 140 Easy Steps
Items required: Old Computer: Asus A8V Deluxe socket 939 motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu CPU cooler New components: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 CPU cooler (will not actually be used) Supplies: Arctic Silver brand … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, The Suboptimal Way
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Nonpareil release 0.78
This is just a minor release to fix build problems. Two missing semicolons were added to src/kmly.y because some versions of Bison complained about them. The GDK initialization in src/str2png.c was replaced with GObject initialization, so that str2png doesn’t require … Continue reading
Posted in Calculators, Nonpareil
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Chemistry labs and midterm
On Friday we did the lab on ion exchange reactions, Saturday morning we had the midterm, and Saturday afternoon we did the lab on enthalpy of reactions. I did well in three semesters of high school chemistry, but that was … Continue reading
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New Shuttle ST20G5 computer
I recently decided to upgrade my desktop computer from an Athlon 64 3500+ (socket 939) to an Athlon 64 X2 4800+, so that left me with an extra socket 939 CPU. From time to time I’ve wanted a portable non-laptop … Continue reading
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Emee Somtone Alfwhya
Something reminded me of a silly prank from Lakewood Junior High School. Ms. Marone, who taught English classes and the Gifted and Talented class, had managed to get the school to buy a brand new Commodore PET 2001 computer. Prior … Continue reading
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Who’s the Invader?
Boing Boing links to a story in National Geographic about “gangs” of baboons invading homes in suburban South Africa to raid refrigerators. Some people want to protect the animals; others want them removed or killed. I think a better article … Continue reading
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Bidirectional Debugging
I’ve often wished that GDB would let me single-step backwards as easily as it can go forwards. Now UndoDB, a commercial addon to GDB, allows exactly that. It’s not Free Software (or Open Source). If you’re only going to use … Continue reading
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All YouTube are Belong to Google!
For only $1.65 billion!
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Losing a friend
One of my friends decided to undergo rejuvenation treatments, which would revert his physiological age to 18. However, the process also would erase all his memories of events that happened after that age. Since I didn’t meet him until he … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams
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The Onion: Still America’s Finest News Source
Just as The Daily Show has been found to be as substantive as network news, The Onion is as substantive as traditional newspapers. Case in point: the Onion’s coverage of the North Korean nuclear test.