Ooh, shiny…
We have a shiny new Mac mini running Tiger Server hosting the sties now, and aside from a really stupid mySQL change on Apple’s part, everything went remarkably smoothly. Yay!
Tales of the Odd, Issue 3
Well, it’s now officially available for pre-order! Yes, you too can own the beautiful cover art I created, attached to a wonderful comic book written by my friend, Ron “AAlgar” Watt. As AAl puts it: This is it— the end of the backstory and the beginning of the… er… front story. Penny Lawson’s life never …
Gigabit Ethernet Connections
Yesterday, we had quite a scare. We had run CAT5e cable throughout the ceilings and walls of the office, but when we plugged them into the gigabit Ethernet switch, none of the link lights lit up. We were dumbfounded. All of this cable had tested fine. We tried shorter cable, different cable, none of it …
Twisted Pair Ethernet Connectors
I’m doing an expansion of the editing systems where I work, including setting up and entire new separate LAN for the metadata traffic for the new Xsan. I just figured out, if you cut the vinyl sheathing on twisted-pair ethernet cable (like, say, CAT5e) shorter, it actually leads to less twist-wrangling, and the connectors go …
Macintosh on Intel
Holy crap, the rumors are actually true. Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
Channel Craft American Made Toys, Games, Puzzles and Fun
Channel Craft makes great vintage-looking toys and games — they made the “Morgan’s Revenge” pirate gambling game I picked up in Roanoke Festival Park, NC.
Celluloid
Film speedsThrough the cameraFlicker flashThe light imprintsScenes of lifeReal or imaginedBurned into silverSpun into goldLight returnsBack to lifeReflected in facesOn the edge of their seats © 2005 Mark Boszko