April 2006 Archives
Tue Apr 18 14:11:04 NZST 2006
Wikipedia critique
Listening to Jason Scott's presentation about Wikipedia.
http://www.archive.org/details/20060408-jscott-wikipedia
It's about how Wikipedia is good, and how it's bad. It's called "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" … and for good reason. Jason knows a lot about the subject, and is an entertaining speaker. He occasionally swears, so be warned.
His website http://textfiles.com is an ecletic collection of interesting stuff, go surf …
Tue Apr 18 09:18:33 NZST 2006
My Xray at last
“They” keep identifying people from their dental records, but how many people could lay their hands on such things? Due to a visit to the dentist recently, I now have my hands on a copy of my dental Xray …
The downside to this is the wisdom tooth on the right (on the left of the image, of course). It is probably coming out in the next few weeks, along with a couple of friends …
Wikipedia gives me a couple of interesting phrases: “Horizontal Impaction” and “Pericoronitis”.
Wed Apr 12 17:08:15 NZST 2006
The Claw! The Claw!
I guess it's difficult to make some of this stuff up. Homer Simpson has nothing on this little guy …
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/335148.html
''When the 3-year-old Austin, Minn., boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza in his hometown, he ended up on the other side of the glass surrounded by stuffed animals.''
Mon Apr 3 14:39:21 NZST 2006
Your link filter service
Today's random interesting linkset …
** Want to make a website developer squirm? ** Where have all the domain names gone? "… of the 1219 male names listed by the US Census Bureau, every single one is registered" ** MINIX gets X windows :-) ** Neutrinos have weight … hmmm … ** $1083.58 each? That's a Whopper price for a burger … ** The Spider of Doom … how googlebot destroyed a website … ** Basic numbers, for extraterrestrials.Sat Apr 1 21:15:44 NZST 2006
FreeDOS under OS X
I said, without thinking, “oh, just run FreeDOS under Bochs or something” when a Mac user asked about running an old DOS program.
Then I spent a couple of hours banging my head against a wall, trying to get it working myself … I mean, the emulators work, and I believe that FreeDOS works :-) but the combination wasn't exactly obvious.
Then, after some careful googling, I came up with the right combination. Instead of trying to use the FreeDOS installer, just pick up a pre-installed copy from the Free OS Zoo collection!
The Q frontend to QEMU is really good, so start by installing that. Then grab the FreeDOS image from FreeOSZoo, create a PC config under Q that uses the FreeDOS image as the hard-drive, and boot it!
There are loads of OS images in there … I'm considering Plan9, I really am :-)