Rumors of my inactivity have been.. mostly true, actually.

Seem to be a series of articles on a design patterns and anti-patterns in historical Unix, by Neil Brown, called "Ghosts of Unix Past":
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But someone put all of James Burke's TV programs on the web so I've been watching television instead of blogging.
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An old chestnut that I am fond of digging up from the vax 4.3bsd sys/vmparam.h:

* Just for fun: current memory prices are 4600$ a megabyte on VAX (4/22/81), * so we loan each swapped in process memory worth 100$, or just admit * that we don't consider it worthwhile and swap it out to disk which costs * $30/mb or about $0.75.

Memory for a ( Read more... )

Popular Mechanics noticed that data loggers and accelerometers and batteries were all cheap enough that evaluating shipping companieswas totally something that was a practical thing to do. I've been ( Read more... )

The only interesting non-work related reportable is really that I painted a room in my apartment this weekend. This is a flash ( Read more... )

I recorded two minuets that tend to occur early in most piano teaching curricula, often attributed to J.S. Bach. It turns out that they're by a guy named Christian Petzold.
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A while back, I posted about the Nord Modular. Well, I saw a good price for one on ebay, so:
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This is cool. I'm a little dubious about pure data being better than something described by text, but on the other hand, I've done some small things with pure data and have never gotten around to learning anything like csound.

I can't afford one of these, and I want one. I am told that they don't make a huge profit on them, either.

The Cairo ( Read more... )

I'm in North Carolina this weekend. I'll post some pictures of food tomorrow.
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