23 years Ago
Fact-checking at CNN
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
From their article titled “AMD allies with Transmeta”
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/05/25/technology/amd_transmeta/
“Most of today’s microprocessors are “32-bit,” which means they process data 32 bits at a time. It also refers to the size of the “pointer,” which determines how much data the processor can address directly. Current 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of data.“
“The industry has been gradually moving toward a 64-bit architecture, which multiplies the amount of data the... [More]
New Quake Battle
Published by marco on in earthli.com
Polling system complete.
Published by marco on in earthli.com
Finished the first version of the polling system.
Peakabooty from the Cult of the Dead Cow
Published by marco on in Technology
More hacktivism from the Cult. This time their software aims to provide private, closed networks untouchable by prying eyes.
The last section ‘Some Truth about Peekabooty’ is the most interesting, I think.
Windows 98 vs. Windows 2000
Published by marco on in Technology
This is a comparison of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with the GeForce2 GTS (slowest one) and Radeon (both 64MB cards). They tested 8 different games with different engines, including Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and Serious Sam. Surprise, surprise, Quake and Serious Sam showed 0% change between platforms.
Looks like you can move safely over if you like….
Here’s the main chart:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=12
and the whole review:
DMCA takes over the world
Published by marco on in Technology
A (biased) description of a recent meeting of the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and
Foreign Judgments, discussing globalizing copyright laws.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/15/2138208&mode=nocomment
Christmas 2000 Photo Album
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Added Christmas 2000 pictures to the photo album.
Suck takes on the music industry
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
A look at what ‘big media’ is trying to get away with these days…
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/11/
New Server
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earthli moves to a dedicated server and gets mail service.
SDMI − copyrighted music
Published by marco on in Technology
SDMI is the secure digital music initiative. They issued a challenge last year to any comers to crack their protection. Anyone who agreed to enter the contest was bound to secrecy, though and not allowed to reveal any details of how they cracked it, if indeed they could. Once group from Princeton declined because of this proviso and cracked it anyway. Turns out they can now be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which purports to disallow reverse-engineering of software... [More]
Test Engine Build History
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Logicat Test Engine build history transferred to earthli.
The Golf Game
Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Woods turns to Wonder and says, “How’s the singing career going?”
Stevie Wonder replies, ”Not too bad. How’s the golf?”
Woods replies, “Not too bad, I’ve had some problems with my swing, but I think I’ve got that right now.”
Stevie says, “I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it. Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right.”
Tiger says, “You play golf?”
Wonder says, “Oh,... [More]
Pop or Soda?
Published by marco on in Miscellaneous
Here’s a web site that lets you see who says pop and who says soda. This is only of interest if you have ever left your hometown and you’ve ordered a ‘soda’ only to get soda water.
You can even participate.
Stupid people deserve bags of money
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Seanbaby takes on the world while defending Jackass (MTV):
Hainan Island (Bush Daily Journal)
This is George Bush’s daily journal as recorded by SatireWire. The note for April 9, 2001 is really nice:
24 years Ago
Another Presidential Joke
George Bush was invited to a get acquainted tour of the White House.
After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom. He was astonished to see that the
President had a solid gold urinal.
That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. “Just think,” he said,“ when I am President, I’ll get to have a gold urinal!”
Later, when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told Hillary how impressed... [More]
More kids kill themselves than other kids
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
This is an interesting article focussing child suicide rates and why they are ignored in favor of reporting child murder rates.
Another pick-me-up article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/2½018208&mode=nocomment