photography | mac | lego | open source | sap | gadgets
Sublime and ridiculous
Signs of Cape Town
3 years ago
Some of the signs posted around Cape Town.
Can’t be too full of care…
Don’t through no nothing, person or persons!
Cigarette butts to the left, other butts to the right.
apt get
3 years ago
A command many of us have issued.
As usual without thorough consideration of the long-term consequences 
Click on the image for a better view.
From Max to Marx
4 years ago
Max Planck was born in 1858, invented quantum theory and overall, was deemed to be one of the most influential and important physicists in history.
Except, his real name was probably not Max, but Marx. It seems historians have confirmed this fact, based on entries made in official church documents during the baptism of baby Marx.
Of course, the revelation is not as simple as assuming the new name. The Max Planck Institute has over 78 research and other centres in Germany alone, never mind the use of the name in other countries to denote buildings, streets and conference rooms.
The addition of a simple r may be a rather expensive alteration…
via 
Spiegel Online
Dummkopf
4 years ago
Quick recipe for toasting a 2GB USB drive including data, of course. Said data thankfully backed up somewhere else.
In hindsight, it comes as no surprise that motherboard manuals carry warnings to the effect of “before installing the motherboard and adding devices on it, carefully read all the manuals that came with the package“. Some of us deem such warning inappropriate. Especially when it’s just a minor adjustment that takes place.
Mistaking the 1394 pin header for the USB pin header may seem innocuous enough. The cable from the front panel on the case matches both…
Case closed, machine started and running. 2GB thumb drive inserted – surprisingly inactive, with just the slightest flash of the internal LED visible. Then…that smell you just know to avoid when dealing with anything electronic. Enough said: thumb drive burnt. Data gone.
Ho hum. Next time: RTFM
Creative courses
4 years ago
Some really creative course available at Creative Minds:
If you want to get way ahead of the game, I suggest you sign up for the SAP R/3 Release 6.5 training as soon as possible. Notwithstanding the fact that no one really refers to the product as R/3 any more. By the way, there is no 6.5 release.
Un-DRM-ing Audible
4 years ago
The conversion process to get my Audible content from the downloaded Audible format to my Rockbox-based Nano is a pain.
I use a bunch of CD-RW‘s as the destination for the burn of the audio file from the Audible Player using Nero.
Then, I import the content of those into iTunes. Could do it in any other application that is able to suck sound from a CD and convert to MP3…
Format the CD-RW‘s and goto top…
Graphics adapter installation 101
4 years ago
Together with the Fedora 8 upgrade, this weekend provided an intensive computing experience. I even managed to get Compiz Fusion to run and figured out how to position windows With all that, the upgrade of P4‘s ATI Radeon to a more powerful nVidia GeForce 6 Series should have been a piece of cake…
Uninstall the ATI driver in the Windows XP device manager and uninstall the ATI Catalyst software. Shut the machine down, undo the two screws holding down the side panel, undo the Radeon‘s mounting screw and gingerly slide the card out of the AGP slot. Insert the 6800. Tighten the necessary nuts and bolts, close the case in anticipation and restart P4.
A series of short POST warning beeps indicates something’s wrong. A never-ending POST beep cannot be good. Switch off the power. Open the case. Have a look. Re-seat the card. Try again. No luck.
Take the card out. Turn it over. Scratch head. Scratch head again. Maybe, that socket on the edge of the card offers a clue:
Power! I didn’t even consider that a graphics adapter may need its own power. Obviously a long day!
Captain’s log 31102007122003: 5 under par (I wish!)
4 years ago
If I had the time to play golf, I’d choose a putter with a difference. Ok, there’s the small twist of requiring the ability to drive a straight, long ball and recover from the rough. Let’s assume we have the ball on the green, for now. What better tool to have in your arsenal than a putter shaped like the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 starship?
Can’t argue with the shape. It looks like the NCC-1701, alright. Will it improve your game? I have no clue. But it’s a golf gadget for a true geek. That’s all that matters! Available from the STARTREK.COM for about USD 130..
Bring down that Romulan Bird-of-Prey before it cloaks, or sink that ball in two putts or less. It’s your choice.
Recent Comments