Carpe Decorum

Aug
7th

Thu

Hairpulling IT Moments So an installation of OpenLDAP depends on Cyrus-SASL already being installed. So far so good. But Cyrus-SASL is looking to have an LDAP feature installed so it will work. What the ???
Seems like the…

Reducing PC Power Usage Doable, Not Simple Corporate PC Power Consumption Difficult to Reduce from Ars Technica.
The problem is enabling power-saving features at the hardware level, having the right drivers and settings at the software level,…

Aug
5th

Tue

Frog Claws One of a kind: a frog with retractable claws of bone, not keratin, which pierce the skin.

Aug
1st

Fri

Neat Old Toy What we know now about the Antikythera Mechanism and how it works (Video)
And still haven’t found much on the web in metatonic cycles.

Jul
7th

Mon

Link Although e-voting machines still cause concern, in his interview with Good Gear Avi Rubin is cautiously optimistic about the possibility of safe e-voting following this year’s primaries. Such a…

Salmon Run While other parts of Alaska are seeing few salmon, Bristol Bay has more sockeye salmon than the canneries can process.

Jun
24th

Tue

Overcoming Hard Drive Limitations It looks like switching to ferroelectric designs of hard drives may just overcome the physical limitations faced by the ferromagnetic hard drives now in use.
Bits are currently stored in the…

Jun
3rd

Tue

Salmon song No Sense in Counting on Salmon This Year You could count on the fingers of both hands — no thumbs needed — the number of spring chinook salmon that swam through Willamette Falls Fish Passage on May…

May
7th

Wed

Missing the Point Yes, a lot of web discussions (and gopher discussions beforehand) feature more heat than enlightenment, and passionate debates often use raw language. But if, as Washington Post editor Jim Brady…

May
6th

Tue

Aw hell no A nice bit of work honoring a woman who worked full-time to prevent others from making the same choice she did.
From Washington University’s Record
Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer…