January 30, 2007
Pillow Fight League - Coming to America
Just when you think you've heard it all.
The Pillow Fight League arrives.
Based in Canada and news reports suggest coming to America.
Is this something that appeals to anyone other than sex starved men and lesbian women?
I googled for pics from the league and they are, shall we say, some handsome women.
The Pillow Fight League - Fight Like A Girl!
Intel builds 80-core prototype
The prototype was built so that the chip giant's researchers could investigate the best way to make such a large number of processing cores communicate with each other. This was in addition to researching new architectural techniques and core designs.
The chip, dubbed the Tera-Scale Teraflop Prototype, is just for research purposes and lacks a lot of necessary functionality at the moment. However, R&D Technology Strategist Manny Vara said that the company will be able to produce 80-core chips en masse in five to eight years.
Holy multiprocessors batman!
With an 80 Core processor you could render games with lifelike quality.
Sweeettttt.
January 29, 2007
Global Warming = Ice Falling from Sky
But it happened on Hilldrop Court in Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning.
Neighbors woke up to something they never thought they’d see.
“Came out to find a large piece of ice sitting on the car, and ice all over the place,” said neighbor John Young.
The damaged car, a Ford Mustang, belongs to Carlos Javage’s son.
I sure wish the weather would cooperate with the nut job scientists that now have to change their story, it's going to be global cooling and "the coming ice age" in a few years. Then it will be global warming again, I sure hope they figure out it's all part of the Earth's natural cycle.
*sigh*
Song of The Week
For the week of January 29th: Sometime Sunday - Guilty
I'm not 100% if I should call this rock, metal or what.
All I know is this song is both deep in message and dark and chunky.
Sometime Sunday is one of those bands that puts out one or two great albums then disappears from existence.
Anyone who enjoys good emotionally, spiritually and musically powerful songs can't pass this band up.
Like this song?, grab the CD cheap HERE
January 28, 2007
Steelers @ Bengals
Final game of the season and boy was it a tight one, the last game for Bill Cowher as the Steelers head coach.
Long live new coach Mike Tomlin!
Hit the torrent link at the top to get your copy.
January 24, 2007
Ravens @ Steelers
Finally up, you know where to get it.
Enjoy.
'Fossil' Shark appears off coast of Japan
A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.
The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.
Marine park staff caught the 1.6-metre-long creature, which they identified as a female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because it is a primitive species that has changed little since prehistoric times.
The shark appeared to be in poor condition when park staff moved it to a seawater pool where they filmed it swimming and opening its jaws.
Looks fierce.
Is it possible that since it lives 2000 feet down normally that it being close enough for man to see and caputre it, could it's sickness be the bends?
Just thinking.
Oh, you can also see some video here
January 23, 2007
Racisism Ok in Washington if your Black
Now that he's a freshman in Congress, Cohen has changed his plans. He said he has dropped his bid after several current and former caucus members made it clear to him that whites need not apply.
"I think they're real happy I'm not going to join," said Cohen, who succeeded Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., in the Memphis district. "It's their caucus and they do things their way. You don't force your way in. You need to be invited."
It kills me that after all the ground work by early American racial equality pioneers and the struggles we have made it through that it's being tossed aside for selective segregation.
If there was a whites only caucus holy crap the media and black leaders would be throwing a massive fit, yet nobody dares say a word about this highly racist group.
America will never be one nation as long as this mindset continues to be accepted.
I imagine MLK and everyone else who gave their lives fighting to bring us together are rolling in their graves.
January 22, 2007
Song of the Week
For the week of January 22nd: Deliverance - Jehovah Jireh
For all those who grew up singing from the Hymnals, this rockin' version of Jehovah Jireh is a staple of any metal head's collection.
With Jimmy Brown's powerful voice belting out the lyrics to the old standard and shredding guitars, how can you go wrong?
Looking to purchase this?
Get it Here
January 19, 2007
Why China's Missile Test Is Troubling
Protests and expressions of concern were lodged over the test by the U.S., Japan, Canada, South Korea and Australia, but Beijing has so far refused to comment on the issue or even confirm the test took place. "The brazenness of this is a bit frightening," says Mike Green, former senior Bush Administration Asia adviser. "It shows that the Peoples Liberation Army has considerable leeway — a great deal of influence if not autonomy — to increase their capacity even at considerable diplomatic cost."
The reason for all the fuss is simple: the test potentially marks a major step forward in China's ability to nullify the huge technological advantage of the U.S. in any clash over Taiwan. While Western intelligence agencies have long been aware that the People's Liberation Army was attempting to develop an anti-satellite system, the successful targeting of a single satellite in high orbit marks a significant milestone. When the Pentagon issued its annual report to Congress on China's Military Power last summer it stated that "China can currently destroy or disable satellites only by launching a ballistic missile or space-launch vehicle armed with a nuclear weapon." All that has now changed.
Yikes, anyone think China lets North Korea do their crazy act to keep our attention elsewhere?
January 16, 2007
Gentoo Linux Raid5, Arrrhhh!!
Day two, trying to get this horrid raid5 setup on the server.
(mind you I've done multiple raid1 setups on this and other boxes no problem)
I don't think it's the kernel, the dmesg shows the sil3114 card detected and each of the seagate sata drives detected just fine.
I've run zerofill on all four drives to be sure they are clean, ran each one through cfdisk and made one 80g partition of linux raid (fd) on each drive.
I have run the mdadm create raid command 4x now and each time it's solid, persistent superblock and clean after it's done building the array.
I even mounted it under /temp the first time and copied 132G of data from two volume groups with no issues.
That was however until I rebooted.
Then it fell apart, four times now and for two days straight. I made the array, create the reiserfs file system and mount it, no problems.
I'm going to fix the garage door opener now, I need a break or I'm going to run screaming down the street buck naked, and NOBODY wants to see that.
Currently building, I'll post output after it's done.
Every 1.0s: cat /proc/mdstat Tue Jan 16 15:35:27 2007
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
md2 : active raid5 sdd1[4] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
234444288 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_]
[=======>.............] recovery = 38.9% (30406512/78148096) finish=64.0min speed=12428K/sec
md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hdb1[0]
30018112 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 hdg1[1] hde1[0]
117218176 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices:
January 15, 2007
Song of the Week
For the week of January 15th: Brainchild - Deviate [Sawed off Shotgun Edit / via Metamorphosis Remix CD]
Any fan of industrial/Electronic/Metal will love this. A great re-mix by Circle of Dust founder Scott Albert. The original was great, but this re-mix is even heavier and just flat out moves you. (even the conservative among you will bang your head a little)
January 09, 2007
Song of the Week
For the week of January 8th: Detritus - Father To Son
Detritus, what can one say but wow. From back in 1993 when Rex Music released this till now and into the future this is a fantastic album.
Grab a this one, any fan of metal won't be sorry.
January 06, 2007
Mexico arming Illegals with GPS to aid in law-breaking
The more I hear this the more a trench filled with used motor oil set on fire sounds like a good barrier to keep out the criminals.
Oh! I've got it, simple.
M249 SAWs setup every one hundred yards linked to motion sensors, whatever moves on the Mexico side gets sprayed, the same technology used for the Phalanx CIWS would be perfect.
Social Security for illegal aliens
I get the feeling Bush tries to do whatever he can to ruin his presidency.
I don't get his ongoing love affair with criminals who break into our country and steal from us, then demand rights.
January 05, 2007
I happened to be flicking through some news and a thumbnail of this caught my eye, I clicked it and wow, all I can say is we're in for one hell of a ride. (and I don't think it's going to be a fun one)
January 04, 2007
January 03, 2007
Song of the Week
For the week of January 1st: Olivia - A Little Pain
Good song by Olivia (Lufkin her seldom seen surname) however the video is a bit odd, her outfits in every video I've seen (including street lives) are all strange. That seems to be the norm for artists, so I'll let it slide. :-P
For those into anime you'll recognize this as the ending theme for NANA.
Huge thanks for IY4Ever for subbing this show.
*ps - if you can't decompress the file head over to the 7z website for a free download
Micro$oft trying new PR approach
Microsoft’s cynical response to laptop scandal
Posted on December 31st, 2006 by John Pospisil
Response to my post about the Microsoft-AMD Acer laptop scandal has underscored the disconnect between how bloggers are perceived and what they actually are. Microsoft’s recent comments about the scandal also demonstrate just how cynical the company is when dealing with bloggers
The scandal first arose when Microsoft sent some laptops loaded with Vista to 90 top bloggers as part of a public relations campaign. I was one of the first commentators to point out that the company had crossed the line with this initiative, and that these gifts were actually more like bribes. For my troubles I’ve been called jealous, a fool, and a racist.
Microsoft has since said that the program was meant to be an evaluation program, not a bribe, according to a report on news.com.au.
Not that I would accept anything from the evil empire, but a new laptop running Gentoo Linux would be rather nice. ;-P
*UPDATE*
There is an update to this post as well, giving more information on this.
Read it Here