Amazing. Speal pulls a 2:05 Fran. This is a world record by 10+ seconds.
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The End of Architecture
Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
17th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture
Seattle, Washington
May 29, 1990
(Thanks, Wendy!)
Although I live a mere 5 miles from work, and drive a 4 cylinder car, I’ve decided to start riding the bus. I don’t like paying $50 for a tank of gas. The stuff is simply not worth that much to me. I am apparently not alone.
Anyone with a Microsoft badge (including non-employees like me) can get a free FlexPass courtesy of the company.† This was a major factor in my decision.
Last week I rode the bus 4 times. It was clean, fairly punctual, and essentially empty at the times I rode it. I used Google Map’s Public Transit feature to plan my trip, which generally includes a 10 minute walk.
†This is exceedingly cool. Thank you, Microsoft. I will try to remember this next time I’m about to bash Vista.
I got to play with a Microsoft Surface yesterday. It was pretty neat. Unfortunately, it did not have Warcraft III on it.
I’ve got some Vista laptops and virtual machines which are joined to the NT domain at work, but tend to be disconnected from that network for long periods of time. Ordinarily, this would be fine, but domain policy requires that we change our passwords every month.
Sometimes I get the following message on a log in attempt:
The trust relationship between the workstation and the primary domain controller has failed.
In these cases I’m often positive that I’ve entered the correct username and current password. Alas the machine has been away too long, and has lost the domain’s trust.
Where were you? Why didn’t you call? Is that lipstick on your collar?
The good news is that you can remedy this situation by merely rejoining the domain. The bad news is that you need to log in to the machine in order to do that. This is complicated by the fact that, by default, Vista has the local administrator account disabled.
In theory, Vista has cached your old credentials and can validate against those without contacting the domain. Just provide your old password from a couple months ago, and you’re good to go. You remember it… right?
One critical point: if the machine is connected to the network, it seems that it will ignore the old locally-cached credentials and try to validate against the domain. This is guaranteed to fail, because of the broken trust relationship. So, before you start brute-forcing, unplug that Cat-5. Turn off that WiFi.
Once you are logged in, do this:
- Leave the domain, do not reboot yet.
- Enable the local administrator and set a password.
- Reboot.
- Log in as the local admin and rejoin the domain.
If you can’t remember your old password you may have to “flatten” your machine. This is probably a good time to consider Ubuntu.
I drink a lot of water at work — probably a liter a day. For years each gulp has been powered by Nalgene, but no longer.
You see, I’m paranoid about the health effects of BPA, and I’m not alone. Just last week REI put all the classic BPA-ridden Nalgenes on clearance, and now they are entirely gone. The remaining bottles wear their “BPA Free” stickers proudly.
Of course, I still need to guzzle H2O. Perhaps a SIGG like my wife has? Hmm, no. I’m on a fear-kick here and 4 out of 5 nutjobs agree that aluminum is a first-class ticket to Alzheimer’s.
No, the object of my desire is made of 18/8 stainless. It has simple classic lines, and an earth-friendly logo. It has a name with a lot of K’s in it. That’s right, my new sidekick is a Klean Kanteen. Without a doubt, the coolest, no-harmful-side-effect-having bottle ever.
See you at the water cooler.
Update 4/28/2008:
Nalgene to Phase Out Production of Consumer Bottles Containing BPA. Of course, this was done in response to the demands of Nalgene’s idiot customers, not because BPA is actually dangerous:
Based on all available scientific evidence, we continue to believe that Nalgene products containing BPA are safe for their intended use. However, our customers indicated they preferred BPA-free alternatives and we acted in response to those concerns.
In summary, BPA will remain safe until we unload our inventory. That is all.
Just a few minutes ago I was sitting in bed, shuffling 3 hours of The Beatles across AirTunes when suddenly iChat pops up with a video chat request. It was my wife, who is off visiting her family.
It wasn’t until after the chat session ended that I realized that iChat had automatically paused/resumed iTunes. Wow, Apple. Just…wow.
I know the Apple ecosystem is a walled-garden of sorts, but damn — is it ever nice in here.
Lots of people are criticizing the new Dilbert site for its gratuitous use of flash and generally over-engineered nature.
I won’t comment on those subjects, but I would like to point out that there is now an official RSS feed (in color, no less). That’s an improvement in my book.
My friendfeed.
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