#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Music, Mind & Meaning -- Marvin Minsky
posted by est at 2006-09-07 22:18

est: "So something has a "meaning" only when it has a few; if we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. That is why the seekers of the "real" meanings never find them. This holds true especially for words like 'understand'."

Another stupid prank
posted by cryptomail at 2006-09-07 22:16

coderman: DOOM COOKIES!
fridge: Indiana Jones and the cookies of doom!
rovar: THOSE COOKIES ARE DORK SIDED!!!

wow
posted by cryptomail at 2006-09-07 21:23

Pointsec Adds Single Sign-On to Secured Linux PCs
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 17:59

coderman: "Pointsec for Linux 2.0 uses the Pointsec pre-boot login credentials to log in to Linux and is said to provide broader security for all system files starting from a pre-boot authentication."

peeps are bheese, yo
posted by est at 2006-09-07 17:36

coderman: "i used to be a sexy, lean, athletic woman who brought all tha boys to tha yard. then mac donald infected me with obesity and i can't get no play!"
est: "This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world."
coderman: read: a pandemic lack of personal responsibility.
coderman: actually, genes play a role in some, but surely not to pandemic scale
coderman: mmm, soylent green
est: "Overweight people in the world now outnumber the undernourished, estimated at 600 million [...]" a solution suggests itself

Cell Phones Found Inside Four Prisoners
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 17:26

Fraunhofer strikes again. Pointscreen interface.
posted by rik at 2006-09-07 15:19

rik: Yes, the Fraunhofer institute have made the Minority Report UI real.

XGL with Touchscreen.
posted by rik at 2006-09-07 15:11

pretender: Why do people insist on making interfaces less efficient by making windows and desktops behave like real world objects?
pretender: Much cooler example of touch sensitive interface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc&NR

Report: Testing of Diebold AccuVote TSx (Sept 1)
posted by seti at 2006-09-07 14:45

MacBook: Shuts down intermittently
posted by seti at 2006-09-07 14:25

seti: "If your MacBook is shutting down intermittently, please contact AppleCare for service."
seti: shortest. knowledge base article. ever

chick socks
posted by est at 2006-09-07 13:30

Final Fantasy 7 re-done for PS3 in short Tech Demo
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 13:11

VIA EPIA EK-Series Mini-ITX Mainboard
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 12:52

coderman: "The VIA EPIA EK Mini-ITX mainboard is available with the 1GHz or fanless 800MHz VIA Luke CoreFusionâ„¢ processor platform"
NickleHydride: with MPEG-2/4 hardware decoding acceleration .. the right way to lock up your codecs ;)
coderman: yeah yeah, compiling patched drivers is a pain, but it works. mostly... :)
NickleHydride: long-awaited DVI interface

Van Jacobson's network channels
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 12:41

coderman: ah, gotta love complicated trade-off's

Cone of Silence - there's no tech like old tech...
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 12:36

Cap-Talk September 2006 Archives by thread (some good discussion in here)
posted by coderman at 2006-09-07 12:25

"I was just thinking about you"
posted by seti at 2006-09-07 02:08

EANTC stick it to Force10 and Tolly Group
posted by seti at 2006-09-07 02:07

seti: only Germans could've written such a screed.