Knight Rider 2015
Dec 31, 2014
Dec 26, 2014
Unity Space Shooter
Created Unity-Rim-Scout, based on the Space-shooter tutorial on the unity site.
Final dist is on ledlogic.net
Posted a question to try to see if someone knows how to make the explosion follow the initial vector of the object it is replacing:
Next step, the mobile version is described at space-shooter-to-mobile.
Dec 24, 2014
Safety is NOT guaranteed
Related movies:
- Safety Not Guaranteed
at Amazon.com
- Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
at Amazon.com
Thumb Keyboard for Android
Saw this earlier this month... like the idea of a split keyboard (like the guy who codes while biking).
thumb-keyboard.
Saginaw Malleable Foundry
One of the environmental/groundwater sites I spent a great deal of time at - it was the first environmental site I had been to while working at BB&L, was the GM Malleable Iron Foundry in Saginaw, MI.
This map shows the boundary of the property: wikimapia
Today I was looking to see what was still there and found little left of the place on Google maps, so I traced further back on the web news to see what had happened.
It's interesting that on the google map it doesn't look like even the environmental treatment plant is there anymore.
It appears that right near the southwest corner of the property is the Green Point Environmental Learning Center, which we never visited while working there.
Timeline
- 1917 - Plant opens @ 40tons/day reference
- 1924 @200 tons/day
- 1930 - plant stayed busy during the depression on a 10h/day, 6d/week schedule
- 1937 surface kiln installed
- 1946 - became part of Central Foundry Division
- 1991 - integrated into GM Powertrain Division
- May 2007 - closed reference
- 2008 - Remedial Action Plan (RAP) approved
Dec 23, 2014
Unity-Rollerball
As part of Unity learning, ran through Project: roll-a-ball.
The project is at: github
My published web project is on ledlogic.net.
Philosophical approach to collision. - "No things are absolutely are or are not [solid]"
Puppini Sisters
Step into Christmas
Here comes Santa Claus
All I want for Christmas
Jingle Bells with Michael Buble
Let it snow
Dec 20, 2014
Eclipse Phase: Space Trivia Android Application
I started working on an Eclipse Phase Trivia Application in December. I pulled the glossary from the PDF of the rulebook, and added to a fork of an existing Space Trivia Android project on github.
The Space-Trivia android project is on github.
To import the questions, I also created a quick and dirty Java loader, Space Trivia Loader which can take the somewhat broken lined PDF data and make it into a clean CSV file for use in the Android application above.
Screenshot 1: Main View
Screenshot 2: Quiz View
Update 12/31/2014: added to google play store
Update 01/02/2015: cnet made a download link to it already.
Dec 6, 2014
Unity server on aws
Several solutions in this answers article.
Unity CaptureScreenshot command. This was the easiest to demo/implement.
Next: how to run headless?
Note: chmod 400 jostens-2014.pem
Installing wget on macos
ssh -i jostens-2014.pem ec2-user@54.69.204.130
Security group: adding security
Nov 28, 2014
lush/sing sing
Lush - Nothing natural
Lush - Sweetness and light
Lush - For love
Lush - De luxe
Sing sing - Feels like summer
Nov 23, 2014
Mad Painter
Collection of all the mad painter segments from Sesame Street. Paul Benedict the actor had acromegaly, and the actress that appears in a number of episodes was Stockard Channing, who played Rizzo in the movie Grease.
Nov 20, 2014
Nov 19, 2014
Debugging/fixing other people's code
When a select is a select, not checkboxes, yet they are trying to check it.
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 11, 2014
LEGO Mindstorms
Been trying to get my Lego Mindstorms kit from my bachelor days (pre-2000). I found that I could not install the old Win95/Win98 RCX 1.0 well on any of my modern systems, even in XP or Win95 compatibility modes. Then I stopped by Dirt Cheap/Box Shop in Bloomington, MN today. Pretty awesome deal on a Dell Latitude D510 Laptop
Nov 8, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
Android Wear Watchfaces
- Developers guide
- Custom watch wear tutorial
- Two toasters' watch face template
- Android documentation
- Kentarosu watchface
- RxWatchFace
When I start up a new wearable project, or https://github.com/kentarosu/androidwear-myfirstwatchface from github, I get an error about missing the play library, is there something I need to do to install that onto the android studio (OS 10.9.5/Mavericks)?
Error:Failed to find: com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:+
Open File
Open in Project Structure dialog
Maybe this is a solution.
Nov 3, 2014
Election 2014 Notes
Links to different candidate websites for St. Croix Central
Governor
Attorney General
Secretary of State
Treasurer
Rep District 7
Assembly District 30
County clerk
Nov 2, 2014
That's Numberwang!
Numberwang Episode 1
Numberwang Episode 2
Numberwang Episode 3
Das Ist Numberwang
Numberwang Board Game
Wordwang
History of Numberwang
Nov 1, 2014
Oct 31, 2014
Espruino
Looks like it's good I didn't get the customized license plate for Arduino. Espruino allows you to write in JavaScript, which I prefer much to C string and char * messiness. It's available for $39.99 from seeedstudio.
There is an interesting graphical editor which reminds me of the Lego mindstorms rcx programming interface.
The isolator
Just recently I had looked up the isolator, I think this was because of something I saw in a course on coursera, then tonight on Elementary, Jonny Lee Miller had one on.
Oct 26, 2014
Isao Hashimoto
History of earth-based nuclear explosions, 1944-1998 by Isao Hashimoto
Analysis of the heat generated by these compared to the current heat reaching oceans, waste heat from machines here
Oct 21, 2014
Joel Hodgson
Saw a link to MST3k oral history on Joel's site. Also he said he's available from Heroes for Hire. This site has most of the great old and new Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers, Caprica, Firefly, and Dollhouse.
Oct 19, 2014
Oct 18, 2014
Spooky Arduino 8x8 LED shields (Skulleyes)
As a halloween sketch idea, I'm making some eyes for a skeleton head I picked up at Michael's
Followup: I uploaded the combined MP3 player and eye animation code on GitHub: Skulleyes.
- Raven's head manor by Celebrate It Halloween collection at Michael's
- Adafruit Small 1.2" 8x8 LED Matrix w/I2C Backpack - Yellow - Quantity 2
- Adafruit GFX Library
- Adafruit LED Backpack Library
- Fritzing - Arduino designer from Portsdam, DE
Followup: I uploaded the combined MP3 player and eye animation code on GitHub: Skulleyes.
Updated video using Leonardo and older version of Skulleyes/Skulleyes.ino.
Followup: Die roller / skull eyes combination: SkullDieRoller
Oct 14, 2014
Comics code
In my coursera course at Comics, the professor brought up the regulations in the 1950s, which included: Standards of the Comics Code Authority. Interestingly the trend seems to have been away these standards since then, without a real defining body specifying the standards. Especially part B: "Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited."
Oct 13, 2014
Rodgers and McCarthy
I think Rodgers must have children now, since it looked like Mike McCarthy seemed to be saying, "You lucky father," after Sunday night's game.
Oct 11, 2014
Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel, who passed away in September this year, was an interesting actor who I remember first and foremost from Moonraker.
Oct 5, 2014
Sep 29, 2014
Sep 28, 2014
Sony SmartWatch 2 Coding
Somewhat caught up with my Arduino wishes (and the kayaking - data gathering season is ending), so looking back again at the Sony SmartWatch 2 I've been carrying around, using for simple calendar, time, messaging. I'd like to integrate with my phone for tracking GPS "events". Also, having attended the Ed Sheeran concert a couple weeks, ago it would be interesting to make a watch concert app.
Sep 27, 2014
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Taking Comic Books and Graphic Novels on Coursera, by Prof. William Kuskin. So far is pretty good comparison to literature, making you consider composition, manufacture, timing, and subtext. Although I didn't read comics as a kid very much, I did watch a lot of cartoons. As an adult I've grown to appreciate some graphic artists, took a drawing class at the U of MN, and at one point took a Comic book drawing course at MCAD. He compares Shakespeare's quartos could be considered like a floppy.
Sep 23, 2014
Arduino MP3 Player
I just received my SEEEDStudio Music Shield tonight, will have to see if I can get running by tommorrow - yes! The SEEEDStudio music shield library at github worked great! You just have to unnest your mp3 files into the root, it currently does not do folder delving. Now I have some Vivaldi - Four Seasons and Kraftwerk - Autobahn to listen to on the way to work today.
VS10xx Clock Frq: 0xC000 Card type: SD2 Volume type is FAT16 ---- songs in TF card (root dir) ---- 1. 01SPRI~1.MP3 2. 02SPRI~1.MP3 3. 03SPRI~1.MP3 4. 04SUMM~1.MP3 5. 05SUMM~1.MP3 6. 06SUMM~1.MP3 7. 07AUTU~1.MP3 8. 08AUTU~1.MP3 9. 09AUTU~1.MP3 10. 10WINT~1.MP3 11. 11WINT~1.MP3 12. 12WINT~1.MP3 13. 02KOME~1.MP3 14. 03KOME~1.MP3 15. 04MITT~1.MP3 16. 05MORG~1.MP3 17. 01AUTO~1.MP3 ------------------------------------- Playing song 01SPRI~1.MP3 ... [done]. Playing song 12WINT~1.MP3 ...
Sep 20, 2014
Simon
Cecilia - fayenesse1's comment pretty much sums it up: "I'm pretty much officially jealous of Jimmy Fallon's life..."
The Boxer on SNL, 2001
Making of Cecilia - description of a physical "loop"
Sep 14, 2014
Arduino Pressure Sensor
A few weeks ago I recieved my BOSCH BMP085 Barometric Pressure Sensor module in the mail. Sparkfun has an excellent tutorial on how to hook it up to an Arduino.
Sep 13, 2014
Sep 6, 2014
Eclipse Phase: All's well that ends well
Submitted this idea for the Con of the North:
The rim - this is no place for a civilized transhuman. The job: locate a bleeding edge tech for a corp. Reading the contract, your CPU reads reverse thrusters and head back to the closest gravity well, but your optics long to perceive positive signs in your credit readouts. How dangerous can a 300m long hab be? Approaching your target, you feel something deep's going down. You backed up? (396 chars)
System: Eclipse Phase by Catalyst Game Labs/Posthuman Studios.
Pre-gen choices provided.
Sep 5, 2014
Babylon 5
You know you've been watching too much Babylon 5, when you experience these things.
Or, as I did tonight, shout out, Eldot's from Babylon 5 while watching Friends 6.19: The One with Joey's Fridge. That was Josh Coxx AKA David Corwin
Sep 4, 2014
Friends quotes
"The messers become the messees" - Chandler, Friends, The one where everyone finds out - still one of my favorite all time quotes.
"Custard good. Jam good. Meat good." - Joey, Friends
Sep 3, 2014
Back to a Reliable Arduino Uno GPS + SD Logger
After a lot of tweaking, I think I have a more reliable data logger for GPS. I had been adjusting a variety of elements from my working logger, using comparison global variables to detect position change, manipulating the output, and I somehow got into a state where it was very unreliable - for instance, it might create the logger csv file, but there would be no contents. I think I am very close to the memory limit for an Arduino Uno. I have condensed most of the work - date and time manipulation for consistency, into one function, and also I've removed the aspects of the GPS library I was not using (velocity, heading, altitude). I also moved some of the common variables to be globals. I do think I'll try to change the code though so it will not log data if nothing has changed, which was a feature I liked about a previous version. - Update it's been added to the github project.
- GPSLogger - github project containing source code ub
- gpsvisualizer - site used for rendering data (also via google maps)
- arduino - file timestamp article
- adafruit - similar file timestamp article
- concatenation
Sep 1, 2014
Arduino- based air quality data logger
Saw this product on the Arduino store at-heart catalog: air monitor.
Hypermiling
Thinking about getting one of these gauges:
Commercial
I think it sounds like the Scan Gauge II can show PID codes whereas nothing about the e seems to discuss that capability.
Arduino
Opengauge
CAN duino
I'm not entirely sure about this but I think CAN BUS has something to do with control (like if you wanted an Arduino cruise control.
Sparkfun
Mileage
I've often thought efficiency is an interesting idea. You have to be precise about the numerator and denominator though, what are you measuring? Is it vehicle miles/gallon, or person miles/gallon. For instance, hauling 8 people in a van may have poor vehicle miles/gallon, but actually a high person-miles/gallon ratio compared to driving multiple, separate vehicles required for a quantity of people to travel the same distance. xkcd's mpg what-if has an interesting take on how mpg (vehicle-mpg or person-mpg) is really an area term.
Aug 31, 2014
Chainduio
Chainduio: an interesting kickstarter project for powering using just CAT5. I like the aesthetics of the project web site, nice neutral colors, glow.
Aug 30, 2014
The Stig's cover is blown
Apparently the stig drives in Illinois in a modest Malibu. Seen at the Bristol Renaissance Festival last weekend (08/24/2014).
Aug 29, 2014
Honda Insight 2014
So begins my foray into hybrid vehicles. I would have done it in 2004 if it seemed to make economical sense. It still really didn't until I looked at the Honda Insight base model. This no frills hybrid, hopefully will save some money in the long run by taking me from 3 gallons a day to 2. It wasn't until about 40 miles that I surpassed my highest-ever efficiency in my 2004 Mazda 6 - 31.98 mpg. By the time I reached my village it was up to ~ 37 mpg so far. I aim to keep this a low-frills car, though I might burn some custom mp3 cds and at least hook up my Samsung SIII as the nav system.
Forums
Aug 26, 2014
Aug 22, 2014
DS18B20 Temperature sensor
Ordered a DS18B20 temperature sensor on Amazon, thinking I could use this on the Arduino.
- DS18B20 Temperature Sensor
- 4.7K ohm resistor
- According to amazon, the output leads: red (VCC), yellow (DATA), black (GND).
- According to espruino, the values are red (vcc), white(data), black (ground) or red(vcc), yellow(data), green (ground).
- According to the real world, the output leads are red (VCC?), green (DATA?), and black (GND?).
- Find the 1 wire address
- hacktronics 1 wire tutorial
- one wire at pjrc
- Dallas temperature control library
- hobbytronics: briefest code example using dallas + onewire
Sadly it looks like either I cooked it or it is faulty. Could not get a reading, raw, or address-based response. Ordered some more from another dealer to compare.
Temp + LCD output gist
LCD Keypad shield for Arduino from DFRobot
For my birthday I received a LCD Keypad shield for Arduino from DFRobot.
- Push the button - works fine, so the LCD settings are:
LiquidCrystal lcd(8, 9, 4, 5, 6, 7); // select the pins used on the LCD panel
- LCD_Buttons.ino - worked right out of the box
STEM at the MN State Fair
Went to the MN State Fair, yesterday, August 21, 2014. It was STEM day so there were a lot of neat exhibits - robotics, a rocket group that had an Arduino wired up into their rocket. Kids could make a straw rocket, Sierpinski Triangles, play with robotics, get infrared photos of themselves, and chemistry students from the University of Minnesota put on a show. In addition to interesting stuff at the 4H building - www.makeymakey.com kits to power computer controllers.
Aug 21, 2014
Hail is...
If thunder could be explained in non-scientific terms as angels bowling, then hail is when the saints have ALS ice bucket challenges.
Aug 18, 2014
The Mundaneum
In the forum for my Internet History class, someone suggested this article from the Atlantic, featuring the Mundaneium, a planetwide network which seems to foretell the Internet.
From Otlet's Monde
Here is a 2012 presentation by the author. He also discusses Bush's Atlantic article:
Aug 12, 2014
GPSLogger - set up
Yesterday on the way to work I tried to run my GPSLogger, but discovered, nothing was saved, I had no results. On the way home, I made sure the USB was plugged into the higher voltage port on the Romoss, and reset the arduino a couple times after being plugged in. Then it worked OK. I wonder if the gibberish I sometimes get for the first few datapoints messes with the comparison strings, causes overflow (int, or a bad filename.
Aug 11, 2014
Aug 10, 2014
Arduino + GPS + SD Card -> GPSLogger
Tonight I tested out a pretty good version of a GPS datalogger. As mentioned in my previous post Arduino Storage + GPS, I have these components:
- Arduino Uno Rev 3
- Dexter Industries GPS Shield
- Seeedstudio SD Card Shield
- Polaroid 512 MB SD Card, formatted DOS_FAT_16.
- Sistema Klip It 6.7-Ounce Container - similar to this user's idea: jeffbookspace.blogspot.com, but I cut a whole in the site for the plug and a whole in the top for the GPS (triple stack does not fit, and I've learned from a burnt out strobe box that you don't force electronics into slightly smaller containers than they need).
- Romoss Ph40-s 10400mah Portable Rechargeable Charger
It checks the GPS on a 1 second delay, and if there is a change in latitude or longitude, it plots a new datapoint to the CSV file. Here is the latest source code for the project: GPSLogger.ino
For some reason the first few datapoints were messed up, but then it was pretty stable. Still not sure if that is the SD card warming up or the GPS. I ran the cleaned output through this site, gpsvisualizer.com which has a nice csv to google map plot, and came up with this for a quick walk tonight. Some of the datapoints were up to 5m off, but on the whole the vector and the trail were pretty accurate.
From a coding perspective the trickiest parts were fiddling with the conversion of output from DDMMYY to YYYYMMDD, extending the float or char arrays to Strings for simple output, and the use of the F() function to properly Serial-ize the labels, a question I learned the answer to from stackoverflow.com.
There are only 300b left however, so I'm not sure what data I can log with the remainder.
Jul 29, 2014
Arduino Storage + GPS
Goal: to perform water quality datalogging with GPS information and later plot that data using google maps (or equivalent).
- Arduino Language
- Optimizing SRAM
- Using F()
- Timestamp
- Temperature
- Thermometere
- Convert float to String
- Dexter Industries GPS Shield
-
Seeedstudio SD Card Shield
- I have the v3.0 SD shield
- Uses port 10 to read (modify any SD example code to use that)
- The SD card must be formatted to FAT32
- Remember you need to use an 8.3 filename convention, if you do not you will just get an error on the SD.open command.
Jul 22, 2014
Rot - * for Inside the Internet course
rot jsfiddle for Dr. Chuck's Inside the Internet course on Coursera.
Jul 16, 2014
Jun 26, 2014
Not from a schmedi
Question: Can I learn how to make cohesive lasagna that's soft but cooked all the way through?
Answer: Not from a Schmedi.
Question: Can I find out where the barriers in the river are before I come upon them?
Answer: Not from a Schmedi.
Question: Can I find somewhere to buy old Mac laptops that are still new but cost half their original price?
Answer: Not from a Schmedi.
Question: Can I learn basic microeconomics?
Answer: Not from a Schmedi.
Jun 23, 2014
Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript
Was part of the inside the internet course. Thanks Dr. Chuck, for making this video!
There are more IEEE Conversation videos as well.
Also, it's pronounced "jay-son" as per the owner of JSON.org.
Jun 19, 2014
Internet History, Technology, and Security - First Encounters with Networking Technologies
The following is my entry for the first essay in Internet History, Technology, and Security. In post-evaluation I could have told more about the internet experiences from a personal perspective, from learning HTML and Javascript in a short period of time to working on DHTML technologies using AJAX, technologies like CGI and Java Applets. There are also plenty of social stories about the internet from experiences with muds, roommates, emails, spoofed emails, and user conferences.
Write an essay about how your first encountered the Internet or an earlier networking technology. Describe the technologies you were using, some of the activities you did "on line", and tell us how having a new form of communication changed the way you think about the world. If possible connect your own history to the history described in this class. If your first experience was on another large-scale network like France's Minitel that is a great topic as well. The maximum length of the essay is 1000 words. Part of the reason for a word limit is to make you express your thoughts in an organized and somewhat succinct fashion. It is acceptable to have less than 1000 words. References are optional - use them if it is appropriate for your essay.
I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My father worked for several computer companies during my youth. Throughout my childhood he worked on a variety of projects involving several architectures from mainframe systems at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and supercomputers (ETA Systems, Cray Supercomputers and SGI), and using various user interfaces from command line, touch screen, and windowed environments. He would perform instruction in the US at locations sometimes secure installations, as well as Europe, China, and India. In whatever he did, he wanted to understand the systems backwards and forwards. I think as an instructor, he felt a responsibility to thoroughly understand the material, be prepared for client questions beforehand, to really provide the customers the most value during the training courses.
On weekends we would both sometimes go in to his work where sometimes we used green or amber terminals, touchscreen interfaces, or sometimes work directly in the mainframe computers rooms, within eyesight of the machines. To prepare for a class he would teach, sometimes my father would take a computer or system install from a clean state through the installation or upgrade. The rooms were spacious, clean, and though they contained a lot of equipment, from reel-to-reel drives, magnetic printers, and mainframes to terminals and monitoring equipment, they were still airy, open and comfortable. I'd do homework and then learn and experiment with languages using the instructions for corporate classes. One terminal that still sticks in my mind used vector graphics displays to show various sized display status, which was the first time I've seen windowed data with various font sizes, various panels updating in real time at various points on the screen, several terminal windows at once running different processes. Seeing all of that from one screen amazed me.
Using the PLATO system was my first introduction into networking with other on MMORPG games like Moria, a fantasy dungeon maze game with first-person 3-d graphics, or Empire, a 2-d Star Trek team-based starship combat game. I didn't communicate too much with other players, as I was using one of his accounts and he didn't want any work-related issues. But I did join up into groups or teams which offered some insight into team strategy. The PLATO system had email, IM, MMORPG, and touch screens. Later I ended up using PLATO systems in school for algebra and matrix math classes. The Bloomington school district made some arrangement to sell or lease Lincoln High School building in exchange for PLATO systems. However they were in a locked room in our Junior High, and I can remember we only could access the machines only for a few sessions during math class to learn matrix algebra but they weren't open and definitely not throughout the whole school year.
During the 1970s, on weeknights, my father would carry home paper phone terminals which started out like giant suitcases which required a phone cradle, eventually shrinking down to backpack-sized devices like TI Silent 700 terminals that only needed a phone jack. In pauses between when he was working, I had a chance to “hop on”, I'd play text-based human vs. computer games. As the user, I'd make plays via a command line. Each turn the game state would typically post a reprint, so there was a lot of paper used. In the early 1980s, he built a PC-AT clone, and from then on home computers with modems replaced the need for paper terminals for remote work. Eventually instead of just playing games, I'd write my own in BASIC.
At the IT Board of Publications, around 1992 we started to serve digital copies of our publications, newsletters and magazines, using Gopher, a TCP/IP protocol for file sharing. Around that time, one of the Computer Science students on the Board suggested we consider switching our printed student technology magazine Minnesota Technolog publication to the web. We didn't decide to make the switch that year (1994), and it looks like that decision waited until 2003 according to archive.org.
When I was in grad school at Johns Hopkins, the first internet pages weren't yet as useful as library research tools of the day. However other aspects of the internet such as working remotely, downloading scientific software, and visiting environmental field-related USENET groups, which is how I inquired and applied for my first job after graduation from a posting to sci.geo.hydrology by a senior geologist from a firm in Syracuse, NY Working in the field I stayed connected to the internet via AOL which at the time had the benefit of a convenient pool of dial-up phone numbers in every area code. Later as the internet progressed, I decided to take up a former manager's offer and switch fields, moving back to Minnesota to work at an ERP software firm that was doing some interesting communication using javascript and hidden frames, a precursor to AJAX.
I guess what I appreciate now more than anything is the access that having my father working at these companies provided. In private households, at my father's friends or my friends houses, computers were scarce, typically off limits to tweens or teens. Peer children who had computers would show them off, but be unwilling to share. Even later, well into the PC/Mac era, at the University of Minnesota, competing for scarce terminals or space in a computers lab was a frustration. As computers became less expensive, remote online services became available, computer time was accessible 24-7, and having multiple systems was cost-effective, now systems are ubiquitous.
Gefell, M. 1995. Quantitative Hydrogeologist Position Available. Posted to Sci.geo.hydrology usenet group. Referenced via: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.geo.hydrology/8_7OlX4Znas/pqbhTDG3gSAJ
Minnesota Technolog. 2004. Referenced via: https://web.archive.org/web/20120722093045/http://technolog.it.umn.edu/technolog/index.htm
Wikipedia. 2014. PLATO (computer system). Referenced via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
Jun 14, 2014
Jun 7, 2014
NextStep
In college at the University of Minnesota I was strongly considering between purchasing a NextStep versus a Macintosh machine for schoolwork and personal use. Since we used Macs at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, I had access to a variety of software, compilers, and documentation. The NextStep would have been more interesting but had much less software, a smaller range of peripherals were available and the only store was the University's. At the time they were about the same price ~$3,000. So I often wonder what that experience would have been like. The Postscript display sounded cutting edge. But I also wonder if I'd be off on my own for system problems, much like in linux where you might have to search, tweak, recompile a hardware driver just to get it to work.
Jun 1, 2014
May 29, 2014
Doctor Who Bunker Hill Quote
"Don't fire until you see the green of its tentacles."
- Doctor Who in the Horror of Fang Rock
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