More HavenCo / Cryptonomicon ||els
16 Nov 2002A short posting by Ryan from last year makes you wonder if Neal Stephenson got his ideas from Ms. Cleo.
Declassified Satellite Pics Needs Netscape 4!
16 Nov 2002Talk about dumb. MSNBC had a story on declassified satellite pics from the 1970’s and linked over to here, which, get this, demands Netscape 4. Nuts.
Film Gimp interview and PVR for the military?
15 Nov 2002Film Gimp - Lights, Camera, Linux!: Cool… gimp and linux used all over the movie industry. Most intresting tidbit is this:
Some years ago I built an automatic television news monitoring system for DARPA that used a PC to record CNN-TV off the air. My PVR was before TiVo, but for the military. It did natural language parsing on the closed-captioning and would notify military analysts as soon as any story on a relevant topic aired. It also deleted off-topic stories to conserve storage. I’m developing a similar approach to prioritize and cull email.
I need one of these for my warroom.
My WarRoom
15 Nov 2002When Sept. 11 happened I wanted to know it all. I wanted to know as much as I could find out. So a quick trip to K-Mart after my birthday dinner at Chillies got me a cable amp and some extra 75 Ohm cables and I set up this:
I was underwhelmed at how much real information we were getting especially after they stopped doing all news on BBC America and stopped the Canadian news on the shopping network channels. When/If I get my office setup in the garage apt. I hope to set this up again, but this time with full time feeds from BBC and Al-Jazeera. I also have some more TV’s.
Latest intresting discoveries
14 Nov 2002Oh and my arm is working fine now… just don’t ask me to carry heavy stuff.