Possible jury duty
I have possible jury duty starting on Tuesday. Ugh. Santa Clara County Superior Court Jury Info Since I know I could be spending several hours in waiting rooms, I created a Virtual PC on my Mac with FreeBSD 4.10 and I'm...
Month: January 2006
Xming: Free X11 client for Windows with no Cygwin dependency
Xming is the port of the X Window System to Microsoft Windows. Unlike Cygwin/X it does not depend on the Cygwin environment. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming...
Tools to save your Lego Models
Nice article from O'Reilly on some tools for creating diagrams of how to build a Lego design including: LEdit LDraw MLCAD POV-Ray and l3p If you're interested in these tools, you might be interested in the book, Lego Software...
MacBook Pro
Nice. If I need a new laptop anytime soon, this may be the one that I get: MacBook Pro (Intel-based dual core Mac laptop)...
Vex Robotics
Vex Robotics, available at Radio Shack, is another robotics system and an alternative to Lego Mindstorms. It seems to look kind of like Erector Set....
Peter G.’s Mindstorms blog
Peter Gammie, like myself, is blogging about Lego Mindstorms and in particular, brickOS and Mac OS X. Of particular interest is that he took the OS X USB support from leJOS and hacked it into brickOS's mangled dll (dynamic linker...
More DreamHost goodness
DreamHost just announced a bunch of new stuff: Quadrupled disk space and octupled bandwidth - I now have 20 GB of storage and 1 terabyte of bandwidth! Secure SMTP Custom DNS As always, existing customers automatically get all of...