Now That’s An All-In-One Card

I’ve mentioned before my penchant for pulling apart old systems to find useful parts from them for my spare-parts stash. I got an old Compaq Prosignia machine and found this beast inside:

bigPCIcard.jpg

I can’t find the manual for this thing, but from what I can tell, this is an ATI Rage IIC video card, an Intel Server network card, and an LSI SCSI card, all on one full length PCI card. Pretty much everything in the system was plugged into this card. I don’t know if the PCI slots on this motherboard were 66mhz or 64 bit or anything (I seriously doubt it), but I can only imagine the bottleneck this thing caused on the PCI bus.

I’ll hunt down some more info about it later. Right now, I’m headed to COWPU.

June 20, 2007

Great Use Of Processing Power

A Pigeon Cam with dynamically added fez (this is a fez, if you don’t see the pigeon when the cam loads or it’s dark).

Note that is appears to not have updated most of the day, so as of right now, there’s a pigeon with the fez on its butt:

birdie.jpg

June 19, 2007

It’s Good To Have You Back, My Precious

I mentioned before that I had to send my laptop back to get repaired. I got it back today, and let me tell you how nice it is to actually be able to run more than one program at once and not have to stare at progress bars all frickin’ day. Still have to get re-used to the higher resolution (as the text and such on this thing is fairly small compared to my other one) and the location of the Ctrl key (it’s switched with the “Fn” key compared to the one I’ve been working on for a few weeks). But it is really nice to be able to put more than one program on the screen at a time and run more than a couple programs at a time.

June 19, 2007

Seattle Times Telemarketer Gets Punked

Oh man. Out of all the people that a Seattle Times telemarketer could call and try to sell to, they’d call Chris Pirillo during his call-in show. This is priceless — this lady is so confused by the end of this.

Best quote: “This is better than Google. It’s the complete newspaper.”

Biggest tip for salespeople: Know Thy Product.

Thanks to Barn and Lost Remote for the video.

June 18, 2007

What is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?

Why it’s Vulcan point in Crater Lake on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon (PHI), of course. Link via digg.

June 17, 2007

The Japanese Are Weird People

And we all know that Japanese have an obsession with oddball game shows. Like this really weird example (video after the jump as I really don’t want this sitting on the front page).

(more…)

June 17, 2007

Welcome Oregonian Readers

I’m getting more traffic today than usual, and according to my server logs, it’s from people searching for this, based on this Oregonian article (which was on the front page of today’s Sunday edition) about the Portland Barbie dolls. Anybody who knows anything about Central Oregon might be interested in this more local variant. But stick around, visit my advertisers, and feel free to sign up to my nightly updates.

Secondly, welcome Source Weekly readers. And despite their use of quotation marks around my name because they think I’m using a pseudonym, my name is indeed Jake.

June 17, 2007

It’s A Common Misspelling, Sadly

Which is why I’ve registered udderlyboring.com and pointed it here. I thought about putting up some ridiculous picture of a cow with bit of text about how to spell properly. Then I realized I really cant spel wurth a dam aynway, so why bother?

June 17, 2007

Doesn’t Seattle’s Government Have Other Things To Worry About?

Apparently not.

SEATTLE – At Seattle City Hall there are rules.

No weapons, no animals, no loitering, no alcohol, no lying down, no smoking, no music, no fighting, no trespassing.

Could the next thing be no microwave popcorn?

[…]

The City Facilities Department has just issued a memo to all City employees.

SUBJECT: Burnt microwave popcorn.

The Justice Center has been evacuated eight times in three years, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. If the problem continues, it will result in a ban of all microwave popcorn.

The article is actually quite a hilarious and some real city hall stupidity.

June 14, 2007

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Has Lost An Officer

It wasn’t human, however.

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Koda has died in an unfortunate sequence of events, the agency reported Wednesday.

The 2-year-old dog, a Belgian Malinois, died earlier this week while Koda and his handler were off-duty, visiting out of the area, said sheriff’s Capt. Tim Edwards, who announced the news “with great sadness” in a press release.

[…]

While his handler was away, Koda forced his way out of the kennel and consumed a large amount of dog food being stored in the car, Edwards said.

Koda then proceeded to eat the seats of the car, ingesting foam from the car seats, Edwards said.

June 14, 2007