Comments for The Eclectic Technologist http://madhu.com/blog Interdisciplinary perspectives on technology, science, engineering, aviation and anything else that comes to mind... Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 Comment on Windows XP logoff/shutdown problems by The Eclectic Technologist » Back the future http://madhu.com/blog/archives/36#comment-1163 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:10:53 +0000 http://madhu.com/blog/archives/36#comment-1163 [...] I was cleaning out some old computer equipment from my parents house over the weekend and I found some real relics. There were numerous monitors, printers, scanners and the like. There was also Callan Unistar lurking in there (early 68k based Sys V Unix box). The processor board failed years ago. A DEC Alpha machine also. The real find was one of the original 128k Macs that my brother purchased in 1984. It’s actually a “fat mac”. The memory was upgraded to 512k by yours truly. It was one of our guinea pigs for a fly by night Mac upgrade business we were running in those days. I recall that it didn’t boot after soldering IC sockets (the original Mac had no sockets for memory). That was painful, but after removing all the sockets and resoldering with greater care, it worked. It’s a shame to toss out that piece of history. If you want it, let me know. In a related note, I just purchased a new iMac and it is fantastic! It took only two days for delivery, which was really nice. If you read my previous post, it’s no surprise that I have just about had it with Windows. After talking with several colleagues, it seems that XP just doesn’t work smoothly with multiple users and I’m not about to figure out why. [...] […] I was cleaning out some old computer equipment from my parents house over the weekend and I found some real relics. There were numerous monitors, printers, scanners and the like. There was also Callan Unistar lurking in there (early 68k based Sys V Unix box). The processor board failed years ago. A DEC Alpha machine also. The real find was one of the original 128k Macs that my brother purchased in 1984. It’s actually a “fat mac”. The memory was upgraded to 512k by yours truly. It was one of our guinea pigs for a fly by night Mac upgrade business we were running in those days. I recall that it didn’t boot after soldering IC sockets (the original Mac had no sockets for memory). That was painful, but after removing all the sockets and resoldering with greater care, it worked. It’s a shame to toss out that piece of history. If you want it, let me know. In a related note, I just purchased a new iMac and it is fantastic! It took only two days for delivery, which was really nice. If you read my previous post, it’s no surprise that I have just about had it with Windows. After talking with several colleagues, it seems that XP just doesn’t work smoothly with multiple users and I’m not about to figure out why. […]

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]]> Comment on A new electric car by Jason http://madhu.com/blog/archives/30#comment-28 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:41:49 +0000 http://madhu.com/blog/archives/30#comment-28 Marshall Brain has a nice blog entry with his take on this electric car. Discussions that follow talk about the history (and death) of the electric car and why it just never took off. Appears more a political issue than a technical one. I think one of the reason the price tag could also be this high might be because it won't cause too much of a shake up in traditional fuel driven auto market. Anyway, i think it is a nice step forward. Keep up the nice entries in your blog. I enjoyed reading it. Here is the link: http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/2006/07/creating-ultimate-electric-car.html Marshall Brain has a nice blog entry with his take on this electric car. Discussions that follow talk about the history (and death) of the electric car and why it just never took off. Appears more a political issue than a technical one. I think one of the reason the price tag could also be this high might be because it won’t cause too much of a shake up in traditional fuel driven auto market. Anyway, i think it is a nice step forward. Keep up the nice entries in your blog. I enjoyed reading it.
Here is the link: http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/2006/07/creating-ultimate-electric-car.html

]]> Comment on How to become an expert by swdev http://madhu.com/blog/archives/29#comment-25 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:13:57 +0000 http://madhu.com/blog/archives/29#comment-25 Expert is like a Samurai. He devote his life to just one path. He become the expert of that path. To acquire required knowledge to become expert in every side of life (at least in side that one want), time must be alocated. This, is where the value of sacrifice come from. An expert is like a sword, that can cut through a stone. That simple. Expert is like a Samurai.
He devote his life to just one path.
He become the expert of that path.

To acquire required knowledge to become expert in every side of life (at least in side that one want), time must be alocated. This, is where the value of sacrifice come from.

An expert is like a sword, that can cut through a stone. That simple.

]]> Comment on Wordpress! by Shahid N. Shah http://madhu.com/blog/archives/3#comment-2 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:11:33 +0000 http://madhu.com/blog/archives/3#comment-2 Welcome to the blogosphere! Welcome to the blogosphere!

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