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Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Hardware is Just Surreal at Times 

I just moved from 256 megs of RAM to 512 megs of RAM.  I now have 500 x more main memory than my very first hard drive (5 megs).  This is just all too surreal, too weird.  Here's my machine configuration (courtesy of Belarc Advisor):



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Computer Name: Sjohnsondev
Profile Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:40:43
Advisor Version: 5.0m
Windows Logon: sjohnson
 
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Operating System   System Model
Windows 2000 Professional   Compaq Deskpro
System Serial Number:
Asset Tag:
Chassis Serial Number:
Processor a   Main Circuit Board
750 megahertz Intel Pentium III
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
  Board: Compaq 06C4h
Serial Number:
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Compaq 686P0 v1.09 10/10/2000
Drives   Memory Modules - Buy More
240.56 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
147.01 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

COMPAQ CD-ROM LTN485
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 31536H2 (15.02 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0
QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS60.0 (61.68 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1
  512 Megabytes Installed Memory
256 Megabyte Module Size - 2 Installed
  Local Drive Volumes
 
c: (on drive 0) 15.00 GB 154 MB free
e: (on drive N) 163.87 GB 134.46 GB free
n: (on drive N) 61.68 GB 12.40 GB free
  Network Drives
 
Controllers   Printers
Intel(r) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Win2000 Maxtor Ultra ATA 100 IDE Controller
 
HP DeskJet 722C on \fileserver02HP DeskJet 722C
HP LaserJet 1100 (MS) on LPT1:
  Display
  All-in-Wonder Radeon [Display adapter]
Bus Adapters   Multimedia
None detected   SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Communications   Other Devices
SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1211TX)
Network Card MAC Address: 00:10:B5:95:E6:1A
  OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Kodak DC4800 Digital Camera
Kodak DC4800 Digital Camera
Visioneer OneTouch 8100
General purpose USB Hub
HP USB CD Writer Plus
Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller
Iomega USB Zip 100
Iomega USB Zip 100
USB Root Hub


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Background Material: People seem to think I am a kind of nice guy (I don't judge myself).  Still, I am very pleased with this essay.  It's long but it's been edited and reviewed by 4 people I respect (including Bram, the author of Vim).  And it is focused on a recurring theme of mine: Doing the Right Thing.  Any mistakes or inaccuracies are my fault not those of the reviewers.  Please note that I don't normally ask for crosslinks but if you ever thought about linking to a piece of mine -- this is it.  I'd also encourage you to send the email referenced at the bottom of the essay.  Thanks in advance.

If I Was Jeff Bezos of Amazon and I wanted to do the RIGHT Thing, Here's What I'd Do:

I'd help this man:

Bram Moolenaar


I don't know how many people even know who Bram Moolenaar is, certainly I've never met him, but this is a man that I just plain respect.  "What ?" you ask.  "How does this fit with Amazon ?"  Be patient for a bit... All will be made clear but the background is important and it does require delving into computing history or even pre-history.  So....

==> Read Story <==


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ActiveState Awards

(I pulled this from www.php.net.  It's a good thing to do.)

ActiveState is delighted to announce the second annual Programmers' Choice and Activators' Choice Awards. The awards honor the unnamed heroes who actively contribute to open languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. The Programmers' Choice recipients are nominated and chosen by members of the programming community - like you. Know someone who's really made a difference using these languages? Tell us about them! Get out the vote and stay tuned! Nominees will be announced July 2, 2002. Perl, PHP, Python and XSLT winners will be announced at OSCON July 23, 2002. Tcl winners will be announced at the Tcl 2002 conference in September.


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How Does this Geek Celebrate Being Done with Blogging Essentials?

I heard last night from Nat at O'Reilly, my editor for Blogging Essentials, that the book had entered production!  Tres cool.  It's all feeling worth it.  Nat also showed us the cover (no I can't show you now, but I will when Nat says I can) this weekend and I was estatic.  My favorite O'Reilly cover yet and NOT because my name is on it. 

So how did this geek celebrate all this good stuff?  Look:

Yup.  I baked a cake and took myself to Barnes and Noble for such scintillating reading materials like: Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, 2600 and Sys Admin Magazine (which, every issue, seems to get better and better).

Cake and Linux Journal. 
Two great tastes that taste great together!

(apologies to Wrigleys)


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Going to the Boston Mozilla Party? 

If you are in the Boston area you might want to think about tomorrow night's Mozilla party.  It looks to be very cool and Andy of www.uzilla.com fame did a superb job in not only putting it all together but also keeping his cool during a length mailing list debate (I'd have probably said "Look.  It's at Manray and that's final" or something like that).  Thanks Andy!  I'll be there and, hardware and WiFi willing, taking pictures and blogging right from the event, complete with webcam, digital camera and requisite black clothing (see below).

Greetings All,

The beauty and atrocity of computer mediated democracy aside (at least I didn't try to use bugzilla!), we have arrived at a plan.

WIRED & HOPPED, 5:30PM - 8:30PM

A keg-o-rama/dinner at Mama Gaia's, 2 blocks from the Kendall/MIT T station, at 401 Massachusetts. We have a private room, accomodating 50, with

wireless internet access. Laptops encouraged.  Mama Gaia's management is very enthusiastic about open source in a positive global way. We need a projector, a wireless hub, a volunteer DJ (RCA in to house sound provided). Please email me (andyed@surfmind.com ) to volunteer for any of these roles or for any additional activities. We'll be synched tofestivities at the Remote Lounge in NYC.

Cost is for your food and $3-5 for the keg. I need 20 rsvp's to lock in the

keg.

DARK, FANCY, & DANCY, 8PM-2.0

A private pre and post goth nite gathering and subsequent dancefest at ManRay. Cover is $3 for Mozillians before 10PM.  Please note, ManRay requires fancy, kinky, or black attire. If this is  simply not you, an alternative late nite gig may be had just up the street from Gaia at The People's Republik. 

(NOTE from Scott -- before you bitch too heavily about the dress, I strongly suggest you look at the photos in the gallery.  And, yes, black jeans are cool AFAIK.  Come on after all, if someone (me) who's college room mates used to call "Captain Whitebread" can plan on attending, so can you.)   

PLEASE RSVP at http://surfmind.com/lab/moz/bostonbeerparty.cfm  or to me (and only me!) directly via email. In particular, I need a 20+ head count to lock in the keg at Mama Gaia's.

Finally, my apologies for the slew of emails... We'll shut the list down shortly and send one final reminder on Wednesday. Please note, Mama Gaia's and ManRay are 2/10s of a mile apart.

Zillilly yours,

Andy Edmonds

http://surfmind.com/musings/categories/mozilla/

http://optimoz.mozdev.org

http://googlebar.mozdev.org 

http://svggraphs.mozdev.org

http://mozhoo.mozdev.org  BRAND NEW!


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