Amazing. Peter Pringle playing Puccini on an RCA Theremin, fed through an Electro-Harmonix Talking Machine set on “AH”.
On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.
Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by more than a hundred years. This June’s transit, the bookend of a 2004-2012 pair, won’t be repeated until the year 2117. Fortunately, the event is widely visible. Observers on seven continents, even a sliver of Antarctica, will be in position to see it.
Time-lapse documentary of the delivery and assembly of the Scituate wind turbine.
I was just going through some old CDROMs and found a presentation that I gave at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s tech conference back in 2005. I wonder if anyone actually learned anything from this. 
Just saw this on Reddit; an article on CNET, circa 1997:
Dell: Apple should close shop
By Jai Singh
Staff Writer, CNET NewsORLANDO, Florida–
When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion.And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one.
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,” Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.
Dell’s comments follow Steve Jobs’s keynote address at the Seybold trade show last week in San Francisco, where the Apple cofounder seemed to win over attendees with his explanation of why he had made certain key decisions, killing the clone market and aligning more closely with Microsoft. The Seybold crowd–as well as some Apple employees–also seemed to be buoyed by the increasing role Jobs has taken on at the company as board member and interim CEO.
But others, like Dell, appear to think that Jobs’s expanded role isn’t helping. There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO because of Jobs’s presence.
Others fear that Apple could end up completely in Microsoft’s camp by deciding to use the NT operating system on its servers. Apple is reportedly planning to come out with network computers that would require high-end servers to function.While many industry executives have offered opinions on how to right Apple’s ship, no high-level executive has made as blatant a comment as Dell’s.
Flash forward 15 years, and let’s see how Dell is doing compared to Apple:
Mind you, I completely understand Dell’s POV back then, and it was shared by most of the industry. Apple was messed up, and it was two heartbeats from death. It’s quite amazing what Jobs and his team did to turn it around into the company it is today.
A reminder that you may not know what level of access to personal information you may have been inadvertently granted. Take a few minutes to check!
Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions.
Anyone else remember this?
From the glory days of computing fun. Who the heck first figured out that one line of Applesoft BASIC could make your Apple ][ moo like a cow?
More at the Beagle Bros Software Repository.
This may solve a mysterious “Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.” error I’ve been seeing on Windows 2008 Server. He at least deserves a link.
Mystery of the Server 2008 + IIS7 + OLE = “MDAC Not Installed” Error
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