Kevin Rose has taken it upon himself to completly dismantel a Mac Mini and rebuilt a nano-itx pc inside. Two things are running through my mind: 1. What is he thinking, 2. Sweet, a media center pc (running MythTV nonetheless). You can check out his entire project here. My cudos by the way, for such an inovative idea (although someone else has probably done it before, Kevin seems to have enough publicity to make it work).

Why Computers Sometimes Crash

So I know I havent posted for a very long time, and I mean very. I have been really bogged down with robotics and with exams and all of that stuff. Im back now though, ready and waiting with all of my tech news and such. That wil start tomorrow, but for now, I found this while I was digging around my My Documents folder. MM, talk nerdy to me baby!

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,

and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,

and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,

then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,

and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,

and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,

then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,

says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,

but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,

that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,

so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse;

then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,

'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk,

and the macro code instructions is causing unnecessary risk,

then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM,

and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

Well, that certainly clears things up for me.

How about you

Macworld

So Mr. Jobs was finially back again today at the anual Mac World Expo in Sanfran, black turtleneck and all. Regardless of his fashion sense, it was a very exciting day in technology. Lots of new releases, everything from software to hardware to somethings in between. So I will get started by saying Alex, dear friend, im sorry to say; YOU WERE WRONG! NO media player from Apple. But there was a lot of big news out of apple today. To start, new iLife, brand new iWorks (the evolution of the old Appleworks), a sweet looking preview of Tiger (which was confirmed to be out in Q2, way before longhorn I might add). By the way, the highlighted links will take you straight there. But now onto the important parts -> THE HARDWARE!


Although this wasent the first announcement, I want to save the best for last. So above is the brand spanking new Ipod Shuffle. Yep, no screen. But its a totally new concept for Apple. Flash based, no screen tiny (although the mini is going that direction) and CHEAP! Thats right, its only $130 (canadian of course) for a 512mb player. Im not such a fan of the whole no screen concept, but it is very inivative, and I think it will sell very well (aka already sold out) By the way, it release today, so go buy one, I think I will.



So yes, this is my absolute favorite, and it is truly amazing. Introducing the mac mini. So ya, the name could use some work, but hey, its 6" square, and 2" tall, so who cares. Plus, its $600, so just wow. Its got everything by the way, G4 @ 1.25 (or 1.5 for a little cost upgrade), 256mb ram, and a decent ATI video card. I will mention that there is no keyboard, mouse, monitor or speakers, but thats not what im looking for anyway. So check it out. Im thinking that when it comes out on the 22nd of January it will be sold out in 3 or 4 hours. But GO BUY ONE ANYWAY!

If you want to watch the entire 2 hour webcast of the Keynote Speech, you can get it here - PS. John Mayer is in it. All I can say is, thank you Apple.


So what if I have been playing too much Halo 2 insted of doing my homework. Schools not that important anyway! Anyway, I just wanted to post a link to one a good article that one of my tech guys posted. He was a former G4 employee, and he is calling them out on a lot of interesting stuff. Might be a good read for anyone who still (god save your soul) or used to watch The Screen Savers, or TechTV. You can get it here. It may bog down a little, because it was slashdoted recently today, so there is a lot of traffic. Back to school on monday. Bah! PS -> Blue footed boobies