Archives: 1999 July
12,000 MPH Lightshow
July 28th, 1999, No Comments
Last night around 22:10 central time, the space shuttle Columbia passed over Texas as it made a rare night time reentry returning from its latest mission. If you were out last night you probably saw it. I’d heard it would be visible and was thinking, “yeah, right, just like Halley’s Comet and all those other [...]
USB Zoomcam
July 27th, 1999, No Comments
My latest toy is a Zoomcam USB camera. The challenge is to get it working with Linux. USB support is still in the pre-alpha stages but there is a USB driver for the VLSI Vision CPiA imager which is used in the Zoomcam. The driver is included in the latest development version of the Linux [...]
SETI@Home Update
July 21st, 1999, No Comments
This is a historic day for SETI@home news. I should be passing the 1,000 work unit level today. I’m still maintaining 5th place on Team Slashdot but there’s a very good chance that I’ll be in fourth place within a week as the current fourth place holder has been stuck at 1,187 work units for [...]
Wall of Voodoo – The Index Masters
July 20th, 1999, No Comments
I’m a big fan of Stan Ridgway and I recently picked up a cool CD. Wall of Voodoo – The Index Masters contains a weird little assortment of live, previously unreleased, and otherwise noteworthy Wall of Voodoo stuff. Listening to Wall of Voodoo performing Ring of Fire is definitely odd. You also get to hear [...]
Another New Toy
July 19th, 1999, No Comments
This week’s project looks interesting. We have to evaluate some 42″ Gas Plasma displays for a client. We have an NEC PlasmaSync 4200W and Panasonic PT-42P1 at the moment. A Fujitsu and Sony should be showing up shortly. We’re testing both for picture quality using S-Video, composite, and RGB inputs as well as for how [...]
Go-Go’s and Berlin at the Bronco Bowl
July 17th, 1999, No Comments
I’ve just returned from the Bronco Bowl and my ears are still ringing from excessive exposure to loud music. I dragged Susan out to see the Go-go’s and Berlin. You remember them – a couple of those bands from the 80′s. Berlin was the opening act and Terri Nunn spent most of her time sort [...]
New Newslog
July 13th, 1999, No Comments
This is my first post using version 1.0.1 of my newslog CGI. I’ve fixed a couple of minor bugs. It should now sort the archived news pages according to the month of the year rather than the spelling of the month name, the archive index page should expire properly on most browsers, and I made [...]
Back from Vegas
July 8th, 1999, No Comments
Since my last news post I’ve been to Vegas and done the demo that all the work of the past several weeks was for. If you happened to be in the Atlantis room of the Forum Shops Mall in Caesar’s Palace on Tuesday morning around 8:30am, you would have seen our software, or rather MPEG2 [...]
