Author: jedreynolds
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XP System Does a Dodge Monaco Ka-Boom!
Apparently, the Dodge Monaco was the cop car in the Blues Brothers movie that served Ellwood so well. It came to a catastrophic end, of course. My mom just had her seven year old Dell do a Dodge Monaco Boom on her: > I’m very glad that I kept the old machine running all the…
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64 Bit Windows Filesystem Voodoo
I was really baffled by why I couldn’t find a file in my editor. This article explained why. I ended up copying it out of that location, editing it, and copying it back.
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When NOT to Use a SAN?
The vast number of filesystems, distributed file systems, and network replication schemes available for Linux all come with learning curves and caveats. When does one actually want to avoid merely picking out an average SAN solution and go with a Linux oriented distributed storage solution like Gluster or NFS on DRBD?
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50% Female Tech Employees?
Enrolling women in technology has been an ongoing topic for quite a while. Various communities like Ubuntu Women and many other groups have are focused on women in technology. Scott Hanselman conducts a surprising interview with some women programmers in Egypt, showing an impressively equitable gender mix. Very inspiring!
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Human Energy in Picowatts
Episode 2 of Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics gives a really interesting perspective on how much power the cell and the human body generates. We, as animals, generate about 100W just standing. A cow is more like 950W. Each of our cells operates on about a picowatt. The discussion moves from that to examples of low…
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Coping with Loss of Affluence
This article on coping with loss of affluence was rather apropos of this weekend’s Transition Whatcom event. Basically, the summary points outlines that in a transitioning economy, walking is an important activity for first world economies to re-learn as it becomes more necessary for mere transit, the coping with the loss of status of having a…
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Cycling: Transit for Women with Groceries
There has been much debate in America over the years on how to integrate bicycling into urban transit. There is debate among cyclists about the value of multi-use-paths (MUPs). This article seems to draw the current trend, to design cycle oriented transit towards a typical user being a sixty year old woman with groceries. http://www.humantransit.org/2010/04/can-we-all-cycle-the-last-mile.html…
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Cycling Power in Watts
If you had to generate electricity with a bicycle, how many light bulbs can you power? Well, consider that an average bicycle on level ground in still air needs 100 Watts of power to cycle at 12mph. If you wanted to add an electrical generator to your normal cycle, the effect would be like going…
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Transition Whatcom Saturday, Quick Insights
We the family went to the Transition Whatcom event at Bellingham High and it was pretty neat. The high school had bicycles locked up against every tree and every light post, plus a field in the front courtyard with scrap-built wooden bicycle stands! Inside the door was an electric bicycle dealer booth, followed by a…
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