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thoughts on directx 10: Boo! M$, you suck. There is an average 30% frame rate drop on equivalent graphics compared to DX9, and honestly the additional features supported by DX10 are simply not supported, or likely to be supported by the majority of games for the conceivable future. Game compnies can’t afford to develop parallel …

I am such a nerd….

a quick look around my living room shows audio gearm a pile of computers, a soldering iron, a dremmel tool, spools of cable and circut board, two different telescopes, a robot dog, a half finished lego project, and airbrush, solder and paint stains on everything, turn

Holy crap is spam bad today

98726.21% increase in spam on the server in the last 72 hours. Holy shit. Same thing last year – day before US thanksgiving a huge increase in spam. I stand by my assertion that this is the death of email. Between community apps like facebook and IM clients, soon there will be no legitimate need …

the robot dog continues to amuse.

yeah, this thing is pretty limited. it takes forever to do stuff and when I first turned it on it didn’t do much more than walk in a straight line and make noise. Left alone to explore the living room, bump into stuff and so on it has started to display some learned behaviors. It …

bonehead move…

Well, I guess you can’t always be on top of everything. I did something sumb today that caused havoc with my customers. I went in to add ram to one of my boxes, and inadvertently qiggled a power cable on of the back of one of my other servers enough to temporarily cut the power. …