Happy Easter. I'm handing down my RPI model B to whoever wants it,
I'd prefer giving it away to a young boy or girl at age 11+ that is
interested in computers but doesn't have the money to buy a Pi. I'd
prefer shipping it within Europe as there is no toll/customs.
The stuff cost me around 150 euros altogether (ada fruit display, rpi
model b, german power supply (5 watts) and two cases as well as an
SD card, hardly used). If you are interested send me an email.
I've been watching this guys science for a while. It intrigues me and my
dreams are shaped around the topic of photonic computers. I want to show
you the latest presentation I've seen from him:
If only I were smart enough to build me one computer such as that, but to
be truthful there is a lot of researchers worldwide trying to make this
happen, so why would I succeed? lol.
Well it's spring now. The equinox came and went and I didn't even blog about
it. However I did find a tweet by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, that said that
because of refraction of light the equinox actually has more daylight than
night and it's not "equal day/night", but without this refraction of light
there would be exactly the same time for night and day. Anyhow I found the
tweet worth blogging about.
Freifunk Franken needed a turn-key server to convert a MAC address to an
AAAA RR via DNS, so I fleshed out (stripped out) a lot of parts from
delphinusdnsd and made it available to them (
FFFdnsd.tgz). The code to this is open source. Most of the functionality
is that I put together last night is in lookup_zone() which creates a
struct domain on the fly. There is some inefficiencies on how the code is
right now, but it works and that's the main point.
We discussed a little about buffer overflows, but I'm thinking if I introduced
anything bad in lookup_zone() then that's where to find those. The rest of
the code is identical to the delphinusdnsd code base (which also runs in
production). I'm glad to be of use with my 10 year old daemon. It's not
every day that I get a request such as this one.
I have updated my chart of all computers I have ever bought (except the RPI)
that I last left in this article.
Had I an accumulated computer of all clockcycles and RAM my computer today
would be a single core 50 GHz computer with nearly 100 GB of RAM. Wow!
However I don't have all the computers anymore so it's less than that in
reality. Here is the updated chart...
Let's see a "computer generation" is 1.5 years and 4 years have passed did
3 generations after doubling each generation hold true for me?
generation 1 - 36
generation 2 - 72
generation 3 - 144
So judging by this I should be buying a 64 GB RAM machine at mid year in 2016.
(In order to stay true to Moores law...)
Sorry that's not gonna happen, I plan on keeping at a bit of a standstill
until 2020. But since this will be another generation past, I'll be
expected to get a 256 GB RAM machine or so (by 2020). Wow! I do hope I
find a use for it, but with Virtual Reality on the horizon I'm sure there
will be.
I finally got a TV after 16 years. It's a 48" Samsung and just blows my mind.
I also bought a few other things with it. Now it's almost time to save up
money again. I'm feeling really lucky though. It's great to be having money
to spend and make use of these things. Thanks to a job!
I have ordered a backup APU firewall. I'll keep this around in case the
one I use now breaks. Having venus break was a wakeup call for me. Basically
I can't afford to lose gamma my main firewall, or have a backup for it. I
chose the latter. I wouldn't need this if I didn't work from home, btw.
Looking in my chart logically this backup firewall will be called "delta".
I have turned on this new VDSL2 modem that I got the other day. Here is the
link stats from my current ADSL.
I'm slowly getting ready to get a new provider (one that offers VDSL2 with
vectoring) giving me 100 Mbit/40 Mbit. I'm just waiting for the venus soekris
board to be returned to me with whatever fixes, and then I'm initiating a
switch.
Happy March. We'll see the transition from winter to summer in this month
at least officially as a number because the equinox is officially the markation
point at which spring starts and winter ends. Can't wait!
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