Jan 31: Photo of a Really Old Hard Drive
A friend just forwarded this picture to me and I thought I'd pass it along:
From his email:
Its a hard disk in 1956.... The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.
A friend just forwarded this picture to me and I thought I'd pass it along:
From his email:
From his email:
Its a hard disk in 1956.... The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.
Nov 8: Best Day Ever
Nov 4: Sneaky Microsoft GoogleAd
I just googled the terms linux webcasting software and noticed an interesting ad in the 'Sponsored Links' column. Mildly intrigued, I changed my search to the more generic linux software and the ad came up at the top of the list. Click the thumbnail to the right to see a screenshot of the page with the ad.
I kind of assumed that the linked page would at least have some Linux-bashing, but nope, no mention at all of Linux. That Microsoft; they're so sneaky.
On a side note, I found a cool way to take screenshots in Linux. Usually, I'd fire up the GIMP (image editing program), but this is so much faster and cooler. I mapped imagemagick's import command (which I didn't previously know about) to the print screen button on the keyboard. So, now I just hit print screen and my cursor turns to crosshairs that I use to select the area I want (or just click on a window to capture the whole thing) and the screenshot image shows up in my home directory. Then, I changed the mapping command so that it would pop open the window after capturing it (import ~/tmp/screenshot.png && eog ~/tmp/screenshot.png is the command if you care). It's really handy.
I just googled the terms linux webcasting software and noticed an interesting ad in the 'Sponsored Links' column. Mildly intrigued, I changed my search to the more generic linux software and the ad came up at the top of the list. Click the thumbnail to the right to see a screenshot of the page with the ad.I kind of assumed that the linked page would at least have some Linux-bashing, but nope, no mention at all of Linux. That Microsoft; they're so sneaky.
On a side note, I found a cool way to take screenshots in Linux. Usually, I'd fire up the GIMP (image editing program), but this is so much faster and cooler. I mapped imagemagick's import command (which I didn't previously know about) to the print screen button on the keyboard. So, now I just hit print screen and my cursor turns to crosshairs that I use to select the area I want (or just click on a window to capture the whole thing) and the screenshot image shows up in my home directory. Then, I changed the mapping command so that it would pop open the window after capturing it (import ~/tmp/screenshot.png && eog ~/tmp/screenshot.png is the command if you care). It's really handy.
