Category Archives: misc

Home brew CPU

July 21, 2008 – 12:53 pm

Wouldn’t it be cool to build your own CPU… especially one that actually runs a modernish OS?
From the site…
“Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands […]

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SourceForge.net awards Microsoft a Diamond sponsor?

July 10, 2008 – 6:29 pm

It seems a little strange to me that Microsoft is the major sponsor of an open source award, even one run by Sourceforge.net… I know Microsoft is in the open source space more and more often, but it still seems strange. I can’t wait for their BSD release!
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So, What’s in that Happy Meal Besides the Cheap Toy?

July 10, 2008 – 3:42 pm

“So, What’s in that Happy Meal Besides the Cheap Toy?” is really just another well researched article on why we shouldn’t eat junk food…
But should we avoid junk food? Or butter, alcohol, chocolates, cigarettes, cars, soap? All of these products are likely to contain harsh carcinogenic chemicals; really any product that contains manufactured ingredients is […]

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Reading from another perspective

July 10, 2008 – 3:26 pm

Something I quite like to do is read wikipedia articles from alternate points of view. This is something that has been remarkably lacking throughout history and should help develop a better understanding of our place in the international community. Now we can finally read about the holoclaust from German, English (largely US), Hebrew and Arabic […]

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The answer is national?

July 10, 2008 – 1:25 pm

I don’t really like politics, or economics for that matter; neither is much of a science, regardless how many polls or surveys are taken. But I was amused to read that National is might be able to slow the flow of young New Zealanders overseas, through proposing a $1.5 billion initiative to introduce fibre optics […]

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