Okay, I don’t know why I keep posting this crap about the iPhone. I promised myself (and others) that I wouldn’t get caught up in the hype. Heck, I don’t even have an iPhone. But here I am, second day in a row, posting about the damn Jesus phone. Oh well. Anyways, some nameless folks [...]
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What happens when you “salvage” hundreds of Itanium processors in a massive supercomputer CPU upgrade? Naturally, you make a desk. And props to the kids who hardware unlocked the iPhone. No Turbosim here, just honest-to-goodness hardware hacking. I especially love the real core of the hack — step 7. Love it. Honestly. How would life [...]
Okay, I admit it. I didn’t really read much FSJ (that’s Fake Steve Jobs) before. I glanced at it once a ways back and remember thinking, when looking at the web page, “wow, some of these are pretty long.” Just didn’t cross that threshold. But then, reading TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) a bit, I [...]
DARPA made the announcement at around 11:30am today, and it looks like the MIT/Olin team is in to the semi finals! (Press release [PDF]) That means we get to go out to the former George AFB in Victorville, CA, on October 26-31, 2007, for the final qualification event. The actual race is in the same [...]