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Why I Use FAT32 Even Though It Sucks

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

After I bought my 1.5TB drive, I decided to put my 300GB drive into an external enclosure for some portable storage.
I wanted the drive to be in FAT32 format so that I can both read AND write it from Linux and Windows. NTFS is usually only readable from Linux. The large clusters are inefficient for [...]

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Not So Cuil

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Started by three former employees of Google, Cuil (which they want you to pronounce as “cool”) claims to be the world’s biggest search engine, indexing more pages than everybody else put together.
At least, that’s the theory.
It seems like Cuil’s primary marketing strategy is Google bashing. They are very careful to point out that they [...]

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Is The XO-2 The Ideal Electronic Book?

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Ever since reading Ben Bova’s Cyberbooks, I’ve been waiting for electronic books to take over the world. The Amazon Kindle didn’t much impress impress me, but I just love the design for the new OLPC XO-2. If the design stays the same, then I’m definitely getting one for reading ebooks.
On a related note, what are [...]

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A Steampunk Ghost

Friday, April 25, 2008

Charles Babbage, widely regarded as the father of computing, was a typical hacker.
He never completed the first Difference Engine, instead designing a more advanced Difference Engine, and later he produced several incomplete designs for a yet more advanced Analytic Engine.
None of his computing machines were built within his lifetime. But now, more than 150 [...]

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