I, still, hate disk drives.
After waiting for the umpteenth time for my system to finish twiddeling it’s disk drive, I had a wayback,
a flashback, Way back in the day, one of my my first jobs was managing a network of Sun diskful and diskless workstations, all connected to a Sun 4110.
diskless install and boot was [...]
May
19
2009
19
2009
Bring up an MMO in notime…
Oct
8
2008
8
2008
Allstate makes games, players get rate break
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/10/video-games-drivers.html
Here it is… Allstate offering a specialized computer game
NEW YORK (AP) — Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games.
Could playing computer games turn [...]
May
16
2008
16
2008
Asset Management Metaphore #1 The Library
I deal with production pipelines and production asset management systems all the time. I’ve come up with a couple metaphore’s I like.
Asset Management library metaphor
An asset management system is a lot like a library. Artists and Engineers create assets, like books, and then deposit them into the library. Once the assets are in the library, [...]
Mar
20
2006
20
2006
Sleep Deprived musings
I do get around, alot.
Sleep:
Sleeping on an airplane is an odd proposition. On the bright side you get to sleep with a hundred or so other people in an orgy of foot swelling chastity.
Again that’s the Brightside.
Wet Cloth
Thank god for the European and Asian Airlines civilized compulsion: to present you with wet lemony towelette every opportunity.
Ya [...]