So I went out tonight and took a series of shots with my Nikon D60 at f3.5 @ 18mm for 30 seconds with ISO varying from 100 to 1600 and Hi1. What all that means is I took progressively more sensitive shots of the stars and it ended up being a cool animation.
[Starry Night ISO Spread 1920x1080 (9MB)] [Starry Night ISO Spread 1280x720 (4MB)]
Are you?
How do you explain this?
It has been a full three (3) months since I first told you that you had sent me a laptop with a broken Ethernet port. Normally I’d be patient but after this long and the fact that you sent it to the other side of the country before cohercing them to send it to me, I’m fed up.
Are you fucking kidding me?
6 days to send me a hard drive I had to PAY NEARLY FULL PRICE FOR (probably more by now) in replacement for my dead, supposedly in-warranty hard drive? That’s actually 6 days after they acknowledged my order and submitted the billing information to UPS for my order. It took them 6 days for my hard drive to go from being ready to ship to actually making its way out the door.
Die in a fire Western Digital. You’re awful.
You call this my WD Customer Loyalty Program Upgrade Order.
How do you expect me to be loyal when you treat me with such complete contempt?
FFS…
The medium is the message.
I like many others, didn’t really understand what this now-common phrase meant. I went about my daily life in blissful ignorance as I wrote it off as nonsense or the ramblings of some marketing guy.
It wasn’t until one of those Canadian Heritage advertisements came on during the news this morning that I bothered to care. “The medium is the message?”, I thought, “It really isn’t obvious, is it?”
Well I suppose it helps if you have some context to go by when interpreting phrases such as these so I looked it up on Wikipedia.
“He said that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not only by the content delivered over the medium, but also by the characteristics of the medium itself.”
What he means by this is that new mediums just like new technologies change society. They change how society as a whole views certain issues. Things that would once shock most common people now seem average. With so much information sharing going on, we keep having to reach further and further into the bizarre and grotesque to even get a reaction out of most people these days.
By contrast, I think we’ve become more self-aware as a society. We can work toward tolerance because we now understand on average a lot more about other cultures and other ways of thinking than we once could. This may never form a Utopian society, but it certainly changes the playing field.
So I have two of these things at work and they go unused as the default firmware is somewhat lacking in features.
This made me wonder what the hardware looks like inside them. This is quite possibly one of the hardest pieces of hardware I’ve ever tried to open. The case isn’t sensible at all, but it seems if you can get the blue front section to decouple from the rest of it, it slides apart easily.
There’s one Samsung chip in the center that didn’t scan very well so here is what was written on that one:
SAMSUNG ARM 219B
S3C4510B01-QERO
SAMSUNG ARM 219B S3C4510B01 QERO Datasheet
Other chips:
KENDIN KS8999
0210A3
DC2953.0K1
1269512
2x 2MB SDRAM CHIP
SI
IC42S16100-7T
P1100441E1 0205
SI IC42S16100 2MB (16-MBIT) SDRAM Datasheet
RTL8019AS
23159Q2
213F TAIWAN
1MB FLASH RAM
MX M020832
29F800BTC-90
2F642400
TAIWAN
MX29F800T-B 1MB (8M-BIT) FLASH RAM Datasheet
HB 40ST1041AX
0217S
(Tiny black chip x4 at bottom left)
74HCT1230
E5687 14
Unn0215 D
74HCT125D
E2025 Q4
74HCT04D
AA361 27
Unn0214E
74HC14D
AA265 02
Unn0212F
Mainboard text:
MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C.
F5-SR8107-00 REV: _______ (box left blank)
I think the conclusion we can come to here is that there is far too little flash and RAM to fit something like DD-WRT. I wonder what other projects might fit into these constraints?
