Watch TV on windows. No, not Windows, but windows. Andersen Windows has shown off a new product that allows you to use a large bay window as an entertainment center. It sends a current through the window when you want the window to be clear, as in a normal window, but turning the current off makes the window opaque so that it can be used as a projection screen for watching TV or DVDs.
CNN.com – Legendary hacker to get unleashed and online – Jan. 19, 2003
Kevin Mitnick is coming back online tomorrow. Slashdot is running an interview with him. He’ll be using a computer for the first time since his sentence tomorrow on TechTV.
The whistles go whoo whoo! Watch the video, it’s hilarious! I think I’ll head down to my local exhaust shop and have em weld one in!
The whistles go whooooo whoooooo!
This thead on the Gentoo forums has some neat info for improving desktop performance in X. I think I’ll give it a try over the weekend…
I need a new car. I think I’d sell my left.. umm.. well, I’d give up alot to own that car 
I’ve been gathering parts for a new/upgraded computer. I picked up a 256MB stick of Crucial PC2100 RAM at Best Buy this past week for $35 after rebates. I’ve also ordered a new heat sink, fan, and rounded IDE and floppy cables. The fan I ordered is a Vantec Stealth fan, should be nice and quiet.
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I emerged prelink on my Gentoo system today. Then went through and updated a couple packages, and prelinked most of the binaries on my system. Can’t really feel any big performance difference to tell ya the truth. Here are the directions that I followed. Pretty simple and straight-forward.
I’ve also done some tweaking of the CFLAGS on my system.
CHOST=’i686-pc-linux-gnu’
CFLAGS=’-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer’
CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
Nothing too special I guess. I recompiled Mozilla with them, and, again, no real performance difference. I guess every little bit helps though.
Fonts in Linux have always been a sore point for me. I’d install a new version of RedHat once or twice a year, would see the ugly fonts in Netscape, and take it off after a couple of weeks. My eyes would hurt after surfing for more than a few minutes.
Recently, it seems as if developers have gotten things together and fonts are starting to look much better. Surfing the web in Phoenix is now a pleasure. Things look almost as good as they do in Internet Explorer in Windows. I’m very happy. I can now use Linux on a daily basis, leaving Windows for game playing. See the extended entry for a small screenshot of a story on Slashdot.
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