Happy Sysadmin Day you Sysadmin’s
A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.
When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin – and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this webpage.
Understanding geometry and perspective.
At the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
MRI of mushroom
Ton’s of cool MRI’s of fruits and veggie’s @ insideinsides.blogspot.com
In to the computer
Playing his Noggin flash games. On x64 Ubuntu. Getting pretty good.
Sent from my iPhone
Smart dude says gravity isn’t real
It has to do with Holographic Principal and Entropy. Sure makes it easy to solve that whole superstring/m-theory problem. That is, including gravity in the Standard Model. Cool, but a little convenient for my liking. The guy is a string theorist.
The quote doesn’t sum up the article well. I just liked it. Holographic Principle is some mind blowing stuff.
Those exploding black holes at least in theory — none has ever been observed lit up a new strangeness of nature. Black holes, in effect, are holograms — like the 3-D images you see on bank cards. All the information about what has been lost inside them is encoded on their surfaces. Physicists have been wondering ever since how this “holographic principle” — that we are all maybe just shadows on a distant wall — applies to the universe and where it came from.
via A Scientist Takes On Gravity – NYTimes.com.
My boys first computer repair.
He says it’s a dead motherboard.
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