Link Soup, Part Whatever.

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Adam S

I’ve been meaning to post a bunch of great links for awhile, so I have several saved up.

Coolest Monk Ever
This dude can balance himself on ONE FINGER. This is incredible.

Leia’s Metal Bikini
Leia’s Jedi-era metal bikini as worn by fans. Yummy!

A note on OS X’s kernel_task
This one is a little nerdy, but it’s an excellent article on WTF kernel_task is and why it’s always present

Bullet Bill
Play Super Mario Brothers as…. the bullet?!

Girl caught stripping by mom
A girl with a webcam and a boyfriend gets caught by her mom. Hilarious!

CRAZY Russian Experiments
This video, thus far thought to be real, is from a 1940′s Soviet lab. Amongst the things on the film: keeping a dog’s HEAD alive without the body (about 5:32 in) and killing a dog and bringing it back to life. Yes. Seriously.

Family Guy Behind the Scenes
Did you know that Cleveland is a skinny white guy? Watch the cast recording some lines.

Time Machine

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Adam S

This is a repost of something I just wrote as a comment on OSNews:

Shadow copies, at least in the current Volume Shadow Copy implementation, are most definitely NOT “exactly” the same thing as Time Machine. While VSC is very similar, it’s designed to do snapshots at certain times. This is fine for most restores, but in general, if you modify a document several times, you only have the version at the time of the snapshot. As I understand Time Machine, it does a snapshot at modification time, so you have each modification.

This might seem like a marginal difference, but in reality, it’s anything but trivial. This is a world of difference and nothing like this currently exists in a usable form in the base install of ANY consumer OS today. So while it may not be a new idea, it certainly IS innovation.

Leopard This Spring

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Adam S

I’m not going to blog this, because every other site on the Internet is going to over-report it, but the WWDC started today and the Keynote held few major surprises. For me, the biggest thing announced is Time Machine, the version control system built into Mac OS X Leopard. I wonder if it’s built on Subversion or CVS or something new. Let’s not forget that Microsoft already has volume shadow copy, which is already deployed and as far as I’m concerned, invaluable to daily business. But alas, until spring…

Leopard Teaser

Linkaroo

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Adam S