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I was watching the pilot of the TV series ‘Chuck‘ and the bit when he goes on about developing their own version of Zork on the TRS-80 got me thinking…
So I found this really great post on playing Zork on OS X, and install/setup is really simple.
Many thanks to Silent Corner for the great info and you can also get Zork II and III.
My trusty G5 of 3-years has finally bitten the dust, with one of the processors inside the Dual Processor Module deemed dead by Apple. The replacement cost of this amounts to that of a new machine since it is now officially out of warranty and as such, the standard configuration Mac Pro is now on the way…
Featuring re-designed internals and Intel Xeon “Harpertown” octa-cores running at 2.8 GHz, fully buffered ECC RAM, and space for up to two optical drives.
The dual Quad-Core (8-cores) processors aren’t the only only bonus in this machine but also unlike the older G5, it sports capacity for four hard drives, up to 1TB capacity for each one.
Dual PCI-e 2.0 x16 slots (for video cards) and dual PCI-e x4 slots offer ample expansion options. I hope M-Audio decide to bring back the Rev 7.1 in a PCI-e format with Leopard support.
As for the HDDs, it will come with a default 320GB HDD. I have a couple 250GB drives lying about so I will setup a RAID ‘mirrored’ pair as the boot drive. This will allow for lower downtime if/when one of the boot drives fail, although the accessible size of the RAID set will limited to the smallest drive, ~250GB. The remaining two drive bays will accommodate my 2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint drives which were running inside my late G5.
This will also be my first encounter in running Leopard as I have been sticking with 10.4.11 for the most part - it has been performing quite reliably and therefore I decided against upgrading the OS on my other machines (MacBook Pro/iMac).
Keep posted for the ‘official’ unboxing in about two weeks…
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Photo credit: Chung Lee
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A while back I posted a short article of my work on CRC-16, CRC-CCITT, and CRC-32.
Few days ago, Joon posted a comment on this post pointing out a ‘typo’ in the program output. It should read, ASCII String ‘123456789′ rather than what was originally posted.
Also, the output in that article is the ‘XModem’ variety, using an initialiser of ‘0000′.
If it is initialised with ‘FFFF’ the output is still in fact CRC-CCITT, and the following was obtained:
File ‘crc_ccitt_direct.c’ compiled on Oct 12 2008 at 14:38:06
CRC pre-conditioner 0xFFFF for CRC-CCITT
ASCII ‘A’ / 0×0041 / 65
CRC-CCITT = 0xB915 / 47381ASCII String ‘123456789′
CRC-CCITT = 0×29B1 / 10673ASCII String ‘ABC…XYZ’
CRC-CCITT = 0xD8E1 / 55521
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As posted by LeroySaunders on WTF:
Rolex has a style - all its own. Frequently imitated, often replicated, but never duplicated. No other brand can offer such a varied and extensive selection, in such fine fashion. From two-tones to two timezones; platinum to rose gold, white gold and yellow gold and stainless steel. Ceramic bezel, black bezel, black and red bezel, green bezel, red and blue bezel, platinum bezel diamond bezel, fluted bezel, engine turned bezel, smooth bezel, domed bezel, green saphire crystal, lightin’ bolt second hand and red second hand. Date or no date, day and date. A daytona cosmograph that’s a chronograph. From Patrizzi to Celini, from a Prince to a King - Rolex sets the pace. On the land, in the air, on the sea and under the sea, and from the mountain top - it’s been there and done that!
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