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Memory

Running multiple VMware instances eats RAM. Fortunately, RAM is cheap (not quite as cheap as you think, since it’s fully buffered MacPro modules, but nevertheless)

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2010 05 02 james code
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Time-wasting Flash game of the day

This one is really bad. In a glorious 8-bit way.

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2009 09 04 james gaming Comments (0)

Driving North

There were two photo-worthy spectacles from the drive up the M1/A1 yesterday – the first I couldn’t easily stop to capture, but consisted of very thin but dense layer of fog around Durham – not even as thick as the tree-tops, just sitting on the ground in the hollows. A really great, eerie sight. The second spectacle [...]

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2009 07 06 james Uncategorized
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Language FAIL

The joke langauge madness continues, on Flickr:

2009 06 03 james comedy Comments (1)

Casual gaming, economics of play

While browsing the iPhone AppStore, came across a game called Flight Control, and purchased it on a whim. It’s a simplified ATC simulation, based on defining routes for aircraft using the touch screen, and a great concept executed to a polished sheen – art, sounds, etc are all there, on top of a classic repeatable game mechanic with a [...]

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2009 03 30 james aviation
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Watchmen

is excellent from start to finish. I can understand why people unfamiliar with the novel might find it a little long / slow in the first half, but for someone who’s read the book it treads a careful line between carbon-copying the original plot (which might lead to a five-hour epic, take note Mr Jackson) [...]

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2009 03 16 james comics
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It’s good to be wrong.

A highly skilled person has disproved a long-held opinion of mine: that it’s impossible to put a transport category aircraft down on water (from flight speed) without massive structural failure. As always, credit should also go to the hundreds of people who design things like APUs, ram-air turbines, hydraulic pressure reservoirs, and the other boring pieces [...]

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2009 01 16 james aviation Comments (0)

Quick! Someone on the Internet is wrong!

‘Insane’ 747 take-off: No, actually, that’d just be … a completely normal, by-the-numbers 747 take-off. Possibly looking slightly dramatic due to foreshortening of the runway caused by the extreme camera zoom. These heavier than air flying machines, I tell you, it’s unnatural! Witchcraft!

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2009 01 13 james aviation Comments (0)

Market Value

I’ve noted it before, but have recently been reminded, how good eBay (and by inference, I suppose, free markets) is at finding the ‘correct’ value for items. I’m referring specifically to items which are not (unduly) supply constrained, which is not the case for collectibles and the like – the items in question are generally mass-produced goods [...]

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2008 11 26 james photography
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Smooth

From passing the Edinburgh airport Hilton, to walking out of security air-side, a grand total of eight minutes. Online check-in and revamped security to thank, mostly. Once on the flight, KLM had made a clerical error and positioned the divider between business and economy incorrectly – 4F became the last business row instead of the [...]

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2008 11 25 james aviation
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