Weblog of Quests

When this quote appeared in my email Inbox courtesy of the newsletter I subscribe to, I could not help but a smile. What a wonderful, wonderful idea!

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself, because you never know when the World will need you.

Rabbi Hillel, 30 B.C. - 9 A.D.
Jewish Religious Leader

This is more for my own benefit so that I won’t need to search high and low for these links again. Note that the transformation from MHz (millions of steps per second) to GHz (thousands of millions) only took slightly less than 10 years, which is quite amazing if you ask me… Incidentally you can clearly see the rise and fall of AMD in the period 200 to about 2005-6, when the Core2duo architecture appeared.

1. Intel’s 15 Most Unforgettable x86 CPUs
2. The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 1 : Introduction
3. The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 2 : AMD Processors From March 1994 To December 2004
4. Tom’s Hardware’s Interactive CPU Charts (check out also the very illuminating tree diagrams of Intel and AMD CPUs up to 2006)
5. CPU Socket Basics: Intel
6. CPU Socket Basics: AMD

Spotted this list of 32 highly recommended sci-fi novels over at How to split an atom in my Google reader yesterday.

Surprisingly, I have read quite a few of those on the list:

• Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. (and the rest of the Foundation series)
• Time machine, by H. G. Wells.
• Animal farm, by George Orwell.
• War of the worlds, by H. G. Wells.
• I robot, by Isaac Asimov.
• Ring world, by Larry Niven.
• Dune, by Frank Herbert. (and all 3 books from the originally intended trilogy)
• The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams (all except for the final book in the expanded trilogy)
• 1984, by George Orwell.
• Ender’s game, by Orson Scott Card. (and the rest of the Ender, Shadow series)

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More shots of the setting sun taken using my iPhone.

Was trying to find information regarding the RAM for my particular model of G4 Powerbook because I planned to upgrade the puny amount of RAM (512MB in total, 256MB soldered) that came with the machine, and happened on the following DIY sites. Very helpful, I must say. As an example, here are illustrated guides for upgrading the RAM.

1. Steps for RAM upgrade from ifixit
2. Another guide from Macinstruct
3. All you’d want to know about RAM for Powerbooks