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Our Tax Dollars Hard At Work

June 15, 2002

Here’s something I came across recently. It’s a number of color (yes, color) photographs that were taken around Russia in the very early 1900s using a process involving three separate cameras and color filters. Thanks to the Library of Congress a number of these photos are available from this collection. First, read about how everything was done here. Then take a look at the full online archive of Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii’s color photos here. Thanks to the LoC we all have access to this (and many more) historical photographs online, including VERY high-res versions. I think I’m going to end up with a select few printed out and hung up around here.

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Fibre Channel. :(

June 8, 2002

Hrm. It seems that this new, quiet Seventeam power supply that I got isn’t that great after all. Today I turned off my machine to try changing out the cache and it wouldn’t turn back on. It seems something is hosed in the new power supply. So now I have to try and return one via mail order and also hope that the one I ordered for Sarah and Craig’s PC doesn’t suffer the same problem. Guess I’ll just have to burn it in extra good.

I thought the PS had killed the motherboard. Luckily that didn’t happen… I thought my machine was going to get it’s long overdue (and currently unaffordable) upgrade tomorrow. Ah well, heh. That’s all right. At least things are back to normal… Now I just need to figure out the fibre channel performance issue. Right now I’d get better speed out of selling it all and going to two striped IDE disks. :( At least I know that the 256MB of cache aren’t causing a problem. Hopefully it’s my old motherboard.

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