Business As Usual At The Factory Of Idiot Dreams

Too Darn Hot

By David on July 3, 2009 11:20 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I built a new Node-0 cabinet to replace my metal wall cabinet type. The main reason was to get a bit more height and also some more depth at the bottom where it tucks under the roof apex so that I can fit some deeper server cases in there.

But whilst I was at it I changed my fan arrangement. Instead of trying to suck hot air out I now blow cooler air in. This means that in hot weather I am not sucking hot air from the roof void into the cabinet through any leaks. The air is blown in at the bottom rear corner and passes to the front through a plenum, since most equipment I have seems to suck in at the front.

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Special Day Today

By David on June 7, 2009 11:45 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Today is a special day and so before it is out I thought I'd put up a post.

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More Mac only stuff

By David on May 29, 2009 12:33 AM | Permalink | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

One of the frustrations I have with accessing my Cortex computer remotely using RDC sessions from a Mac is the lack of a key mapping for \ (backslash). This can be infuriating when you want to enter a file path, for example.

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This might become a regular feature ...

By David on May 22, 2009 12:36 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

For Mac users

By David on May 22, 2009 12:16 AM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I've been playing with the camera functions and particularly network streaming. But then I decided that rather than start up a video client, it would be quite nice to have the camera output embedded in the desktop background.

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Virtual Objects

By David on May 21, 2009 8:21 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In my previous post I talked about objects and categorised them as:

Network Objects - software and module functionality
Cortex Logic Objects - pure software
Device Objects - external hardware devices

Now there is actually a feature of some network objects that is quite nifty, but conflicts with the categorisation above.

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DFP

By David on May 11, 2009 7:34 PM | Permalink | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks

The DFP has been around for a while now but I haven't got round to writing much about it.

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Objects and Connections

By David on May 9, 2009 6:46 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Looking back I realised I never talked about some of the fundamental concepts in Cortex. This is the first of what will probably be a series of articles to explain some stuff.

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It amused me. No other reason.

By David on May 9, 2009 12:04 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

When 100% isn't enough

By David on May 5, 2009 6:33 PM | Permalink | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I originally started this in April 2008 but ironically didn't get round to posting it. So I was interested to see a recent article on the BBC site covering a similar topic.

Anyone else getting fed up with the increasingly generalised mathematical innumeracy?

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