Photo courtesy of iFixIt.com, an invaluable source of DIY guides for owners of Apple gear.
Why not open it up and poke about? Lots of helpful tips here. Alas, I suspect you may be voiding the warranty.
Daily Archives: February 4, 2008
Lessig moves on
Larry Lessig is seeking fresh pastures. Here’s the announcement for his Last Word on Free Culture.
Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008 from 1pm-2pm. After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and setting his sights on corruption in Washington.
Hmmm… If you think copyright is hard, then political corruption is something else. Instead of starting with Washington, though, maybe he could cut his teeth on Ireland, and specifically the Fianna Fail* governing party.
*Footnote: for those unfamiliar with my country, I should explain that Fianna Fail (Irish for ‘Soldiers of Destiny’ btw) is the political wing of the Irish construction industry.
Sneak preview of Google’s mobile phone software
The Register has been given a sneak preview of Google Android.
The real magic is the Android runtime called Dalvik. This is a custom virtual machine designed to be a better embedded OS. It’s a register-based Virtual Machine, and therefore more efficient in an embedded environment than a traditional Java Virtual Machine; core libraries interact with the Java Harmony project. You may write in Java, but the byte code is Dalvik.
Dalvik uses .dex byte code files and Java class files are converted to .dex. The .dex structure allows processes to share system classes, saving memory…
Just thought you’d like to know.
Carphone Warehouse boss tires of blogging
From todays Register…
Dough-faced Carphone Warehouse chief and Daily Mail director Charles Dunstone has decided to keep his thoughts to himself from now on – he’s deleted his blog from the TalkTalk website.
Well, he’s a busy chap who has to get out of his pyjamas every day.
Google moves to kill Microsoft-Yahoo deal
Now there’s a surprise. The last thing Google wants is serious competition (even if it’s unlikely that a MS-Yahoo merger could provide it). It’s almost enough to make one feel sympathetic to Microsoft.
This is going to get very boring over the next few months.
Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to be one of the few companies that still funds basic research. It’s just announced that it’s opening a new research lab next door to MIT. Headed by a woman too. Hooray!
Across The Universe Day
Hmmm… It’s Across The Universe Day.
Monday, February 4th 2008 is the exact 40th anniversary of the Beatles recording their anthem of universal peace – “Across The Universe” – in 1968.
To mark the occasion, Beatles fans worldwide are invited to play that Beatles song at the same time of day – creating a harmonic convergence around the globe.
And the Beatles’ universal message will NOT be restricted to Planet Earth!
The US Space Agency NASA will play a major part in the celebrations by beaming the song “Across The Universe” literally Across The Universe!
NASA is going to transmit the Beatles tune from a satellite antenna directly into outer space! And it will do this at the exact same time as fans Across The World are playing “Across The Universe”!
Fame: the phenomenon and the problem
Stephen fry has written an extraordinary, fascinating, thoughtful and only slightly agonised essay about Fame and being famous. Pour yourself a coffee, put your feet up and read. It’ll take some time. But it’s worth it.
Thanks to Sean for reminding me about it.