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A closer view of what sits on my desk in our office... Too see a wider angle view and more stuff Click Here, the description on the other photo also goes into much more detail about what I use and how I use it.
In short, about 5 years ago I uploaded a photo (now quite outdated) of what my desk looked like and the computing technology that I used... but now long overdue I have upgraded and replaced quite a bit. Things are now much simpler and easier to use... oh and I finally made the switch to Mac and have been loving life on OS-X.
What this photo shows is:
A 30" NEC monitor connected to an Apple Hex Core 3.33Ghz. Mac Pro w/12GB of RAM, dual 50GB OWC Solid State Drives(SSD), four 2TB Western Digital Black hard drives and a NewerTech eSATA card and two external 500GB Western Digital Studio Edition hard drives. The desktop has an Apple Wireless Keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse connected via Bluetooth and a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard and a Microsoft LaserMouse6000 connected via USB2 sitting on a HumanScale 4G keyboard tray (it's designed for the Microsoft 'natural' form factor). Finally the Mac Pro has a Wacom Intuos3 tablet and a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers.
Laptop - An Apple 15" MacBookPro Core i5 2.4Ghz. notebook with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB Seagate MomentusXT hard drive (which also includes a 4GB SSD cache), with the upgraded high res. display. Attached is a 500GB G-Tech G-Drive Mini and a 1TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drives connected via Firewire800 and an Apple MagicMouse via Bluetooth.
There is more going on in terms of networking, storage, etc. but if you want to know more about that, click on this other image.
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Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space.
A newborn baby fixates on human faces… but a newborn boy will turn his gaze to blinking lights.
Stereo equipment designers have exploited this innate attraction for years. =)
And in this full size photo, you can appreciate IBM’s pinnacle of geek bling-bling – an immersive widescreen of blinky bliss.
This IBM System/360 Model 91 was a scientific computer used at SLAC in 1968. It used Solid Logic Technology (modules of five to six transistors) during the transition period between discrete transistors and the IC.
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Over the long march of biological and now technological evolution, we have finally reached a survival gate — we have enough computational power to model the trajectory all Near-Earth Objects (NEO's) that could threaten life on Earth. This was not possible in the year 2000, or any time over the prior millennia. We have made a million-fold improvement in computation in just the past 20 years. So, we can see the future and predict decades in advance of an impact event and then give the NEO a nudge such that it misses Earth entirely.
It’s not like the movies, where you have an asteroid on final approach and try to blow it up somehow (that just turns a rifle into a shotgun blast); instead, you launch a rocket to rear-end it and change its velocity ever so slightly. Integrated over years, that small delta-v makes all the difference. In short, asteroid defense does not end with a bang, but merely a nudge. That is, if you know what you are doing!
The non-profit B612 (with co-fiounding astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart) did a webinar and demo of their ADAM simulation tool for calculating asteroid orbit propagation. They gave me permission to share the unpublished work of their Asteroid Institute tech team. Here's an unlisted video showing the sim seen here.
Rusty Schweickart, the first Lunar Module Pilot summarizes: “We live in a remarkable time in history. We can change the trajectory of the solar system, ever so slightly, and protect life on Earth"
Mapping the Final Frontier with ADAM (Asteroid Decision Analysis + Mapping):
The ADAM project runs on the Google Compute Engine to provide a cloud platform for large-scale orbital dynamics. Small errors in the initial velocity vector measurements can expand over decades to very different outcomes, especially when gravitational slingshots around the planets occur. So, they run thousands of Monte-Carlo simulations over an array of starting conditions, creating a distribution of points, as seen in the images here, some hitting Earth (red) or a near miss (green). The distribution of endpoints gives a probability of deep impact. As a heuristic patch to some insane computational complexity, we can calculate a probability for the long term, which narrows like a hurricane forecast cone to a certainly as time advances.
To reach an accuracy of a few kilometers over many decades, it’s not just the complexity of an n-body problem. They had to model effects such as the curvature of space-time due to General Relativity, the non-sphericity of the Sun, the gravitational asymmetry of the planets, moons and larger asteroids, as well as the non-isotropic thermal re-radiation from rotation of the asteroid.
So so the good news: we can do this today, and with each passing year of Moore's Law, we can look further into the future, moving from decades to a 100 years. The further you can see, and the more precisely, the easier the nudge becomes.
For input to the model you just need a series of at least three sample points (but more is better). And we are about to get a whole lot better at that. Starting in 2022, LSST will observe ~600,000 asteroids every night, and discover new asteroids at 10X today’s rate. This will accentuate the computation-bounded problem of using this torrent of data.
There is something poetic about the computational defense of humanity. And something that rhymes with history. The Space Race of the 60s was won computationally, not by brute force heavy-lift, which would have favored the Soviets.
Survival is computational. Intelligence allows us to see the future.
A rather large rangefinder from Petri, another lacklustre camera. Way too big for a an all auto camera with the usual 40/2,8 lens. No manual control, no self-timer, but we do get 3 leds, one for long exposure warning, another for OK exposure and one for testing the battery. They are visible in the viewfinder and on top of the camera, nice.
The biggest problem of this camera is the shutter. You just wouldn't believe how loud it is! It is as loud as an SLR, I kid you not! I have never seen a leaf shutter as noisy as this one and it is electronic! I think it was a house made shutter and Petri knew about this problem as the next model (based on this Computor) has a completely silent Seiko ESP.
Dr Vinton Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, speaks during World Congresson Information Technology WCIT at Kuala Lumpur May 21 2008.
When he talk, everybody listen, the plenary hall was pack with people, I really enjoy listen to him as much as photographing him, talking about the future of the internet. I was so lucky to watch him in person, not to mention photographing him..
More about him, just Google it... :-)
I don't use flash for this shot, available light only...
Computing Sciences hosted 14 local high school students as part of an outreach program to introduce students to various career options in scientific computing and networking. The sessions include presentations, hands-on activities, and tours of facilities. The program was developed with input from computer science teachers at Berkeley High, Albany High, Richmond's Kennedy High, and Oakland Tech. Computing Staff present a wide range of topics including assembling a desktop computer, cyber security war stories, algorithms for combustion and astrophysics and the role of applied math.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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This is an artsy special effects video that I made over a couple of days.
It's pretty basic, but I think the effect is very nice.
There was a lot of work that went into getting it just right.
For a while I was looking for another visual play on words to go along with the pokes at Apple I've been doing lately (e.g. EyeHell).
Since I work with computers a lot, there is a lot of talk about the Cloud and Cloud Computing.
I expanded my theme beyond Apple a bit since they don't own the Cloud exclusively.
(However, it could be argued that the glasses are for eyes, so it is a reference to the EyeCloud again...)
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P.S. The jet plane flying over at the end was a complete random happenstance. Didn't plan that one at all, but I think it really adds to it.
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Just what is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the Internet.
Cloud computing enables companies to consume compute resources as an energy– much like electricity– rather than needing to build and also maintain computing...
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Vintage Computing Scale by Standard Computing Scale Co. Great old find rusty crusty with age, Shot in North Carolina
Science Fiction surely?
No, the future is now, it's the Raspberry Pi!
A piece of electronic wizardry that aims to inspire children (and adults) to code and look behind the flashy buttons to see the bare bones of computing.
HMM! Theme "Science Fiction"
Apologies for the lack of communication, away at Center Parcs with pretty much zero connection. Back now and knackered.
Cloud Computing is a term in computer science used specifically to refer to advances in client-server technology that have occurred in the last decade.The 1970's concept of a hard-wired server connected to a client by network cable, is seldom seen in today's world. Many computers are no longer clearly distinguishable as clients or servers. Fat clients have become servers, and thin clients have become handheld devices. 20th century computer installations and accompanying computer applications were mostly proprietary and employees usually only had access to a computer at the office. As more and more employees have more and more sophisticated equipment at home, companies have shifted towards using internet-based services. For example, employees may be instructed to consult Google maps rather than being offered route descriptions to offices via proprietary websites or intranets. The computer generating the map request may be running several applications for several different types of fat- and thin clients. The computer offering the map is called a server, while it may possibly only have a switching capability itself, retrieving its actual data from another server. The cloud therefore, can refer to a lack of wires or hardware ownership as well as to a lack of software ownership.
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In ihrem letzten Umzug einen praktischen Quantencomputer, IBM Research zum ersten Mal zu bauen jemals macht Quantencomputing in der Cloud für alle Interessierten in Hands-on-Zugriff auf die erweiterten experimentellen Quantensystem des Unternehmens.
die Quanten-Computing-Plattform der IBM...
...these were the 'dogs bollocks'. Found some old photos on them. Clicks and bangs for 20 seconds and magically a photo appears! Time to say..goodbye.
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There’s something undeniably disconcerting about this youngster featured on the cover of the October 1981 issue of Interface Age magazine. Maybe she’s hacking into WOPR or something.
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8th February 2014
Leica M9
Summicron 35mm ASHP.
Petri Computor 35 ~1970
C.C. Petri 2.8/40
The Computor 35, fancy name in an era when that term meant novelty. It's a coupled rangefinder camera. It has CdS cell behind the filter ring. The exposure is automatic. There are two lights inside the viewfinder and on the top plate, by the hot shoe, green means shutter speed over 1/30, orange under. The exposure counter resets automatically and it's totally dependant of two LR44 batteries.
There is a younger sister Petri Computor II
Set of photos taken with this camera
I invite you to visit my camera site at Classic Cameras in english.
Convido-os a visitar o minha página Câmaras & Cia. em português