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About a year ago I visited Cleveland for the 3rd time (a record as they say as there is not much there!). Close friends living there is a reason good enough for me to visit Cleveland 3 times already. During my last visit, I was wandering around the downtown area after taking a tour of The "Rock and Roll hall of fame" and when I walked by that corner both the outdoor speakers and the mural on the wall caught my eye. I had to do some research on what this is and i think it makes more sense to provide the link from the people that actually made it.
www.land-studio.org/project/rock-box
And since this is closely related to the "Rock'n'Roll Hall of fame", here's a song from one of my favorite rock bands (and obviously Hall of Famers):
Deep Purple - Anya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uwnnx6X2_A
And since the mural has a fence, i think this photo also qualifies for Fence Friday! HFF!
[ Another remix of yet another recently discovered (rediscovered) Supersampler film roll, trying to salvage/correct lab damage -- their crops, & so forth -- reconstructing the madness of the original flow of the frames -- these always looked best seen 2-5+ frames @ a time! 8^) And this is another roll from my playful experiments, for instance with plastic color gels taped over the lenses, of course in addition to the chaos of the randomly-composed nature/method of these multi exposures. Thank you for stopping by. Prost! ]
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[ Oops. Randomly-composed and shot on BW400CN with the Supersampler almighty and my favorite $1 thrift store find. Prost. ]
"After Aldrin is aboard, Armstrong will hoist sample-filled "rock boxes" into cabin. That pack on Armstrong's back is his life-support backpack."
Although not signed, nor have I ever seen it before, I’m certain this is a Russell Arasmith work, which appears to have been part of a mission press kit, information packet, presentation, etc.
The other works in this series and the content at the following site pretty much confirms the identification:
This is a custom solid box I made for a Lincoln International Mr Rock doll. He only came carded to my knowledge, so I thought it'd be fun to create one. And it was! Props toThe Toyroom Repro & Custom Packaging for all the heavy lifting.
I have an old 4th gen ipod which had the well documented battery problem, after a full charge it would run for maybe 30 mins if i was lucky. As it was a gift from my girlfriend, was no longer under warranty and as i kinda like messing i thought i'd try to make it live again so i bought a high capacity battery from mdsbattery in the UK and wadgered the ipod guts out of its shell with lots of kitchen utensils, anyway eventually got the old one out and the new one in without breaking anything. Not being satisfied with having a functioning ipod i decided to install Rockbox which is a replacement for the apple firmware (it can still boot back into apple firmware, dual boot kinda thing) which allows you to use the ipod as a drag and drop harddrive player instead of having to use itunes database thingys. It also plays all manner of music files too, even .ogg files which is nice!
This is my Netbook review...
What's a netbook? It's a sub-notebook sized laptop, originally designed for net surfing. They are extremely portable, and usually sell in the US$200-$400 range.
I have been in the market for a netbook for well....the last 8 months. Every time I think I have identified the one I want, a better model comes out. This is especially true of ASUS, who seems to introduce a new model every other day.
I first saw the first tiny ASUS netbook more than a year ago, I imagined how nice it would be to be sitting on the beach in Bali or Phuket, sucking down beers (can't make a martini at the beach without ice) and keeping up with my emails. In my profession, you are never really "on vacation". I typically get about 100 emails a day, and just 'answering" an email from a cellphone is often not enough. I might have to open a spreadsheet or write a formal document while sitting on that beach, so that means running back to the hotel and opening the laptop. This rules out "Blackberry" type devices, and my Nokia smartphones as well. I need a real computer with a real keyboard and Microsoft Office. Anyway, the IPOD and cellphone will be there on the beach with me anyway...
I already have a full-sized Sony laptop already so I wanted something that was so inexpensive and portable that I wouldn't mind carrying it along. Also, I figured that I spend about 20 hours a week either sitting in a plane, sitting in airports or waiting in a hotel lobby to go to the airport. I hate dragging out the big laptop and booting it up. A small netbook in standby mode would be very productive.
IDENTIFYING THE REQUIREMENT
When choosing any gadget, you need to first decide on what features you really need.
I decided to give in to the hidden desire for "cool-looking" as one of the criteria.
The danger is that you can get sucked into the "Apple Syndrome"...picking something because it looks good and seems to be popular, even if the functionality is limited. Case in point - The IPOD. Beautiful design, but poor function. Many people buy one just to "follow the crowd" and hope it will make them "popular". Some of these same people don't even have music content to load on the machine...just wanna be seen with an Apple product.
It's a big joke that people have IPOD's with 160GB drives that are 1% full.
And the software is crap...that's why I replaced the IPOD firmware with the free, open source ROCKBOX (www.rockbox.org). Goodbye ITunes s/w.
Anyway, back to Netbooks...
The other key criteria that I was looking for are:
Not bigger than the ASUS 901 series.
Windows XP pre-installed.
Should support Photoshop
At least 5 hours battery life
VGA output so I can use an external monitor (but not on the beach!)
Should be easy to upgrade, add memory, etc. without major disassembly of the computer
Today, all netbooks have the same basic features, which are built-in webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth and the Atom processor.
Additional, nice-to-have features would be :
battery life up to 9 hours (what they call "all-day computing" in the netbook world)
3G support - A place to insert a SIM card....nice, but not necessary, as I could just use a USB air card for a cellular connection. Sorry to my friends back in the US, but with the cellular provider monopoly there, you still can't get this. In Thailand, I can walk into 7-11 with $5 and buy a SIM card for my phone or 3G laptop, plug it in and have internet, free incoming phone calls, international SMS ... oh well, don't get me started on the sorry state of wireless services in my home country...!
USB ports that can function as a charger for the phones and IPODs, even with the computer turned off.
Keyboard should be resistant to martini spills (just kidding!)
After months of evaluation, here is what I have come up with.
ASUS
The company that started it all. The ASUS 901 is so cute, and now comes with 3G support so you can use it where WiFi is not available. Also, a nice battery that gives more than 5 hours of life.
I have been following the ASUS S101 model for several months now, and I thought that this would be the one to get. It is almost as thin as a Mac Air, has all metal construction and a 64GB SSD drive, which makes it one of the most expensive netbooks. But the annoying factor is that it only comes with Linux. I would have to install Windows XP myself. It is very difficult to find a legal copy of XP here in Bangkok nowadays (pirated copies are in the stores at $3 but I want a legal copy) and Vista is crap. I have heard that Windows 7 Beta works ok on this platform, but I really don't want to have to tinker for weeks to get all the drivers working on a new computer. Having a solid state drive is cool (like in a Mac Air) but it's really not that important to me.
Last weekend I gave up on the S101 and decided on the ASUS 1002HA, which is metal like the S101 but has a 160GB hard drive and XP pre-installed.
I also looked at the latest version of the ASUS 1000 series, the 1000HG. It has the super 8000mAH battery that should let it fly for more than 9 hours (!) and a place to plug in a SIM card for 3G support. Wow! It also has a "chicklet-style" keyboard like the Macs (in Thailand, the stores have mistakenly printed their brochures to say it's a "chocolate-style" keyboard!). But the 1000 is just so chunky-looking and still has that EEEPC plastic toy appearance....even though the quality has been confirmed.
TOSHIBA
Toshiba was late to the market with their netbook offering.Their NB100 looked like my 2001 Toshiba laptop shrunk down to a netbook size. Also, the battery lasts only 2 hours.
But now they are releasing this month the NB200, which may be a killer. It has all the usual netbook features, but has a 9-hour battery and a 160 GB hard disk with an accelerometer. and it looks very classy. It's USB ports can be used to charge your phone or IPOD even if the computer is turned off, which is nice.
So right now, i'm waiting for the NB200 to appear in Bangkok.
Some other models that I had evaluated...
HP
HP's original 2133 netbook looked great, but used a Celeron processor and was so hot on the bottom that you could iron your clothes with it. Most stores have them turned off in their showrooms for that reason. And to really kill it, it came with Vista pre-installed which made to perform like maple syrup. They are coming out with an Atom/ 2140 model that looks pretty good, but I can't help remembering all the problems my colleagues have had with their HP and Compac notebooks over the years. They just seemed to fall apart. However, the keyboard on the HP's is probably the best of all netbooks.
LENOVO
The Lenovo S10 and S9 are really good looking but the battery life is below average. If it weren't for that, I probably would have one for the S9.
SAMSUNG
The NC-10 is famous for its battery life, but i'm not convinced about the build quality.
MSI
One of the original netbook leaders, but 2 hour battery life !
ACER
I have heard that you have to dis-assemble the computer (and void the warranty) just to upgrade the memory from 1 Gb to 2 GB. Also, I heard that the battery life is not that impressive.
FUJITSU
Their entry looks too plastic and toy-like. Usually I respect Fujitsu because they still manufacture in Japan.
Because they are so cheap, I have decided to get two netbooks..one for the real requirement, and one to play with (and maybe the "beach" model). Some of the original netbooks with small 20 GB SSD drives and Linux are getting really cheap...less that 7000 baht (about US $200).
If they get REALLY cheap (just before they are discontinued), I may get one and install Windows 7 (free evaluation from Microsoft until June 2010) or an optimized version of XP.
There are free utilities that lets you strip many unnecessary features from XP to a final installation size of only 700 MB and 20 second boot up time! The SSD drives are solid state so their are no moving parts. This would be almost a disposable netbook. Also, the ASUS models let you plug in an SD card with becomes part of the logical C drive. For example, the computer has a 20 GB SSD (basically flash memory) which appears as the C: drive. But if you plug in a 16 GB SD card (included free with the 901 model), you C: drive now appears as 36 GB. You can get 32 or even 64 GB SD cards nowadays, but 36 GB is more than enough for a netbook.
On the "beach" model, I may even stay with Linux (to avoid the world of viruses) and use the free Linux Office alternatives for Excel and Word.
I looked at some of the websites of US retailers...looks like they are still trying to dump the unpopular models on the public (The Asus 900, which doesn't have the Atom processor, or HP models with Vista (yuk!).
Vista is so terrible in a netbook that many computers are shipped with a XP "downgrade" pre-installed !
As usual, Asia is the place to get the latest and best hi-tech gadgets.
This is actually the back slab of patio in my back yard with a little tweaking of course.
Thanks everyone for your comments/faves, it is all appreciated.
Have a Terrific Tuesday!
my only real regret was not finding a solid alternative for that bottom. although it isn't to apparent the hole was a bit wider then needed and so the scroll wheel wiggles. none of this effects its use but with a more careful sanding of the hole and better luck finding a smaller dock connector could avoid these issues. gameplay on it is possible but the prev button was always a bit off so some games for me are a bit tricky. If i built another i'd consider finding an audio splitter that was small enough and try to run the original speaker and an audio jack out the bottom. my soldering skills are not up for this but im sure more skilled people could pull it off.
replacement firmware for ipod
and damn sexy too!
coffee.geek.nz/2006/05/08/replacement_ipod_firmware_or_ho...
One of the massive loads prepares to leave the ice road for the trip into Yellowknife. There were 2 of these rock boxes, which are 25 feet wide. The trailers are also very long, as extra axles are added to distribute the weight. Including the rig this one is an 11-axle.
VX-5 Vampires O-1C Bird Dog BuNo 140098, XE-4/5, Rockbox, Armitage Field, NAF China Lake, dated 01 Jan 1963. Official U.S. Navy photo.
I’m on the road most of the time, so I built this kit to bring my music along.
First is a modified IPOD 5.5 Generation (was called the IPOD Video when it came out in 2006). The 5.5 Gen model is the last model in which Apple used the Wolfson Digital Audio Conversion chips. In later models, they used cheaper DAC conversion and like the Beats headphones, sound quality took a back seat to fashion. I bought a few of these from a US company on Ebay that replaces the stock case with a metal body with a crinkle finish, as well as upgrading the hard disk from 80GB to 480 GB.
I replace the Apple OS with Rockbox, a free OS (www.rockbox.org) developed by music lovers that replaces the Apple OS with a more functional OS with many cool features that the stock IPOD does not have. It also eliminates the requirement of using the crappy itunes software, so I can copy music in and out of the device like I would with any external drive. I can arrange music by albums but still use playlists (but I don’t). Sorry Steve … after I buy your device, I feel that it is mine to use as I wish, without having to use Apple servers every time I wish to copy something in and out of my device. That is just stupid.
FIIO is a Chinese company that makes high quality headphone amps for very low prices. Here I use the E11 model which takes the line-out signal of the IPOD and has an output up to 850 mA. Costs only about $80.
This drives a pair of Sennheiser Momentum on-ear headphones. These have good bass punch, but clarity as well, unlike the crappy, fashion Beats. My MP3’s are no less than 320Kbps rips, and sometimes FLAC, as I have the memory space.
VX-5 Vampires O-1C Bird Dog BuNo 140098, XE-4/5, Rockbox, and VX-5 A-1H Skyraider BuNo 139731, XE-14, Armitage Field, NAF China Lake, dated 01 January 1963. Official U.S. Navy photo.
replacement firmware for ipod
and damn sexy too!
coffee.geek.nz/2006/05/08/replacement_ipod_firmware_or_ho...
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A driver checks his rig at the beginning of the ice road to the diamond mines. On the back is a shiny new 18' wide rock box for one of the big haul trucks.
Waiting at the scale in Enterprise, NWT. This is the box off a Caterpillar 793 Haul truck, enroute from the Ekati Diamond Mine to Finning in Edmonton.
She's 25 feet wide, so with just a 2 lane highway all the way to High Level, we had to be sure oncoming traffic pulled over!
After reading 'Improve your iPod with Rockbox' over at NewsForge, I decided to try Rockbox for myself, and it does indeed rock.
The iPod can now play Ogg Vorbis music files, drag-n-drop files to and from the iPod, and even play Doom.
A rock box for a Caterpillar 777 mining truck sits ready to be delivered to one of the diamond mines. At 19 feet wide, we were here to do a road closure for him to get up to the ice road.
The northern lights absolutely exploded about half an hour later, but of course by that time we were on the road, so there was nothing I could do but watch!
replacement firmware for ipod
and damn sexy too!
coffee.geek.nz/2006/05/08/replacement_ipod_firmware_or_ho...
After reading 'Improve your iPod with Rockbox' over at NewsForge, I decided to try Rockbox for myself, and it does indeed rock.
The iPod can now play Ogg Vorbis music files, drag-n-drop files to and from the iPod, and even play Doom.