Tiny little fragments of Geek

[azurelunatic]

(via theregister) Whisky PC. The Linux emulation of same, it goes without saying, should be in a wine bottle.

(via elynne) A LEGO^TM Difference Engine.

LJ will be using FCKeditor for the Rich Text editing thingy. Soon! (It stands for Frederico Caldeira Knabben, incidentally. He's the manager and maintainer of the tool.) (One of my browser tabs says "FCKed..." right now.)

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[wibbble]

Sadly, FCKeditor still doesn't support Safari, even though the Safari team made all the changes required to get it working. :o/

[azurelunatic]

FCKing editor. :(

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I have been reading a "biography" of Babbage's Engine of late. It appears that the LEGO Engine inventor ran into many of the same technical difficulties as Babbage. (Powertrain, carrying 1's, etc.) Unsurprisingly.

[azurelunatic]

Re-inventing the Difference Engine! *grin*

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

It would seem necessary. While many of the conceptual principles *might* be transferable to the new medium, LEGO has inherent limits to dimensional freedom of choice which requires reworking a lot of the detail design.