After the stress of the last couple of days, just thinking about being on the water is a good thing. Some actual time on the water looks mighty appealing. Click the link or the picture. #crystalcoast http://ow.ly/ol7lD
The picture attached to the post was taken in September 2003 when Apple first shipped its G5 super computer for the desktop.
The picture is System X, the first first large cluster of Apple’s computers.
By the winter of 2003 it would be ranked near the top of the world’s super computers for a short time. This was perhaps close to the high point for Apple’s involvement in super computers.
The G5 desktop version of System X became a bookend pretty quickly in the winter of 2003 because of non-ECC memory. I intervened at the behest of people from Va. Tech and Apple which had just prepared an on campus video of System X for Steve Jobs to use in the January 2004 MacWorld agreed to take back the G5s desktops and replace them with G5 powered Xserves later that year.
My efforts to help Va. Tech might have been the straw that cost me my job.
You can read more in an excerpt from my book, The Pomme Compay, at Huffington Post.
My article on Apple’s New MacPro, Coming To A Theater Near You: Apple’s Last Gasp At A Pro Computer, is available at ReadWrite.
Amazon deal on paper copies of our 2013 Emerald Isle Travel Guide $8.83- 156 pages, 80 pictures, 12 maps & 10 recipes http://ow.ly/odoxR
Only by living life and raising a family can you appreciate what your parents did for you http://ow.ly/obGUp
The Quest For My Red Drum #fishing http://ow.ly/oaAB0
The saga of how I caught Red Drum fever.
The variety of fun things is so great and the weather changes so often, it is hard to be rained out here on the Southern Outer Banks. #CrystalCoast http://ow.ly/o6JrU
I’m thinking you need either well-heeled parents or a good job before heading off to college #college http://ow.ly/nPsmH
College can be what you make of it, just like a walk on the beach.
Along the Crystal Coast we expect it to be warm in August. However, fall-like blue skies are unusal. Read more on how we cope with the heat by clicking the picture or the link. #crystalcoast http://ow.ly/nOZrz
There was a five to six foot long alligator swimming around in Raymond’s Gut. This link http://ow.ly/i/2QcTE is a close-up of his head.
The summer of 2013 has been spectacular along the strand of sand that stretches from Ocracoke Island through Carteret County. For more details click the link or the picture. #SOBX http://ow.ly/nK74N
Our technological infirmity 