Rico-san's photostream  

A resize and crop of a huge, 6000x6000 pixel photo I found of a composite of images from orbit of Earth.

Actual pictures of our Pale Blue Dot, not taken by me (most likely NASA/APOD). Unfortunately, I can't find the source, but the original filename is Earth6k-01.tif, so if anyone knows where to find the 6000x6000 source, let me know!

Cropped and resized to fit on dual 1920x1080 displays. Enjoy!

I recently acquired a Late 2006 Mac Mini for $200, a pretty good price. Unfortunately, it was a Core Duo model, under the requirement cutoff for 10.7 Lion. I managed to salvage a Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16GHz processor from a dead 2006 iMac (bad GPU), and decided to undergo a processor transplant.

The processor on the Mini is a socketable processor, so upgrading was decenty easy. Once the new processor was in, the hard part began: installing Lion.

I installed Lion to an external drive plugged into my 2010 MacBook Pro (supported Lion machine), updated to 10.7.2, deleted the file /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist, then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the external drive over to the Mini's internal drive. The Mini will boot from the Lion external drive with no problems. After cloning, the Mini was able to boot from the internal drive running Lion!

New "About this Mac" window in Lion. I really like the computer icon and the summary. Way better presentation than Snow Leopard.

(Serial # blanked out, you know how it is.)

Humans vs. Zombies: Zombpocalypse 2011

May 10th-20th, 2011, Athens OH.

The end is near. Are you ready?

Panorama of my desk with the newly acquired ThinkPad T61. Thank you, university surplus auction, for a perfectly good second laptop.

The panorama was taken with AutoStitch on my iPhone 4, thus the softness and lack of detail. Will take a better pano later.