* Posts by Walt Leipold

7 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2009

Sail HO! Look out Bay Area - it's the Google Galleon

Walt Leipold

"Wilmington", yes...

...but not the one in the Carolinas. Wilmington, Delaware (on a different river) is home to many corporations, because of Delaware's corporate governance laws. We used to be the "Chemical Capital of the World", too, back when that phrase didn't creep people out.

Google preps Chrome password-blab bug fix

Walt Leipold

But Firefox has a "Timeout master password" feature that keeps miscreants at bay (if the user has set a master password). It also requires the user to RE-enter his master password to view passwords.

3D printed guns are for wimps. Meet NASA's 3D printed ROCKET ENGINE

Walt Leipold

Re: "3D-printed parts"

"Look, come on, isn't this just an inferior version of CAM or CNC processes, which have been in mainstream industrial use for decades?"

Ummm, no. Additive manufacturing can make parts with complex inner geometries (hidden passageways and so forth) in a single pass. That's why the latest injector design only contained two parts, rather than the 115 parts of the original design.

Jack Vance: Science fiction’s master of magic, mischief and sex

Walt Leipold

RIP Jack

Thanks for the pointers to JackVance.com and sfgateway -- I just bought a bunch of DRM-free books, including the Gaean Reach and Lyonesse novels.

Jack Vance has always been one of my top-10 favorite authors. I coveted the VIE for years, but couldn't come up with the money, so I've been rereading and re-rereading my old 60s paperbacks. Looking forward to curling up with the eBooks...

Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet creator Gerry Anderson dies at 83

Walt Leipold
Unhappy

"Ready, Venus?"

"OK, Steve."

"Right. Let's go!"

Fireball XL-5 was the *best* show in the universe! (At least to my seven-year-old eyes back in 1962.) But I was convinced that "supermarionation" had something to do with cooking (because, you know, "marination"...).

Emotional baggage

Walt Leipold

Targus Drifter II

Well built, roomy, lots of pockets and padding, separate padded laptop compartments, and comfortable straps. Easily holds a 16"+ laptop, a couple of tablets, two books, an umbrella, two power bricks, several dozen adapters and cables, and all the other essential detritus of everyday life.

I was surprised how nice this bag is. Only $57 on Amazon.

Firefox 3.7 swivels glassy eye

Walt Leipold
FAIL

What, no menus?

Where's the friggin' menu bar? Pointless eye candy, but harder to get to the functions I need. Guess I'll have to try Chrome. Thanks, Mozilla!