Silicon Art

This is really cool. Over at Silicon Zone you can find some images found on processors.

I find it amazing how small these things are, you have to use a high powered-microscope just to see it. Even more amazing is the fact that chip builders would put these images on processors in the first place.

Daffy Duck

Where’s Waldo?

Tasmanian Devil

The Space Shuttle

Dilbert

External Hard Drive

After a couple of hard-drive failures I decided to get an external hard drive. I bought an external Coolmax CD-310-U2 series. It does not come with a hard drive but instead allows you to put your own hard drive in it. It connects to your computer via a USB connection. Being a hard drive junky, I like to have a couple of hard drives kicking around that hold my data. You can use any 3.5” IDE HDD (ATA66/100/133). (It does NOT support SATA hard drives.) It is quite easy to setup, all you do is plug in a formatted hard drive (set to master or default) into the case then close up the case and you are up and running. I then downloaded SyncToy for Windows XP and am using that to synchronize directories from my computer to the external hard drive. SyncToy was originally created to synchronize pictures across different machines. The only thing that I found that I wish it supported was the ability to synchronize just the files in a directory without scanning the subdirectories. So if you have files in you’re My Documents directory that you want synchronized, you have to synchronize the entire My Documents directory and subdirectories or copy the files to another folder. I ended up copying the files to a My Docs folder under My Documents. This is a little annoying but doable.