You can't Fight in Here, This is the War Room.

Checkout the control panel for a 1960 Atlas missile launch.  The one in the back seems as if it's still in shrink wrap.  This looks like it could have been from a 1970s sci-fi movie set.  Sharp and clean with great lights.  Today, I imagine it would be a large flat screen touch surface LCD display.


"Don't mess."

via LIFE: Technicians working in the Launch Contro... - Hosted by Google

IBM Online 1975

Let IBM make your business BOLDER by taking it ONLINE in 1975. Great window in time forms with this slide deck of actual photographic slides, not a PowerPoint file, advising the viewer that a "Data Base" will provide accurate data quickly.

It's funny how the whole thing reminds me of Colossus: The Forbin Project.

via IBM Slides at Square America

Ear OS: I'm liking this flavor of Linux:

Linux.com :: New media center OS is pleasing to the eye and ear

This was the first distro / remaster I've tested in a vm and ran jack
with no xruns at 46ms latency (all default settings). That was enough
to keep my interest to play more. I've since put it on a test machine
with a Delta 1010lt which it found and configured with no problem. I
suspect this could make a good daw os without much fussing.

If I had a faster machine (AMD +2000) I could be styling running Reaper
under wineasio (installed just fine). I get no xruns, but the Reaper
process climbs over 60% CPU utilization and starts to stutter even with
the simdock closed. I would imagine Ardour users would have much better
luck on my hardware.




Acoustic Reality is a Danish company that sells speakers, amplifiers, storage devices, cables, and other products to build top-shelf home entertainment centers. It recently released eAR OS Free Edition, a free media center system built on top of Ubuntu that features a free version of the Acoustic Reality software technology used in the $100 eAR RT-OS Enterprise Edition and in the company's hardware Media 4 products. It provides a user-friendly media center along with a nice implementation of Ubuntu.