So I know that I haven’t been posting anything programming related for a while, and that’s mostly because I’ve been working on boring projects, so instead you get a random thought.

So anyway, It occurred to me that with the coming widespread use of nanotechnology to create and replicate things that the value of the original item for being an original is moot. For example if you can use nanotechnology to recreate a famous painting atom by atom then the original painting cannot be differentiated from the copies. they would be in essence perfect copies. More so, since you are creating the copy atom by atom then you can also defeat methods such as carbon dating, which works be determining the proportion of carbon isotopes to each other in a sample. However if your building something from individual atoms you can control this ration by doping the construction materials with the appropriate levels of isotopes. At that point every crack in the painting (craquelure), the carbon dating age and the appearance of the copy would be the exact same. and since the copy and the original are Identical to each other down to the atomic makeup there would be no way to tell them apart. thus nanotechnology will destroy the antiquities market by making it impossible to determine if what your paying millions for is an original Rembrandt or merely a nanoforged copy…

Between college classes (Algorithm and Data-structures, calculus and analytical geometry, statistics, and eng 101) and work, I’ve been swamped and haven’t really gotten the chance to work on anything nifty in the programming world. I’ve managed to start reading Mono: A Developer’s Notebook which has been an interesting read.I’ve also started to build up some of my internet properties so they aren’t going to waste, which is taking some time (I’ve collected a lot of domain names). I’m hoping to get back to doing updates at least weekly sometime soon, so check back sometime this week for the regular update.

Ok, everybody. Code segments should be back up. Switched to a new plugin for code handling, had to update all of the articles that used some features of the old one. so anyways everything should be back up.

for everybody showing up looking for the code segments. my plugin that handles code has been updated and apparently something changed, so for right now code samples are probably all screwed up.

Please be patient I’m working on resolving this.

Acer Timeline AS3810T-6415 13.3 [non-working link removed] Specifications:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
Graphics: Intel GMA 4500MHD (shared system memory)
Display: 13.3inch HD LED LCD
RAM: 4GB ddr3
Hard Drive: 500 GB Toshiba MK5055GSX
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet, blue-tooth, 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n

First of all for all I must say the battery life on this computer is absolutely amazing, even when programming in visual studio or taking notes for class or watching you-tube videos, it definitely lives up to its 8 hour batter claims. I’ve managed to run highly resource intensive programs (brute force project euler solutions) that took around 4 hours to run and kept one of the cores at 100% utilization for the whole duration and after the program finished I still had the battery life to look at the results and verify them and start working on the next challenge.

The 3810t came with Windows Vista Home Premium, and claims a 3.2 in the Windows Experience Index due to the graphics card. Over all it is quit usable, with vista performing as smoothly as one can expect vista to run and only slowing slightly on intensive multitasking.

As for the Linux side of things, there are a few problems with suspend/resume, the Ethernet card, and sound. I tried both jaunty and jaunty with kernel 2.6.30 and both had issues. Powertop claims that the battery will last 7 hours under Linux. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days.

There are also several cheaper versions available, but I wouldn’t recommend a single core processor/vista combo.

So if it sounds like something you’d be interested in click here to check out the amazon page.