Kanok's Balcony http://kanok.net/blog The place where I talk to the net Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:25:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 CM 6… Android on Steorid http://kanok.net/blog/2010/07/02/cm-6-android-on-steorid/ http://kanok.net/blog/2010/07/02/cm-6-android-on-steorid/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:25:49 +0000 KC http://kanok.net/blog/2010/07/02/cm-6-android-on-steorid/ Most Android geek knows what Cyanogenmod is. and how good it is. It is a series of Android rom modification which add lots of function that the stock rom lacks.

The CM 6 which based on Froyo is on Alpha test now. Expect to release the final soon.

Posted from WordPress for Android on Nexus One

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โครงการ Space Shuttle จะเหลือ mission อีก 2 ครั้งก่อนที่โครงการนี้จะปิดฉากลงอย่างเป็นทางการ  ทาง NASA มีโครงการที่จะให้ชาวเนทได้มีส่วนร่วมเป็นครั้งสุดท้ายโดยการส่งรูปตัวเองไปกับ Space Shuttle

http://faceinspace.nasa.gov

เวปนี้จะให้เราเลือกส่งรูปไปกับ Mission อันใดอันหนึ่ง  โดยที่สุดท้ายเราจะได้เลข ID มาเพื่อพิมพ์ certificate หลังจากที่ mission นั้นเสร็จสิ้นแล้ว

ครั้งนี้ไม่ได้เป็นครั้งแรกที่ทางโครงการอวกาศเปิดให้คนทั่วไปได้มีส่วนร่วมอย่างนี้  อย่างเช่นการส่งชื่อไปกับยาน Kepler ซึ่งไปโคจรรอบดวงอาทิตย์  (blog post เดิม ที่นี่)  หรือการส่งภาพ scan ลายเซ็นไปกับยาน Cassini ไปยังดาวเสาร์ (อ่านต่อ ที่นี่)

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The highlight of this year will be iPhone 4G which many have seen the pre-unofficial release last month already.

For Thai users may have to wait 2-3 months.

— Post from Nexus One

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]]> http://kanok.net/blog/2010/06/06/apple-event/feed/ 2 The Unresistable Command http://kanok.net/blog/2010/06/02/the-unresistable-command/ http://kanok.net/blog/2010/06/02/the-unresistable-command/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:42:51 +0000 KC http://kanok.net/blog/2010/06/02/the-unresistable-command/ im-bg-voice-darthvader

If the Supreme Command of the Empire commands you to turn right, can you resist?  Now Tom Tom has voice option when navigate to choose.  The newest one is Darth Vader voice.  The Dark Lord of the Sith himself will direct you to turn right at the corner or to stop when you reach your ‘destiny’.

It cost $12.95 to have him on the back seat of your car.  And for the Rebel, C3-PO, Yoda and Han Solo will come soon.  For me I’m more interested in R2-D2 one.

Voice samples are here.

The YouTube video is behind the scene of the voice recording!!

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Guess what it is?

This is 5MB HDD!!!

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).  The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.

Currie Munce, research vice president for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (which has acquired IBM’s hard disk drive business), stated in a Wall Street Journal interview[5] that the RAMAC unit weighed over a ton, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes. According to Munce, the storage capacity of the drive could have been increased beyond five megabytes, but IBM’s marketing department at that time was against a larger capacity drive, because they didn’t know how to sell a product with more storage.

Start appreciating your 4 GB memory stick!

More about IBM 305 RAMAC from Wikipedia here

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Two photos but the same feeling.  Who will think that the photo we saw on Sep 11 at NYC happen in BKK.  Even more, this caused by Thai people.

9-11-16
NYC 9-11
X9273453-1157
BKK 5-19
Photo:jomjonbupa@pantip

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Every year, people all over Bangkok come to see the New Year Light display at CTW.

But the light we saw at CTW this afternoon was different.

We will not remember you as it happen today, but we will remember you when you were in your most beautiful of your life.

Until we meet again.

IMG_5686 IMG_5772

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  • 1.5 (Cupcake) Based on Linux Kernel 2.6.27
  • 1.6 (Donut) Based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29
  • 2.0/2.1 (Eclair) Based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29

Google usually has plastic of the released Android version display at the yard in front of Android office.   Within several days, the new version was released.   Last week, there is a report that a new Frozen Yogurt sculpture display at the yard.

So we can expect Android 2.2 soon.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted of for the last time in a 12 day mission to International Space Station.  There are 2 more mission after this to service ISS with Space Shuttle Discovery and the final Shuttle mission on Space Shuttle Endeavour which will conclude NASA Space Shuttle program.

220px-Atlantis_is_landing_after_STS-30_missionSpace Shuttle program was dated back to early 1970s after Apollo program to the moon with the idea of reusable spacecraft that lift off like an rocket and landing like a airplane.  The first flight was lunched on 1981.  Almost 30 years later all 130+ but 2 mission are success.  The only accidents are with Challenger during lunch and Columbia during descend.  When Endeavour lunch and land later this year, it will be 134th shuttle mission to space.

After the mission has concluded, The Shuttle Discovery has already been promised to the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Air and Space Museum, and Atlantis, Endeavour, and Enterprise are planned to be sold to other education institutions or museums for $28.8 million each. 

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