http://www.darryl-ramm.com Musings about technology and other interests Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:57:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting late 2010 the PowerFLARM traffic awareness and collision avoidance product will be available. This will be the first FLARM product available in the USA. Flarm is well proven technology overseas and this is very interesting for glider-on-glider and glider-on-towplane collision avoidance in the USA. The PowerFLARM dimensions are Width: ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2010/08/build-your-own-powerflarm-paper-model/ I get totally fed up with spam and by companies and organizations that overuse email to the point that their messaging just becomes spam noise. I killed my facebook account because of what looked like a bug in the Facebook email system that just pounded repeat emails at me. And ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2010/07/uptous-more-spamming-crap/ [This is a manual repost of an article posted previously but lost when I moved my blog] I am no longer on FaceBook and I do not want to receive any invites. I've was getting frequet  email spam from FaceBook reminding me to accept friend invitations  - repeat emails for invites ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/11/no-longer-on-facebook/ [This is a manual repost of an article posted previously but lost when I moved my blog] I have been putting off upgrading this blog from WordPress 2.1 but I wanted to play with the WordPress for iPhone application so had to bite the bullet and upgrade to get XML-RPC support ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/11/upgrading-wordpress-2-1-to-2-8/ I just upgraded the disk drive on my early 2008 MacBook Pro today to 0.5 TB 7200 rpm drive. Oh I remember my first disk drive was a 20 MB winchester on a DEC LSI-11/23. I also remember carrying around DEC RL-05 disks. I was running out of disk space ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/06/05-tb-disk-upgrade-for-macbook-pro-17/ Oh I really hope they are screwed. http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/06/iran-social-media-at-its-best/ I was looking at the Apple Macbook Pro updates announced at the recent 2009 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. The MacBook Pro reduction in I/O connectivity is getting depressing. The 15" and 13" models get an SD card slot but they do so at the expense of an ExpressCard/34 slot. I ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/06/new-macpowerbooks-1984-newspeak-on-sd-card-slots/ Schemp-Hirth is developing the new Arcus, a 20m flapped two seat glider based on the Duo Discus. I love the Duo Discus and the Arcus  looks very interesting. Schemp-Hirth say the airfoil for the Arcus is developed by Dr. Werner Würz and others contributed to the modified planform and winglets. ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/04/schempp-hirth-arcus-vs-duo-discus/ This is some very obvious Monday morning quarterbacking. But I am extremely negative about Sun Microsystems. I think Sun's board is crazy for not taking the IBM $7B acquisition offer.  Maybe they think they can pull something better off, but it is hard to think who that suitor could be ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/04/sun-and-ibm/ I gave a talk on February 28th on FAI Badges at Williams Soaring as a part of the Valley Soaring Association winter seminar series. Here are the slides in PDF format. I repeated this talk with slightly updated slides, at a Bay Area Soaring Associates (BASA) meeting on March 26th. Here ... http://www.darryl-ramm.com/2009/03/fai-badge-talk/