{"id":2111,"date":"2011-08-31T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:38:22","slug":"odd-lots-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Does anybody here use true peer-to-peer chat? I don&#8217;t use chat much, and when I do it&#8217;s with a very small number of people, typically one-to-one. By peer-to-peer I mean via direct connect from one IP to another, without intermediation at the server level, as with things like Trillian, Skype, Jabber, etc. I know that WASTE does this, though I&#8217;ve never tried it. What else might work? I don&#8217;t want to mount a new server if I can avoid it.<\/li>\n<li>New research suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S002604951000329X\" target=\"_blank\">low-salt diets increase insulin resistance<\/a>&#8211;and thus propel otherwise healthy people toward diabetes. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fat Head<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/news\/2011\/08\/amazons-tablet-will-be-androids-white-knight.ars\" target=\"_blank\">More on Amazon&#8217;s rumored Android tablet<\/a>. Print Replica (as I discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2110\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s entry<\/a>) has almost nothing to do with it.<\/li>\n<li>Note well: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/08\/31\/sony-tablet-s-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony&#8217;s new tablet<\/a> is not really sideload-able, since the device cannot render content directly from an inserted SD card. You have to copy all material from the card to internal storage. Also, the weird cross-section makes it almost inescapably a landscape machine. No thanks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/4dcgi\/_w_articles_wsite4_1_03\/01\/2011_371555\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting short piece<\/a> on the <em>other<\/em> Delphi&#8211;as in, Oracle of.<\/li>\n<li>For those who asked: The 400W power supply I just bought for my Core 2 Quad is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antec.com\/Believe_it\/product.php?id=MjI0NCYxMQ==\">the Antec Neo Eco 400C<\/a>. So far&#8230;love it!<\/li>\n<li>Having sold out all the TouchPads there were at fire-sale prices, HP now intends to&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/h20435.www2.hp.com\/t5\/The-Next-Bench-Blog\/More-TouchPads-on-the-Way\/ba-p\/68749\" target=\"_blank\">make some more<\/a>. Something flaky here: Lose a little money on each sale, and make it up in volume? Doesn&#8217;t add up&#8230;unless it was a slick and risky attempt to build a demand base.<\/li>\n<li>Didn&#8217;t know this before: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5835415\/why-you-should-never-save-a-jpeg-as-a-7-in-photoshop\" target=\"_blank\">Setting a .jpg to quality setting 7 in Photoshop degrades the image&#8217;s quality<\/a>. Stay at 6&#8211;or bump to 8.<\/li>\n<li>How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/homeoffice\/kitchen\/e845\/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150349963625236_19154548_10150351105010236\" target=\"_blank\">Han Solo Carbonite Slab ice cubes<\/a>? Brilliant gimmick, though I wonder (given that the product is marked as &#8220;unavailable&#8221;) if they&#8217;re really out of stock or just didn&#8217;t close the deal with Lucasfilm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anybody here use true peer-to-peer chat? I don&#8217;t use chat much, and when I do it&#8217;s with a very small number of people, typically one-to-one. By peer-to-peer I mean via direct connect from one IP to another, without intermediation at the server level, as with things like Trillian, Skype, Jabber, etc. I know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[15,39,44,43,110],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-hardware","tag-health","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}