{"id":3341,"date":"2015-02-02T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:44:55","slug":"odd-lots-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Big, big news today: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale\/\" target= \"_blank\">The Raspberry Pi foundation is now shipping the rumored Raspberry Pi 2 board<\/a>. (What this means in practical terms is that all your usual suppliers are sold out.) Will write more once I learm more, but geddaloadadis: Quad 900 MHz Cortex A7 CPU, plus a full gigabyte of RAM. And the sleeper, which is still tying my head in knots: The foundation has cut a deal with Microsoft to provide a version of Windows 10 that will run on the RPi2. The cost? <em>Free<\/em>. No more details than that right now, but I&#8217;ll be watching it closely. (Thanks to Bob Fegert for alerting me. Twitter has already earned its keep.)<\/li>\n<li>Update: The new Windows 10 deal with the RPi community is part of Microsoft&#8217;s larger strategy on the Internet of Things, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.windows.com\/en-us\/featured\/raspberrypi2support\" target=\"_blank\">will be available without charge through the Windows Developer Program for IoT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Strickland sends a link to <a href= \"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=774\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft BASIC for 6502, in assembly<\/a>. This is from 1978, and the oldest publicly available source code written by Bill Gates. The interpreter exists for the COSMAC 1802 as well, and I may still have it somewhere. It&#8217;s on paper tape, and I think in a metal 35mm film can. This was a great use for 35mm film cans, back when there were 35mm film cans, and paper tape to put in them.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wired<\/em>&#8216;s vulcanologist Erik Klemetti has <a href= \"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/volcanoes-create-towering-columns-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\">a fascinating article on how magma forms hexagonal pillars<\/a> a la Devil&#8217;s Postpile and Giant&#8217;s Causeway in Northern Ireland. These figure in the yet-unbegun novella prequel to <em>The Cunning Blood<\/em>, so it was nice to get some science on them.<\/li>\n<li>If you liked the Panjundrum (see my <a href= \"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3327\" target=\"_blank\">Odd Lots for January 29, 2015<\/a>) <a href= \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pD_yQZ4iNjY\" target=\"_blank\">you will love this thing, whatever they call it<\/a>: It&#8217;s a Panjundrum that <em>flies<\/em>. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>UPDATE: One of my readers just wrote to tell me that it&#8217;s called a &#8220;girandola.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Yes, this is short for an Odd Lots, but I wanted to get notice out on the RPi2 sooner than tomorrow or the next day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big, big news today: The Raspberry Pi foundation is now shipping the rumored Raspberry Pi 2 board. (What this means in practical terms is that all your usual suppliers are sold out.) Will write more once I learm more, but geddaloadadis: Quad 900 MHz Cortex A7 CPU, plus a full gigabyte of RAM. And the [&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":[32],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}