Okay so we survived to breathe in the wonderful world that is Star trek for yet another day.  Yay!  We heard from a wide variety of actors today, including the most enigmatic and bold Malcom McDowell (Soran), Suzie Plakson (K’ehleyr & Q), Jolene Blalock (T’Pol), Nichelle Nichols (Uhuru) & Geroge Takei (Sulu) together, and Conneor Trinneer (Trip), Dominic Keating (Malcom), Anthony Montgomery (Travis) together as well on stage.

Although others may differ in opinion, my personal favorite was "The Boys of Enterprise", Connor, Dominic & Anthony.  They were extremely humorous together, and you could definitely tell there was a tight camaraderie remaining from their filming days on Enterprise.  I also enjoyed the ease at which Nichelle and George dealt with the huge crowd, and were very graceful about answering questions that they had no doubt been answering for dozens of years   Malcolm McDowell was the only minor disappointment I experienced today, as he was generally short and somewhat dismissive with guest questions and comments.  This doesn’t change my opinion that he is a great actor, but just busy and somewhat smug with his celebrity status.

Aside from all that, Andy and I have met a great deal of wonderful and very creative people that have taken painstaking time and patience to create some of the most original costumes I had seen to date.  Many of them span the various Star Trek universe areas, such as StarFleet, Klingon, Andorian, and some that defy description!  Pictured below are a few from the past few days:

Stay tuned for Day 4!!  Lots of GOOD stuff to come!  Lets see some comments

“Another company is preparing to sell Intel-based computers that can run Apple’s Mac OS X. But unlike Psystar, a Florida clone maker that’s been sued by Apple, Open Tech won’t pre-install the operating system on its machines. Open Tech’s Home (equipped with an Intel dual-core Pentium processor, 3GB of memory, an nVidia GeForce 8600 CT video card and a 500GB hard drive) and XT (which includes an Intel Core 2 quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, an nVidia GeForce 8800 video card and a 640GB drive) machines will sell for $620 and $1,200, respectively. Open Tech is prepared to do battle with Apple if it comes after Open Tech. ‘We definitely would defend this,’ said [Open Tech spokesman] Tom. ‘The only possible case that Apple can make, the only one that has any chance, would be based on the end-user licensing agreement.’”

This is pretty late news but just an update.

Apple is expected to update their Macbooks as well as their Macbook Pros with the new Intel Penryn chips. There is also an increase of ram as well as hard drive space. It has been rumored that Apple is working on new aluminum MacBook Pro designs that will adopt features of the current iMac and MacBook Air

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Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware

While this is an interesting read from Network World, it’s not a slam dunk win for Linux because there are just a few too many caveats in the test bed for the Linux test. So instead of the goal to compare “apples to apples”, when you really dig in and look at the results what you’ve got is trying to compare a Red Delicious to a Granny Smith. I’ll let you decide who’s ‘delicious’ and who’s ‘granny’

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Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%. But we must note that our results are full of stipulations imposed by our test bed, and as the more truthful car advertisements might warn — your wattage may vary.

The fastest supercomputer in the world, nicknamed “Roadrunner”, is made from commercial parts and it runs Fedora.

In total, Roadrunner connects 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron procs as well as 12,240 Cell procs (on IBM Model QS22 blade servers). The Roadrunner system has 98 terabytes of memory, and is housed in 278 refrigerator-sized racks occupying 5,200 square feet. Its 10,000 connections – both Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet — require 55 miles of fiber optic cable. Roadrunner weighs 500,000 lbs.

Besides that link above to the high level specs, this PDF has much more detail you might find interesting including the memory hierarchy and the software stack.