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Comment Just have a break. (Score 1) 783

by nickgrieve on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @02:34AM (#29893781) Attached to: Moving Away From the IT Field?

After 10 years in IT I quit and went to Culinary School. I am now back in IT. Cooking for a job sucks. Mornings at your own pace, checking emails with a coffee and a pastry is not that bad. Just take some time off IT, and do something totally not IT.

I scaled back from working all hours in a full on job for a film and TV production studio, everything was mission critical...

Now I am a senior technician in a small town outfit, my skills from past life in a high pressure bleeding edge job help me every day. You'd be surprised at how fulfilling just dropping back a peg or two can be.

Comment Re:1 Question (Score 5, Funny) 226

by nickgrieve on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @04:31AM (#27309027) Attached to: NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever

Metric, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Comment USB and ZFS (Score 1) 487

by nickgrieve on Friday June 13, 2008 @10:32PM (#23788195) Attached to: What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives?

100 USB to IDE cables (maximum of 126 devices that can be connected to the same bus), and ZFS.

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by samuel_proby on Thursday May 10, 2007 @05:19AM

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An Origami Lens for Your Camera Phone? 69

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @06:27PM from the interesting-folds dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an 'origami lens' which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with photos taken with a compact camera lens with a 38 millimeter focal length. In a few years, these bendable lenses could be used in high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications."

Journal Journal: Subject (This is required)

Journal by nickgrieve on Sunday September 12, 2004 @11:55PM

Tits

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