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The story of one guy’s life

via James Duncan Davidson’s blog

2006 11 14 Comments Off on The story of one guy’s life

Photosynth, a new way of seeing relations in your photo collection

I just took a glance at photosynch and am really impressed with the applications of computer vision and image processing techniques to create a really unique application. The basic idea is to take a pile of photos that are related to each other somehow (imagine taking zillions of pictures of the Taj Mahal from tons […]

2006 11 10 Comments Off on Photosynth, a new way of seeing relations in your photo collection

THE Official 8800GTX Performance Comparison

This is awesome. I won’t ruin it for you by posting more than the link. Check it out

2006 11 09 Comments Off on THE Official 8800GTX Performance Comparison

If normal biff needs some more shinyness to it..

cdbiff execute `eject’ command to eject a CD-ROM tray when mail arrives.

2006 10 27 Comments Off on If normal biff needs some more shinyness to it..

The Pied Piper of Architects (aka be careful of the wrong brain drain)

Interesting article on trying to keep your technical architects around as they are the ones that have the scars from war stories and have built up experience on leading the project in the right direction But cynically speaking, what company is ever going to see the wisdom in that. Right? I mean keeping an old […]

2006 10 22 Comments Off on The Pied Piper of Architects (aka be careful of the wrong brain drain)

David Pogue reviews the Sony Mylo

From the article… Sony may be the first company ever to depict throwing up as a way to sell electronics. Seems once again Sony missed the target market by a decent amount again. One of these days they’ll hit the right combination again. But it seems as usual, their engineers are a little out of […]

2006 10 22 Comments Off on David Pogue reviews the Sony Mylo

Getting cvsync running on cygwin

I’m trying to get cvsync running on cygwin and after looking at the homepage. There didn’t seem to be that many straightforward instructions nor is there a package in the default cygwin repository. Bummer. So I took a shot and tried downloading the tarball and compiling it. $ wget 

2006 10 14 Comments Off on Getting cvsync running on cygwin

Google Groups Beta doesn’t support page up/down or keyboard shortcuts?

I’ve been testing the new Google Groups Beta and design-wise it looks a little bit cleaner however one SERIOUS flaw is that I can’t seem to get paging to work at all. Pressing Page Up or Page Down results in no response. Okay, rtfm… Piles and piles of pages of useless docs on how to […]

2006 10 10 Comments Off on Google Groups Beta doesn’t support page up/down or keyboard shortcuts?

A social psychology model answer to why people won’t switch OSes

OSNews has an interesting article detailing why people won’t switch OSes even when there might be many technical advantages to. Definitely an interesting read. It frames the reasoning in something called the Elaboration Likelihood Model. I’ve not heard of it but then again I’m no psychologist researcher either so I guess that’s not surprising. Read […]

2006 10 07 Comments Off on A social psychology model answer to why people won’t switch OSes

Fixing SVK ‘Oh no, no more exceptions! add_directory() failed’

The Problem $ svk mirror  http://svn.somewhere.org/project //mirror/project Committed revision 1. $ svk sync //mirror/project Syncing 

2006 10 04 Comments (1)

Clinton ‘endorses’ Ubuntu

Well perhaps not the Ubuntu I associate with but close enough…

2006 10 04 Comments Off on Clinton ‘endorses’ Ubuntu

The OLPC Project finally starts showing off an implementation of their display

Can’t wait to get my hands on one (million) of them.

2006 09 18 Comments Off on The OLPC Project finally starts showing off an implementation of their display

AIBO creator’s new robot is powered by NetBSD

Very cool. Who says NetBSD is dying? Check the specs at the bottom and you’ll see NetBSD listed.. Thanks Engadget

2006 09 16 Comments (1)

Mythtv + Mysql5 + Ubuntu Dapper = Busted

A little history… I took another shot at getting mythtv setup again after trying it a few years ago and lashing myself a few times trying to get the ivtv driver patched into a mainline kernel. After a bit of work back then I got it working but times changed and I ended up using […]

2006 09 16 Comments Off on Mythtv + Mysql5 + Ubuntu Dapper = Busted

Why evil is only a matter of time

Here is one explanation why Google will eventually become evil… companies are at different stages of a standard software business model, which goes like this: build market share lock in customers profit from lock-in Read it yourself

2006 09 11 Comments Off on Why evil is only a matter of time