Eye-Fi — Frickin cool!
CleverSafe (Slashdot Article) — About time someone thought “hey, parity, back, WHOA!”…
Patent Trolls — ICK ACK FOO BAR GRRR
Order of the stick — I havent played D&D for, must be 10 years now… and I still find this strip funny on a regular basis… (though if you’ve never played dont bother… it wont make sense)
Freespire? worth thinking about. From what I’ve been told by people who’ve used it it’s a really nice OS. I wouldn’t run any servers with it, but I might give it a good try for an oldish desktop which could use a faster browser 😀 (I dont actually know if linspire browses faster than, say, XP, but it’s a decent bet)
Save the internet I wonder if anyone on the internet besides bloggers are political enough to *do* it?
note to self: read more about google calendar I have a hobby project going on that I’m thinking about using google calendar for… I’ll need to remember to read this…
speaking of politics Since I’m “growing up” (and stuff) I constantly tell myself that I should be more aware than I am about the local and global politics shaping my world… I’ve held off as long as I could, but it feels more and more like it’s time to jump in and get my feet wet… I dont know enough to do anything but make an ass out of myself, but a 3rd (major) party doesnt sound like a bad idea IMHO.
Web 2.0 getting boring? Web 2.0 should never have been *overly* exciting to anyone with a truly analytical head in the first place. It’s the natural progression. However I’m sure we’ll see the same post about this length of time after web 3.0 (which wont be called that i’m sure)… all things fade..
Scott McNealy no longer sun’s CEO I stood in a room of about 12 people once while this guy talked. He was a fairly funny guy.
speaking of getting excited about web 2.0 This is something being done which is fairly cool… It’s not pushing at any new walls, but I think it’s a good push… and I’m glad to see us re-exporing our boundaries as technology evolves. d@rw1n? hah!
no peace for the dead, even the REALLY dead…
This is, hopefully, good news as the people who write the programs that those little bastard script kiddies use are getting more and more intelligent…
On Sunday I got (sort of) a day(ish) alone at home while My wife was visiting the central valley. So I dusted off my tried and true favorite alone-time movie: The Shawshank Redemption. I dont know whnat it is about this movie, but somehow I identify with it on a very deep and moving level. I always find myself almost crying at the end (along with several points inside the actual movie itself)…
Hey… like my wife says… I’m wierd…
Whoa! Digital photographic fingerprints! Neat!
Who’d have thought that the forces of entropy were *against* the idea of anonymnity 😀 Entropy 1, Privacy 0! I wonder how long it’ll take for them to adapt this to digital video as well. Theoretically you would also see a uniform variation even when the background image was changing. Like having a cobweb on your TV.
A comic take (pun intended):
MOM! Kodak left fingerprints all over my images… and Cannon left the toilet seat up again!
I guess all those young pervs will have to stop taking candid shots of their sisters 😉
DK
I thought the movie was VERY good. There were parts which were a bit too gory… but it was a horror movie. All in all it’s the best horror movie I’ve seen in a long time. I recommend it.
What I dont recommend is going and seeing the movie with the 8 people who randomly sat in front of us. Every 30 seconds it was f**** this/that or oh f**** or sh** or any number of other curse words… annoying to say the least. Once we got the manager in to talk to them, though, they quieted down and my Wife and I got to enjoy the last 3/4 of the movie in peace.
Cheers
DK
It’s really amazing, when you stop to think about it. Try this little experiment: Go for a drive and spot all the traffic signs that you can find.
First, notice how long after you looked at each sign it took for your brain to realize it was a traffic sign. I bet that each recognition took an amount of time so small as tobe nearly unmeasurable.
Second, notice how many signs you saw. Different sizes, shapes, colors, words, meanings.
The point of this experiment is to bring a stark appreciation to the amount of data that you can process, visually, as well as the speed with which you store and retrieve dat. It’s truly amazing that you can distinguis these different objects, which have nothing physical in common just an abstract meaning and so readily classify them.
If you are still looking at me blankly, try this: write down a set of instructions that a 2 year old could follow to determine whether anything visual is a traffic sign in any condition. Just try and account for Stop, Yeild, Street Name, No parking, Carpool, Highway migh markers, no stopping, no parking, u turn, no u turn, right turn only, and those signs which are painted on the ground which are innevitably half covered in rubber… You begin to see the complexity of the situation now? Begin to appreciate how easily your brain can classify such data so readily?
It’s really quite fantastic!
Well here I am in bed, and I have to say that scott was right. The reason you get a small notebook (in this case an ibook 12″) is so that you can, reflexively, pick it up and waltz around the house with it at will.
I’ve been doing this recently, and It’s great. It’s light, not clunky, and I dont use *any* accessories with it. I pick it up and go… and… I *DO*.
I’d used notebooks in the past, but always the 17″ “desktop replacement” notebooks. The funny thing about the deskttop replacement notebooks is that that’s EXACTLY what they became! I would sit the thing on the desk and hook up all kinds of attachments to it, and it would never… ever… move. Unless it *had* to move, and then I grumbled about it constantly because things werent as I remembered it, or expected it, or wanted it.
I have a lot of stuff to work out, such as the idea of storing my mail/firefox/IM preferences in a version control system for a simple commit/update/go of my “important” stuff. For this it would be nice to have a RCS which actively manages all files in a directory. I hear Git (?) does this, and I *know* subversion doesnt… perhaps I’ll explore this idea a little bit more.
I’ve also looked a bit at dogster, and It doesnt seem to have any of the “active” social stuff for dogs and their owners, more passive/presteige (SP) type stuff. I’ll keep looking, and perhaps make something myself if I dont find anything worthwhile.
Anyhow
Cheers
DK
Back home from the inlaws… Unfortunately I tried to read in the passenger seat on the way up… I still get motion sickness… Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!
Anyhow. It’s *still* great to be back… even with an upset tummy.
DK
Since we’ve gotten our puppy son my wife and I ahve become quite the budding dog enthusiasts. We’ve been taking him to the dog park in fremont as often as possible; and as concerned parents we’ve been paying close attention to everything. One thing that we’ve noticed is that puppies have friends and BEST friends. Our puppy ESPECIALLY likes to play with Dancer, and Sinbad to name just two. This got me thinking (as things usually do) about how to give back to the doggy community AND make life better for myself. I got around to coming up with an idea for a web service
You create profiles for your pets, participate in discussions, and actively keep a schedule of your dog plans. This allows you to check up and see when your puppies favorite pals will be at the park next and meet up with them.
Of course that wouldnt be the limit of what you could do, or how it could strengthen the community. Assuming that if I build it they will come. And if it were made universal enough (and I have enough experience with large scale web apps to make it so) it could be made to, without any special work, be usable by any group of enthusiasts in any area of the country (world)
Could be big. I’ll chew on the thought some more.
Cheers
So, in noticing general trends, I seem to have uncovered an (in retrospect) obvious link between cheap routers, port forwards, and network disconnects.
It seems that, on a cheap router, if you have X port forwards you are increasingly likely to have random disconnects and such (especially with wifi) as X increases…
so if your internet throughput is crappy. you’re experiencing ertratic ping times, and getting lots of crappy disconnects… try removing all your port forwards… seems to9 really work. My best guess is that theres just not enough cpu/ram to maintain the tcp stream states.