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Twitter-like Post: State of the Web – Summer 2008
Someone with a bit of artistic creativity has decided to create an illustrated view of all the big news of the year. I like it so much, I can’t wait to see his work no Fall 2008 and so on. Check it out, here.
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On LinuxToday a few days ago
Once again I was pretty excited to find that I had been aggregated onto LinuxToday for this blog post. The funny thing is that I almost didn’t make that blog post as I was contemplating it for over a week and usually if I wait that long, the blog post doesn’t get written.
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I was dugg!
For what I think is the first time, I was dugg for my Xfce article!
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Twitter-like Post: A look into Cornell’s Past
I am just sharing this because it’s about my alma mater, it’s a little funny in a geeky way, and I like Mark’s blog. Check out this story about CIT and Cornell labs.
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Twitter-like Post: Uninstalling BitTorrent
I’m uninstalling BitTorrent 5.0.9 from my Windows computer because every time the computer starts up, if I don’t exit from the program, all of my internet-related programs lose their connections. This is way too misbehaved and I’m sick of it. I’m moving to Transmission or one of the other ones that aren’t crap. I can’t…
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Flock keeps getting more and more useful!
At this rate, I’ll never be able to kick the Flock habit. Ever since, as I blogged before, they fixed their problem with stuttering YouTube videos, I’ve been able to use Flock for my main Windows browser day-in and day-out. Now they’ve added even more features! First of all, I think it’s neat that they’ve…
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History Meme
[emesa@mario ~]$ uname -a Linux mario.mushroomkingdom 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [emesa@mario ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head 176 ls 172 eog 81 ./makeSpiral.pl 80 cd 61 ./makefibonaccicollage.pl 58 mplayer 51 ./makePolar.pl 36 mv 28 flickr_views.py 24…
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Microsoft DRM Metldown Redux
As I mentioned here, Micro$oft has provided yet another example of why digital restrictions management does nothing but hurt legitimate consumers. To remind you, this is when Microsoft turned off the servers for its ironically named “playsforsure” DRM system. These songs, which consumers would told, would play for sure on any digital media player containing…
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On LinuxToday Yesterday
Yesterday, to my surprise, when I went to LinuxToday, I found that I had been aggregated! For those (like my wife) who don’t know what this means, it’s more or less the equivalent of a garage band being discovered and being invited to play at The Apollo. I’ve wanted to have my Linux-related blog posts…
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Operating Systems and Sociology
Penguin Pete has started a very interesting view of what drives people to use certain operating systems. You may find part one a little heavy, especially if you don’t know the history behind it. Basically, Pete has been slammed quite a few times for his blasphemous viewpoint that Ubuntu is a watered down version of…
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A Quickie
Back when I reviewed an earlier version of Flock, one of my complaints was that it was impossible to watch Youtube because the video was always stuttering. Well, the Flock programmers have fixed that bug and it’s now definitely usable to watch Youtube videos. I’ll admit that I only watch, perhaps, 1 a month, but…
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Dan’s got a brand new blog
And it is hilarious! So Dan finally got around to updating the blog I created for him on my server. He gave it a pretty witty name “I Bring Nothing To The Table” which is a great pun on our last name. (Although I recently found out he saw it on a T-shirt, so, while…
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Gravatar Support is here
Since WordPress 2.5 supports Gravatars, I discovered them and have enabled it. Gravatars are images that appear next to your comments next to this blog. To get one, go to http://en.gravatar.com/ and register one with your email address. Then use that email address when you leave comments on my blog. Right now I’m only allowing…
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More Flickr Hacking
Over the last two days, between playing Portal and Age of Empires III (both of which are…awesome!), I’ve been doing a little more flickr hacking. This is very closely related to my previous Flickr program where I checked if my pictures were ready to be moved into the next views groups. This time I wanted…
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Flickr Views Program
I forgot to post this about 1 or so weeks ago when I finsihed up the script. So here’s how the output looks on my flickr views program: Now my next step is to put it on the web. However, the Python API I’m using doesn’t do web-based program authentication. It also doesn’t handle…