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ImageMagick book
MythTV book
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Mon, 14 Jan 2008
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Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix. Our child will be introduced to computers at a young age, and will be setting emacs mode before any other child can even read. I earn a sufficient income to support a family in modest comfort. Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family. We will even go to Disney World and see Mickey Mouse.
Via IRC.
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Tue, 04 Dec 2007
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Mon, 01 Oct 2007
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Similarly, I should build a serial cable for my Roomba sometime. Howto.
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posted at: 17:13 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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My Roomba's battery is dead. Am I brave enough to make my own new one? Probably not, but I'll make a note of the howto, so I can go it next time.
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Fri, 24 Aug 2007
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Sat, 28 Jul 2007
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I'm killing time at my mother in law's at the moment, before bussing it back to Sydney (on the way back to the US) tomorrow, and I figured I'd visit Damn Interesting again. Some of the gems from this trip:
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007
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Thu, 10 May 2007
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Fri, 04 May 2007
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Thu, 03 May 2007
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SMH article
and
the actual site
It's logical really:
- Some Australian teachers are perceived as sucking by their students
- The students rate them on line, thus exercising free speech
- The teachers can't face a life of people knowing that other people think they suck
- Teacher's federation proposes some crazy firewall scheme
Hurrah! Censorship is always the answer.
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posted at: 03:30 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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Wed, 02 May 2007
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Sun, 29 Apr 2007
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Sun, 22 Apr 2007
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If you're an ACM member, or read ACM transactions on computer systems, or have a corporate membership to the ACM portal, then you really should checkout Inferring Internet denial-of-service activity. It's a surprisingly simple method of determining how common denial of service attacks really are on the Internet. Like all good ideas, it's also really obvious once it's been pointed out.
@article{1132027,
author = {David Moore and Colleen Shannon and Douglas J. Brown and Geoffrey M. Voelker and Stefan Savage},
title = {Inferring Internet denial-of-service activity},
journal = {ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.},
volume = {24},
number = {2},
year = {2006},
issn = {0734-2071},
pages = {115--139},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132026.1132027},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
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posted at: 09:12 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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Sat, 21 Apr 2007
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Just saw a documentary about the Air America drug smuggling operation. It's really interesting -- modified light planes, flying into storms to avoid detection, basically not being as dumb as your average smuggler. There is a New York Times article online about the gang.
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posted at: 14:06 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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Mon, 16 Apr 2007
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Mark Pilgrim is a smart guy, and he's right that the correct time to start writing is while you have that sense of wonder. That was the big difference in the approaches I took with the ImageMagick book (an attempt to be definitive and therefore boring to write), versus the MythTV book (a cleaned up version of my lab book notes from when I installed Myth and got it working nicely, with some other stuff added for completeness). The MythTV book was a lot more fun to write, and I don't feel nearly as burnt out at the end.
Read more about Mark's burnout theory.
So, I wonder what is next for me?
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posted at: 18:59 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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Wed, 11 Apr 2007
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Sat, 07 Apr 2007
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But they're still funny... As sent to my wife in IMs this evening:
(23:08:06) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/
(23:18:43) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/testy/AdventCalendar/day19.html
(23:20:16) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/demolition+squid/
(23:22:28) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/mango/
(23:23:37) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/cucumbers
(23:26:07) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/dear+weebl/
(23:27:13) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/giraffe/
(23:28:52) mikalstill@gmail.com/Gaim: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/space+is+fun/
Ahhh, flash. Reminds me of papal wackamole.
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007
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The Boner Theory of Economics also predicts that in the long run -- perhaps in a few hundred years -- the military will be 100% gay men. This is the best case scenario for taxpayers because it will keep down costs, and recruiting will be easy.
Recruiter: "We can't afford to give you body armor, but you'll be surrounded by young, vital men who are a long way from home. Would you like a tour of the showers?"
Recruit: "Yes, but I can't stand up right away."
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/the_boner_theor.html
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posted at: 08:35 | path: /link | permanent link to this entry
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