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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Yet another iPod manager - Home
Yet another iPod manager - Home: "YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing. "
U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 - EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE (tm)
U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 - EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE (tm): "U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76
This manual can either be viewed online or it can be saved to your hard drive. File size of each chapter are in parenthesis. To view online, click on the chapter links below. To download to your hard drive, right click on the chapter link, select SAVE TARGET AS in the menu and provide a directory and file name."
The Cell project at IBM Research
The Cell project at IBM Research: "The Cell Architecture
The Cell Architecture grew from a challenge posed by Sony and Toshiba to provide power-efficient and cost-effective high-performance processing for a wide range of applications, including the most demanding consumer appliance: game consoles. Cell - also known as the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) - is an innovative solution whose design was based on the analysis of a broad range of workloads in areas such as cryptography, graphics transform and lighting, physics, fast-Fourier transforms (FFT), matrix operations, and scientific workloads. As an example of innovation that ensures the clients' success, a team from IBM Research joined forces with teams from IBM Systems Technology Group, Sony and Toshiba, to lead the development of a novel architecture that represents a breakthrough in performance for consumer applications. IBM Research participated throughout the entire development of the architecture, its implementation and its software enablement, ensuring the timely and efficient application of novel ideas and technology into a product that solves real challenges."
developerWorks : Cell Broadband Engine resource center
developerWorks : Cell Broadband Engine resource center: "The Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) architecture is a new architecture which extends the 64-bit Power Architecture™ technology. Ideal for compute-intensive tasks like gaming, multimedia, and physics- or life-sciences and related workloads, the Cell BE is a single-chip multiprocessor no bigger than a fingernail, with nine processors operating on a shared, coherent memory. The Cell BE processor contains a Power Architecture-based control processor (PPU) augmented with eight (or more) SIMD Synergistic Processor Units (SPUs) and a rich set of DMA commands for efficient communications between processing elements.
Version 1.0.1 of the Cell BE SDK is a developer update with bug fixes and new features, including: the Linux� kernel 2.6.15, containing 'Bogus Network' support and enabling direct mapping of the SPE Problem State; an extended PPC-RPM package with support for networking and the 64-bit run-time environment (glibc64); updates to the SPE Management Library, the SPU Debugger, and documentation; as well as new technical articles and PPC Fedora Core 4 support for the system simulator and defect fixes for libraries, workloads, and samples."
UC Berkeley on iTunes U
UC Berkeley on iTunes U: "ACCESS & DOWNLOAD COURSES on your computer or MP3 player
LISTEN TO EVENTS about the Arts, Education, Politics, Science and Technology
BE CONNECTED with what's happening at UC Berkeley"
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Abandonware Campaign - Exiled Gamers
Abandonware Campaign - Exiled Gamers: "Abandonware - software titles that are no longer being sold or supported by the copyright holder. Should you wish to play a title that has fallen into this category then you'll either need to search eBay relentlessly - or download a copy of the game from one of the darker corners of the internet, entirely illegal, but what other option do you have?"
libipod: libipod - a library for managing the Apple iPod
libipod: libipod - a library for managing the Apple iPod: "libipod is a lightweight library written in C for the management of the Apple iPod. It includes wrappers for C++ and Python, as well as a number of example programs. libipod is the basis for the iPod support in Lsongs, a GPL music manager/player for Linux published by Linspire, Inc. You can find more information about Lsongs at http://www.lsongs.com."
Specere Software
Specere Software: "A Simple CSS Image preloading technique
Saturday, April 22, 2006
So you need to pre-load images, but don't want to deal with javascript or complicated workarounds. What do you do? The solution is simple. All we need to do is designate a CSS style with multiple background-images. As your browser reads the style, it will load each image you designate in succession, thus pre-loading your images. Below is an example of the CSS:
#preloadedImages {
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
display: inline;
background-image: url(path/to/image1.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image2.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image3.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image4.png);
background-image: url();
}
The next step is to load this div in your page. This is accomplished by inserting once in the body of the page you are preloading these "
Saturday, April 22, 2006
ClusterMonkey - Cluster Interconnects: The Whole Shebang: Page 2
ClusterMonkey - Cluster Interconnects: The Whole Shebang: Page 2: "SMC has been selling a very inexpensive line of unmanaged small switches for several years. While these switches are very good in their own right, one of the best features of these switches is that they are capable of jumbo frames. (Note: The prices mentioned below were determined at the time the article was posted.) The SMC 8505T 5-port switch costs about $70, the SMC 8508T 8-port switch costs about $100, and a 16-port version (8516T) starts at about $300. There is also a 24-port version of this new switch called the SMC 8524T that can be found for about $400. The 8516T and 8524T switches are becoming more difficult to find but there is a new line of 16 and 24 port unmanaged switches that are capable of jumbo frames. The SMC GS16-Smart 16-port switch costs about $240. A 24-port version of this switch, the SMC GS24-Smart can be found for about $300. "
NetPIPE
NetPIPE: "NetPIPE
A Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator
Questions/comments/bug-reports should be emailed to netpipe@scl.ameslab.gov If you do not get a response, please subscribe to the Netpipe mailing list and re-post since We've been getting a lot of junk mail on that address.
NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. It performs simple ping-pong tests, bouncing messages of increasing size between two processes, whether across a network or within an SMP system. Message sizes are chosen at regular intervals, and with slight perturbations, to provide a complete test of the communication system. Each data point involves many ping-pong tests to provide an accurate timing. Latencies are calculated by dividing the round trip time in half for small messages ( < 64 Bytes ).
NetPIPE was originally developed at the SCL by Quinn Snell, Armin Mikler, John Gustafson, and Guy Helmer. Their IASTED conference paper in postscript or html format, along with the slides in postscript format, provide a basic description of NetPIPE. "
NetPIPE
NetPIPE: "NetPIPE
A Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator
Questions/comments/bug-reports should be emailed to netpipe@scl.ameslab.gov If you do not get a response, please subscribe to the Netpipe mailing list and re-post since We've been getting a lot of junk mail on that address.
NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. It performs simple ping-pong tests, bouncing messages of increasing size between two processes, whether across a network or within an SMP system. Message sizes are chosen at regular intervals, and with slight perturbations, to provide a complete test of the communication system. Each data point involves many ping-pong tests to provide an accurate timing. Latencies are calculated by dividing the round trip time in half for small messages ( < 64 Bytes ).
NetPIPE was originally developed at the SCL by Quinn Snell, Armin Mikler, John Gustafson, and Guy Helmer. Their IASTED conference paper in postscript or html format, along with the slides in postscript format, provide a basic description of NetPIPE. "
Towards the magnetic fridge
Towards the magnetic fridge: "Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term 'fridge magnet'. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material - a blend of cobalt, manganese, silicon and germanium - could help to usher in a new type of refrigerator that is up to 40 percent more energy-efficient than conventional models. "
KR1 and GPSd Technical Discussion :: EVDOforums.com
KR1 and GPSd Technical Discussion :: EVDOforums.com: "tz1
Joined: 29 Sep 2005
Posts: 205
Location: http://kr1gps.dyndns.org:8888/
PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: Reply with quote
I've been too busy hacking the utilities to notice.
It has a 24 byte header which I've not decoded in this late hour, and a gzipped image (which does not contain a proper CRC and length ending) which is the kernel prepended to the romfs image. The trailing bytes are a serial number, 'WL-EVDORT-...'.
(dd if=run-KR1... skip=24 of=run.bin.gz will extract the compressed portion).
It appears 'diagnostic' has been disabled. I will have to find the romfs and see if I can pull that out into a tree. (find the rom1fs? header)
I should be able to modify or edit it, and then, reinsert it.
Has anyone tried this update? Does 'ps' show diagnostic running or not?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: Reply with quote
yep.
Note it uses gzip -9 - a header in the gzipped image indicates maximum compression and gzip -9 run.bin recreates the identical image except for the modification time.
dd if=run.bin bs=1 skip=3186752 of=newrom.fs
you can mount or romfsck to extract the files.
Diagnostic has been commented out in /etc/rc, /bin/webs (the httpd plus lots of junk program) has changed, probably the misc. config page changes, and ath_pci.o has changed. As well as /etc/version.
Now do I want to be brave and replace the '#diagnostic /dev/ttyS1... &' line with 'telnetd &' with hexedit in run.bin and repack..."
Friday, April 21, 2006
AJAX Magazine: Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX
AJAX Magazine: Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX: "Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX
One of the features I find it interesting in Google calendar is the possibility to create shared calendars, but also the availability of your calendar as XML or ICAL whatever it's a private or public one. As soon as we have XML of our calendar available I was wondering why not integrating Google calendar directly in website. For example a community that use the service to manage their events, or to display your future trips in your blog ?"
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 5 (64-bit) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
The Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 5 (64-bit) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "The Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 5 (64-bit)
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 04/03/2006
This is a detailed description how to set up a Fedora Core 5 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Fedora Core 5, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well.
I will use the following software:
* Web Server: Apache 2.0.x
* Database Server: MySQL 5.0
* Mail Server: Postfix (easier to configure than sendmail; has a shorter history of security holes than sendmail)
* DNS Server: BIND9 (chrooted!)
* FTP Server: proftpd
* POP3/IMAP server: dovecot
* Webalizer for web site statistics
In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).
I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!"
Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows
Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows: "Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows
Australia's policy of restricting antibiotic use in food-producing animals may be linked with lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria found in its citizens, according to an article in the May 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.
Campylobacter jejuni is a leading bacterial cause of foodborne illness in industrialized countries. Drug resistance can make Campylobacter infections difficult for physicians to treat, and can result in longer bouts of diarrhea and a higher risk of serious or even fatal illness. Bacterial resistance to drugs is generally attributed to inappropriate prescribing or overuse of antibiotics.
An Australian solution to the drug resistance problem has been to prohibit the use of certain antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, in food animals such as poultry. Such a policy puts Australia in a relatively unique position, since its animal and food production levels are comparable to those of other industrialized nations, but it has avoided using the antibiotics that have been standard in the other countries' food animal production."
EasyBib: Free Automatic Bibliography Composer - MLA and APA formatting
EasyBib: Free Automatic Bibliography Composer - MLA and APA formatting: "The free automatic bibliography composer.
Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. Load old list � "
Fifty Ways to Take Notes � Solution Watch
Fifty Ways to Take Notes � Solution Watch: "I am constantly writing notes. Whether it be for my blog, work, meeting, new ideas, or just basic notes, I am always jotting something down. So I started thinking about all the services I’ve used for taking notes and thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and while I’m at it, to make a list of any others that I find. Now, when it comes to note taking, I personally look for quick and simple. If I have something on my mind, I don’t want to go through some advanced system and climb a mountain just to save a note for myself. There won’t be all the note taking tools out there on my list, but ones that I feel get the job done well."
Google - Search History
Google - Search History: "You haven't yet saved any bookmarks.
When browsing your Search History, just click the star next to one of the search results listed to create a bookmark for that website. Once you've starred a site, you can click the 'Edit' link to add labels and notes for the site.
Bookmark pages more easily. Drag this bookmarklet to the Links area of your browser"
My Firefox extensions
My Firefox extensions: "Google Bookmarks Button new!
This extension adds a new button in the Firefox toolbar to manage the Google Bookmarks.
You will need to have a Google Account and be signed in to use this extension.
The button didn't appear directly on your toolbar, you will need to add it manually going to View > Toolbars > Customize... and dragging the 'Bookmarks' button into your toolbar."
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
List of Google services and tools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Google services and tools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "offers a variety of services and tools besides its basic web search. This is a partial list of Google's services and tools."
Monday, April 17, 2006
Bloomberg.com: U.K.
Bloomberg.com: U.K.: "Fetuses Can't Feel Pain, Expert Says in British Medical Journal
April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Fetuses can't feel pain, according to a commentary by a psychologist in tomorrow's issue of the British Medical Journal, which suggests doctors won't need to sedate an unborn child before conducting an abortion.
The nerve connections necessary for processing pain aren't complete before 26 weeks' gestation, said Stuart Derbyshire, a senior psychologist at the University of Birmingham in England. Using painkillers before that stage is scientifically unsound and may put women at unnecessary risk, he found in a clinical review."
The Jem Report - Pronunciation of Software Names
The Jem Report - Pronunciation of Software Names: "Pronunciation of Software Names PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jawad Niazi
Thursday, 09 December 2004
I'm a big fan of languages; I see tremendous value in different human expression. Even with a language like English, a language I dream in, I'm told by my close friends I still pronounce things quite badly at times, often to hilarious effect. Blatant errors aside, language and its commonality can be crucial for community development; this is especially true for communities dealing with specific topics. Back in the day, in most of the Western world, scholars and scientists used Latin to communicate as an intellectual community.
Today, 'experts' use 'jargon' not only to put out verbal neon signs that they know the language of the subject at hand, but also to differentiate between those who know and those who do not know. It's almost like a test, a rite of passage within a community... if you don't know the language, how can you know the subject? This article will examine how language is used in the Free and Open Source Software community and how you as a newcomer can more easily fit in by using the right pronunciations for the right terms."
YouTube - Cooking with Liquid Oxygen LOX
YouTube - Cooking with Liquid Oxygen LOX: "Cooking with Liquid Oxygen
A short film clip of lighting of the grill with 3 gallons of liquid oxygen. Started with 60 lbs of charcoal, and burnt up 40 lbs of it in 3 seconds. Result is a grill ready to cook in about 3 seconds, and all the old grease, etc burned off. Don't try this at home.
WARNING: an ignition source, such as a lit cigarette or one glowing coal, must be present before pouring on the LOX. If charcoal is PRESOAKED in LOX first, an explosion will result. One briquette presoaked in LOX is approx equiv to 1 stick of dynamite.
It was decided to 'sacrifice' a cheap (on sale for $2.88 at OSCO's) grill to the fire gods. It was loaded with charcoal, with one briquette smoldering, and 5 gallons of LOX were dumped on, causing the grill to melt down and then almost completely vaporize.
George Goble 1996 WINNER of the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry.
The Ig� Nobel Prizes
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology."
Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities �
Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities �: "Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities
Darknet spilled these bits on April 17th 2006 @ 3:44 am
"
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox): "F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
Summary:
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.
In our new eyetracking study, we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages. We found that users' main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components:"
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Going Nuclear
Going Nuclear: "Going Nuclear
A Green Makes the Case
By Patrick Moore
Sunday, April 16, 2006; Page B01
In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots. That's the conviction that inspired Greenpeace's first voyage up the spectacular rocky northwest coast to protest the testing of U.S. hydrogen bombs in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views, too, because nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic climate change.
Look at it this way: More than 600 coal-fired electric plants in the United States produce 36 percent of U.S. emissions -- or nearly 10 percent of global emissions -- of CO2, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. Nuclear energy is the only large-scale, cost-effective energy source that can reduce these emissions while continuing to satisfy a growing demand for power. And these days it can do so safely."
Friday, April 14, 2006
$25 Check + $20 Coupon, If you own a Qualifying Epson Printer - FlexDeals Forums
$25 Check + $20 Coupon, If you own a Qualifying Epson Printer - FlexDeals Forums: "$25 Check + $20 Coupon, If you own a Qualifying Epson Printer
There is a class action lawsuit against Epson that was settled. If you purchased a qualifying Epson printer from April 8, 1999 to May 8, 2006 , register here to receive a $45 ecoupon for Epson's estore. There is an alternative to receive a $25 check and $20 estore coupon but you must file the claim form."
Choon.NET - php mail header patch
Choon.NET - php mail header patch: "This is a patch to add an informational header to messages sent from PHP via the mail() function. This can help to track which script on a server was used to send a message, and which client caused it to be sent.
The header added has the form:
Code:
X-PHP-Script:
For example:
Code:
X-PHP-Script: www.example.com/~user/testapp/send-mail.php for 10.0.0.1
If the connection appears to have come via a proxy cache (i.e. has an 'X-Forwarded-For' header), is a list of addresses (the addresses in X-Forwarded-For, then the 'real' remote address).
Read more at Steve Bennett's patch as I created my patches according to his patch with a little tweak/modification since his patch only available for version 4.3.4 and also won't be working for mail function example 1 as listed at php manual."
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Network Hotsync with your Palm� Computing Device
Network Hotsync with your Palm� Computing Device: "Network Hotsync with your Palm� Computing Device
by David A. Desrosiers
Last Updated: February 18th, 2001
This document will detail various ways to Hotsync your Palm over the network (instead of locally via serial/USB/IrDA). This is called a Network Hotsync, and in many cases, is a very valuable feature to use. "
Thursday, April 06, 2006
VersaMail crashes or resets Treo 650
VersaMail crashes or resets Treo 650: "VersaMail crashes or resets Treo 650
When you launch or use VersaMail, does your Treo 650 reset or crash? This could be happening because one of your VersaMail databases has become corrupt. "
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle � Carotids.Com
Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle � Carotids.Com: "Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle
04AprilDr. AA06:33 am24 Comments
I am a currently practicing board-certified Internal Medicine physician in a large rapidly expanding tech-growth community. (Ed note: Verified) Our area is rapidly being filled with web development, IT, and biotechnology companies. As a doctor in this area over the last few years, I have discovered some unique health problems associated with this population. One of my patients pointed me to this site when I was discussing with her if computer use causes carpal tunnel syndrome.
I have noticed several repeating patterns in this geek lifestyle population. I have always wanted to post my observations regarding the geek lifestyle. I affectionately call it the �geek lifestyle� because of my previous life of programming and web design. One of the best part of my job is getting to live vicariously through these young energetic people. I frequently wonder what would have happened to me if I would have stayed with my tech-life instead of transitioning to medicine.
Personal points aside, I have noticed several repeating patterns in this geek lifestyle population. Hopefully, these ideas will spark others to study this unique population."
Monday, April 03, 2006
Quake4FrontPage - Quake 4 GNU/Linux FAQ
Quake4FrontPage - Quake 4 GNU/Linux FAQ: "Quake 4 GNU/Linux FAQ
Quake4FrontPage"
