2009.06.19

2009-06-23

apps,photography So, I’m on a quest to find a photo organization tool for Linux (or, on a later note, for any OS) that does some things like… Allow me to apply metadata to images, like comments and groups and tags (preferably hierarchical) Store the metadata IN THE ACTUAL IMAGE, IN A STANDARD FORMAT. This also means it will probably need to support IPTC or XMP, preferably XMP.…more

2009.06.18

2009-06-23

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2009.06.16

2009-06-23

music Saw these two at Rohs Street Cafe and was very impressed: http://www.myspace.com/hickoryrobot www.myspace.com/thehappymaladies

2009.06.15

2009-06-23

video,apps MediaCoder - “a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.” Only natively works on Windows, but came in handy trying to re-encode some video at work after I found that fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ liked to either crash or screw up the encode (on Windows at least as I know I’ve used it without problems on Linux) CamStudio - An open source screen recorder (screencast?…more

2009.06.14

2009-06-15

technobabble,links http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut - A tutorial on Perl from Bernard Chan that I found helpful apps,linux http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/116353 - Article on Siag Office for those who don’t feel like using any remotely mainstream office applications editor,cheatsheet http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif - A Vim cheat sheet that is essential to me. programming,scheme Is Scheme Faster than C? - An oldish article about some interesting performance benefits found in Scheme hack,wii http://www.…more

2009.06.14

2009-06-15

log Well, after my computer exploded and my hard drive became an orphan, I finally built a working computer again and fixed up my scripts so they didn’t suck. Now I shall attempt to post the giant piles of stuff that have accumulated. diy,links The Repair Manifesto from Platform 21 - worth thinking about. motivational,practical Twelve Steps to Practical Problem Solving by Paul Polak No Nonsense Self-Defense - This is a helpful site.…more

2009.05.03

2009-05-04

software,education Scratch: “Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art – and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.” video Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - I don’t know what this is but my friend Patrick tells me I should watch it.…more

2009.05.01

2009-05-02

software Finnix, ‘Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) for system administrators, based on Debian testing"; I came across this while looking at what common distros were out there for PowerPC since I recently acquired an iBook. Open64, the Open Research Compiler, “an open source, optimizing compiler for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium), AMD Opteron and Intel IA-32e architecture” GCC UPC - extensions to GCC to provide a compilation and execution environment for Unified Parallel C “UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg.…more

2009.04.30

2009-05-01

log Here is the umpteenth post made to my Wordpress in an automated way… I guess here is where I put “Hello, world” and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it. So, uh, Hello, world Did I fix my idiotic bugs yet? graphics http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more) links,blogs http://www.…more

2008.09.26 - 2008.11.09, really overdue stuff

2008-11-09

Linux http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html - “Saving Energy in Linux” from Spencer Stirling PowerTOP - tool to assist with such energy-saving (on Intel boxes at least) by telling how well hardware power-saving is utilized and which software is causing problems Improving Boot Time on a General Linux Distro from Frederic Crozat Handy One-Liners for sed from Eric Pement… I used the venerable sed extensively at work to un-screw-up CSV files…more