programming

2009.08.12

2009-08-14

videos,paranoia Here and here - videos from Prof. James Duane and Officer George Bruch about why talking to the police is almost never a good idea. software omploader - A place to upload files. It can also be done with a firefox extension or in a script. Paperback, from the OllyDbg guy. This lets you store data on paper (about 500 KB for A4 at 600 DPI).…more

2009.07.21

2009-07-22

local,links Queen City Discovery - An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 told me about Amidst a pile of other new-age and holistic bullshit in some free magazine, I miraculously discovered an ad for the “Uptown Farmer’s Market” at Garden Park - 3581 W. Galbraith Road, Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 10-2, 513-238-6616 In trying to find a record that this existed, I came across the Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Guide (which does indeed acknowledge that this market exists).…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

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

2008.07.26 - 2008.08.03 stuff

2008-07-26

Music Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem… was good for calming me down while doing homework “5th & Avenida” by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked… it’s on “Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro” (Amazon) “100 Billion Stars” by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from “Cafe del Mar, Volume 8” (Amazon) “Alive” by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from “Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol.…more

2008.06.18 - 2008.07.09, really overdue notes

2008-06-18

Hardware http://www.ucapps.de/ - “Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks” http://midibox.org/ - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects Nvidia Tegra - “features a GPU, media processor, system memory, peripherals and a CPU all in one ultra-low power chip, smaller than a US dime (10-cent piece).” Ethernet Mini Board Geek Articles/Software An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (William Kahan)…more

Notes 2008.06.01 - 2008.06.07

2008-06-07

Technical stuff Red Hill Technology - decent articles pertaining a lot to old x86 hardware TRIPS (utexas again) - “developing a new class of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures.” and I’ve got at least one technical paper that’s been on my computer for over a year that I’ve put off reading somehow Programs and stuff Xournal - " Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.…more

2008.06.07 - 2008.06.17, yay notes

2008-06-07

Potentially political Meetup - find groups of a given topic or interest, near whatever location you give… or “Get on the Internet to get off the Internet Legal Rights of Photographers by Andrew Kantor (or this PDF) - very informative and helpful to know The Photographer’s Right flyer by Bert P. Krages II, which is actually what I was trying to find when I found the link from Andrew Kanto…more

20 pages of scrap notes, 2008.05.19-05.23

2008-05-19

I astound myself by how many pages of scrap notes I accumulate over 5 days, just during my down time at work. 2008.05.19 “Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm,” extremely long page here Someone’s opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, here . . . meaningful to me because I haven’t used an Amiga Simputer - “self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate.…more

Overdue scrap notes, 2008.05.01-05.16

2008-05-01

2008.04.30 Reaktor diary: might be helpful as I learn to use Reaktor Despite that this program is not open source but proprietary, it offers more comprehensible insight into its workings than any of the open source synth software I have tried so far. Given, I’ve only used a couple premade instruments, but their internal structure is out-in-the-open in the form of modules, not as blocks of code that I would have a hard time finding and a harder time comprehending.…more