Category: Programming
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Too Many Linux Distros? And Does Progress Justify Injustice?
Are there too many Linux distros? Michael Dominick, in Episode 23 of Coder Radio clearly says that there are too many distros. This is not a fresh dilema, and I’ve written about it in the past. It is a basic point: in any community where proficiency is valued and lumber is free, you will never…
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More Java3D notes
Here are some other useful looking 3D libraries: jPCT – a free 3D engine for Java and Android http://www.jpct.net/demos.html Xith 3D – a toolkit for the creation of interactive 3D environments http://xith.org/index.php?switch=features Ardor 3D – create better real-time 3D games and simulations http://ardor3d.com/
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Modern Picture Management?
I like to run a thumbnailer across most of my photos so I have little copies to send around, and I mod them so that they look distinctly different from the full resolution source files. I like to use gwenview to flip and rotate them. Gwenview can export to FB and email so that makes…
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Upcoming: New Standing Workstation
I’ve posted about how my previous endeavors to work at a standing workspace, at work, and at home. It has not gone sour on me yet. Presently at Candelatech I’ve been sitting on an exercise ball with three landscape monitors. It’s a lot of screen realestate! I love not needing to maximize and minimize windows…
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Would girl marketed video games bolster women in tech by 2034?
We need to get girls interested in computing by first grade. By fifth grade, it’s game over. Computing has an image crisis.
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Great interview on hacker spaces, responsible disclosure (TCLP)
Thomas interviews Tiffany Rad in this episode of The Commandline Podcast. I appreciated this interview because, as a father, I am interested in all the ways I can expose my kids to learning opportunities, and while I might not end up with little net-running hellions, it sounds like public schools are often becoming less and…
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Quick thot on MySQL
Had a good question in my MySQL talk about how to monitor performance, and of course I suggested turning on the MySQL slow query log. What I neglected to mention, however, was mytop. This little utility is found in the rpmforge repo and it’s like a top(1) for your mysql queries. The basis for it…
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Another Great Linuxfest Northwest
What an impressive LinuxFest. It felt really pro this year with big printed badges and registration. I would have been. Happy to have picked up my badge friday night if I knew what the crowd might have been Sat morning. The robot room was definitely Liam’s favorite. Thank you BAIRS! I really dug the competition…
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Maybe JavaScript Iddna Me Bain
It was late and I was pretty caffinated up and had a laptop but no Internet. So I figured I’d practice trying to code a game of life from scratch, just using what scraps of code I could find on the hard drive as reference. Of course there is always some refresher I need to…
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Computing in a Post Peak Oil World?
I’ve been paying some attention to the notions of community, local economy and self reliance in the face of rising gas prices. Oil shortages and actually, any resource shortage, can also affect how we use computers. High energy prices makes computing more precious. Lack of resources to construct platic, rare earths for constructing magnetic componentry,…
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