Year: 2008

  • Truly a once in a life time opportunity

    ROTFL….Next….Metallica doing “Say you say me” to the video of “Enter Sandman”……hehehehe

  • Install Fedora Core 9.0 on a 1GB USB Stick

    I wanted to install the AccessGrid 3.1 collaborative software under FC9.0 earlier on and discovered that the machine didn’t have a CD or DVD. It did however have a newer mobo that allows for USB booting, so I searched around and found Fedora liveusb-creator. What a beauty, the fedora guys make it really simple to…

  • “It’s not a laptop project. It’s an education project,”

    Yeah, that’s why the OLPC team sold their soul to MS….right? Get ready for OLPC running Windows XO. Because there aren’t enough lemmings out there. This must be Bill G’s wildest dream, an army of illiterate starving kids who’ll program the next version of Winblows for food and water…..brilliant.

  • Asus EeePC: Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop on a 16 GB SDHC card

    I’m not quite done with all the install and optimization steps, but I thought I start this entry so that I won’t forget what I’ve done. There are quite a number of steps involved. I’ve installed it on a Asus 701 4GB model using a 16 GB class 6 SDHC card. Hopefully this will help…

  • Custom Date Display for OSX

    Came across this tip today and I thought it might be useful to some of you out there. OSX, as great as it is, has always had this (atleast) one shortcoming for me. The stupid date display in the menubar. Why did they decide to hide the actual date/day of the week is beyond me.…

  • Stop Motion Graffiti

    MOTU–It’s simply stunning….Here is the non-embed link. Lots more background info on the production here. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

  • Vista Network Blues…Repeated network disconnect

    A lot of people seem to be running into weird network problems with Vista (MS’s latest abortion). The symptoms might include: – Windows messenger issues (disconnects, slowness)– Large network file copies get interrupted or are slowwwww– Network file transfers that seem to hang for no reason– Network ghosts turning on/off the network subsystem– Routers having…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 3

    Well in Episode 3 of our saga Many goes bald (again) and (almost) drop kicks the server out the window. After going through the pain of installing 10.1 and updating everything I proceeded to upgrade to OpenSuSE 10.3. The upgrade went okay as far as the boot DVD was concerned (no errors during boot), but…

  • We went nuclear today…..

    Today the Toronto Strobists Groups meetup finally came and went and I think I walked away with a good harvest of frames. I don’t know what it is about the gas mask — maybe the fact that it totally hides familiar human features or maybe just the fact that I’ve watched too many movies —…

  • These guys know how to have fun…..

    I have to admit, once I finished reading the article I just about fell of my chair laughing. Not at the idea/concept, but at the shear ingenuity/nerd factor of this project. You see the N.E.R.D.s down at Purdue University are planning to literally build the largest Big Ten supercomputer that is not part of a…