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Writing Moblin (and Ubuntu) USB images using dd in OSX
I came across this problem this morning, while writing the newly downloaded moblin USB image file. The concept is straight forward, plugin a 1GB+ USB stick into a functioning Linux or Windows box, make sure the stick is not mounted and use dd to write the disk image to the stick. Under OSX however the…
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Moblin OS rocks…..
Heard of Moblin yet….Intel’s foray into designing a Linux distro. Moblin is an open source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems. I came across the promo video below and I have to say I’m impressed. I’m downloading…
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Awesome music video in 2.5D….
I came across The Basics’ “With this ship” video this morning and I figured I had to share it. Great music and a fantastic video created by Aussie director and animator Matt Arnold.
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ROCKS Cluster: "Unable to run job: denied: host is no submit host"
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago and it’s been driving me bonkers. I finally figured out what’s wrong. I was just trying to get my feet wet using the Sun Grid Engine and figured I follow their instruction page and try out the example shell script and submit it using “qsub” command.…
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RightZoom: Maximize window button for OSX that actually maximizes
One of the first things you hear a new mac/osx user complain about is the odd way the green “zoom” button works on the upper left hand of windows on Macs. The button behaves differently depending on the app – Finder and Safari sizes to best fit, iTunes’ zoom button switches between the mini player…
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Recuva: Free Recovery software for Windows….
Lost a couple of files today by mistake (that’s what I get for using Synergy keyboard/mouse sharing application to run in windows)…..anyways, after a bit of googling I came across a very nice and simple recovery tool….Recuva. This one even recovers stuff that’s been deleted from the Recycle Bin (which was my case/mistake). Nice….and did…
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Another mind blowing art installation……
So what happens when an artist combines a 3D gaming engine, the power of blender and processing and a dash of human powered mechanical abomination? :-) Bince McKelvie describes his project: Lb to Sf via bike is an interactive installation/game that documents a bike trip my friend and I took from long beach to san…
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Touchless, Gestrual Interface, Powered by Electrostatics
Great video showing a bizarre and novel way of creating a gesture based interface. You literally touch nothing….Air…..and the interface does the rest. Pretty interesting project. According to Justin Schunick of the team at Northeastern University, the interface uses an array of copper electrodes to sense a certain change in the electric field created by…
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Augmented Reality Magic…..or simply MAGIC!!!
Came across this video today and my first thought was…..magic??….Hmmm…..gotta be a video editing trickbut once I watched it for the fourth time it slowly started to click. This is by far the most innovative use of AR I’ve seen…..It’s fascinating…..It’s Magic :-). Watch Marco Tempest do his thing in this video….be warned though…you might have to…
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A Visual Essay on Consumption….
It’s called Subprime and is an animated musing on our current financial crisis. The tag line is: “Watch the American housing market spiral out of control”. Really cool…. subprime from beeple on Vimeo.