I just went to the Apple Store and played with the iPad which was just released a few days ago. Here are some first impressions: Compared to the iPhone, it has a large screen but not a particularly high resolution screen(1024×768). This affected the iBooks application where I tried both the upright single-page mode and […]
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Binary math is a very simple thing. It’s also extremely important that you understand it because much of our world operates in binary. Binary from the latin prefix bi- means two states. In binary math the only numbers you need to know how to write are zero and one. 0 and 1. Nada and numero […]
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Blogger is ending support for publish-via-FTP and because it is costing them valuable support time and they claim 0.5% of active blogs publish this way. I’m interested to know their definition of active but not interested enough to “learn more.” I had been planning to switch to WordPress and was using FTP(with little success) to […]
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Wireless on a laptop is like wheels on a car. Essential. I’ve been running gNewSense for a few months and have found it to be very stable and kind to me on my HP dv6226us. Unfortunately there are no free drivers for the built in wireless card. That has meant no wireless networking on this […]
I have a Logitech Harmony 510 smart remote that I use to control the devices that live near my TV. Programming the device was simple enough…I plugged it into my computer selected my TV, cable box, and dvd/home theater system and defined a couple activities like Watch TV and Watch DVD. When you trigger one […]
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In this HOWTO I’m going to take you through running gNewSense, a 100% free operating system, on top of your currently installed operating system. This HOWTO mentions how to run gNewSense on top of Ubuntu and Windows though it’s possible to run it on any OS that runs VirtualBox OSE. This HOWTO will only add […]
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If you have a podcast, you probably provide an RSS or XML file for people to subscribe to. If you’re interested in tracking how many people are subscribing to your feed and you’re running Apache, I’ve just developed a simple script that counts repeat downloaders of the feed. I look for .rss in the URL […]
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In the quest for mobility and to be a more useful computer guy, I signed up for Verizon’s BroadbandAccess program. I got a USB EVDO modem that I’ve got running in either of two laptops. One of which runs Windows XP and the other that runs Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. Before I went ahead and […]
One great way to use SSH is to run a single command on a remote server like this: ssh user@host command ‘command’ here can be anything and the text output will be piped back to your local terminal. I was having a problem with a few servers where this wasn’t working. Turns out the problem […]
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Today, we went out to Union Square in San Francisco and armed with my camera and a distant memory of rotating Egyptian pyramids, I decided I would try to put together a GIF animation of the Christmas Tree. What I did then was to take about 15 pictures each from 2 feet apart moving around […]