October 31, 2008

Linux Setting processor affinity for a certain task or process

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/setting-processor-affinity-certain-task-or-process.html taskset is your friend
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

October 30, 2008

THE BEST AIR RACE PILOT EVER!!! [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCbkBfdBrQ that's really impressive!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

October 29, 2008

Essentials, 2008 edition

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/10/28/essentials-2008 Mark has a good list of Linux stuff here
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

PCMan File Manager

http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ it is fast
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

October 28, 2008

best of craigslist : INTELLIGENT, cultured, 22y/o wm seeking Asian women (pref. Nihonese)

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/881177993.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

October 27, 2008

How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/how-we-made-our-face-recognizer-25-times-faster/ you need to be cache friendly even on multi-core boxes to keep stuff fast
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Trinity Rescue Kit | CPR for your computer

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 "Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Fox Glider and Extra 300 at Biggin Hill 2006 [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaW3b3io_w8 acro on tow, anyone?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

October 24, 2008

Kittens discover toilet paper [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpI5bkZbHJk this cracks me up
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

I Just Want To Make An XMLHttpOmelette

http://www.crummy.com/2008/10/07/0 "Recently I lost half a day to a mysterious problem that turned out to be XMLHttpRequest truncating my PUT request at the first null character. Because why would you want to send binary data over the Internet? It's not like some kind of... tube... that you can put just anything in." Heh. Sad.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Disabling MENU and SCROLLBAR in EMACS

http://web.mit.edu/answers/emacs/emacs_disable_menu.html gives you a bit more room on screen
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

October 22, 2008

LatencyTOP

http://www.latencytop.org/ "LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers, aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency hiccups." via nelson
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Enhance Your Clipboard with a Clipboard Manager

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/22/enhance-your-clipboard-with-a-clipboard-manager/ a couple of handy looking tools
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

GOP spent $150,000 in donations on Palin's look

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_el_pr/palin_clothing fiscal discipline!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

October 21, 2008

JOIN Performance & Charsets (MySQL)

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/10/21/join-performance-charsets/ interesting to see!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

libketama - a consistent hashing algo for memcache clients

http://www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/rz_libketama_-_a_consistent_hashing_algo_for_memcache_clients from the last.fm guys
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Uranium Ore

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000796XXM/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 kick ass! I want some.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

October 20, 2008

Sulfuryl fluoride

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuryl_fluoride this is what they're gonna fill our house with soon
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-10/st_essay as someone who telecommutes a lot now, I agree
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know!

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/10/5-gimp-tricks-everyone-should-know.html now I know how to make rounded corners... fancy me!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

October 18, 2008

Happy Fun Ball

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7358768984043835546 yay! I found the Happy Fun Ball commercial
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/18/obama-rally-draws-100000-in-missouri/?mod=googlenews_wsj holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

October 17, 2008

Study Finds No Logical Reason Why Planes Fly

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/study_finds_no_logical "The Stanford team plans to devote the next two years to a new study on why telephones hear."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Huge Fail

http://failblog.org/2008/10/16/huge-fail/ with huge dick included!!!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Tweak Your Font Rendering for Better Appearance

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/15/tweak-your-font-rendering-for-better-appearance/ hey, I should try that out...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Schadenfreude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude "...is enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else. The word referring to this emotion has been borrowed from German by the English language"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?

http://slate.com/id/2202262 Salon takes a look at the history of FAIL.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

October 16, 2008

BLAHHUUGHHGGAAAH

http://jwz.livejournal.com/949309.html heh... make sure you see the pics in the comments too
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0 this video makes me sad to be an american
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

'I Am Under 18' Button Clicked For First Time In History Of Internet

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/i_am_under_18_button oh, crap... that is FUNNY!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

October 15, 2008

US election: Father secretly names baby Sarah McCain Palin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3203088/US-election-Father-secretly-names-baby-Sarah-McCain-Palin.html "I was actually going to name the baby John McCain, even as a girl, but I thought that was maybe too overboard," he said.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

October 14, 2008

Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet [video]

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjh9Id6Id8&feature=related heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Office Jerk [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2KR8UgaJ_w OMG that is a funny video!!!!11!!!!1!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Google Technology RoundTable: Large Scale Search

http://research.google.com/roundtable/LSS.html looks like an interesting talk to watch or at least listen to
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

October 13, 2008

ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/10/13/zfs-mysqlinnodb-compression-update/ very interesting benchmarks! if only ZFS was in linux...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Sun's 4-chip CMT system raises the bar

http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_4_chip_cmt jesus, that's a lot of horsepower
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

October 12, 2008

jQuery and Closures

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/10/12/jQuery-and-Closures "The notable thing about this is that despite all of the asynchronous events taking place, the code is sequential (nested, but sequential), and that the JSON results of the AJAX call is immediately available to the function that is invoked when the selection changes."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

flipper - Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/flipper/ "Tool for managing access to MySQL master-master pairs" from Proven Scaling
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_texting_elephants;_ylt=Ag382o.O2rLFMTLKMRnyOy0jtBAF heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

MySQL Sandbox

https://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox "Quick painless install of side MySQL server in isolation. MySQL Sandbox is a tool for installing one or more MySQL servers in isolation, without affecting other servers"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

October 10, 2008

Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org

http://waxy.org/2008/10/memeorandum_colors/ very cool work by Andy and Joshua
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

October 09, 2008

A Brief Tour of Graphd

http://blog.freebase.com/2008/04/09/a-brief-tour-of-graphd/ some interesting techniques here
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

October 08, 2008

Hack Day - a hackumentary short film [video]

http://vimeo.com/1905714 good work by ricky
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

October 07, 2008

This American Life - Complete Volume 1995-2007 - Episodes 1-342 (download torrent)

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3912400/This_American_Life_-_Complete_Volume_1995-2007_-_Episodes_1-342 here's one way to get what I'm looking for
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

This American Life - Podcast

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Podcast.aspx must re-subscribe
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Scaling Hadoop to 4000 nodes at Yahoo!

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/2008/09/scaling_hadoop_to_4000_nodes_a.html nice numbers!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Penguins ride air force jet to South Atlantic

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_sc/lt_brazil_penguins;_ylt=AiXBe2WUvtgD7Z6DkDsnWn0PLBIF "More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home..." cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Packaging software with RPM, Part 3

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm3.html explains how to detect an upgrade vs. uninstall which is exactly what I'd been trying to figure out how to do
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Bash File test operators

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/fto.html I find myself needing to look these up more and more
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

October 06, 2008

Set this TypePad free or I will kill it.

http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2008/10/set-this-typepa.html Adam wants free TypePad for all!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Monkeys work in Japanese restaurant

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7654267.stm I've always wanted to figure out how to put my cats to work...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

October 03, 2008

Picasa 3 (beta) for Linux

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2008/10/picasa-3-beta-for-linux.html still wine based but maybe worth another try?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

October 02, 2008

palinbingo

http://palinbingo.com/ get your copy for tonight's debate!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The Hot Room

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Hot-Room.aspx ah, I just love stories like this
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

The Deep Perl Gotcha

http://www.programmish.com/?p=31 yes, there is only one iterator per hash and that's kinda stupid at times.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Where are all the Blu-ray TV show releases?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/02/where-are-all-the-blu-ray-tv-show-releases/ I've been wondering that too
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ this is most excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

How to Get the Most Out of Your Eccentric Programmer/”Genius”

http://lispy.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-eccentric-programmergenius/ an amusing and somewhat educational read
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

October 01, 2008

Ridge Running [video]

http://vimeo.com/1349369 fantastic ridge soaring video
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

The performance effects of new patches [MySQL]

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/09/09/the-performance-effects-of-new-patches/ good to see
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Bug #219294 in xterm (Ubuntu): “xterm segfaults randomly”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xterm/+bug/219294 I'm seeing this too.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Bug #199285 in xterm (Ubuntu): “xterm crashes when compiz is on”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xterm/+bug/199285 ah ha!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Nero LiquidTV Introduction

http://www.nero.com/enu/liquidtv-introduction.html this looks like an interested idea if you already have an HTPC setup
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM