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I ran into some trouble with the Mac’s Terminal not supporting vim colors properly. It turns out that Terminal doesn’t have very good support for some things. Someone recommended I try iTerm, so I did. I wish I’d done it sooner. And it implements the feature I’ve craved for the longest time: blurring the background [...]
Digg just posted a link to 22 Profesional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials. Some are a little over the top or of dubious practicality, but others are pretty slick. And Digital Photography School has another useful one: Enrich Black without Affecting Overall Contrast, which can come in handy fairly often. Now I’ve just got to start [...]
I think part of the thing I love about MySQL is the same thing I love about Firefox and Thunderbird. Even though I sometimes wonder if there are databases that would work better than MySQL or have fewer bugs, MySQL has an incredibly rich community that’s home to myriad fascinating projects. I’ve looked into MySQL [...]
In: Cool Links|Ham Radio
10 Jan 2009I’m on a local ham radio mailing list. (Though I’m actually not sure how this came to be.) So a few neat links. The first is a yagi for 160 meters. Antenna size is inversely proportional to frequency, and 160 meters is the lowest ham radio frequency out there. The notion of a 160 meter [...]
In: 2008|Cool Links|Obama|Politics
29 Aug 2008Wow, a lot’s happened in the past 24 hours. Vladimir Putin (President of Russia, not Germany) has accused the US of starting the war in Georgia, to benefit “a political candidate.” For once, I’m going to have to give the White House the benefit of the doubt on this: as crazy as George Bush is [...]
This is getting way too confusing. All along, someone said “Georgia” and I thought of the southern state. And then there was a war in Georgia with Russia, and I was just geographically-astute enough to know that they meant the country. So that raged on for a while, and now, whenever I hear about something [...]
Rapper Nas has a new song, Black President [obscene lyrics, NSFW]. I don’t give it high marks musically, but it’s interesting to me for two reasons. The first is that rap music actually addressing contemporary issues is rare. (Though it’s not entirely unheard of: Changes, for example.) The seconds is that the song is about [...]
I’d posted before about my interest in picking up a low-capacity SSD card for my laptop, to drastically speed up disk access. (This actually has nothing to do with my recent posts about slow hard drives…) Newegg seems to have a 64 GB SSD, 2.5″ SATA disk for $240 after rebate. Interestingly, from the specs, [...]
In: Computers|Cool Links|Ideas|OCD|Programming|Rants & Raves
10 Jun 2008This post christens my newest category, Thinking Aloud. It’s meant to house random thoughts that pop into my head, versus fully fleshed-out ideas. Thus it’s meant more as an invitation for comments than something factual or informative, and is likely full of errors… Aside from “time geeks,” those who deal with it professionally, and those [...]
In: Computers|Cool Links|Ideas|Interesting|Linux Tips|OCD|Performance|Programming|Rants & Raves|Uncategorized
10 Jun 2008From my “Random ideas I wish I had the resources to try out…” file… The way the “pretty big” sites work is that they have a cluster of servers… A few are database servers, many are webservers, and a few are front-end caches. The theory is that the webservers do the ‘heavy lifting’ to generate [...]