Something SimilarTearing at the veil between art and science with every poorly written post.It's Time- August 10, 2004 Making the move over to a new address. SomethingSimilar.com is live and has all of the old posts. It's not all that pretty (yet) but I'm working on it. Thanks for the bandwidth and the storage space, PyCS. I'll get out of your hair now.http://somethingsimilar.com Convergence Kills: What Apple is Planning For- August 7, 2004 Excellent article describing what Apple seems to be trying to with their iPodiTunes products and how that ties into convergence, cellphones, movies-on-demand and the MPAA (semi-spoiler: DRM). Far more interesting than this summary gives. I waited to post this but once I saw the followup, I knew I had to post it. For what its worth, this also really made me decide that anyone just sitting around waiting to see the cellphone market either implode or stabilize at a much slower rate is really...http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000313.html omg Classes- August 7, 2004 I'm beginning to go into serious withdrawal. I really just need to slip into a nice cryofreeze pod for the next 2 weeks. I'm in desperate need of the company of friends and the vast majority of them are still out in the Great Unknown (Ohio). To those of you whom I'm speaking of, prepare yourselves. You will not only be getting Jeff-bear-hugs but Jeff-bear-hugs-with-swing. If you're pregnant, have a heart condition or have a weak stomach, please infrom me prior to. Sigh.. 2 more weeks until..http://jmhodges.pycs.net/weblog/2004/08/07.html#P338 NVIDIA kernel module and XFree86 or XOrg- August 7, 2004 Note to the non-technical reader: Ignore this post unless you really want to read something that will teach you nothing. I've now seen at least 2 other people besides myself run into this error. The latest was a rather nice fellow who posted it on the Lunar Linux mailing list. While using NVIDIA's linux drivers, and running XOrg, his X server refused to start and displayed this (edited): Symbol noPanoramiXExtension from module usrX11R6libmodulesdriversnvidia_drv.o is unresolved! This same...http://jmhodges.pycs.net/weblog/2004/08/06.html#P337 Wrist Sleeve For Cellphones- August 6, 2004 While I would never use it for carrying its intended payload, I'm damn sure I could figure out something much neater to do with it. Hmm.. from Boing Boinghttp://www.karrysafe.com/phonesafe.html Speaking of CP- August 6, 2004 What timing. New measurements of charge-parity (CP) violation using a stronger methodology. Essentially, its been shown that matter and anti-matter are not perfectly "symmetrical", that their values are not just the "reverse" of the other, by examining how often B mesons and anti-B mesons (matter, and anti-matter particles, respectively) break down into K+pi- pairs (a pair of 2 more subatomic particles). Theory says that the decay of B and anti-B mesons should have the same probability of...http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/8/1 Journal Publishers Pissed, Poor Science Students Get Way Too Excited- August 6, 2004 Congress is moving to force a shift to "open access," a form of free-to-consumer publishing, for scientific papers. The move angers commercial publishers, who see their livelihoods threatened and it scares scientific societies, who are afraid they will face losses or costs they cannot afford. Even librarians, who pushed for the move, are cautious, because they are concerned for the health of the scientific societies. Peer-reviewed journals are the life's blood of scientific research. Through..http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/06/1225211&tid=134&tid=103 Hewlett-Packard Launches Line of Linux Laptop- August 6, 2004 This news is slightly dated (a whole 2 days old) but thats only because I hadn't gotten around to looking at the laptops themselves. Now I have. And I want. You can get SUSE Linux 9.1 already installed on it. And if you choose SUSE 9.1 as your operating system, you subtract $50 from the total price! Yummy! It's also in their "lightweight" line of notebooks! Sweet! I'll be damned if I isn't out of my (and most college students) price range. Car first, laptop second (ugh). So, all of my...http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/04/hp_linux_laptop/ Bush Ratings vs. Terror Alerts- August 6, 2004 There are few things that are quite evident from the chart: - Whenever his ratings dip, there's a new terror alert. - Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings. - As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. At the same time, Bush ratings are lower than ever. Interesting. One could argue that the frequency of terror alerts is going up is due to terrorists wishing...http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/05/chart_bush_ratings_v.html Broken Libraries- August 6, 2004 Does anyone know of a tool that flits about your filesystem and checks for shared libraries with broken links or am I going to have to write the damn thing I know it could be done semi-trivially but I hate wasting all of that time that I could be using on my 3 projects at the moment. Heh, thanks.http://jmhodges.pycs.net/weblog/2004/08/06.html#P331 |