dammITMichiel's weblog // "A country that replaces freedom with security deserves neither" (Thomas Jefferson)Blogmarks for Sunday 29 June 2008- June 29, 2008 Interesting links of this week: Differences between developers from various parts of the world Yes means: "I understand what you say" vs. Yes means: "I agree with what you say" Creationist critics get their comeuppance A couple of weeks ago we reported on the work of Richard Lenski, who has spent much of the last 20 years maintaining cultures of E. coli to see how they evolve. His paper describes how one of his populations evolved the ability to metabolise citrate, something E. coli cannot do..http://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=708 And life is good again- June 28, 2008 Today I traded the head pillow I had on try-out for a regular, new one, after which we made the bed with shiny new linen and my new, very comfy pillow. Sleep is good :) After giving the community some time and updating my tablet a bit, the N810 with Diablo is useful again :) Read: irc'ing over ssh is possible again Updating over the GPRS link of my phone theme is the non-default Hendrika one: Application manager now supports updating the whole OS through apt; how neat is that No...http://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=707 How to downgrade while upgrading- June 25, 2008 Yesterday evening I flashed Diablo (Maemo 4.1) on my Nokia N810 tablet. This is a great update BTW. I restored the backup of my contacts and some other minor things and set up the Modest email client (which suprisingly now marks my mails as 'read' on the imap server, which it didn't before). However, almost every other program still has to be packaged for this operating system update, so now I'm stuck with a nice tablet that I can only surf and read my mail with :) me wants ssh for his daily.http://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=706 Nintendo doesn't want our money- June 23, 2008 Yesterday we went out to buy some stuff (shopping Sundays are rather convenient). We came back with a new pillow for me, which should make sleeping even more fun, but not the two games we wanted. Of course, those are amongst the most popular at the moment, but you would guess that would mean Nintendo did their best to meet demand We just want to give you money for Mario Kart and Wii Fitness, now let us dammit!Location: Homehttp://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=705 Blogmarks for Sunday 22 June 2008- June 22, 2008 Interesting links of this week: Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project Now that's an awesome way of visualising additions to a code base! Firefox 3 Memory Usage Interesting background information on what changes and tweaks where performed to make Firefox 3 a lot better Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields And it looks cool too! Uniqlock Music, dance, clock. Japanese girls dancing. Nice :) Kazuharu Sakura's leather keyboard: only touch...http://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=704 Father's Day- June 15, 2008 Some people find it a stupid concept a bit like how I find Valentine's day overrated - why only be sweet to your lover then, but I think it's a good day to show your dad you appreciate his existence and actions :) Maybe I'm just blessed with my old man, but I think showing that you really am thankful for his unselfish help fixing random things by giving him some decent audio equipment isn't that much to ask. Don't worry, those ear buds weren't that expensive ;)Location: Homehttp://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=703 Blogmarks for Sunday 15 June 2008- June 15, 2008 Interesting links of this week: Updating your n810n800 to a Diable beta version With a simple apt-get, no less. Diablo is the codename of the upcoming update of OS2008, which is also on the n810 wimax edition Location: Serverhttp://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=702 Zakynthos- June 9, 2008 We came back from the Greek island of Zakynthos last week, and as expected I made a lot of pictures. Here is a small selection; an album will be up later. Mouse over for texts, click for larger versions. Location: Workhttp://aquariusoft.org/~mbscholt/index.php?rantid=701 |