Ubuntu 8.10 is out, upgrade at will. I found a great pointer for those keen to upgrade.
The strain on Ubuntu servers and its mirrors is always noticeable for the early days of a release.
Bit torrent file thrive on quantity (and of course quality) The more the better, and its popular enough that your pipe will likely be saturated.
Max downloads!
You can, of course torrent the ISO, but even better you can dist-upgrade using bit torrent to get awesome speed with minimum time wasted - it only get needed libraries, not the whole back-catalog of stuff included on the install CD.
Max Efficiency!
I have had mixed experiences with dist-upgrades, but keen to try this. After backing up my data that is! Check the article:
http://torrentfreak.com/use-bittorrent-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex-081029/
Nice one TorrentFreak !
Friday, 31 October 2008
Friday, 24 October 2008
The best way to pick your US candidate:
It seems no one in the US wants to talk proper policy or real issues. Why waste your vote based on personality, or who has the nicest clothes?
If you are wasting your vote on trivial attributes, at least vote based on a cool attribute...
Unbelievable McCain Vs. Obama Dance-Off - Watch more free videos
Oh, and if any Americans are looking at my humble blog; vote 3rd party. Obama may be the lesser of two evils, it may be a historic event for a Black man to run for president, but unfortunately hes still part of (and therefore controlled by) the Democrats.
The rest of the world can hardly distinguish between your 2 major parties; they are both conservative in the global scale and have both lead your nation to ruinous debt: spending on wars with no clear stated goal, spending on defense against an imagined enemy (You guys have ALL the guns BTW). Go read some international press and see what the rest of the world thinks.
If you are wasting your vote on trivial attributes, at least vote based on a cool attribute...
Unbelievable McCain Vs. Obama Dance-Off - Watch more free videos
Oh, and if any Americans are looking at my humble blog; vote 3rd party. Obama may be the lesser of two evils, it may be a historic event for a Black man to run for president, but unfortunately hes still part of (and therefore controlled by) the Democrats.
The rest of the world can hardly distinguish between your 2 major parties; they are both conservative in the global scale and have both lead your nation to ruinous debt: spending on wars with no clear stated goal, spending on defense against an imagined enemy (You guys have ALL the guns BTW). Go read some international press and see what the rest of the world thinks.
Monday, 6 October 2008
JAOO 2008: Java conference in Denmark
A group of us guys from JTeam traveled up to Denmark to attend the JAOO conference. The drive is about 9 hours from Amsterdam, and is motorway all the way. And yes, we did go on the Autobahn...
Thank you Allard and Rob for driving me. Here is the team when we stopped at a rest-stop somewhere in Germany.
Eventually, we arrived in Aarhus. It took a few U-turns and questionable driving moves in Aarhus, but we eventually found our hotel and got ourselves settled.
We headed into town to find a nice meal and maybe a quiet drink...
Yes, we enjoyed our meal. Some of the speakers that the guys knew arrived at the restaurant and encouraged us to keep drinking. Ug..
The next 3 days were spent in this building.
The venue is very scenic.
There were keynote speeches in the morning for everyone, then elective sessions on a multitue of subjects. My professional blogl has a writeup on the technical content.
The first night included a scheduled party, compete with complementary drinks!
The JTeam lads enjoying the atmosphere.
Erik and I dissected ideas picked up from the first day - it may not make sense in the cold light of day.
Aarhus is a beautiful city, and JAOO was really enjoyable. I have come back with inspiration and so many new areas of potential learning/investigation.
Thank you Allard and Rob for driving me. Here is the team when we stopped at a rest-stop somewhere in Germany.
Eventually, we arrived in Aarhus. It took a few U-turns and questionable driving moves in Aarhus, but we eventually found our hotel and got ourselves settled.
We headed into town to find a nice meal and maybe a quiet drink...
Yes, we enjoyed our meal. Some of the speakers that the guys knew arrived at the restaurant and encouraged us to keep drinking. Ug..
The next 3 days were spent in this building.
The venue is very scenic.
There were keynote speeches in the morning for everyone, then elective sessions on a multitue of subjects. My professional blogl has a writeup on the technical content.
The first night included a scheduled party, compete with complementary drinks!
The JTeam lads enjoying the atmosphere.
Erik and I dissected ideas picked up from the first day - it may not make sense in the cold light of day.
Aarhus is a beautiful city, and JAOO was really enjoyable. I have come back with inspiration and so many new areas of potential learning/investigation.
Cool cars around Amsterdam:
I love Europe, so many nice cars around. Check these sweet cars that park in the basement at work:
Thats a Maserati Quattroporte I think.
And thats definitely a gun metal grey Ferrari 308 GTB.
I keep seeing this sweet Fiat 500 Giardiniera wagon.
This badass supercharged Range Rover sport parks outside my house. Mmmm.
Thats a Maserati Quattroporte I think.
And thats definitely a gun metal grey Ferrari 308 GTB.
I keep seeing this sweet Fiat 500 Giardiniera wagon.
This badass supercharged Range Rover sport parks outside my house. Mmmm.
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Annoying recessed iPhone workarounds
So as you may know, the first gen. iPhone (like mine) has a recessed headphone socket and so many headphones don't fit. I looked at my options - stumpy adapters thru to headphone extension cables that fit. I decided on the Griffin SmartTalk, an extension that has a few features.
Oh yeah, there is one other thing...
What do I do with the 2 meters of headphone cable?
I could zip-tie it to the top of my headphones.
From that angle, you hardly notice it. Unfortunately from other angles it looks dorky as can be.
Take 2: I built a short cable from some spare wires and cables.
This prototype is great, but its not soldered and won't be till I borrow or buy a solder iron :| The mechanical connection is good, but it sometimes makes audio crackles when I move.
Instead, I'm riding to work with the cable in my inner breast pocket for now. The mic has come in handy a few times already - its nice to have a hands-free bike kit !
- Most important: its designed for the iPhone so it fits in the socket, and I can use my headphones!
- It has a mic, so I can talk hands-free.
- It has a button so I can pause, skip tracks and answer the phone without looking at the iPhone.
- The mic got reasonable reviews, and I'm happy with it so far
Oh yeah, there is one other thing...
What do I do with the 2 meters of headphone cable?
I could zip-tie it to the top of my headphones.
From that angle, you hardly notice it. Unfortunately from other angles it looks dorky as can be.
Take 2: I built a short cable from some spare wires and cables.
This prototype is great, but its not soldered and won't be till I borrow or buy a solder iron :| The mechanical connection is good, but it sometimes makes audio crackles when I move.
Instead, I'm riding to work with the cable in my inner breast pocket for now. The mic has come in handy a few times already - its nice to have a hands-free bike kit !
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Freedom Fry
No not that stupid American renaming of "French Fries", I'm talking about Stephen Fry.
Its GNUs 25th birthday, and Stephen is showing his support of free software by wishing GNU a happy birthday, and explaining why it is so good.
http://www.gnu.org/fry/
Check it out, and go GNU!
Its GNUs 25th birthday, and Stephen is showing his support of free software by wishing GNU a happy birthday, and explaining why it is so good.
http://www.gnu.org/fry/
Check it out, and go GNU!
Thursday, 28 August 2008
How awesome is MacGyver?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver
MacGyver used to be my hero - who else "defuses a highly advanced nuclear warhead using a paper clip to short circuit the timing device" in their pilot episode? He also made "a thermite torch using aluminium filed from a racing cycle frame and rust held in a long tube and lit with a roadside signal flare. "
What a guy!
MacGyver used to be my hero - who else "defuses a highly advanced nuclear warhead using a paper clip to short circuit the timing device" in their pilot episode? He also made "a thermite torch using aluminium filed from a racing cycle frame and rust held in a long tube and lit with a roadside signal flare. "
What a guy!
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