Month: July 2005
links for 2005-07-28
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Nerdcore hip hop is a subgenre of hip hop performed by nerds, and characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore artist MC Frontalot coined the term in 2000 in the song “Nerdcore”. Frontal
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While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, “geeksta” rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating “coding skills and school grades.”
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“How I Modified Fedora To Boot In Under 25 Seconds”
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“Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X.”
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Neo Geo gamepad for Playstation 2
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Some discussion on what happened the German electronic label “Force Inc” and its subsiduary labels after EFA went bankrupt and took everything with it. New labels are “Disco Inc.”, “plateaux RESISTANCE” and “molecular funk guerilla”.
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The Web is changing. The 30-year-old terminal-like technology it was originally is gradually giving way to new ways of doing things. The power of AJAX allows for rich user interaction without the trouble that has bugged traditional web applications
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“Hacking for Children”
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“Arfa received the certification when she was still 9, an impressive accomplishment in its own right, according to older programmers who have gone through the process.” Pfft, getting your MCP is NOT impressive.
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Awesome gamecube mod putting it inside an Imperial AT-AT
links for 2005-07-27
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Producer Mark Gordon (“The Day After Tomorrow”) is developing a big-budget feature based on the 1980s giant robot kids TV series and toy sensation.
links for 2005-07-23
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OS2Linux is a runtime shared object library for Linux (think DLL) for console based applications. It provides the OS/2 base set of APIs in a dynamically linked runtime library. It also supplies a set of custom OS/2 header files to be used in place of the
links for 2005-07-21
links for 2005-07-20
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The RSS Screensaver is a screensaver that lets you subscribe to one or more RSS feeds, and select a directory for background images. The Screensaver loops through the list of RSS items and shows the contents of the feed in the right hand side.
links for 2005-07-19
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This site contains a lot of information about music and open source computing.
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MHNA is a music/media/social issues website dedicated to the principles of a Free and Open approach to knowledge and culture as provided by such documents as the GNU and Creative Commons licences.
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a community directory of freely available music
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Old games history and download
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Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Git down…
Listening to DJ 3000’s Somewhere in Detroit Mix on UR, The Deacon’s Soul Saver is playing (probably my favourite track off the Interstellar Fugtives LP) and watching these guys dance in perfect time to the beat.
links for 2005-07-18
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This document explains how to set up the Hummingbird Exceed X Server and SSH Secure Shell on your Windows personal computer and how to use them to display X-Windows output
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… an hour or less, a buck or less … great bargains at eBay
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Oddly mesmerising flash animation
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Oooh, nasty
For the leechers
If you’re on Telstra Bigpond, you might have noticed that everyone’s usage meter got reset to 0MB over the weekend. Apparently it was because they’d been counting bandwidth usages from their “unmetered” sites such as Bigpond Files, Gamearena, etc. There’s some more talk on the subject over at the Whirlpool Forums.
For the film buffs
Went to good ole Mac Centre on the weekend with Rozie to watch Batman Begins. Most excellent. A very adult interpretation of the Batman franchise. Very low on the camp/cheese factor of the previous movies (even though I did enjoy them. How good was the Prince soundtrack for the first movie?) Rozie thought it was the best Hollywood flick for her this year. She liked Chrisitan Bale alot. Can’t say I dug Katie Homles that much (begone eviiil Scientologist!). Lots of cold nipple action from her for some reason though. I think even if you don’t care too much for Batman in general that this would still be an enjoyable movie for most.
A whole lot better than Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith!
For the ‘Spotters
RetroActive Records is coming back…
For the eBay addict…
Lastminute Auction is a great site if you’re an eBay auction hunter like myself. The site only lists eBay auctions that have less than an hour to go and are under $1. Looks like they even have an Australian section to the site. Oh happy days!
links for 2005-07-14
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Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker
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Free (legal) download of this legendary B-Grade movie from director/producer Edward D. Wood
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Boot-Up Manager (formerly Ubuntu Bootup Manager) is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity to handle thru comp
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GTKWifi is a GNOME panel applet that displays wireless network status and allows the selection of wireless network settings.
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Grime is a Gtk+ based front-end for configuring the appearence of GRUB’s boot menu. Grime allows you to modify the menu colors, import and select a splash image, or hide the menu. It is meant to be used in conjunction with other tools that edit the GRUB
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Use the scripts below to install Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8; scripts are also valid for Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 5.0) and Oracle Database 10g with Oracle RAC over your very own, handmade VMware Virtual Ma
links for 2005-07-13
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The qla-autoconf script eases the configuration and deployement of your QLogic qla2300 driver. It allows to do pattern based LUN masking, specifying the failover path and making paths/LUNs visible to the system.
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I should be able to use these instructions on RHEL2.1 as well. Much better instructions than what I’ve seen IBM provide
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This Redpaper will help you install, tailor and configure a storage area network using IBM xSeries servers and the latest Fibre Array Storage Technology (FAStT) subsystems they support.
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No need to use that pesky web interface to upgrade the firmware on the management modules, fibre channel modules or switch modules. Unfortunately doesn’t do NIC firmware updates
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The Official Ancient Domains of Mystery Website
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I feel this guy’s pain
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Clocktaves are great for giving a true melodic approach to your scratching. It is like playing keys on your turntable. It is, also, a totally different way of thinking. If you successfully want to use Clocktaves in a band, or with other dj’s, you’ll have
links for 2005-07-12
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How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition
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This is needed: gps-receiver, backpack with laptop(Tatonka Serverpack with Gateway Solo 2500), keyboard, trackball (from old broken laptop), helmet (giro switchblade) with display (old viewfinder)
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A round-robin, all city, 24/7 water-gun assassination tournament
Oh, Poor Paris
Looks like even Google is poking fun at Paris Hilton these days…
links for 2005-07-09
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Maybe with some luck this will help me to get my mythtv box working (yeah, fucking right)
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Covers some stuff that is probably missing from my mythtv database. “This is the reason I left myth after 8 months of use, there is no reason I should have to do this.”
Great Moments in Instant Messaging
[some_moron]: Hi David!
[some_moron]: Are you there?
[me]: Hi. Yes, I am. That’s why my status isn’t “away”
[some_moron]: Oh, great!
[some_moron]: Can I call you?
[some_moron]: What’s you’re number?
[me]: You’re already talking to me now. Why do you have to call me?
[some_moron]: Because, I need to ask you some questions
[me]: And this can’t be done over IM?
[me]: *sigh* OK…
Why oh why do people time and time again do this to me? If you want to call me, just call me! Don’t IM me, then ask me if you can call me. It’s completely redundant FFS. If I can’t speak to you on IM, there’s a pretty good chance (like a 100% chance) that I can’t speak to you on the phone.
And asking for my number. At work we have this really nice corporate whitepages system, which some poor group of developers have spent lots and lots of their time, coding, so that people don’t have to do dumb stuff like send emails (which already have signatures with phone numbers of the people that they’re asking the number of) or IM’s asking what somebody’s number is.
These tools are there to make like easier… use them!
links for 2005-07-07
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Lots of photos from night clubs in the 70’s
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Liquid Architecture sound arts festival. Sydney Program. Features Thomas Brinkmann amongst others
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the MSX emulator that aims for perfection