The maker of Kottke.org has an intersting site that publishes a blog over an 800 number: experience 0sil8. press nothing to continue.
A cool little web app at Carnegie Mellon University, that shows who is currently on the wireless network and which access point they are using.
cmuSKY also has some other interesting maps and statistics about their wireless Internet setup.
Update:
Oops, this was already on boingboing.net.
One of my machines at work seems to be a complete POS and does things like turn itself off every 28 hours or so. Interestingly enough, I can't find anything in any of the log files, nor can I find any core dumps. My only guess would either be overheating or just plain old junky hardware. While overheating could be possible, especially with the 50 or so other computers in the room, my money is squarely placed on it being a crappy computer.
Why is this on my blog? Good question. I had a few blogs related to what I was doing at work hosted on that machine (bmp.syr.edu/devblog and bmp.syr.edu/dbgrandi) which will probably get moved over to this new machine. I'm hoping to set up a new DNS record for grids.dbgrandi.org for the grid development blogs.
This was an interesting weekend at the anize.org house. Doug took the initiative and got a colocated machine from ServerMatrix. It's pretty bad ass; we have 5 IP addresses, 512 MB RAM, and 1 Terabyte of bandwidth per month. The whole transition took the better part of today and yesterday, but I think it will be well worth it in the long run. Having a machine on the 'net is still a new concept for me, so I have been trying to figure out the best way to use it to the fullest.
I saw on /. today that Alias will be giving away Maya for non-commercial use. Maya is some heavy duty 3d software that gets used a lot in the video game industry as well as computer generated graphics in films. While I was perusing their site I found a quiz that has you guess what is a real photograph and what is computer generated using, of course, Maya.
I just took the plunge and ordered up a copy of the new version of OS X. According to Apple, it should arrive sometime next Friday evening. I'm really looking forward to see what kind of new things they have and, even more than that, what kind of performance boosts are in store for my aging laptop. Lately I've noticed that my laptop isn't as fast as I would like it to be. But then again I usually have at least 15 applications open with 30-40 web pages open in various Safaris Tabs/Windows at any given time. I might think that that kind of load would slow down just about any computer, but it could just be the new G5's calling my subconscience subconscious mind.
I got an iSight today. I'm thinking of setting it up at home as a webcam to see what the dogs REALLY do when nobody is home.
i.e. - Does Plato lick his cage all day long or cook gourmet meals in the kitchen? Does Freedom solve complex linear systems using kibble or just sniff his butt and bark at moths?
I was looking around tonight to see if anyone had thier .emacs files posted and I stumbled upon
dotfiles.com. They have a plethora of available dotfiles. The emacs section is interesting. Some of these guys have thier .emacs file in a CVS repository. :)
One of the things that I love about google, besides Google News and the whole search engine thing, is how every once in a while they change up there logo for a day or two.
Today we have a possible rendition of the classical google logo as done by Pablo Picasso.
Check it out at google or here if it is no longer Friday, October 25, 2002.
Also check out the archive of old google logos.
dfc has been running Furthurnet on my machine a lot lately, especially since his got killed in the power outage last week. I love the software, but I can't stand what it does to my machine. The load average goes up to about 8 or so whenever he has furthur running for more than an hour.
Anyhow, I decided to put my money where my mouth (and ego) is and join up with the furthur team to help out with the situation. Seems like a nice group of people. I hope I have fun.
If you don't know what furhurnet is, check it out either on sourceforge.net or on thier own site, furthurnet.net
It's been quite some time since we've had cable tv here at the apartment. Translate that as, "The cable bill hasn't been paid since the 20th century." Anyhow, I've almost gotten used to not watching tv, and I seem to get a lot more done on the computer. I got bored the other night and started coding up my own implementation of DES in java. It still has a two major problem areas, encrypting and decrypting, but once those are worked out I'll try to post it up here for any interested in such things. I actually have a nice little collection of small java utils that I'll try to organize. I would like to put together a collection of java implementations of common unix commands so I can quickly add functionality to any Windows(TM) machine I may have the misfortune to have to work with. Think quick-and-easy Cygwin with java.
