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Technical

Server Info

I got some name-based VirtualHosts goodness set up so you can read real-time stats of the site. Thanks to phpsysinfo for making this easier.

Edit: VirtualHosts barfed. Back to the normal way until my OS Scripting practical is over.

Edit 12/2009: This is another feature that didn’t make the transition to new hosting and I have no intention of bringing it back. So there.

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Humor Technical

googolplexes of maps

Not to play second fiddle to tech news sites but this one is really cool. Google Maps just integrated Keyhole’s satellite images, so you can search for a place and see a real photograph of the place from 5,000 feet. Google bought Keyhole last October.

Here’s where I’m living right now at RIT. Reading headlines off newspapers will remain exclusively for the CIA, but what we get (for free) is really cool.

Not to pull a Bush and forget about the rest of the world …a world-wide already existing alternative is right here.

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Technical

This can’t be legal

It was bound to happen eventually…

Some shady person has pulled out his melting pot of copyright infringement and mixed old school videogame ROMs with a little Java emulation. Meaning you can play old Sega, Nintendo, and GameBoy games for free online, and now thanks the technology you can even play casino games online, in funfind.net you can learn everything about casino games. For other casino games, try out betting utan svensk licens trustly.

Its even got a pleasant amount of sketch. “Sonic 5 3D Blast” is definitely not a real game…and is definitely 8 bit. Enjoy!

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Technical

Discipline Crossover

Its a great feeling when you get to use skills you’ve acquired from one field and use them in another. I think its one of those things that will happen more and more often as I go on in college and life.

So I’m writing about data I took for a Data Analysis class project. We are supposed to use Minitab (statistics software) to calculate standard deviation, median/mean, plot graphs, etc. Instead of wasting time figuring out if Minitab lets you sort data, I just used GNU sort.

paws@edu paws $ sort minitabData

more power to *nix!

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Technical

iBourgeousie

iPods are far too trendy. didn’t you love way back when only rich people could be the true trendsetters and tantalize us with their telltale white headphones? those days are long over.

so screw ipods. i’m getting a Creative MuVo N200 MX (Extreemly Lame Title Edition). This little guy is really cool because it has features disproportionate to its price (by Apple standards). It does a whole lot of stuff for only $25 more than an iPod shuffle, and does a lot of things the RIAA definitely hates like radio recording and line-in mp3 encoding.

without apple’s currently good pr machine the shuffle would never make it in this industry…it’ll be interesting to see if it succeeds like the ipod mini or flops like the cube. we’ll see.

screw ipods, i’m iBourgeousie.