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code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

Perhaps I have a strange sense of beauty, but being (basically) a child of the 80's this Radiohead remix reminds me of many fond memories.



Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

The new laptop arrived today, and after using 18 of my cd's to backup software that I'll probably never use again, I'm installing gentoo on it. It's probably too early to tell whether or not I'm impressed, but I must say that the laptop has a number of features that I have been looking for in a laptop. More to come over the next few weeks I'm sure.
cheers

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The new laptop's shipped from China, a couple days early even.

For those of us who have to run a UNIX/Linux workstation (dual screen you know), but need a windows box to do all that "business" stuff such as outlook and msword check out Synergy incredibly it bridges the two desktops almost seamlessly. *very* cool technology
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Straight off the tcpdump.org website: http://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.htm

http://failblog.org

Last Friday my Powerbook died, and I was able to sneak it into the shop right before the AppleCare warranty expired. Unfortunately over the past few months I've come to the conclusion that the performance and heat produced by my 1.5Ghz Aluminum powerbook leave me wanting, and so after much thought (and endless spec comparisons) I elected to plop down a heavy sum of money on a new laptop. For the first time in quite possibly 10 years (I feel old) I've decided to give a PC laptop a try again and somewhere after June 6th I'm expecting a HP dv9700t to arrive at my door. Here are the basic specs:

• Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
• Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor T9300 (2.50GHz)
• 17.0" diagonal WSXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1680 x 1050)
• 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 50% OFF 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS!!
• HP Imprint (Radiance) + Fingerprint Reader + Webcam + Microphone
• Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection
• 240GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (120GB x 2)
• LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
• High Capacity 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Sadly, HP doesn't offer Linux out of the door on this model, and I'm more than a little skeptical about the claim of 3 hours (especially with two hard drives), but we'll see. I was very happy to find out that HP offers 21 days where I can return the item if it "isn't what I wanted". For me this means that if it is, klunky and awful I can return it and then just save my money for a Macbook Pro. The difference in price is really pretty profound, almost $1000.00.
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I recently found Alexander Müller's CPPUnit howto to be very helpful. The sources he provides are also quite useful.

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For all those math geeks out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE

Being that I am probably going to take Linear algebra next enrollment, I may want to watch these: (rush to the head)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_is9LzFSY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OkFTDG4fY