Having upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger, all programs just worked fine without reinstalling. All my files and configurations where I left them in Panther. Except two. SerialSeeker and DVDBackUp. Two important hacker tools. I could reinstall SerialSeeker but DVDBackUp is brocken in Tiger. Coincidence? Or is Tiger a sheep? Beside that, Tiger looks great! I'm not to sure about Dashboard. But Spotlight really does search my harddisc in fractions of secounds.

Pixar Sheep

Labels: Apple

posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Illustration by Rube Goldberg.
Build your own Rube Goldberg machine with The Incredible Machine.

Labels: Economics

posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Sony may lost the MP3 player market*, but they still drive in video. There new High Definition camcorder (QUALIA) surely looks like a promising hardware. At the same time Apple released a new Final Cut Studio on the software side.

It's fun to watch Sony and Apple rival in audio while they work side by side in video.

Labels: Apple

posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Lectures on Computation by Richard Feynman Feynman starts with the nature of information. Proceeds with building a Turing machine and a transistor. And he doesn't stop short of introducing the quantum computer. This book from 1984 reads fresh and new like there weren't any major development in the mean time.

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig

Labels: coding

posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Macroeconomics by Nicholas Gr. Mankiw The undergraduate and the...

Foundations of International Macroeconomics by Obstfeld, Rogoff ...graduate text on Macroeconomics.

Labels: Economics

posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

LaTeX by Leslie Lamport (the autor of Latex) The best introduction on Latex by the writer of Latax himself.

The TEXbook by Donald E. Knuth More on the foundation TEX.

Labels: coding

posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Computer Graphics with OpenGL by Donald Hearn, M. P. Baker The theory on CG and...

OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 1.4 by Dave Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider ... the reference for OpenGL.

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posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

A highclass view on RFID Tags.

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to replace bar-codes as the primary means of tracking and inventorying pallets and cases in the commercial supply chain. The uses of this technology, however, extend far beyond the supply chain, and RFID will soon become an integral part of our everyday lives. In this talk, CSE lecturer, Chris Diorio, will describe the fundamentals of RFID technology, the reasons for its impending adoption, the many benefits and looming issues, how it may impact the way we live and work, and the exciting research opportunities that await us.

I wrote about RFID tags in "Will Auto-ID replace barcode?".

posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

Very impressive stuff!

You can upload your home videos and share them with the rest of the world.

Now if you are looking for a way to convert those old movies on VHS, Video8 or Hi8 cassette ready for google or DVD, try iload.at

My Videos via Google

Labels: movies

posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 link to this post (0) comments

The question is, when will you be debt free?
Find out how long it will take to become debt free and how much you'll pay in interest by making the minimum monthly payments. You can also crunch the numbers using any fixed payment of your choice. And...if you tell us when you'd like to pay off the plastic, we'll tell you what payments you'll have to make to achieve that goal. You might be surprised.

I tried my luck with a balance of $20,000. If I pay $230 a month. It will take me 86 years and 11 months to pay off my credit cards. During that time I will pay a total of $220,393 in interest.

Luckily, at the bottom of the page, Google Adsense provides some help:

Now seriously, America is running a huge budget deficit, private and state wise. The risk of losing the dollars valuable position as the worlds currency is imminent. But losing to who? Europe? We just gave up the stability and growth pact and with an aging society there is even more political pressure on government spending. All this borrowing will push up interest rates.

Now, I guess, I will have to recalculate those interests.

Labels: Economics

posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 link to this post (0) comments