I came across this link about a Virginia Tech professor that wrote a program to reduce energy wasted by computers. On the face of it, it sounds a bit smarter than the usual power management techniques that shut off parts or all of a computer when its not being used. It claims up to 30% […]
When my 3 year old son pressed the sleep button on my keyboard, we discovered that it actually sends my Archlinux desktop to sleep. Who would have thunk it? What was more annoying is that when the machine woke up, the network connection did not come back. Poking around in the log files, I saw
Earlier, I wrote about a way to import an exisiting git project into bitbucket. I’ve since discovered a much easier way to do this using git’s own commands. Instead of having to use git’s daemon mode and have bitbucket import your repository, you should setup a new bitbucket repository and push to it. Assume you
I’ve updated my theme here to make the layout more responsive depending on the device you view it in. For both smart phones and iPads/tables, the layout linearizes. That is a fancy way of saying the right sidebar should scoot below the main content area, and everything will become 100% wide to fill the screen.
I may be a bit late to the party with this observation, but web design is finally evolving. Mobile phones and tablets have freed us from having to use a laptop or desktop to use the web. Using HTML and CSS, designers can now use media queries to control how a site appears on different
When bitbucket added git to their code hosting service, I signed up to try out the service. Primarily since they offer unlimited free private repositories, which is perfect for one-coder projects like this blog. Each repository also gets a wiki and an issue tracker. Creating an account was straight forward, I then had to import
The TiVo community has started to dissect the latest DVR from TiVo and finds intriguing new features, along with more than 300 hours of HD recording capacity. Another interesting find, the unit is more energy efficient, drawing about 20 Watts. They’ve even started opening up their brand new boxes and taking photos of the guts. And a
Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read. By the way, while Wall Street may be responsible for bad things, it is Wall Street who financed putting a million miles of fiber optic cables crisscrossing continents and under oceans. It is Wall Street that financed the thousands of cell
The day steve jobs died, my mom, who is in the hospital fighting ovarian cancer, came off of a respirator. She couldn’t talk, so she used my iPad to type out what she needed.