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Monday, June 29, 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

shell

Change the default login shell on Mac OS X.

text

Online Text Utilities

Things like "Encode URI" and "UTF-8 Decode". Could be useful.

big O

A Beginners? Guide to Big O Notation

Good article, but kinda fades out towards the end.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

theremin

Minimum Theremin Kit Schematic
Theremin Schematics
The Avalon Theremin
The Theremin - By Robert Moog
One Transistor Theremin - Uses an AM radio to pick up the signal
Theremin Schematic
Theremax Schematic
Theremin Construction
Hartley oscillator
Inductor
Capacitor
Electronic Oscillator
LFO - Low-frequency oscillation

Monday, June 22, 2009

C74 Perspectives: Matt Wright

Wow! Matt used to be a Post-doc at the lab. So cool!

V8-GL - intends to provide a high-level JavaScript API for creating 2D/3D hardware accelerated desktop graphics.

In other words, you can hack some JavaScript code that opens a desktop window and renders some 3D hardware accelerated graphics. Bindings are made using the V8 JavaScript engine.

Nice.

ribbon

jQuery Ribbons. Pretty.

grey

Gray code at the pediatrician's office

Sunday, June 21, 2009

org

An awesome org-mode tutorial.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

KJ Sawka = WTO - Live at Neumos

wow!

Friday, June 19, 2009

c8

Peavey DPM C8. The old MIDI controller in our lab. Quite a beast!

And a screenshot of the OpenGL panning app:

Here's a screenshot of the web based version of the panning app, which you can visit at pan.sness.net

x11/html

HTML as the new X11.

tty

The TTY demystified

Thursday, June 18, 2009

iPhone Ocarina App Demo - Ge Wang

Speaker identification with sndpeek

I'm making a version of this with Marsyas and Qt, it's called MarSndPeek.

cmake wiki

A really nice page on CMake:How To Find Libraries. Very useful.

qt opengl

A thread suggested that for Re: [CMake] cmake link against Qt4's OpenGL


PROJECT ( COMBINED )
FIND_PACKAGE (Qt4 REQUIRED)
SET(QT_USE_QTOPENGL TRUE)
INCLUDE( ${QT_USE_FILE} )
ADD_EXECUTABLE(exe main.cpp glwidget.cpp window.cpp)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(exe ${QT_LIBRARIES})

What I found for Marsyas linking a Qt application that uses OpenGL, I first had to add the following lines to marsyas-detect.cmake:


if (WITH_OPENGL)
    find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED)
    set (MARSYAS_OPENGL 1)
    SET(QT_USE_QTOPENGL TRUE)
endif (WITH_OPENGL)

With the important line being


SET(QT_USE_QTOPENGL TRUE)

To get the OpenGL header files to be included I also added the following lines to the CMakeLists.txt file in the directory of the application I was working on:


INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${QT_QTOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR})

Very simple, but really hard to find out how to do.

cmake opengl

Really nice page about using CMake to compile programs that use OpenGL.

nethack

An AJAX implementation of Nethack. Wow.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

as3

Actionscript 3.0 libraries. I wonder how hard it is to integrate these into haXe?

karmetik

Some new songs by my friend Manj as KarmetiK::Bhutan. It's Live Electroganic Tribal Dance Grooves

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

guitar

How-To: Replace guitar pickups
Replacing the Pickups in Your Guitar

shm

Trying to figure out how to turn on SHMConfig in X11 in Ubuntu under VirtualBox in Windows 7 so that I can disable my mouse pointer on my laptop when I'm typing.

Any ideas?

SynapticsTouchpad

xorg.conf & SHMConfig for Synaptics Touchpad
Cannot enable SHMconfig
What happen with SHMConfig?
Touchpad at Wikipedia
How-to disable Touchpad on Linux - for Fedora 7

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

reinstall grub on ubuntu


sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

pan

Check out my new Flash app at pan.sness.net, and as Panning Pedagogy SourceForge.

hackers

From : Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS

Thompson and Ritchie were the consummate "hackers," when that word referred to someone who combined uncommon creativity, brute force intelligence and midnight oil to solve software problems that others barely knew existed.

Nice. Me too.

melo

celemony melodyne. wow!

Monday, June 08, 2009

influences

Rose Melberg
Sholi

swf cache

If you have a problem with firefox caching your SWF files try about:config and setting browser.cache.disk.enable to false.

gp py

Genetic Programming meets Python

Sunday, June 07, 2009

olpc

An essential site for OLPC command line stuff.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

64 RGB-LED Table (8ch. equilizer)

64 RGB-LED color wave table (Arduino, 12x TLC5940)

want make.

Prototype Solenoid Drumbot - Cocek rhythm

The solenoid version of the drumbot. Much better.

Prototype Stepper/Servo Drumbot

This is a drumbot we're making at the lab!

Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Friday, June 05, 2009

medline

Medline (PubMed) queries with bibtex output. Sweet!

Sensitive Fingertips

Thursday, June 04, 2009

soundex

Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.

Just what we needed for a recent project. Neat.

sandy3d

Sandy3d is a fantastic 3d engine for Flash/haXe. I was using it in a recent project, but it turned out I needed too many polygons, and it doesn't seem to be able to use the new 3D accelleration in Flash 10. Still, a really awesome project and nice API.

Sandy FAQ
Sandy API

maya

Check out this really cool animation by my friend Rafael Besaccia.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

resist

An excellent Calculator for Resistor Color Codes

mysql

The State of MySQL

Interesting that both MySQL and Perl got stuck between versions 5 and 6. Perhaps they should just have jumped to version 7.

That's funny, now that I think of it, CCP4 kind of got stuck between 5 and 6 as well, but it looks like they've leapt now.

The lesson of the day is : Avoid version 6.0.