I just upgraded one of my home computers to Microsoft Windows Vista Business and discovered that my Canon PowerShot G2 camera was unsupported. I hadn’t bothered to check whether my camera was supported; it seems most digital camera drivers are just glorified USB Mass Storage wrappers and support for those is generally a given.
Unfortunately, Canon’s [...]
(10:38:13) Me: i have to learn harvard asm
(10:38:16) Me: *sigh*
(10:38:35) Friend: lol
(10:38:48) Friend: they gonna have like ivy league jokes in the asm
(10:38:58) Friend: woudl you like some tea and crumpets sir
(10:38:59) Friend: har har
(10:39:02) Friend: indeed i do
(10:39:11) Friend: have you seen the latest football game with yale
(10:39:22) Friend: i say… we did very [...]
I’ve written a Perl program to spider Facebook. I was looking for a way to quickly generate statistics about the University of California, Berkeley student population, and I figured that since almost everybody had a Facebook account, I could dump all of Facebook’s information into a database and generate reports from that information. Since this [...]
I’ve uploaded pictures taken by CalLUG (UC Berkeley GNU/Linux Users Group) staff during the Richard M. Stallman and Chris DiBona speeches. Please click on either of the following thumbnails to browse the complete album.
Richard M. Stallman Speech
Chris DiBona Speech
Now that I’ve survived my first wave of midterms, I plan on devoting more time to my extracurricular activities.
I’ve noticed that my daily del.icio.us script for Wordpress is broken, so I’ll be updating it to work again, and I’ll be finally addressing the nagging issue of time sync in that script. I also just finished [...]
The UC Berkeley Linux Users Group will be hosting a speech by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager for Google and a former editor of Slashdot, on October 17 from 6-8 PM at 306 Soda. As with all CalLUG events, the speech is open to the public and there will be no cost to attend.
If [...]
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably noticed that this site has been experiencing a lot of downtime in the past few days. My server hosting provider has recently installed a new firewall, which has been randomly blocking incoming Internet access. While it appears that they have finally been able to take [...]
T-Mobile offers unlimited Internet access for compatible cell phones through their $5.99 a month T-MobileWeb package. The service allows you to check your email, chat on popular instant messaging networks, and download games and applications.
The email access is very useful. When I’m on campus without my laptop, I use my cell phone to check my [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will also display games in wide-screen, high-definition format. It will be powered by three 3.2-gigabyte processors, compared with a single 733-megahertz processor in the current Xbox.
Eric A. Taub, The New York Times
Three 3.2-gigabyte processors? The new Xbox must incorporate some new computer methodology.
Why can’t a great newspaper like the New York [...]
I’ve released a new version of my Daily del.icio.us Links Script for Wordpress. This new version introduces a code cleanup and the ability to show the tags associated with a link as well as links to your del.icio.us page of those tags. Please refer to the latest “Links” post (see below) to see an example [...]