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JT Herman Plaza 1

JT Herman Plaza 1 Originally uploaded by drudru Photo 1 – a portion of the Tibet protest, China support for the Olympic Torch

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Usenix proceedings now free!

Usenix proceedings are now free! Nice! That is some really high quality content.

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What You Should Know About Image Scaling

If you go to Yahoo Finance, and look at their tech ticker. The images look bad. Why? Well, like so many sites that have thumbnails… they don’t use the correct algorithm for proper bitmap scaling. The fix for this is … Continue reading

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Old Skool

looks like people are rediscovering the beauty of pure vector graphics, and even taking it to the next level. Here is a great blog post with a collection of YouTube videos of some great oscilloscope demos. My favorite is the … Continue reading

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A simple-directory printer: Part 2

Today I saw a posting asking “what does this command do?” ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g’ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’ Hint: it is related to my post which is now part 1. I … Continue reading

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iPhone

I gotta say, this phone is still the best phone I’ve ever had. Here is why: First, it works great as a phone, which is the whole point of the device. I have no complaints there. Second, it works great … Continue reading

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A Few Sad Losses Recently

Last week, I found out that Michael Klein passed away in an accident. It was a bit of a shock. You can read about the incident in the news. I knew Mike from eGroups and I had a tremendous amount … Continue reading

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COPA vs. COPPA and Chappelle

I make mistakes every now and then. For example, I saw that movie Rize recently. Good movie. I was talking to a few people about it and I mentioned that I thought it was pretty cool for Dave Chapelle to … Continue reading

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