This is cool! 3D tracking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNzL95ATO4
Monthly Archives: September 2015
It’s broken virtual machine’s week Yesterday X11 crashes…
It’s broken virtual machine’s week. Yesterday: X11 crashes in VirtualBox VM with “illegal instruction”. Today: Amazon EC2 VM upgrade somehow botches all executables, cannot launch additional processes. Reboot hangs. And: Amazon wants to mess with another instance.
Personally I think #Linux etc are worth much…
Personally I think #Linux etc are worth much more than $5billion. http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/09/30/1537231/linux-foundation-puts-the-cost-of-replacing-its-open-source-projects-at-5-billion
How can @apple say this we have…
How can @apple say this? “we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.” I commend them for it, but what will they do when presented with a court…
Never thought I’d see that from a major…
Never thought I’d see that from a major tech company. Apple: “when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product” http://www.apple.com/privacy/
Silicon Valley home prices have become insane This…
Silicon Valley home prices have become insane. This is today’s situation in my neighborhood. Not one home below a million.
Wasted most of the day on a silly…
Wasted most of the day on a silly @virtualbox / X11 issue. #Darn Hint: upgrade to VirtualBox 5.
Ad blockers and VRM
@dsearls thinks ad blockers could evolve into tools negotiating electronic relationships on our behalf. Intriguing, and ambitious. And likely possible. Read it here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/
Time warp
@chase website helpfully explains how to print from Netscape Navigator. #Its1995
Train in Bangladesh
And you thought your commute was crowded. By @spiegelonline