Making it happen
Archive for October, 2008
Next-gen Human Input Devices
Oct 12th
If you remember, Bill Gates has bet on handwriting and speech recognition and text-to-speech. Wrong choice, the real next-gen devices seem to be (are?) multi-touch and accelerometer-based devices (as the iPhone and the Wiimote).
Related: What’s the difference between an accelerometer and a gyro(scope) ? While it seems to be pretty complicated (angular momentum?),
Paint.NET Plugins
Oct 10th
Did you know that *the best* image editing software has plugins ? Check some of them here.
My Presentation for Wurbe #14
Oct 7th
It’s here. A bit too much assembler for a JavaScript-related presentation, but …
IgNobel 2008 winners are in!
Oct 4th
And they are funnier than ever:
NUTRITION PRIZE. Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy
and Charles
Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound
of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper
and fresher than it really is.…
MEDICINE PRIZE. Dan Ariely of
Duke University, USA, for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine
is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.…
IIS should be more fault-tolerant to stack overflow
Oct 1st
I had a website crashing randomly with
A process serving application pool suffered a fatal communication error with the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The process id was ‘5240′. The data field contains the error number.
Modified BIOS for 2 cores in Leopard
Oct 1st
For Asrock 4Core1333-GLAN: here, congrats to OriginalMACNUT.
Now only if I can get the dual monitor setup….
