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Make Bluetooth Work for You: Build a Sample Chat Application

Make Bluetooth Work for You: Build a Sample Chat Application

Wii Exposed: Wiinternals, Wii-motes, and a Teardown Wiideo > The Teardown

Wii Exposed: Wiinternals, Wii-motes, and a Teardown Wiideo > The Teardown:

Figures 16—21 show various pieces and parts of the Wii for your amusement.

Figure 16

Broadcom 802.11B/G wireless card

Figure 17

Bluetooth and SD socket

Figure 18

Full motherboard

Figure 19

Hollywood graphic processing unit

Smoother Transistions Between Breadth-First-Spanning-Tree Based Drawings

Smoother Transitions Between Breadth-First-Spanning-Tree Based Drawings
Christopher Homan , Andrew Pavlo, Jonathan Schull
Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing

WiiLi.org Wii Linux - Wiimote

WiiLi.org Wii Linux - Wiimote: "This page is intended to be a technical guide to the Wii Remote. For an excellent high-level overview of the Wii Remote (aka Wiimote), see the Wikipedia entry. New information and status updates should be posted to the Wiimote driver page, and will eventually be digested and summarized here."

Contents

[hide]

• 1 Communication
  • 1.1 HID Interface
  • 1.2 Linux Notes
  • 1.3 MacOS X Notes
  • 1.4 Windows XP Notes
• 2 Inputs
  • 2.1 Buttons
  • 2.2 Motion Sensor
  • 2.3 IR Sensor
• 3 Outputs
  • 3.1 Player LEDs
  • 3.2 Force Feedback
  • 3.3 Speaker
• 4 On-board Memory
• 5 Expansion Port
• 6 Random Findings

squiggle motors

A very very cool piezo electric linear motor from a Rochester company.
see http://www.newscaletech.com/squiggle_overview.html

Tips on your new 3125 - Cingular/HTC - Cingular Customer Forums

Tips on your new 3125 - Cingular/HTC - Cingular Customer Forums

WHERE CAN I FIND SOFTWARE FOR MY 3125?

Do a search for "Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone software" on Google, and it will bring back several sites. My personal favorite is smartphone.net, but there are many others. Make sure that you download ONLY software that is compatible with WIndows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone version, Pocket PC software will not work, nor will most programs written for Windows Mobile 2003. Before you buy, download the trial version and make sure it works on your 3125. If you had a 2125, all of the software that you had for the 2125 will work on the 3125.

T TAKES FOREVER TO INSTALL MUSIC USING WINDOWS MOBILE MEDIA PLAYER, ISN'T THERE A BETTER WAY?

Don't use it!!

By far the fastest and easiest way to install photos and music to your 3125 is to use Activesync.

1. Sync your phone.

2. While connected open Explore.

3. Open My Device and double click on Storage Card

4. Drag and Drop your photos and music from My Documents on your PC to the open Storage Card window (i.e. don't put it in a folder on the storage card). Everything will copy over in seconds. DO NOT create a separate folder in your Storage card to store any music you want to use as ringtones.

Alternately, you can use your microSD card's SD-adapter and a card reader to copy over files to your storage card.

Do NOT use Windows Mobile Media Player to sync your music -- it will take hours if you have more than one song.

Accreted Wisdom, Etc.

Accreted Wisdom, Etc.
Advice for Graduate Students

IWSAWC 2007 — Multimodal Interactive Systems Group

IWSAWC 2007 — Multimodal Interactive Systems Group

IWSAWC 2007 - The 7th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing In Conjunction with ICDCS 2007 June 29th 2007, Toronto, Canada
	Call for Papers		Submission		Program		Venue

Microsoft RoundTable Video (Formerly RingCam)

This is something we should use on several of our projects

Fortnightly Mailing

Fortnightly Mailing: "Evaluation of Open Source repository systems

Here is a well-structured and clear 41 page technical evaluation [250 kB PDF] of 3 major Open Source open access repository systems (DSpace, ePrints, and Fedora), written by Max Maxwell, Jun Yamog, and Richard Wyles. The evaluation was funded by the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand. It was published in September 2006, and, in the case of ePrints, covers version 2, rather than the presently available version 3, which has superior work-flow capabilities.

Posted on 20/11/2006 in Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)"

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Standard Error Redirector

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Standard Error Redirector:
Submitter: Stephen Chappell (other recipes)
Last Updated: 2006/03/20

This recipe was designed for remotely receiving bug reports. It was written after participating in a programming contest where feedback was not helpful. The concept presented here is a step towards working with Python remotely. As sys.stderr is replaced in this recipe, so sys.stdin and sys.stdout can also be redirect to an alternate source (such as sockets connected to another computer).

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Jepp - Usage

Jepp

Jepp embeds CPython in Java. It is safe to use in a heavily threaded environment, it is quite fast and its stability is a main feature and goal. "

Google Calendar

For the second time, my Entourage calendar disappeared.
ITServices restored it.
Meanwhile Gmail and Gcal get better by the day.

An auto-synch of Entourage/Exchange to GCal is clearly needed, but meanwhile

The easiest way to back up my entourage calendar was simply to import it into ical.

And then to put the backup on GCal, I exported from ical and from GCal. No problem.

Of course new events will come to Entourage...and I'll want them in gmail. But since all my email is routed through gmail and maybe I can keep Gcal fresh.

When I'm disconnected from the net....well back to entourage unfortunately. Until google's next move.

TED Blog: Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

TED Blog: Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks: "technology the '7th kingdom of life.' "

TED Blog: Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks
technology is the "7th kingdom of life."

TED Blog: Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

TED Blog: Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

reactable software

reactable software
flashlights modded to project these fudicial symbols would be another way of allowing 90 people to mouse around on a screen...
" T-shirts, buttons and other products featuring the reacTIVision fiducial symbols are now available for purchase! All designs on these products can be recognized and tracked by the actual reacTIVision software. "

projects based on reacTIVision

• reacTable*: a novel electro acoustic instrument with a tangible user interfaces where tangible objects represent the components of a classic modular synthesizer.
• recipe-table: an installation by students from the Interface Culture Lab in Linz, Austria, where recipes can be browsed by placing the desired ingredients on an interactive kitchen surface.
• Between Blinks & Buttons by Sascha Pohflepp.

Clear foam glues/coatings

Sculpt-or-Coat®¹ and Mod Podge®², used alone or more usually in combination, are the solution. These products are similar to white glue. They are both water soluble and dry completely clear. They can be thinned with water if necessary. The main difference between the two products that I have found is that Sculpt-or-Coat® has a thicker consistency and retains brush strokes when it dries. Even when thinned with water it still retains a textural finish when dry. However, it tends to produce a more rigid finish. Mod Podge® on the other hand is thinner and self-leveling as it dries. This makes for a very smooth surface. By using these two products together you can have the best properties of both.

¹ Sculpt-or-Coat® is a trade mark of Sculptural Arts Coating, Inc.
www.sculpturalarts.com
² Mod Podge® is a trade mark of Plaid Enterprises, Inc., Norcross, GA 30019

Ideas: Intro/Geometry/Nature

Ideas: Intro/Geometry/Nature

By experimentation it can be demonstrated that the tetrahedron is the minimum shape or structure that energy can take.

The minimum "thing" or system in the universe has to be a tetrahedron.

Anything less is not a system and does not have the properties of a system.

Systems can be made out of triangles, but how many?

By experimentation it can be demonstrated that only 3 basic systems can be constructed out of equilateral triangles: tetrahedra, octahedra, & icosahedra.

Therefore, all of nature must be built up from some combination or multiple of only those three basic systems!

If you're not willing to be wrong, you'll never do anything creative.

(he's also VERY funny)

Sir Ken Robinson (Ted Talk)

Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Hans Rosling's Ted Talk

Information Visualization and the dawn of the macroscope

Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Jeff Han's Multi-Touch Sensing

Terrific presentation of terrific technology.

Microsoft Touchlight - Prototype Demo

A multitouch system with built in cameras. Very cool

ars electronica

Gotta catch up on the work of Zachary Lieberman
http://www.thesystemis.com/ in particular

and ars electronica in general
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/webcasts/index.asp

Click here to see the movie

Motion Capture is a technique that translates motions into 3D-files. Motion capture is mostly used for animations in movies and computer games. Front have used the technique to simply record the tip of a pen when they draw pieces of furniture in the air.

Rapid Prototyping is a technique that materialises 3D-files. A laser beam builds the 3D-file layer by layer within a liquid plastic material. Every 0.1mm the liquid harden by a laser beam. After a few hours, the 3D-files come out as materialised pieces.

The Sketch Furniture project in Japan is made in collaboration with Barry Friedman Ltd. Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama and Crescent.

www.frontdesign.se

"My guess is the U.S. will have one of the fastest growth rates over next five years. One of the interesting things about the U.S. when compared to other industrialized countries is that it has more sun per capita," Bradford said in an interview with Reuters.

StrandBeest

Totally Wonderful:

	strandbeest

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives. webcam fast/ slow film photography

Design and Prototyping Sources around Rochester

http://www.rit.edu/~idesign/materials.html

Simple Stirling Engine

Could you do one of these in glass so it was all apparent, I'm wondering?
http://www.makezine.com/07/stirlingengine/

I feel a dome thing coming on...

the winner: http://www.shelter-systems.com/portable-classrooms.html
wooden balls http://www.craftparts.com/mall/Balls.asp?I1.x=35&I1.y=7
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/mathematics/dome/dome.html
http://www.georgehart.com/propello/propello.html
http://www.georgehart.com/
http://science.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/geodesic-dome
http://www.shelter-systems.com/
http://www.shelter-systems.com/roof-shell.html
http://www.shelter-systems.com/dome-coverings.html
http://www.marbalpultrusion.com/prod.htm
http://www.stretchandshrink.com/contact.html
http://bfi.org/expert
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/domes/domegeo.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2137134480771470882&q=urner
http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/sketchup.php
http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/index.php?cPath=3
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/

http://www.dr-shrink.com/
http://www.shrinkwrapsolutions.com/frames.asp
http://www.boatshrink.com/
http://www.boatshrink.com/shrinkwrap101.htm
http://www.shrink-wrap-film.com/ (video)

Leonel Moura: robotic art

Leonel Moura
A New Kind of Art | Robotic Art | Artbots | Artificial Life | Complexity | Non-human art

Soap Mouse on You Tube

http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/projects/soap/applications/index.html

MoGoMouse

Looks good to me.
$69, no cord because it charges while being stored in the pcmcia slot.


Reviews sugggest its comfortable too.

High Speed Photography

High-Speed Photography Instructions

Download this article to get all the details and instructions from Make: 04.

manta ray write up in Usability News

The British HCI group newsletter Usability News wrote up an account of the
HCI Engage 2006 conference. We got a a nice mention:

...however, by far the most glorious and elaborate event preceding the main conference [HCI Engage 2006], in London] , was a conference in its own right. (re)Actor: the First International Conference on Digital Live Art, led by Jenn Sheridan of Lancaster University and Alice Bayliss of the University of Leeds, focussed on HCI, computing and club art: 'mobile, avant garde art, the kind not typically put in a theatre'. 22 papers, 12 installations and 10 performances (some impromptu) took over the staid but elegant Octagon at Queen Mary, University of London. It brought in several people from the States, including the designers of a giant ray-like suspended robot that swooped over the hall and was later customised to dance just over the heads of attendees for the evening session. As well as hosting stunning displays, like the jugglers with light, ReActor addressed the serious issue of evaluation of art, and determining value from an HCI perspective. The full line-up can be seen at http://www.digitalliveart.co.uk/....

We expect video and photos soon. Stay tuned.

Liquid sculpture and water art

Liquid sculpture and water art: "

Spluch writes - 'Martin Waugh creates art out of drops of water through the use of high-speed photography. By varying the size, speed and position of drops, as well as the color, viscosity, and surface tension, a panorama of color, movement and intrigue is created.' - Link.

Related:



High speed photography - water figures - Link.
Homemade Strobe Photography - Link.Want to make your own high speed photos? Try our kit... The High Speed Photography Kit: The high speed photography kit enables you to take pictures of popping balloons, breaking glass, and splashing liquids, revealing a hidden world not visible ... - Link.
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A video projector the size of a sugar cube

A video projector the size of a sugar cube:
... both DigiSlide and Light Blue Optics showing miniscule demonstration units in the last week...

TRIKLITS - Color changing LED light strings

TRIKLITS - Color changing LED light strings: "

Pictured here, "Big Round Cubatron" by Trixie Pixie.

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath: "Cory Doctorow: Make your next romantic bathroom scene a little more post-apocalyptic with this $15 glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath. Link (via Gizmodo)


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The Fraunhofer Multimedia Dome

The Fraunhofer Multimedia Dome: "September 6, 2006 Making its first public appearance at the IFA international consumer electronics fair in Berlin, the Multimedia Dome is the first digital dome theatre to feature natural spatial sound: it envelops visitors in fascinating universe of video pictures and sound. The Multimedia Dome was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, the inventors of the MP3 format which has taken over the world in the last decade...(from Gizmag)

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Simple Drawing Robots

Simple Drawing Robots: " ...the coolest robots ever to be made out of cardboard ...insanely cool mechanisms made out of plastic bits, coathangers, rubber bands, and cardboard.

Google Image Labeler: Collaborative Tagging Game

Sounds interesting but here's what really caught my eye:

SearchEngineWatch dug out this excellent 51-minute presentation by Carnegie Mellon’s Luis von Ahn (also of CAPTCHA fame), who talks about ESP Game, which Google subsequently licensed to create Labeller. If you’re wondering whether the Labeller will help Google catch up on Flickr’s tags, here’s a salient stat from the video (8 minutes in): in one year, 9 billion people-hours are spent playing Solitaire; it took 20 million human-hours to build the entire Panama Canal - no wonder the professor talks about finding ways to optimise human cycles :-).

from Ajaxian

I have 4 new patents!

Searching US Patent Collection...

Results of Search in US Patent Collection db for:
IN/Schull AND IN/Jonathan: 6 patents.

	PAT. NO.		Title
1	7,092,908		System and method for selling protected information in an oem context
2	7,089,212		System and method for controlling access to protected information
3	7,085,743		System and method for creating and running protected information
4	7,065,508		System and method for operating a licensing server
5	6,266,654		Method for tracking software lineage
6	5,509,070		Method for encouraging purchase of executable and non-executable software

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Implementing an embedded Linux web app framework

Foreword -- This article describes a way to build embedded Linux web applications that follow the "Model, View, Controller" (MVC) software architecture popular nowadays among enterprise web application developers, yet are capable of running on a 130MHz ARM processor. The method is based on several popular open source software components. Enjoy . . . !
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5550934609.html


Clearsilver is the real gem that was discovered during this exercise. Clearsilver is a language-neutral HTML template system written in C. It is used as the templating system for many high volume sites such as Google Groups 2. Clearsilver also provides CGI handling functions and bindings to several languages including Python.

Environmental Advocacy Program, Keene NH

The Environmental Advocacy Program | Overview | Eight Key Ideas Foundation Areas | Program Requirements | Course Sequence | EAOP Blog Course Descriptions | FAQ | Job Opportunities | The Advocacy Clinic | Contact Us

Ready for the next step in your leadership development and activism?

Want to make a living working for environmental protection, corporate accountability, and social justice? We can provide you with the sustained political education and skill development you need to become an effective social change leader. Our new one-of-a-kind master's program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing is currently accepting applications for next Fall.

“The Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program is a unique gem in the academic world: a values-based training program for effective, progressive leadership. Its flexibility, its relevance to local, regional, national, and international issues, and its holistic approach to analyzing and helping to solve a wide range of environmental, economic, and social problems have made this program an invaluable undertaking.”

Peter Alexander, M.S. '04

Read more about the inspiration behind this program.

Fish piloted vehicle

Fish piloted vehicle: "
Somewhat like the roach controlled robot from MAKE 02, this fish controlled vehicle navigates around as the fish pilot swims to different locations in the bowl .

‘Month of Sundays’ Real-time Internet Performances.

‘Month of Sundays’ Real-time Internet Performances.: "Archived recordings of ‘Month of Sundays’, ready for viewing of the Real-time, Internet Performances.

Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon: WIKIs - a tipping point for the Web?

Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon: WIKIs - a tipping point for the Web?: "'Is the Web just a hyperlink's way of making another hyperlink in the same way that a chicken can be viewed as an egg's way of making another egg?' -- WIKIs - a tipping point for the Web?"

Manta and friends flying to London

We have had an abstract accepted for the (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art September 11, 2006 in London, which looks like great fun.

The conference will include both day time presentations and evening ambient after party.
Performances and presentations were solicited in all areas of Digital Live Art, including but not limited to:

• Creative clubbing and the playful arena
• Space, body, machine
• Inputs and outputs – co-creation and the dialogic exchange within digital live arts practice
• Computing for the experiential and cerebral
• Performance and the design of interactive interfaces
• Experimental music technology
• Creative displays and projections
• Tools for performers, participants and observers
• Networking, open-source clubbing and the free party
• Models and formal methods of interaction
• Her-story and his-story of computing and clubbing

It sounds as if we'll give an academic talk and have our work flying the 3-story vaulted ceiling of a Reading Room at University of London.

Physical Flight through Cyberspace: an Interactive Ultra-Light Cable Array Mobile with Novel Input Methods

Jon Schull
Brian Ballsun-Stanton
Rochester Institute of Technology

Increasingly we all swim through a transparent sea of cyberspace. An important function of both digital Art and HCI design is to help us navigate, perceive and feel at home in this “strange new land”. This spring a graduate class on “Innovation and Invention” at Rochester Institute of Technology deployed an ultra-light cable-array robot, a projection of cyberspace, and a fiberglass mobile of a manta ray, all controlled by a human operator with a data glove (http://www.vrealities.com/P5.html). Made of flexible fiberglass kite rods and suspended by fishing line to 4 computer-controlled motors, this “wireframe” apparition moved with surprising vigor through a 3-story atrium accompanied by projected digital images snatched from the ambient ether of local wifi networks. The project itself taught us some interesting lessons about the role of intuition and muscle memory in computer-mediated tele-operation.

Even in its first rendition, the artistic piece made an interesting artistic statement and was an entertaining accompaniment to a social event. It would fit in perfectly with the after-party but we would also welcome an opportunity to speak more academically about some technical and artistic issues that arise.

A 11 minute video of the manta's debut is at http://jonschull.blogspot.com/2006/06/fanfare-for-common-manta.html

ControllerMate

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of basic programming tools, and to allow the user to combine those tools in an endless variety of ways.

Controller programming — A new approach
In order to program the buttons on a controller, one might expect that a user would be presented with a list of buttons and a list of available functions. Match the button to the desired function. Simple. Effective.

ControllerMate allows you to create virtual mouse, tablet and joystick devices. These are devices that are created entirely by you, but applications will see them just like the devices that you have plugged into your computer. Using ControllerMate’s building blocks and controller configurations, you can control every move that these virtual devices make. Among other uses, you can use a virtual device to turn a joystick into a full-featured mouse.

Beerquad - DIY Wi-Fi antenna

Beerquad - DIY Wi-Fi antenna: "
Here's a directional Wi-Fi antenna made from Labatt's Blue cans

Attractive manta seeks traveling companion for fame and fortune.

Vendors! Be the first micro-projector vendor on the block to illuminate an ultralight flying manta ray cable array biomimetic robotic mobile sculpture installation!


Explay's digital projector to hit the market in 2007.
See also PVPro and Digismart.

Fanfare for the Common Manta.

You'll laugh, you'll cry.

You'll really believe a manta can fly.

high res (155meg) ........................................ low res (25 meg)

kudos, Brian!

Smart power, chain stores, and social consciousness

Smart power, chain stores, and social consciousness:
For my weekly podcast, [Jon Udell] interviewed Mike Frost, CEO of Site Controls, a three-year-old Austin startup that's focused on the part of the energy web that can be built out now, for profit, with near-term return on investment and a growth path that could eventually produce macro-level network effects. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

BLDGBLOG

BLDGBLOG

This is a beautiful blog on "architectural conjecture" and "landscape futures". Got to come back...

What to do with the US Mexico Border

A Fence With More Beauty, Fewer Barbs - New York Times

This is a great line of inquiry.

Blogged with Flock

Publish iCal calendars without .Mac

Publish iCal calendars without .Mac: "iCal publishing requires WebDAV. But now there's a way.

Box.net offers free 1GB accounts, and their servers run WebDAV. So here's what you need to do, in a nutshell:
Set up your box.net subscription (easy and fast!).
In iCal, publish your calendar (Calendar -> Publish) to https://www.box.net/dav, using your box.net account name (email) and password.
Subscribe to the calendar in iCal (Calendar -> Subscribe) at http://www.box.net/dav/Your_Calendar.ics. NOTE: Do not use https here.That's it!
"

Flock

Flock Start Page

Looks pretty interesting!!

Blogged with Flock

NYTimes Video Projections on a Globe Make Planetary Data Click

Video: Science on a Sphere

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/science/13sphe.html
The display is Science on a Sphere (http://sos.noaa.gov/) , a pioneering system for presenting planetary portraits gathered from satellites and other spacecraft. Essentially a spherical movie screen of white fiberglass, six feet in diameter, it displays video images from four computer-controlled projectors. Though stationary, it gives the illusion of spinning as the images move, and the nearly invisible wire that holds it up makes it seem to be floating in space.

Are we ready for some real crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary experimentation?

Our standard solution to the staying power of the conventional disciplinary/departmental structure is to add new courses, and then new programs, without changing much of the existing structure. Multidisciplinary efforts might sound innovative, but they don't change much. If we desire really innovative, comprehensive, pervasive, cross-campus configurations, then we must accept much greater structural flexibility than our current system allows. Department and college boundaries must become much more permeable. Joint and even floating appointments should become prevalent, and we should be constantly reinventing ourselves and our structure. Are we ready for some real crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary experimentation?

--Raymond C. Miller
http://www.sfsu.edu/~uic/intervsmulti.html

cannot open display: :0.0

For the Nth time, I have had to remember how to configure the X11 display variable to cope with this error
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
when running vpython on Mac OS X

First, I need to be running x11 (I knew that)
Second, I need to run the appropriate version of python /sw/bin/python2.4 (I knew that)

Third, my .tcshrc file needed to contain this line
setenv DISPLAY :1.0
Now that's unusual. Usually, it's 0.0

indeed, a few days later and I have to set it back to 0.0
why??


You've got to get them all right all the time (I know that, and I resent it.)

Mount a Box.net account on a Mac

Mount a Box.net account on a Mac: "Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
Box.net is an iDisk-like service that allows you to mount an 'internet hard drive' on your desktop (they offer both free and paid accounts).

1 GB is free, while 5 GB is $4.99/month, and 15 go for $9.99/month. Enjoy.

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Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense

Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense: -- people who've had the implant report that they can tell when a wire is live and when they're going through a magnet security-scanner at a store, even when their laptops' hard drives are spinning up.