The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for July 27th through July 29th:

• Weekend Project: Make a Pen Holder Out of Floppy Disks - Instead of throwing out those old floppy disks, grab a couple of zip ties and turn them into a roomy, DIY pen holder that pays homage to the old school method of data storage.
• Keith Barry does brain magic | Video on TED.com - First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
• Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain: Scientific American - Recently, a growing body of research has focused on a particular mental limitation, which has to do with our ability to use a mental trait known as executive function.
• J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine - J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
• Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard - Make Tech Easier - do i really want to do this. m-m-maybe.

These are my links for July 19th from 01:33 to 16:44:

• Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo: Scientific American - This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American.
• Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images: Scientific American - Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images
• The Free Fall Research Page: Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips by David Carkeet - Admit it: You want to be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it.
• Compile Software From Source Code - Webmonkey - Increasingly, though, with the popularity of open-source software, where the source code is available for one and all to read and enjoy, the final step of compiling the code into a runnable program is left up to the user.
• Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux - You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Win
• one hundred push ups - viable project?
• Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister - MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!

These are my links for July 10th through July 13th:

• Help me setup PLDT DSL w/ Ubuntu - Ubuntu Forums - ubuntu and pldt my dsl…who knew?
• talblog: Sundown - Sun’s own internal battles and basically just NIH by JavaSoft itself hobbled the development of Java as a first-class application development environment. JFC should have simply taken LFC or IFC and continued to develop it. SunSoft should have abandoned
• In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment — Thought Palace - My theory is that Java desktop apps succeed only in niches where UI design and usability don’t matter: development tools and enterprise software. Programmers expect things to be crude and complicated: anyone who’ll voluntarily use ‘vi’ in the 21st
• Jobs: No Java for you | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - Developers hoping to create applications for the Apple iPhone are bound to be disappointed if information trickling out of Apple is to be believed, especially if they wanted to create those applications in the Java programming language.
• Setting up home Wi-Fi using Linksys WRT54G, PLDT myDSL broadband connection | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments - important when i move a linux machine to a residential place where the only broadband is dsl
• Five ways to keep your PC cool on a hot summer day - a quick-and-easy guide to reducing your computer's power consumption

These are my links for July 6th through July 8th:

• Noodlings » The Sun Also Sets - Recently, a couple articles caught my attention. Triggered by news of the lack of Java on the iPhone, these articles go on to address Java’s failure on the desktop in general.
• planet rome.ro: Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday! - In fact, with the superpower of NeXTSTEP, one of the earliest incarnations of DoomEd had Carmack in his office, me in my office, DoomEd running on both our computers and both of us editing one map together at the same time. I could see John moving entitie
• Java? It’s So Nineties - Sun's groundbreaking programming language vaulted to popularity with Web developers. But now it's losing ground to a raft of upstarts
• Screenshot Tour: Kid-Proof Your PC with SteadyState - When you've got your Windows XP or Vista setup running perfectly, you don't want to lose all your painstaking customizations to a reckless tot, an experiment-minded friend or spouse, or a rogue system-lousing program
• Data Manipulation with Sprog | Linux Journal - Some of the more complicated manipulations pose a briefly satisfying technical challenge, but in the end, data manipulation is boring.

These are my links for July 3rd through July 4th:

• Hive Five: Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools - Hit the jump for an overview of the five best Windows maintenance tools, then cast your vote for the best of the bunch.
• Featured Desktop: Two-Faced Mac-like Windows Desktop - Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop, which makes you look at it three times to figure out what operating system he's using.
• YouTube - GCC: Current Topics and Future Directions - i miss the gcc
• YouTube - CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library - yes, it's been a while since i cared to watch a lecture on algorithms for computational geometry. i must be bored.
• YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo - Steve Jobs demoing the NEXT operating system. Many of the features shown here are now in Macintosh OSX.
• The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft - The INQUIRER - EVERY SO often, there is a big shift in an industry. The shifts are not usually visible until long after they've happened, making you look back and say: "Oh yeah, things were different back then".

These are my links for June 28th from 15:25 to 22:00:

• Wallpapers, Skins, Winamp, ICQ, WindowBlinds … .: SKINBASE.org :. - nice stash of wallpapers
• A Seattle P-I Special Report - Bill Gates is finishing his day-to-day duties at Microsoft, more than 30 years after he formed it as a small partnership with his friend Paul Allen. The move begins a new era for Gates, Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he will focu
• Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
• Bill Gates Retirement Party: Ten Reasons Why Vista Isn’t That Bad - Although we agree that Vista could have used a bit more time shoved back into the silicon womb for some feature buffing and bug fixing, it's not nearly as bad as most people are making it out to be.
• Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? - We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
• Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — Making good use of a little corner - Look at the girl in the picture, she is planting some tomatoes in little corner between two roads in the middle of Tokyo. Isn’t it amazing? She cares about that little place of land lost in Tokyo’s immensity, and what is more amazing is that she doesn

These are my links for June 23rd through June 28th:

• The Art of Unix Programming - nice programming book i'll never get to read in the short term
• BlueJ - Download - BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching and learning object-oriented programming.
• First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience - Novell announced the official release of OpenSUSE 11 yesterday. It's the latest version of the community-driven Linux distribution and includes significant new features like the KDE 4 desktop environment and the PulseAudio sound server.
• Featured Download: OpenSUSE 11.0 Integrates Compiz into Linux Desktop - OpenSuse 11.0, the latest release of the Novell/AMD-sponsored Linux distribution, has hit the download servers.
• Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0 - Boing Boing - I'm awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free/open music player for GNU/Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago while I was still on the road.