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 Photography and Art  No Responses »
May 272010
 
Back to Photoblogging

About 6 months ago, I crap-canned the whole idea of multiple sites — one for dis-congruous ramblings, one for semi-serious photography, and one for personal photoblogging — in favor of a single blog that contained all of these things. Well, that was a stupid idea. I have since relaunched my portfolio site and last night I relaunched my photoblog, flimflam. Hopefully, this compels me to shoot more. But it probably won’t. If you’re interested: Calebs Creek | flimflam. Cheers. UPDATE: Two things, really. 1.) I used the word “launch” in this post like people were actually excited and waiting for this to happen. 2.) My screenshot shows that the last web search I did was “pruning rhododendrons.” Garden dork.

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 Posted by rsheaves at 11:07 PM  Tagged with: photography

Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patents

 Geeky Stuff, The World According to Me  3 Responses »
May 192010
 

These douche-nozzles just ruined my morning: Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patents. Megacorps with extensive patent portfolios suing to protect their legal right to a monopoly. Somebody poke me in the eye with a lawn dart, please. At least Billy G personally has better things to do — like rid the world of dirty little mosquitoes. Could someone please explain to me how this makes the software I use better? How does it promote technological innovation or advancement? Moreover, what do software patents contribute to the quality of our collective life? I’ll say it one more time: “Software development is both a science and an art. Patenting any aspect of it is like patenting the pirouette, the appendectomy, the color blue, or a method to identify asteroids that may [...]

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 Posted by rsheaves at 12:01 PM  Tagged with: $ale$force.com, drm, free software, micro$oft, software patents

HOW-TO: Increase your wireless network card speed in Debian GNU/Linux

 Geeky Stuff  1 Response »
May 142010
 
HOW-TO: Increase your wireless network card speed in Debian GNU/Linux

I recently replaced my cable modem and wanted to measure the increase in speed that I used as the rationale for the upgrade. (For those of you that are married, you know exactly why I needed to do this.) But along the way, I ran into a few surprises–most notably that I wasn’t getting anywhere near the speeds I expected until I tweaked the settings of my wireless network card. A quick hardware inventory Grepping the output of lspci, my network controller appears as: ricky@yzerman:~$ sudo lspci | grep Network 07:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g I picked up this RaLink card for about $8 US in a bargain bin at the local MicroCenter, and it has worked out pretty well. I knew beforehand that this [...]

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 Posted by rsheaves at 11:54 AM  Tagged with: debian, GNU/Linux, wireless

Patent Absurdity. Watch. Think. Discuss.

 The World According to Me  2 Responses »
May 052010
 
Patent Absurdity. Watch. Think. Discuss.

If you are a software engineer, you must watch this film. If you are an engineer of any kind, ditto. If you have a gray, mushy device that enables human cognition embedded in your cranium (currently not patentable), again, a must watch. If you are a patent lawyer, please watch, but you may not understand (try playing the video at half speed if it makes you feel more comfortable.) [Quick tangent: in my professional life, I am currently charged with implementing and evangelizing "lean" principles in our software development teams. As such, I am developing "an eye for waste." Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster. My eye is itchy, red, burning, and twitching after seeing the waste on a previously unimaginable scale that is our US patent system.] Patent Absurdity [...]

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 Posted by rsheaves at 10:34 AM  Tagged with: free software

HOW-TO: Get better audio quality when ripping CDs in Rhythmbox 0.12.8

 Geeky Stuff, Tuneage  5 Responses »
May 042010
 
HOW-TO: Get better audio quality when ripping CDs in Rhythmbox 0.12.8

So, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released last week and it shipped with Rhythmbox 0.12.8. I thought I’d provide an update to one of the more popular posts on this site: HOW-TO: Enable MP3 ripping in Sound Juicer 2.22.0, and blather on a bit about how you shouldn’t be ripping to MP3 in the first place ;) As noted in the comments in that previous post, Rhythmbox uses the same audio format and quality settings as Sound Juicer, so setting them in one place affects them in the other. But let’s focus on getting the results we want out of Rhythmbox, since that’s the Ubuntu default. When you insert an audio CD, Rhythmbox will recognize and display it as a CD device in the left side pane (F9 toggles [...]

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 Posted by rsheaves at 11:54 AM  Tagged with: free software, GNU/Linux, ogg, rhythmbox, ubuntu, vorbis
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