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GreenCine Daily: THESSALONIKI '09: Begging That Question
by karlcow
from Takeshi Kitano: "Why cinema? I have no answer to that. That's why I keep making cinema. I have been puzzling over another question that is just as important as yours, which is, why sushi now?"
Applying the Web to Enterprise IT: Separation of Concerns and Replication
by karlcow
What is the guiding principle to make an informed design decision regarding the direction of communication in such a replication scenario? The answer is separation of concerns with the goal of simplicity and avoiding unnecessary coupling. This leads to the question which of the systems should for which communication play the server role and which one should play the client role?
27 November 2009
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25 November 2009
Qui sont les animaux? : Belles plumes
by paulantoinem
24 November 2009
Mahalo.com: Human-Powered Search
by ycc2106
& 6 others
23 November 2009
setting dscp or tos bits | KernelTrap
by nicolargo
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22 November 2009
About | Square Polygon
by karlcow
Square Polygon is a Question and Answer site built for the 3d community. Ask a question or put a solution to a problem someone has, or just browse around for a topic that may interest you.
Novembre 2009 : Rencontre entre Lionel Pralus et Marie Sjøvold
by paulantoinem
21 November 2009
Emtec Movie Cube S120H : un boîtier multimedia BitTorrent - Interface Reactive , Large Compatibilité et connectique - (Micro Hebdo)
by decembre
20 November 2009
Was Nietzsche Pious? - Books
by paulantoinem
18 November 2009
16 November 2009
futurelib / YeeRDF
by karlcow
Martha asks a number of questions about RDF in the article. Even the title is a question: "Can Bibliographic data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web?" (Answer: it already is ) Martha is conducting an admirable gedanken experiment about the future of cataloging, creating her own cataloging code and trying to mesh her ideas with concepts coming out of the semantic web community. The article's value is not only in her conclusions but in the questions that she raises. In its unfinished state, Martha's thinking is provocative and just begging for further discussion and development.
12 November 2009
La délicate question du droit à l'oubli sur Internet - LeMonde.fr
by paulantoinem
10 November 2009
An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers ? - NYTimes.com
by paulantoinem
07 November 2009
Le Blog du Curé: Baptêmes
by paulantoinem
06 November 2009
ISBN : si simple… et pourtant si compliqué - 6 commentaires - “ISBN-13 et "ISBN-10" avec ou sans tirets : On arrive donc à 4 ISBN “différents” à tester…
by decembre
05 November 2009
Wolfram|Alpha
by rmaltete
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02 November 2009
CF2R - Europe - Pakistan : Fin de rêve pour les apprentis djihadistes européens
by paulantoinem
31 October 2009
Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked | Linux Magazine
by greut
Although we are not comparing apples to apples, Gentoo did out-perform Ubuntu in almost every test, and sometimes by a fair margin. It does appear that optimizing for a specific CPU can yield a decent performance increase.
Of course, Gentoo offers benefits in other areas with their USE flags and being able to build a highly customized system. The question is whether the amount of time it takes is worth the benefit, and that’s a personal choice.
29 October 2009
27 October 2009
Use WordPress As a CMS: Plugins, The Bare Minimum
by mozkart
Michel Layaz - Deux sœurs
by paulantoinem
26 October 2009
24 October 2009
Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
by karlcow
Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.
Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.
In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".
Times are generated by running shell commands like
env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"
every 20 seconds
The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.
FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)
From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.
