February 1st, 2008
Archive for the ‘Cool Links’ Category
January 22nd, 2008
Memory Considerations
November 20th, 2007
Alice
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
Hmm, I think I will have to check this out…
This is so cool. The second video is really neat.
October 27th, 2007
Xming
Free X server for windows that can use PuTTy for X forwarding. Sweet.
Now if I could just get rid of the locale errors…
October 23rd, 2007
F#
F#.
Hmm, neat. I like functional programming. I used ML in a class at Clemson, and LISP in a class at UNLV. They were both a lot of fun, and had some really interesting ways of approaching problems.
I think I am going to have to try this out soon.
October 23rd, 2007
ntp
Chapter 9 – Network Time Protocol
More general server info:
Linux Home Server HOWTO
October 11th, 2007
Lectures on’tape’
Hmm…
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition
The Symphony & How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Set)
Great Ideas of Classical Physics
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
And more… wow, not cheap (even the sale ones are prcey), but they seem like what I want… They aren’t short either… the last one has 84 thirty minute lectures…42 hours.
October 1st, 2007
I wish I could get rid of the urge to do graphics programming
But then I see stuff like Geometry Algorithms.
Kinda neat, but I think I will need to look at the code more to decide on the quality of it…
September 6th, 2007
Quick Backups using Tar over SSH
Howto: Use tar command through network over ssh session
Until I get Amanda working, I need to do a few backups manually. This seems like the easiest.
And this HOWTO is nicely written.
The home of this HOWTO: Frequently Asked Questions
September 6th, 2007
Lazy Vs Eager Init Singletons / Double-Check Lock Pattern
http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/articles/90803.aspx
I found this when I was lookign up some info on locking wrt a project at work. The work project used very pessimistic locking, and I thnk locked too mcuh, leading to major performance problems. I don’t think this article helped, per se, but it does have some nice info.
August 21st, 2007
Interesting Looking Cookbook
August 21st, 2007
Cool Link for my wife
Quicksilver : A unified, extensible interface for working with
applications, contacts, music, and other data.
Of course, she seems to be moving away from Macs…
August 17th, 2007
Potential OC’ing of Intel D101-GGC (ATI-Express 200 MB)
If you don’t understand the post title, you probably just want to move along…