A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
They’re not here to be at the top of the ladder; they are here to learn to climb. If they can’t do it on their own, they will survive the disappointment. What’s more, they will have a goal and the incentive to work to achieve it. It is not my job — and it is …
Continue reading “Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please don’t help my kids”
It’s a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data. Any time – any time – you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive. Suicide Linux → …
Sometime last week BangWithFriends started going round. The app lets you (anonymously) mark Facebook friends you are sexually interested in. If the interest is mutual, you’ll both be notified. Brilliant app I must say (it makes our promiscue youth even more introvert)! It gets really interesting when combined with Graph Search: Looks like I don’t …
GravitySpace is a new approach to tracking people and objects indoors. Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor is limited to sensing objects in direct contact with the ground, GravitySpace reconstructs contents above the ground by first identifying objects based on their texture and then …
Microsoft released Modern.IE, a set of tools to help you support modern and older versions of Internet Explorer. Along with that, they’ve also released updated Internet Explorer Virtual Machines. Avaiable are VM’s with IE7 (Vista), IE8 (Win7), IE9 (Win7) and IE10 (Win8). An IE6 (XP) is coming soon. Modern.IE → Modern.IE Virtualization Tools (VMs) →
If your car is ever stolen, your first calls should be to every cab company in the city. You offer a $50 reward to the driver who finds it AND a $50 reward to the dispatcher on duty when the car is found. The latter is to encourage dispatchers on shift to continually remind drivers …
BFS-Auto can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using the original media format. This performance is realized by three key points: high-speed fully-automated page flipping, real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages, and high-accuracy restoration to a flat document image.
Last year TNT made an ad in Belgium named A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square that went viral. Pretty sure you’ve seen it. A few days ago they made a Dutch version A Dramatic Surprise on an ice-cold day: What caught my eye wasn’t the video itself, but this braintwist on Geekologie: “Why don’t …