Over the last few days I have been working hard on an application to easily interface with my MSR206. Essentially the idea is to create a cross platform tool which enables the user to send commands, read/write from/to the device. I am codifying the programmers manual. The language of choice on this [...]
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One of the most amazing UI and AI systems to come out of MIT is the Assist Sketch Understand System. This video, albeit old, is an incredible demonstration of some amazing technology being developed over at MIT. If one day I have a child who is interested in engineering, computer science or technology, [...]
So I had the benefit of logging into a pretty spicy Cisco 6509 today. The switch is fairly sophisticated as it does both layer 2 and layer 3. You might say to yourself, “now wait a sec thats lame, my home switch does that all day long.” Well guess what this isn’t [...]
Many substances fluoresce under ultraviolet light, body fluids, antifreeze, jellyfish and even chlorophyll. Most people don’t carry around UV emitters or see the world in UV, so naturally most people wouldn’t know that Quinine also fluoresces under UV exposure. Well where the hell are you going to get Quinine? Actually it is [...]
There is an age-old question which for the most part has been unanswered in the Linux community which is “Which filesystem is the best?” There are a multitude of filesystems which exist for Linux: ext2, ext3 (basically ext2 with journaling), ext4dev, reiser3, reiser4, jfs, gfs2, xfs,… the list goes on and on. The [...]