The Code Club

Charlie Epps running a deconvolution wavelet algorithm in Numb3rs episode 03x19 (19m 20s). Looks to me more like a Word HTML document, but then again, I’m not a professor of applied mathematics :-)

I’m amazed that some things just work: I’m currently editing a remote file in Komodo Edit (on Windows) via SFTP, to a computer inside another network via a SSH tunnel (as it’s not directly accessible from outside), which has a sshfs (fuse) mount to another computer (on the same network though).

Still, I do wish for a free alternative to SftpDrive, that said, maybe I should just bite the bullet and run a Samba-sshfs virtual machine

Well I’ve fixed and updated the OCAU For sale RSS feed. It’s updated every hour and is located here

Hacked up my gallery script into a WordPress plugin. Was a heck of a lot easier that I thought it would be.

Next up: OCAU rss feed

This (almost) marks the end of my running Linux (Ubuntu 6.10) on my laptop. I run Ubuntu at work, so this is more about compatibility than Ubuntu as a distro.

Laptop:

• HP Compaq Presario v6000-something-or-other (the Core2Duo one with the 100GB HDD)

Good things:

• Installed without any problems
• Audio and video acceleration worked out of the box
• Fast and responsive (well it is a Core2Duo)
• Only taking 10 minutes to install and play with Beryl

Livable things:

• Wide screen support. It was only a 5 minute fix, but there are a lot of laptops and desktops with wide screen displays.

The not-so-good things:

• smbfs (and cifs) suck. Corruption is not acceptable.
• Wireless support was flaky. I was able to get it too connect, but the speed was low (2.5MB/s over 802.11g) and was unable to get WPA working. The gnome network manager thingy was able to detect networks but never fully connect.
• Can’t play DVDs. No it not a decoder problem, just lots of seek/reading errors from the DVD drive. Apparently turning DMA off will fix this, but that’s not really a solution.
• Suspension and hibernation, well, just didn’t work

Now I said almost. 20 minutes ago I whipped out my original XP disks with FCKGW scribbled on the front (because my laptop didn’t come with any discs) and booted up. New laptop = SATA HDD = Drivers needed to detect HDD. So I don’t have a driver CD, or a floppy/floppy drive, and my desktop computer doesn’t have a working burner (Gigabyte DS3 MB with a single PATA channel with two HDDs).

Hmm, perhaps it’s a sign to install Vista :-)

Well, I’ve reached the point were I would rather a working website than one I’ve written myself, thus project-2501.net has become yet another WordPress blog.

I will attempt to get the OCAU rss feed up soon.

Ever since learning about the [canvas tag] 1 I’ve been wanting to try this. Yes, the captcha I used is amazingly simple to break, but, I doubt I’m smart enough to tackle anything more complicated. Though I feel it still serves a good proof of concept (espcially when combined with [Greasemonkey] 2)