As complete beginner in programming Maemo devices, I was looking for an easy way to get started. Currently C++ is the only officially supported language for Maemo development. The Maemo SDK provides the tools and the Scratchbox sandbox environment. Scratchbox is a fairly full-featured Linux development environment and includes tools like like gdb, valgrind, [...]
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Maemo Development – Getting Started
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged maemo, n900, scratchbox, sdk on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Google CEO On Privacy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged google, privacy on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When asked about privacy in an interview on CNBC Google CEO Eric Schmidt said ‘If You Have Something You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It’.
Bruce Schneier said this on the topic. Just as salient today as it was when it was written in 2006″
… Some clever answers: “If I’m not [...]
War of Attrition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged wildlife on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like the mosquitoes are back. And so it begins….
MapToaster Topo/NZ V5.0 is Done
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mapping, maptotaster on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally pushed the MapToaster Topo/NZ V5.0 upgrade out the door with the new Topo50 and Topo250 NZTM projection topographical maps of NZ. Clink of glasses at the Integrated Mapping world headquarters…
World Scientist’s Warning to Humanity
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From 1992:
“Over 1,500 members of national, regional, and international
science academies have signed the Warning. Sixtynine
nations from all parts of Earth are represented, including
each of the twelve most populous nations and the nineteen
largest economic powers. The full list includes a majority
of the Nobel laureates in the sciences.”
[...]
New Attack on WiFi
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University have developed a practical attack on WiFi connections that use WPA security with the TKIP algorithm.
While not as weak as the earlier, and now completely broken, WEP security, this attack means that WPA/TKIP can no longer be trusted to keep your network safe.
The good [...]
Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gps on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Added a review of Garmin’s 60CSx GPS to the MapToaster website.
Alan Kay on Smalltalk Origins
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alankay, internet on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alan Kay responds in a discussion about the origins of the Smalltalk programming language:
This is an interesting example of an ever increasing web disease — that is: expressing mere opinions without foundations or checking. This one is easy, because there is a readily available “Early History of Smalltalk” that the ACM got me to write [...]
Feynman’s Messenger Series Lectures 1964
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Gates has purchased the rights to the seven-part series of lectures given by Richard Feynman at Cornell University in 1964.
The Project Tuva lectures, are hosted by Microsoft Research. The videos have a transcript and interactive annotations.
SanDisk Does Better
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SanDisk won the gratutious packaging award a while back. Bought some more. This time the packaging was of a scale matching the product…
Intro to Geocaching
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged geocaching, gps on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Added the new article to the MapToaster website, an introduction to geocaching.
Browser Wars
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged browser, firefox, IE, web on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The stats for one of our product websites has some interesting data on web browser use.
Internet Explorer has fallen below 60% for the first time – $58%
Firefox use has hit 30%
Safari is 6% and Google’s Chrome is 4%
Safari is pretty much only used by Mac owners. Safari use on Windows is negligible.
Uptake of new software [...]
Web of Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecology, wildlife on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life is connected. We have a lot of small grasses growing in the cracks between the paving stones in our yard. You might have an urge to “tidy” these up, but their seeds are currently sustaining a flock of 20 or so finches…
Hans Rosling and Data Visualisation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data visualisation, ted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hans Rosling (blog), Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, using data visualisation to explain poverty, health and economic development.
Swine Flu and Tuberculosis vs the news media
And two talks from TED. The first on HIV
And the second exposing preconceptions about the “developing world”
Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged linux, netbook, ubuntu, unr on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the AspireOne. Amazingly good.
The Windows XP installation on this machine was crumbling. Suspend/hibernate didn’t work. There would be no fixing that without re-installing Windows. Even when it was working properly, the XP user-interface was kind of awkward on the small keyboard and trackpad. This seemed like a good opportunity to [...]
ANZAC Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watched the Leopard Coach Lines Canterbury Brass play World War 1 era music outside the Canterbury Museum. Here’s what twitter said about ANZAC day.
Click on the image for a zoomable view (requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Stand by Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Playing for Change
Gratuitous Packaging Award
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged green on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s award goes to SanDisk for the mountain of unnecessary plastic and cardboard surrounding these three USB flash drives. At least most of the materials were recyclable and the drives themselves are excellent.
(Much) Too Much Time on Their Hands
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
New Mapping Articles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gps, mapping, nztm, projections on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Added some new mapping articles to the MapToaster website.
Choosing a GPS
About datums and map projections
New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) projection
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- Global warming circa 1957
- A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
- augmented (hyper) reality
- Nuit Blanche
- Maria Callas sings “O mio babbino caro”
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- Beautiful CG piece - watch full screen
- Video
- Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
- Christmas tree rocketry
- Miles Davis covers Micheal Jackson
- Messiah
- Universe in 6 mins
- kiwiright
- listening
- Scott Hanselman – Hanselminutes #183 - Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More
- Scott Hanselman – Hanselminutes #183 - Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More
- O'Reilly Media Open Source Conference – ITC.oscon-Hohndel-2009.07.22
- Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky – ITC.SO-Episode70-2009.10.13
- Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky – ITC.SO-Episode70-2009.10.13
- Emerging Communications – ITC.Ecomm-FlorentStroppa-2009.03.03
- Jon Udell – ITC.INNO-DanielDebow-2009.10.07
- Dr. Moira Gunn – ITC.TN-BellGemmell-2009.09.22
- Scott Hanselman – Hanselminutes #181 - Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware
- Jon Udell – ITC.INNO-StefanoMazocchi-2009.09.23
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