The Fountain By Darren Aronofsky
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FreeBSD is back to its incredible performance and now can take advantage of multi-core/CPUs systems very well... so well that some benchmarks on both Intel and AMD systems showed release 7.0 being faster than Linux 2.6 when running PostreSQL or MySQL.]]>
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andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is free and will remain so, but donations are greatly needed.
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To set up a tunneled connection to a MySQL server at remotehost.com, you can issue the following two commands on any client:ssh -fNg -L 3307:127.0.0.1:3306 myuser@remotehost.com
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3307 -u dbuser -p dbThe first command tells ssh to log in to remotehost.com as myuser, go into the background (-f) and not execute any remote command (-N), and set up port-forwarding (-L localport:localhost:remoteport ). In this case, we forward port 3307 on localhost to port 3306 on remotehost.com.
float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}
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Finding the inverse square root of a number has many applications in 3D graphics, not least of all the normalisation of 3D vectors. Without something like the nrm instruction in a modern fragment processor where you can get normalisation of an fp16 3-channel vector for free on certain NVIDIA hardware if you're (or the compiler is!) careful, or if you need to do it outside of a shader program for whatever reason, inverse square root is your friend.
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Jawr is a tunable packaging solution for Javascript and CSS which allows for rapid development of resources in separate module files. Writing a simple descriptor properties file, and using a servlet and a tag library are all the requirements to use it.
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Jawr offers the best of both worlds, by combining a powerful bundling-minifying-compressing scheme for optimal service in production, with a rapid development mode for quick change-save-test cycles.
Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key.
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Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com. With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers.
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Howto: Encode H.264 Video for the iPod using ffmpeg Homer's picture Mon, 05/02/2007 - 6:57am — Homer]]>Save this script somewhere, e.g. /usr/local/bin/podit, then chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/podit
#!/bin/sh
# Name: podit
# Summary: iPod H264 640x480 video transcoder script.
# Version: 1.1.1
# Date: 2007.07.11
# License: GPL Version 3 or Later
# URL: http://slated.org/howto_transcode_h264_for_ipod_with_ffmpeg
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The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.
You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within antag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page.
I found out this is on sale:
Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM
The 4GB compact flash card is a good fit in digital cameras:
Kingston CF/4GB-S 4 GB ElitePro CompactFlash Card
I'm still on the fence about a flash... I've been relying on quality lens, and willing to loose a shot. But this flash is onsale as well:
Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash
Anyone else have a 20D???
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TinyGraphs is an open source Excel add-in that creates sparklines, mini column graphs, and area graphs from a row of data. It generates beautiful tiny graphics that are as small as a cell and is useful for visualizing large quantities of data, such as stock prices and exchange rates.
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Mini PC cottage industry, is dead at 6
The Intel D201GLY is a PC motherboard that’s referred to as a MicroATX when it fact it’s the same size as Via’s popular Mini-ITX motherboard. The product comes with a “Celeron” Model 215 1.33 GHz CPU with 27 watt TDP (Thermal Design Power) based on a single core version of the “Yonah” processor which is slightly better than a Pentium 4 2 GHz processor.
Selecting a Wireless Sensor Development Platform
This article will present the problems a designer will face when implementing a wireless sensor network and the factors that are important in deciding which development platform to select. [...]]]>
One of the more interesting parts of the software layers in a wireless sensor network is the Zigbee software stack. Texas instrument offers a free version of the stack called Z-Stack. Z-Stack is compliant with the Zigbee 2006 specification and several platforms. A link to TI's offering is given here: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/z-stack.html
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In order to build support for TCP/IP, USB mass storage devices or provide parallel execution of software tasks one needs to resort to a RTOS. A good free one for sensor devices is Tiny OS. For more information the reader is encouraged to visit the following web sites: www.tinyos.net, and www.sensinode.com.