Techvana: Auckland Computer Museum - PledgeMe Crowdfunding

Near miss of CME in 2012 - We'd still be picking up the pieces if it had hit Earth :-/

Il y a plus de fumaginatin' ...

mmmmmmmmm....

Smokinatin' :-)

0mn0mn0m

VHS to DVD with Mac

VHS to DVD with Mac

3 for Bedroom C

A film which was panned by critics and no huge Box Office hit - but is valued by train buffs for its real star - the SuperChief train!

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Genius in France (YouTube Video)

Had never heard this one until today... It's a goodie :-)

How to Retire by 20: Kristen Hadeed at TEDxUF (YouTube Video)

The Beauty of Mathematics - TEDx Talk by Jonathan Matte (YouTube video)

Martin Gardner - Genius of Recreational Mathematics (via NPR)

You can explore his prolific output on Amazon's Martin Gardner page

Lockhart's Lament

A rather clever analogy :-) http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

Mac OS X Keyboard tips

iOS March Meetup
with The Auckland iOS Meetup

From John Ballinger:
http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/xcode-4-s-less-obvious-shortcuts
http://paul-samuels.com/blog/2012/07/26/xcode-conditional-break-points/
https://github.com/mattt/Xcode-Snippets
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html

From Peter Asquith:
http://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/ This thing is excellent! I've installed it on my Mac, works like a charm. Only weirdness is that it sometimes seems to appear unbidden... perhaps that is my clothing impinging on the front of the trackpad though? (High humidity here)

Syntax-Higlighted Code in Blogger - Alex Gorbatchev

This is a lot less tedious to use than manually converting and pasting into a blog post.

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

Code to Syntax-Higlighted HTML

This seems to work reasonably well:

http://tohtml.com

It'll Auto-identify the language, or you can select it yourself.

You can choose from several colour-scheme styles.

More Ass-Kicking...

This guy isn't pulling punches (or throwing pumpkins)... But he's right.

"Fact: college is a waste, but we haven't yet hit that point in society where we can bypass it. So we have to pass through another generation of massive college debt. How to pull in the suckers in? Answer: these articles."

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stamps.html

Geek Mind-Over-Matter: Bush Coding (Sam McEwan)

This is classic - Well done, Sam! :-)

For those interested, here's (a class-ified version of) Sam's pain-fuelled Magnum Opus:

public class BushCoding {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("This really hurts!");
    }

}

Updated GIT Talk on Vimeo by Randal Schwartz

Thanks to Randal himself, for pointing out that there is an updated version of his GIT talk on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/35778382

systemd

1. cgroups.txt http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
2. Original Design Document http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
3. Interface Stability Promise http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise 4. XDG Base Directory specification http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html 5. If run inside a Linux container these arguments may be passed as command line arguments to systemd itself, next to any of the command line options listed in the Options section above.
If run outside of Linux containers, these arguments are parsed from /proc/cmdline instead.

Fedora Rawhide Release guidelines

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide

Slackware Linux links

More than just Slackware! ... Eclectic list of some useful Linux and other programming links... dunno how fresh or otherwise, YMMV. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-Links#.22.27.27.27Slackware_LQ_Suggestions_Links.21.27.27.27.22