The Bipolar LISP Programmer...?

Just reading this: The Bipolar Lisp Programmer ...

Perhaps we should await a followup article on The Prosopagnosiac Professor? :-/

How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline

How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline  

Network Management under Ubuntu seems to be a complete pig's ear nowadays. I upgraded my laptop from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS, and all manner of things b0rked :-( ...

I bravely proceeded to upgrade to 14.04LTS in the hope that it wall all magically get fixed... 

WRONG! :-/ 

Can *anyone* make head or tail of network-manager, avahi, all the *dm's and daemons / services / upstart processes / ??? now? 

I give up... 

Turned off the networking with the GUI, resorted to the good ol' commandline; see How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline for some details. 

It works! 

This has me in a(nother) minimalist mood.

John Britten video at NZ OnScreen

During the late 1980s, Kiwi inventor John Britten developed and built a revolutionary racing motorcycle. He pursued his dream all the way to Daytona International Speedway, where, in 1992, as an unlikely underdog, he proceeded to beat the biggest and richest manufacturers in the world. Britten: Backyard Visionary documents the maverick motorcycle designer that Guggenheim curator Ultan Guilfoyle described as "the New Zealander who stood the world of racing-motorcycle design on its head." Watch the video here.

68 Katy: 68000 Linux on a solderless breadboard

No MMU, but it runs Linux! An impressive example of what can be 'thrown together' relatively easily :-) 68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard

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!");
    }

}