cogitation
The Model A ran for the first time in forty years. Here’s a closeup of the engine, jumper wires and all.
I wrote a tool that increases the size of PNG files without altering their appearance. You should read about BloatPNG and then visit the GitHub repository.
UNL is back in full swing for the spring semester. I’m taking courses in heat transfer and math.
Reading
- Ever wonder why you can’t design nice things on the internet? It’s because IE says no.
- This infographic on the history of Presidential Inaugurations.
- “500 gig per second, if we don’t get a flat” - on the origin of the phrase sneakernet.
- The Fedora Project’s rationale behind migrating from MySQL to MariaDB.
Listening
A band called Quietdrive did a cover of the song Africa.
Watching
- The PaymentSpring folks put together a video application to Ruby Midwest. Watch it on their site.
Everything else
Someone has put together an apt repository for MegaCLI and other RAID-related packages.
UNL has started up a student organization called HIVE that will give students hands-on experience working on tech projects.