tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37120882011-12-14T19:03:40.839-08:00some guy in venicedanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.comBlogger5371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-89850165062213114242010-05-16T16:57:00.000-07:002010-05-16T16:58:53.049-07:00

“As far as not being able to use Flash 5 to create apps for Apple’s App Store goes, it’s déjà vu all over again. Apple tried something similar years ago when it kept its OS proprietary (except for a brief flirtation with licensing in the mid ’90s before Jobs came back).”from Issues with Apple’s Decision to Block FlashFirst, the legal status of Apple’s operating systems has not changed to the best

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-30854404724792028872010-04-29T15:19:00.000-07:002010-04-29T15:30:38.513-07:00

Dear Internet Peoples:Please, please shut the hell up about the "closed" iTunes App Store already. Every time a news story about the iPhone or iPad comes out, I get to read the same tired and incorrect comments over again. Have you ever heard of BREW?Have you heard of the NSTL?Apple is only implementing the rules that carriers demand. DUH. If you don't like it, drop your carrier and get a new one

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-60837861218022460982010-04-28T16:23:00.000-07:002010-04-28T16:31:19.254-07:00

If you're new to mysql, you're going to try:select count(*) from table_name;Using that count() is resource intensive, it basically has to iterate over everything. If you have a large table that can take a while, and cause real problems. There's a better way. select table_rows from information_schema.tables where table_name='table_name';That gets the count that mysql uses to keep track of that

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-34824553878657444682008-09-22T17:39:00.000-07:002008-09-22T17:41:29.147-07:00

Just released the solution Mahalo has been using for getting bulk data into and out of HBase, including backups.You get see it here:Backup/Import/Export HBase data - HBASE-897. Documentation is included in the JIRA issue tracking it, as well as in the download.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-12194825803570419442008-08-29T15:55:00.000-07:002008-08-29T18:03:16.474-07:00

Which VP looks like a sure thing to you?Democratic VP Candidate Joe Biden?Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin?People rarely seem to realize how much power the VP actually has day to day, not to mention powers in the Legislative branch. Yet we often treat the President as if he were a king, when Executive power is very very limited. The Constitution was designed to keep the United States from ever

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-29126515820752352742008-08-11T21:00:00.000-07:002008-08-11T21:16:29.691-07:00

Well, in response to [ this ]...- We're using Hadoop and HBase every day, in production. We'd talk more about it, but haven't had much time. - We'll be contributing some pretty useful code for backing up HBase that can also be used for importing and exporting data from other systems. In our case we used it for importing data that had lived in a MySQL table into HBase, and use it for live backups.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-37117850203136643012008-05-16T20:04:00.000-07:002008-05-16T20:07:47.716-07:00

Oh darn, it seems that popular college gossip site Juicy Campus is down from even moderate loads of traffic - they are featured on 20/20 here in the US today. If you want to know what [ the juicy campus site ] is about, check out the Mahalo page.Watched a video yesterday about a new testing tool at Google - when they were testing it, they found that most startup websites could not handle more

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-15091629680163906942008-01-27T01:34:00.000-08:002008-01-27T01:35:21.307-08:00

- Moved (finally) to blogger's commenting system- Fixed some layout stuff- Removed old search, replaced with something new

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-33790028074554444482007-06-13T15:47:00.000-07:002007-06-26T20:41:05.429-07:00

So the cat is out of the bag.I left my last job with Infospace in March to join a startup. As some of you know, there were reasons to stay at Infospace at the time, though I would have been bored as hell. The startup came along really out of the blue, and it was completely the right fit for me.Two weeks ago we came out of the land of conjecture and launched [ Mahalo.com ] at the [ D conference

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1161490595845412162006-10-21T21:16:00.000-07:002006-10-21T21:16:35.846-07:00

Just making sure all the moving parts still work.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1154150490895349032006-07-28T22:15:00.000-07:002006-07-28T22:21:30.913-07:00

Wow. Long time no post.It's been a doozy of a first half of the year. At the new job, got put on a project that was too aggressive in many ways. New technology, timeline way too short, and no real plan. Still on that project, and it's become a real mess. Got into a relationship, got out of it. It was a learning experience - exactly what I do not need. I'd rather be single than be vanilla.Because

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1143487255787947662006-03-27T11:20:00.000-08:002006-03-27T11:20:55.803-08:00

Now, especially for tactical applications, you can't go wrong with a throat microphone. A throat mic sits the microphone(s) right on your windpipe, which makes them much more resistant to outside noise. The worst throat mic will beat out a boom mic any day of the week for paintball, airsoft, or CQB training. The downside is that most throat mics are made for high end military/law enforcement

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1138753376778579362006-01-31T16:21:00.000-08:002006-01-31T16:22:56.803-08:00

See, my problem is that this: [ missile]Is not [one of these]. While the two are similar, the unknown missile does not have several characteristics of the Hellfire family. First, the canards (forward fins) are missing and do not appear to have been broken off. In the photo at least the attachment points for the canards should be visible. Second, the seeker head is not that of electro optically

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1135116528202470832005-12-20T14:08:00.000-08:002005-12-20T14:11:44.756-08:00

Summary:A jar file, when built on MacOS X with Apache Ant, fails when deployed to a handset. On Nokia Series 60 v2 phones this will pop an error on installation with the text “Invalid file”. Other handsets may show slightly different behavior.The same jar file will often run fine in an emulator such as the Sun WTK 2.2 emulation or MPowerPlayer SDK. A jar file built on Windows from the same source

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1135068649947377872005-12-20T00:50:00.000-08:002005-12-20T00:50:49.960-08:00

New job. Been busy. I'll get back to you on that.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1133484903205187742005-12-01T16:54:00.000-08:002005-12-01T16:55:03.243-08:00

I don't like heights. Granted, that hasn't kept me from flying airplanes or throwing myself from them- but put me in a glass elevator, on a steep staircase, or, in this case, hanging from twenty year old curtains thirty feet above a hard and unforgiving stage and I get a little more than nervous. My legs were wrapped around old and dusty fabric, my knuckles white around the same, stopped just

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1130479394932211632005-10-27T23:02:00.000-07:002005-10-27T23:03:14.956-07:00

I did Malibu, and got there early (to avoid traffic). By the time I was out of transition, there was actually TONS of room on my rack. Enough for probably 6-7 more spots, easily.When I came back after the swim, what did I find? At least 2 racers had SHOVED everyone's stuff around to fit, and there was still plenty of room at the far end of the rack. One of these people racked next to me. And had

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1130211852662572982005-10-24T20:44:00.000-07:002005-10-24T20:44:12.736-07:00

DSCF0116.JPG Originally uploaded by quellish. Photos are up on Flickr. Enjoy!

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1127094567997225532005-09-18T18:49:00.000-07:002005-09-18T18:49:28.006-07:00

The GoodThe people of Santa Cruz offered exceptional support to both the race and the participants. A lot of races are held in contempt by the locals - roads shut down, traffic is rerouted, and people get angry. In Santa Cruz, you saw the opposite. On the bike course motorists went out of their way to give cyclists room, and many honked as they passed (which scares the crap out of you, but

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1126946110734135592005-09-17T01:34:00.000-07:002005-09-17T01:37:26.353-07:00

Pre-race Around Christmas time I found a pair of Spinergy Rev-X wheels on consignment at a local shop for a very reasonable price. Almost fully carbon and running tubular tires. Yes, the dreaded sew-ups. While tubular tires have come a long way even in a few years, they are still very different from the more mainstream clincher tires that most people are used to. This, unfortunately, means that

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1126677768161786212005-09-13T23:02:00.000-07:002005-09-13T23:02:48.166-07:00

It was long, and it was hard at times, but I finished. More to come on that.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1123115899847045302005-08-03T17:36:00.000-07:002005-08-03T17:38:19.853-07:00

Hmm.… seems I haven't mentioned this before. I upgraded to a [Nokia 6680]. Very nice phone, I can't recommend it enough - though until the latest iSync update I could not sync it. And now it seems that the newest [Opera for Series 60 is free] for the 6680 series phones. Can't beat that with a stick!

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1121932160618163852005-07-21T00:46:00.000-07:002005-07-21T00:49:21.246-07:00

Midlife Crisis (Faith No More)The Sick (PiG)Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)Opiate (Tool)All Wrong (God Lives Underwater)Cult of Personality (Living Colour)Jerk (Bile)Celebrity (Bile)Submission (Bile)Lowest form (Bile)And, not surprisingly, a lot of other Bile songs too. Hey, I like what I like.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1121756929833013312005-07-19T00:08:00.000-07:002005-07-19T00:08:49.836-07:00

Normally, a runner is supposed to be fairly conservative in increasing mileage. The recommendation is a maximum of 10% increase in a week. Just over a week ago I went from 6 mile long runs (about once a week) to doing a 8.5 mile run. Almost immediately after that, I did another run where I kept going for 11.5 miles. Now, this did result in a lot of problems afterward. I did find myself dealing

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1121231679599375342005-07-12T22:13:00.000-07:002005-07-12T22:15:31.580-07:00

[This] is such an oxymoron, it's not even funny. Safe, Simple, Soon? Let's examine that claim:Safe:They are proposing a manned launcher based on largely solid motors. Solid rocket motors are basically firecrackers - once they are lit, you cannot turn them off. If you have a problem at any point once they are lit, the best you can do is attempt to get the crew clear (in their concept, using an

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1121150121151307032005-07-11T23:34:00.000-07:002005-07-11T23:35:21.153-07:00

Shroom flavored smack ramen?

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1121150038626982322005-07-11T23:32:00.000-07:002005-07-11T23:33:58.633-07:00

I guess this one didn't pass the test market.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1114649303346694822005-04-27T17:42:00.000-07:002005-04-27T17:48:23.350-07:00

Around 7 am I hopped into the car and made my way over to CSULB, which was only a mile or so away. At the first stop light I noticed the rain collecting slowly on my windshield. It had obviously rained off and on overnight and the pavement was still slick. By the time I was in the parking lot the rain was tapering off again, but the ground was wet enough to be a problem. The start had been moved

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1112869095333977312005-04-07T03:16:00.000-07:002005-04-07T03:18:49.326-07:00

More or less on a whim I put together a full screen text editor. Sometimes it's nice to take up the whole screen and blot out most distractions. Once I figured out how to do exactly what I wanted to do, the app was literally less than 30 lines of code. It would have been even less if I used the standard methods of doing full screen, but I dare to be a little different. Really, besides that the

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1112656246096512902005-04-04T16:10:00.000-07:002005-04-04T16:10:46.096-07:00

More or less on a whim I set up Squid on my Macs using [SquidMan]. Not only does SquidMan make it very easy to run Squid on MacOS X, but it makes it easy to configure. I noticed a significant performance increase on the Powerbook and G5 with Squid running - pages came in much faster, even with a small Squid cache size. Squid just does a much better job than the caching mechanism the browser

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1112444234512066822005-04-02T04:17:00.000-08:002005-04-02T04:17:55.336-08:00

I won't get onto a rant about web services (XML-RPC and SOAP, specifically). But I am going to show you the secret weapon for using web services from Applescript.If you're reading this, chances are you know that Applescript can access web services on MacOS X. You may have already tried using Applescript to access a web service - and chances are you have pulled out a few hairs trying.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1112076611970645422005-03-28T22:09:00.000-08:002005-03-28T23:08:21.596-08:00

From the [Cryptix] OpenPGP README:The default distribution of the JCE allows as Sun calls it 'strong, but limited strength cryptography'. This basically means that you cannot use RSA keys bigger than 2048 bits, and no symmetric ciphers that use more than 128 bits. ElGamal is not allowed at all, thus DH/DSS cannot be used for encryption. This holds true for most non-Sun crypto

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1111986671473168142005-03-27T21:10:00.000-08:002005-03-27T21:11:11.476-08:00

Now, because at the time search engines took months to update, the results of deploying these engineered pages in the wild would take a while. Unfortunately, management didn't see fit to see that all the way through, so they were deployed and more or less left there, and the project was cancelled. The company tried buying keywords through GoTo.com and other services, but these had poor

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1111616130734045242005-03-23T14:14:00.000-08:002005-03-23T14:15:30.740-08:00

The objective of this project, of course, was to be able to get ranked very high in popular search engines for a given set of keywords. The search engine game is such that no trick worked forever - as soon as the search engine reindexed your pages, you'd probably fall in rankings as they changed indexing techniques. The time between indexing, however, tended to be months rather than days or weeks

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1111113590437469952005-03-17T18:39:00.000-08:002005-03-17T18:41:41.110-08:00

Since it's now been 5 years, I suppose I can talk about this in more detail. Sometime around 1999 I worked on a project to create a system to place pages well in search engines, and I took what was then a novel approach. At the time, overloading META tags was still in use, as was intentionally poorly formed HTML. Neither was a long term success strategy, and this was just when Google was starting

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1110953076335425382005-03-15T22:04:00.000-08:002005-03-15T22:04:36.336-08:00

Rental cars suck. First an SUV, which was huge, underpowered, and had connectors for a DVD player; then a Cavalier:cavalier adj. 1. Showing arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive: a cavalier attitude toward the suffering of others. Which about sums it up.So after yet another ordeal with insurance, banks, and other things, I got a new car. The dealer experience itself was nice - they don't do

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1110267993513092582005-03-07T23:46:00.000-08:002005-03-07T23:46:33.513-08:00

My current line of thinking is that email should be a lot more like a wiki, which is very much in line with the [intertwingle] idea. While I see a wiki as a knowledge repository, much like a more dynamic HyperCard, or just how the web should have been built in the first place, many people see a wiki as the sum of it's markup language. I've decided that standard plaintext email conventions are

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1109822929956860162005-03-02T20:08:00.000-08:002005-03-02T20:08:49.956-08:00

I do not do it because it's fun. I do not do it because it is rewarding, or because it is challenging. I don't even do it for the money.I do it because you can't.You are not a programmer.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1107818107908299122005-02-07T15:14:00.000-08:002005-02-07T15:15:07.906-08:00

So just to review.… 1. Major fraud on my bank account. Apparently someone in another country took out a large sum of money. Might not be able to get it back. 2. Got into a major car accident, somewhat banged up, and the car is a loss. Upside is that I found someone willing to buy it for parts. 3. Broke the chain on the mountain bike coming home from work, had to walk the bike 4-5 miles. Not fun.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1107751905619290022005-02-06T20:50:00.000-08:002005-02-06T20:51:45.620-08:00

[As you can see, I'm in the market for a new car]. To add insult to injury (literally), riding my bike to work after this happened, on the way home I snapped my chain.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1106624853810026602005-01-24T19:47:00.000-08:002005-01-24T19:47:33.810-08:00

Recently there have been [reports] that a new Department of Defense intelligence unit tasked with covert operations and human intelligence collection has been formed. These news stories have been far from accurate. While there may be a "Strategic Support Branch" within DoD or the Office of the Secretary of Defense, it is highly unlikely that it's role is intelligence collection. During the 1990s

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1105765526332412082005-01-14T21:05:00.000-08:002005-01-14T21:05:26.333-08:00

1. Not in a relationship anymore. Got kind of messy at the end. 2. New job (again) 3. Went away for Christmas, came back, had to go away again for a funeral. Things are not great, but not abysmal either. I'm slowly increasing my mileage on runs to survive the LA Marathon in March, and then a 1/2 Ironman race in June. And that's about it.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1103070781786208602004-12-14T16:32:00.000-08:002004-12-14T16:33:01.786-08:00

A few years ago in Kona I had an idea for putting barcodes on billboards, so that devices such as PDAs could read them and use them as web links. The idea came to me as we were driving behind a small van with some ad URL on the back - really, who is going to remember that by the time they get home? I sure won't. The idea was to create real-world hyperlinks. Damn, I should have [patented that mofo

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1102905377877585492004-12-12T18:35:00.000-08:002004-12-12T18:36:31.136-08:00

The race turned out a lot better than I expected. Like the 5k last year, the start was very slow. I was near the back of the pack, and between the horn of the start and actually starting to move was about 2-3 minutes. Everyone was so close together than we started moving as a shuffle, then slowly to a walk, and finally just after we passed the starting line, a very slow jog. After being sick for

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1102748538496294912004-12-10T23:02:00.000-08:002004-12-10T23:02:26.520-08:00

In just a few hours I'm doing the Venice-Marina Christmas Run. Last year I did the 5K race, which was rough, this year I'm doing it as a 10k - twice the distance I've ever raced before. This seemed like a good idea before I was sick twice in the past month, which pretty much killed my chances of being well trained. I'm hoping I can finish without walking more than half of it.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1101085269874005482004-11-21T17:00:00.000-08:002004-11-21T17:01:09.873-08:00

During [college], I lived in Salisbury, MD and went to school 15 miles south in Princess Anne. Recently Salisbury has gained some media attention for being where [ Michael Phelps] earned not a gold medal but a DUI (why he would be there, I have no idea), though what Salisbury is most famous for is it's chicken. Now I can't recall a single place you could get fried chicken other than a certain

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1099426422297727532004-11-02T13:13:00.000-08:002004-11-07T00:31:05.426-08:00

While I was at DEFCON this year, I picked up a nifty little [signal strength widget] for my keychain that would tell me where the nearest wireless signal is. It comes in handy when you’re on the road, and especially in Las Vegas where access points are hard to come by (at least near the Strip). A number of people asked if it would give me the SSID (it doesn’t). Well, here is the [successor] to

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1099376657195012182004-11-01T22:24:00.000-08:002004-11-07T00:35:40.883-08:00

I spotted this on BeBits, and just had to try it with Camino. FireFox is what I used on Windows, but Camino will always be home on Mac OS X. This [hack] gives you NetPositive haiku error messages in Mozilla browsers. I did manage to get it to work with very little fuss in Camino. 1. Open up Camino and pull out embed.jar /Applications/Camino (command click and Show Package Contents) Inside

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1099193454882829392004-10-30T20:29:00.000-07:002004-11-07T00:28:47.823-08:00

As a test with flickr, I put up all of my triathlon photos in a slideshow [here]

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1099030320784342152004-10-28T23:11:00.000-07:002004-10-28T23:12:00.783-07:00

Spending too much time working. Oddly enough, while I’m not commuting anymore, I’m actually putting in more hours. Not enough of my time is spent writing code, and too much is spent with B.S. like pointing a “senior” engineering towards documentation for the most basic things. On a training break. At the end of the season, I needed a recovery break. That’s just about over. The only workouts I’ve

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There's a very good [article] at OS news which goes into detail on Motorola/Freescale's new dual core G4 design. While having two processors on one chip is certainly an advance, the other goodies they have stuffed onto it are the real performers. The enhanced IO and memory functionality is going to make this a killer product, and I'd certainly buy a server running with one of these.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1097650296398009182004-10-12T23:51:00.000-07:002004-10-12T23:51:36.396-07:00

[Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeeeeaaahhhhhhhhh]

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1097483496134479182004-10-11T01:31:00.000-07:002004-10-11T01:31:36.133-07:00

A few months ago I downloaded the PC demo of Delta Force: Blackhawk Down. I was that bored. After really liking the demo, I got the full game, then I got the Team Sabre mission pack, etc. One thing lead to another. Weeks ago I downloaded the demo of the successor to DF:BHD, Joint Ops. This game is more than just stepping DF:BHD up a notch, it goes up a few notches. Before DF:BHD I had played

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1096267950954054612004-09-26T23:51:00.000-07:002004-09-27T22:36:51.103-07:00

Today my brother and sister in law did the [Long Beach Triathlon] as a relay, where each of us did one sport, handing off a timing device along the way. Elaine took the swim and did very well, finishing before any of us thought she would. My brother had a very respectable time on the bike, though he was too tooled up from cycling to run in the transition area to me. I had a very good run, though

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1095897732219024442004-09-22T17:02:00.000-07:002004-09-22T17:02:12.220-07:00

Since i've done this 100 times before, and always forget how to fix it.... When trying to use mod_rewrite features inside an htaccess file, you MUST set "AllowOverrides All" or "AllowOverrides FileInfo" in httpd.conf for the rewrite rules in the htaccess file to be executed. So now I have it written down, so next time I'm banging my head trying to see why my htaccess files aren't being read I'll

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That's what the Malibu cop asked me as I was stopped at an ATM picking up cash at 5:50 in the morning. I told him I would be in about 10 minutes and got on my way without a hassle. There was more than a little traffic entering Zuma, and I ended up taking the back way in through Point Dume to save about 20 minutes sitting in line. The race was very well organized and well run. My only complaint

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For those of you wishing to watch, race information is [here]

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Two weeks ago I was running on the beach and stepped into a sinkhole, which popped a tendon in my foot. No running for several days. A week later, I cut my foot open running barefoot on asphalt (yes, very smart of me). Another few days of no running. Days after that, my other foot managed to find a dead jellyfish tentacle. That was not enjoyable. Sunday is the Malibu Triathlon, and I'm having

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1095061628457074442004-09-13T01:46:00.000-07:002004-09-13T00:47:08.456-07:00

[Japan] insists that the event was not a nuclear test, because "A nuclear explosion creates seismic waves, and no such activity was detected". That's not true at all - seismometers in California had no trouble at all detecting the event. In fact, if you compare some of the publicly available [seismographs] (local copy - [source]) with information from a national lab's [forensic seismology] primer

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1094769757644588342004-09-09T15:42:00.000-07:002004-09-09T15:42:37.643-07:00

I picked up an Apple iSight camera, mostly because it was autofocus. I figured I could use it as a firewire video source for some projects, and with iChat/AIM. Unfortunately, it's been something of a disappointment. The two major problems I have with it are: 1. Requires a LOT of light. If you're not in a brightly lit office, don't bother getting one. From what I've seen the Griffin [SightLight

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1094708923798770342004-09-08T22:48:00.000-07:002004-09-08T22:48:43.796-07:00

So far, my attempts to get a [P5] driver for MacOS X working have been futile. The Apple [documentation] for writing a HID driver is a little out of date and covers IOKit more than the HID. The HID requires a lot of additional information in the Info.plist that I haven't found documented anywhere. It's no wonder that there aren't many open source HID drivers out there for MacOS X. Ug. At any

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1094085073705168252004-09-01T17:31:00.000-07:002004-09-01T17:31:13.706-07:00

So I left my job, for a number of reasons I won't go into, and now I'm able to have time to actually.... be bored. Now while looking around for a new job I've run into some interesting problems. I've done a number of very different things in computing, and it's difficult to reflect that on a resume. Even bare bones, my resume is several pages long. Today I had a potential client ask about wether

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1092636886342844542004-08-15T23:14:00.000-07:002004-08-15T23:14:46.343-07:00

In the past year or so, since deciding to try doing triathlons, I've discovered that many of the basic tenets of sports I had been taught as an athlete growing up were wrong. That's not to say I was some uber-athlete growing up, I just did a few sports, some not even competitively (I never swam on a team, for instance) Running: For whatever reason, no running coach ever taught me technique, when

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1092007160572200092004-08-08T16:18:00.000-07:002004-08-08T16:19:20.573-07:00

Nike Triax Elite HRM SDM $369 (MSRP), $200-$300 (eBay, etc.) Most Heart Rate Monitors (HRMs) out there will give you your heart rate and not much else. The most expensive, high end HRMs will record that data, sometimes more, and allow you to download it to your computer. Unfortunately there is not yet a standard for HRM data, so each device requires it's own special software, and uses it's own

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Monday I got up early after falling asleep early, finished packing up and tried to get a cab from the Boardwalk to the nearest Wells Fargo, only to wait 45 minutes with no cab. For my entire stay it was almost impossible to get a cab at Boardwalk, walking over to Paris worked out a lot better for me. In the two years since I had last been to Vegas the traffic on the strip has increased

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1091662027828713812004-08-01T16:26:00.000-07:002004-08-04T16:27:07.826-07:00

Last night was mostly a blur. Finally got to see the inside of the Bellagio, which was nice, and didn't go to the Black & White Ball this year. I didn't bring anything to wear, and didn't much feel like going and just hanging out by the pools. I did a lot of walking, some drinking, but nothing all that major. After the awards session today the convention cleared out pretty quickly at about 6.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1091661959693638552004-07-31T16:25:00.000-07:002004-08-04T16:25:59.693-07:00

This morning I played phone tag with the dealership before finding out that the problem isn't with the engine, it's just as I feared, the transmission. It looks as though my Honda is going to require a third replacement transmission, at only 84,000 miles. It seems the Civic HX transmissions only last 30,000 miles or so. On Monday I find out just what's going on and wether Honda will pay for all

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1091387808378125962004-07-30T23:14:00.000-07:002004-08-01T12:16:48.376-07:00

Last night I happened to choose the wrong dryer. So I ended up taking 3 cycles to get my laundry dry. That was just the start of my problems. Somehow I got into iSync hell, with duplicate data passing through the new phone and making it onto the PowerBook. That had me up later than I wanted to be, and I ended up sleeping later and not leaving until nearly 12. About 70 miles from Las Vegas the

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1091057586577911232004-07-28T16:32:00.000-07:002004-07-28T16:33:06.576-07:00

Yes, I'm going to [DEFCON 12] this year. If you spot me, say hi. If you sheep me, be nice about it.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1090828291864974592004-07-26T00:51:00.000-07:002004-07-26T00:51:31.863-07:00

Starting out a ride with your knees complaining is never a good omen. Thinking that the fourth mile is feeling a lot more like it's the fourteenth isn't a good one either. I finally did the bike to work thing, and picked completely the wrong day to do it. By the time I made it 5 miles it was almost 100 degrees, and not long after I ran out of water. Between the laptop, change of clothes, bike

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1090285870332539412004-07-19T18:08:00.000-07:002004-07-19T18:11:24.276-07:00

When I was a kid, we had woods in the backyard. All of the neighborhood kids played back there, some of the trees bent in a way that made a natural "fort" that lead to a lot of hiding and messing around. For some reason, I always seemed to be the leader. Time and time again in my life that happened. Other people tended to look to me for guidance, and some even went far out of their way to be

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1090117447913559592004-07-17T19:04:00.000-07:002004-07-17T19:24:07.913-07:00

Wednesday night was [Yellow Jersey Night] number two, I had missed number one for no good reason. I met my brother and sister in law there, after some convincing. Not only did we get to drink and eat with a very large group of people who were as insane as we are (triathletes - it was an LA Tri Club event), but the whole thing benefited [C Different], a charity for blind athletes. I bought a good

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1089854468064721862004-07-14T18:20:00.000-07:002004-07-14T18:21:08.063-07:00

Relationships. You meet someone, go out a few times, do all the standard stuff. Movies, dinner, the usual. Right? Wrong. The standard model is far too one-size-fits all. It's no wonder that so many people are in unhappy relationships. A long time ago I started to realize that The Standard Model wasn't for me. And since then I've noticed some things about the relationships I've been in, and what

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1089690837514931032004-07-12T20:53:00.000-07:002004-07-12T20:55:29.380-07:00

Package waiting... London address? The label clued me in. Maja came through! The squishy envelope tore without resistance, promo flyers for stages long gone peek out. Out comes the shirt, and the package within a package - a CD. I go for the CD, peeling away wrapping.... Seeing it's not wrapping. It's notes. It's the deconstruction of the next album, the words staring back through the wrinkles of

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Shay is so getting her butt whupped for that.

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It started in the parking garage of the MTA Gateway building. I ran with two packs down through Union Station and to the train. 11 hours later I made it into Oakland only to find that there was no BART station at Jack London Square. That resulted in a bus ride across downtown Oakland, which at 10pm on a Sunday was surprisingly quiet. 20 minutes of BART later, I emerged on familiar ground at

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1088794594654766552004-07-02T11:55:00.000-07:002004-07-02T11:56:34.656-07:00

"Andreas! Rendez-SPEW me!" I can only imagine the false alarms that had Stanford SETI searchers scratching their heads as we passed their dish on the 280 with several AirPort nodes broadcasting from the bus back to SF. 30 drunk geeks with laptop sharing Sesame Street videos over ad hoc 802.11 networks and iChat made for a very interesting ride back from Apple HQ. What do we learn from the

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1088549993209113832004-06-29T15:59:00.000-07:002004-06-29T15:59:53.210-07:00

So far not that much of note has happened at WWDC: the displays are big, woohoo. Getting an IP address is hard, all of the APs are full. San Francisco has some decent weather this week, so I'm spending part of the time playing tour guide to a coworker. The new boots are holding up pretty well to all the walking I've been doing, and my feet don't feel like hamburger just yet. The train ride up

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1088037622247088112004-06-23T17:40:00.000-07:002004-06-23T17:41:00.423-07:00

In January I was in a relationship, for about a week or so, that felt like a lot longer. R and I met almost randomly, and we hit it off better than I could have expected. I cared for her a lot, and still do. Even now I could see myself with her for a long time, she was the kind of person that could keep up with me. She was anything but vanilla. Things didn't work out, though how they ended up

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1087634063576201652004-06-19T01:34:00.000-07:002004-06-19T01:41:59.983-07:00

I've had some success getting the Mac to talk to the Forerunner. It turns out that I do have a slightly flaky USB port, which doesn't seem to be a problem with a mouse, but causes trouble with the IOGear serial port adapter I have. Now that it's working a bit better, I've successfully accessed the Forerunner's tracks from both perl and java, but so far not from objective-c. Working with raw bytes

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1087261603460188542004-06-14T18:06:00.000-07:002004-06-14T18:07:33.673-07:00

..because you people are fucking ugly!" Six bottles of beer crashed down as the top shelf of the fridge collapsed. It was the echos of the ruckus that made me realize that something was amiss. So far I'd been there about 5 minutes and hadn't seen anyone yet, even though the cars were there. I called John and found out that yes, he wasn't there - he was out with Tony getting a keg, and the party

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1086825727322667942004-06-09T17:01:00.000-07:002004-06-09T17:02:07.323-07:00

After reading [Fix Your Feet] and a number of articles on barefoot running and foot muscle imbalances I decided to try it. A few days ago I started running on the wet sand at low/rising tide to build up some mileage without shoes to see how things went. So far the result have been exceptional, and without the GPS I would not beleive them. Within the first 100 yards of my first run I noticed a

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1086644404025318812004-06-07T14:39:00.000-07:002004-06-07T14:40:04.063-07:00

Friday night I finally managed to get out and see [Bobbi] spin live. I had originally thought that the thing was over at 3am, but before I was leaving at 10 I realized it started at 3. So fast forward a few hours and at 3:30 I'm coming off the 10 at the Western overpass and all traffic is stopped by a CHP convoy. They're moving sewer pipes on flatbeds that are at least 30 feet in diameter, large

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1086212386167527142004-06-02T14:39:00.000-07:002004-06-02T14:39:46.166-07:00

[Aquaduct] with XBConnect is one of the cooler apps I've seen in a while. It allows you to use any XBox system link game over the internet by proxying the wide area network. Unfortunately it seems more for the college dorm crowd. I tried to use it to play Halo online the other night and every open game listed in Aquaduct required each XBox playing to have 3 or more people on it. Most of the games

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1086035184603238072004-05-31T13:26:00.000-07:002004-05-31T13:26:24.603-07:00

[Pictures] from last week's race are up. I'm making some progress figuring out the Polar HRM interface protocol. It would be handy to actually have a Polar HRM that can talk to a computer to work on it, but oh well. So far I haven't seen any real hints on how to grab data directly from the Forerunner, and so far on the Mac nothing works for getting the track data.

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1085458008264510102004-05-24T21:06:00.000-07:002004-05-24T21:06:48.266-07:00

The alarm went off at a time I normally go to sleep, not wake up. Running the bike, wetsuit, and day pack full of gear to the car; zooming down the 405 with the bike bouncing on every bump. The plan was that if I did get pulled over, hop on the bike and outrun the cop. Missed the exit, turned around on an exit that would have gotten me there anyway, managed to find the way there before the roads

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1085197487264190072004-05-21T20:44:00.000-07:002004-05-21T20:44:47.266-07:00

At 6:30 am on Sunday (ug) I'll be hauling my ass from the start of the Newport Beach Triathlon. Here's the race information: SWIM: 1/2 mile (Back Bay of Newport Beach). Flat water swim. CYCLE: 13 miles (through various parts of Newport Beach, around Fashion Island) RUN: 3 miles [Map] Directions: The race starts with a 1/2 mile swim in the Back Bay of Newport Beach in the Newport Dunes

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1085189990656160752004-05-21T18:38:00.000-07:002004-05-21T18:41:40.403-07:00

I've been noticing my disk is almost constantly being accessed. After doing some poking around, I noticed via top -u that a Microsoft processs was constantly running in the background. [khyron:~] quellish% ps ax | grep Microsoft 381 ?? S 0:00.35 /Applications/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS 382 ?? S 0:16.04 /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Microsoft Turns out

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1085100281825676412004-05-20T17:44:00.000-07:002004-05-20T17:44:50.693-07:00

Today is Bike To Work day, and sadly, I didn't bike to work. But I did find some very useful resources for anyone who wants to try it. [BikeMetro] has some very cool route planning stuff, though when you turn on the "use public transportation" feature it starts to fall apart. If I biked to work (which I've been considering for a few weeks) I'd currently save about $9,000 a year. That's a lot of

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1084934146751429122004-05-18T19:35:00.000-07:002004-05-18T19:35:46.753-07:00

If you feel the needle moving in, it's going to work. That's my rule with lydacaine: if you're not feeling it, it's not near enough the nerve to work. So today after the first two shots we waited for it to take effect. My previous visit with the oral surgeon was to get my wisdom teeth out, and I had been completely out for that. This time around I was very much awake. As soon as he got started,

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Saturday I went to a swimming clinic put on by [Acme Coaching] for the LA Tri Club. The focus was on improving form using the [Total Immersion] technique for distance swimming. The clinic started out with each of us swimming a lap "normally" using freestyle, which usually meant the crawl. After that it was about an hour or so of Total Immersion drills, learning how to balance in the water and use

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1084348030181581902004-05-12T00:47:00.000-07:002004-05-12T00:47:57.200-07:00

"Your very nature will drive you to fight The only choice is what to fight against" -Krishna, B.G.

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Saturday: After calling Helen's on Friday and finding out they had a Cervelo One in stock I headed over there to check it out. After the trials and tribulations of eBay I had decided that I was getting a bike one way or another over the weekend. Supergo was opening a new store and having some deals on so-so bikes, so that was the backup plan. I called Pacific Tri on the way to Helen's to see what

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1083968350030898642004-05-07T15:18:00.000-07:002004-05-07T15:23:38.530-07:00

The Gwar show last night was pretty good, but man those weeknight shows make you that much more tired. I wore out pretty quickly. Now I can say I've actually survived a Gwar show.... without getting hosed!

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1083827246382292192004-05-06T00:07:00.000-07:002004-05-06T00:11:52.733-07:00

The bike I really want is, of course, a [Softride]. They just have the most geek factor - more engineering per ounce. I found one on ebay for a very reasonable price, but unfortunately the "sniping" service I used didn't actually put through my bid for some reason. Thus, I missed my chance to get one (I would have won easily). Yes, I'm still pissed. It doesn't help that this weekend Supergo is

danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089833466771261513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712088.post-1083228542407508132004-04-29T01:41:00.000-07:002004-04-29T01:53:18.843-07:00

GlobalSecurity.org has posted pre- and post- accident photos of [Ryongchon, North Korea]. To get some idea of the damage, look at the buildings before and after. The fact that some of the other blast damage has been covered up by the DPRK is disturbing, since what they have concealed would only be visible to satellites.

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Replies are part of viewing a message. When you hit the "Reply" link in a GMail message, it opens a pane underneath the original message for writing a reply (in MacOS X this would be implemented as a drawer, which I hate, but you get the point). This is "inline reply", something I've been working on (managing the screen space a single message takes up gets challenging for a number of reasons

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I caught this today linked from [kuro5hin.org] : [Our Hidden WMD Program - Why Bush is spending so much on nuclear weapons.] This is just another instance of the "reporter" not doing his homework. The author mentions conventional earth penetrating weapons, but seems to think that the Air Force does not have unconventional (nuclear) penetrating weapons. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In

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A few days ago, I was talking with a colleague about a new system being tested by the company for internal use. OK, calling him that is giving him far too much credit, but that's another story. Anyway, I had some more knowledge of how the testing was going than he did and I brought him up to speed. After I mentioned some pretty predictable snags that had been found, he blurted out "Well, I don't

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For some time I've been looking for ways to embed Flash in applications to use as user interface elements without having to re-implement Flash. It's harder than you'd think once you get to the ActionScript runtime (been there, done that, with Java2D). I had been thinking about how to turn arbitrary javascript calls inside flash into NSSelectors when Michael McCracken posted [this]. Seems

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