Starting a startup? Announce it now!
Apparently stealth start ups suck. Or something. [tags: stealth startup] [icbm: work]
Wanted: Someone who knows enough about ImageMagick to do some reviewing for me
I'm writing some stuff about ImageMagick at the moment, and it would be nice to have someone do some technical review of the stuff I'm writing to make sure I'm not a big liar or anything. There's a possibility of being paid, but you need to know about ImageMagick, Linux and imaging in general. If you're interested, then you should mail me. [tags: help wanted]
Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding
I've talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here's the dessert I've been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams of sugar (I usually use raw sugar) 1/4 cup of milk (62.5 ml) 1 tablespoon of melted butter Mix all of those in a bowl. The mix will look pretty dry when you're done, but don't panic. Ingredients for the sauce: 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1 tablespoon of cocoa 210 ml of hot water Mix those in the oven container. I use a casserole pot. Pour in the other mixture. Chuck in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. You know it's cooked when a skewer comes out dry (except for any sauce which might get on it from the bottom. Take out of oven. Put into your bowl. Pour cream on. Eat. This version serves two. [tags: food dessert chocolate pudding recipe]
Collisions in MD5 sums
This is kind of a big deal. Cryptographic has functions are used in a lot of computer science circles to take a large document and turn it into a relatively small description of the document. The transformation has a couple of interesting properties: It's one way -- which means that I can know that I have your document, without checking the contents. There are secure file systems out there that when you give it a file give you back the ID for the file, and that's how you access it in the future. Don't know the ID? You can't possibly have seen the file. They're meant to be unique -- you can't possibly have no overlap between bazillions of documents and the comparatively few IDs available, but it's meant to be very hard to get two documents with the same ID. This is commonly used for CD downloads for instance where people want to be sure that you got the file intended completely, or to make sure that you're not storing information twice. EMC for instance has an email storage system which only saves an email if the MD5 ID is new, otherwise it must be a duplicate. It turns…
New ImageMagick uploaded to Debian Unstable
So, it appears that a new version of ImageMagick has been uploaded to Debian Unstable. Is this in relation to my previous complaint? Probably not. Anyways, 6.2.3 is there, but appears to have troubles building. My Debian insider tells me that you can track the progress of the package from the package's status page. I assume this means that Ubuntu will magically get a newer version soon? [tags: debian ubuntu unstable package linux]
Herm. Jeremy Wright’s book eats my printer driver
Windows Server 2003. Epson Stylus CX3100. Microsoft Word. Page 9 of Chapter 6 consistently eats my printer driver and causes all print outs until the printer is rebooted to be bogus. Strange. [tags: windows printer driver crash word]
Mental note: Avoid this airline
I hereby make a mental note to find out who this airline is, and avoid them like the plague. Four Two mac minis lost in one trip from luggage whilst in the care of the airline. [tags: theft luggage baggage handler]
Old ImageMagick packages in Debian and Ubuntu
So, does anyone know why Debian Unstable and Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog are still shipping ImageMagick 6.0.6 when the latest release is 6.2.3? That strikes me as being a little bit too out of date. If you look at the bug page for ImageMagick on Debian then you'll see that there are certainly a lot of bugs listed there. I'd love to have a newer version available... [tags: image convert debian ubuntu unstable hoary hedgehog linux]
Quite motivational
An interesting motivational blog post from Mark Cuban: it doesn't matter how many times you fail in business, you only have to be right once. So right. [tags: business entrepreneur] [icbm: work]
Paul Allen’s Science Fiction Museum
Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum sounds pretty cool. Next time I'm in Seattle... [tags: science fiction museum]