Can you tell us more about the technologies you used to create this web application [Fridgemagnets]? I'd love to hear about the process you went through as you envisioned the project, chose technologies, and figured out how you'd code it.

Well, let's start off with the basics. If you look down at the footer, you'll see this line: "inspired by ( Read more... )

I loved Omni magazine as a kid, the slick Penthouse-for-Science Fiction readers that Bob Guccione published back in the 80s. One of the best articles, one of the few that sticks in my mind, was about the state-of-the-art in metamaterials, and how weird alloys and structured metals were going to change various industries. I was fascinated by the ( Read more... )

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Dear Lazyweb,

I need help with EC2. I'm an EC2 beginner, and I have a one-time task that needs a lot of CPU. I can do it serially, in which case it'll cost me about $200. Or I can run it all at once on many EC2 instances, but I don't know how to do it. The task consists of a series of basic unix commands.

What's the fastest way to get ( Read more... )

I spent a solid two hours figuring out how to do this, so I decided to share with the world. Those of you with small monitors (or other strange habits) might have operating system dock (the thing at the bottom or top of the screen that you use to start programs, check the clock, and see what's running away with your CPU and network) set to " ( Read more... )

The other day I was driven to shrill madness by a job posting that asked if I could "utilize the word press technology" (to which I responded, "Yes, I can use and develop for Wordpress, but probably not for you ( Read more... )

To spare you all the reams of source code, I'll just point you to my latest geek addition:Template recursion in Django with Treebeard, in which I solve one of the great conundrums of Django: how to draw stuff recursively. Django templates just don't like recursion, and I do ( Read more... )

I went through an accidental upgrade Wednesday afternoon. I wasn't paying attention when I installed something, and it sucked in the latest ATI driver for my laptop along with it. Cursing, I tried to back out, only to discover that the stable driver I'd been using since February of last year was no longer supported by the Gentoo team, since too ( Read more... )

I, for one, am ready to reach out and shake the hands our new cybernetic overlords. Really. It's not going to take much to slim down those components an addition 15%, cover her in prosthetic-quality neoskin, and, well, it'll be all over after that. The human race is doomed.

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Up next: The Panasonix DX Supervillain Personal Assistant.

WINEPREFIX='/home/elf/.wine' wine 'C:\windows\profiles\elf\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe' --new-http --in-process-plugins

Viola'. Chrome on Linux. Sort-of. Change the username as applicable. I put the above into a command in $HOME/bin/chrome. Now I have another test platform. Yay!