This one's for the Kids!

Got any old PCs lying around, and maybe some children too?

Here's a harmless OS for kids that lets them play without messing anything up! Best of all, it only requires a 400MHz processor with 256MB of RAM and no harddrive space if you want to run it from the CD!

Let me know if you give it a go!

Run Linux Inside of Windows

Here's how you run Ubuntu inside of Windows:

Please let me know if you try it, I haven't yet, but it looks AWESOME!

Interestingly Valid C Code

Here's a snippet of C that I did not know was valid:

int a;
int b;
a = 5;
b = 7;
a +- b;

Apparently it is the equivalent of a NO-OP.

TweetDeck

So I came across this the other day; and it may just be the saving grace to keep me using Twitter.

I've been conflicted, because I already use Facebook more than I should -- and I really only used Twitter to update my status on Facebook through my phone. That's one bad thing about T-Mobile, well they don't work well with Facebook.

Anyway, here it is if you've not seen it yet. http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

*insert witty cupcake reference here*

I was at a restaurant yesterday and playin' with my G1, and some guy walked up and asked if I had the new Cupcake 1.5 firmware... Kinda cool :) Nerds unite!

Anyway, I'm waiting for my update; but I'm slightly disappointed with the 1.5 update: yes, it's fixing some really pressing issues with the phone and the OS -- but COME ON.

1. When the hell are we gonna get a flash-based browser?
2. Am I going to have to try to put together a hack/program to get wireless tethering (or bluetooth tethering for that matter... God, I'd be happy with USB even!) through my phone without root access?

Those are my big complaints.

Aside from that, I really do love my phone; I'm keeping my eyes peeled.

Using Matlab within Opnet

Because this applies to my current work at the UW... Thought I'd share. I'm making all the connections now, so I'll let ya know how it works.

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~venkates/index_files/opnet_tips.html

Disabling the FreeBSD "beep"!

After about a day worth of searching and modifications that did nothing, I finally found a way to disable the beep in FreeBSD:

`set nobell`

I have verified that this works for csh (barf!) and I put it in my .cshrc file so I never get that stupid beep again!