Temperature November 26, 2009
I never thought of that:
Temperature is a quantity that determines the number of thermodynamically possible states of a system within an energy range.
The fun theory October 24, 2009
Very interesting project in one of the Stockholm metro stations. I wish we had something similar up here.
The Pirate Bay presents October 14, 2009
NASTY OLD PEOPLE
This is Mette’s story. Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four seniors that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and accompanied by the crazy oldies, she longs for respect and love. Together, they create a world of their own. A world you never knew existed.
BEHIND THE SCENES
In the autumn of 2007 Hanna Sköld took a private bank loan of 10 000 euro to make her debut feature film “Nasty Old People”. Now she continues to ignore the middle men in the film industry by distributing it together with the film collective RåFILM’s Luffarbion, aka Vagabond Cinema, and the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. In addition, she releases it under a creative commons license so that anyone can download, share or remix the film.
The movie page nasty old people and the torrent is on The Pirate Bay
If you like this movie, please support it.
Sounds really interesting October 2, 2009
Created a circular mashup of 4 trance tracks. “Circular” meaning if you play the mashup on repeat, it will seemlessly continue as if the mashup is infinitely long. The mashup is structured to utilize the keys of each individual track to form an overall musical key progression, one which returns to it’s root (so, it is also musically circular). The effect is pretty cool, give it a try.
I listened to it for almost 20 minutes until it came to my mind that I was listening to the same thing in a loop. The author’s blog
IPv6 October 1, 2009
A lot of software is already IPv6-aware and sometimes tries to use the IPv6 first instead of bad old v4. This already confused me once in Vista as I described here. This time it was Firefox in Linux. It took me a while to find the reason why it can connect to google and few other pages but not the rest of the Internet while I can ping these addresses. The solution is simple, just go to about:config and set the “network.dns.disable.ipv6″ key to true :-)
Benchmarking your C code September 11, 2009
Ever wondered how long does it take for a piece of your code to execute? It is easy to find out the execution time using the gettimeofday function from the <sys/time.h>. The code is the following:
#include <sys/time.h>
struct timeval t1, t2;
double tdiff;
gettimeofday(&t1, NULL);
<your code here>
gettimeofday(&t2, NULL);
tdiff = (t2.tv_sec - t1.tv_sec) + (t2.tv_usec - t1.tv_usec) / 1000000.0;
printf("Execution time: %2.5f\n", tdiff);
Quote July 23, 2009
“[...] big difference between the web and traditional well controlled
collections is that there is virtually no control over what people can
put on the web. Couple this flexibility to publish anything with the
enormous influence of search engines to route traffic and companies
which deliberately manipulating search engines for profit become a
serious problem.”
– Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page (see references, [A])
HTTP tunnelling over ssh June 11, 2009
It is very easy to tunnel your web traffic over ssh using Firefox and the FoxyProxy plugin. Create your SSH tunnel by executing this command (where “port” is any random port that is not used):
ssh -fND localhost:port al1us.net
“f” key tells SSH to go into the background. If you want to quit later, just kill the process or otherwise don’t use the “f” key.
On the bottom right conrer of the firefox click the FoxyProxy icon with the rght mouse button and go to “Options”, write proxy name, choose SOCKS proxy and in the host field enter “localhost” and the port number your tunnel is running on, save it.
If you want to tunnel also all the DNS queries, in the Firefox address bar write “about:config” and change the key “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to true. Voila!
