I miss San Fransisco very much. Second to my good friends, I miss the best restaurant choices I’ve every encountered.
My friends Timothy and Peter just opened up a new place in the Mission.
Weird Fish
2193 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94110
It is getting excellent reviews and I can not wait to get back, visit, and eat.
The Julie Amero case bothers me, and makes me wonder what can we do to incorporate better science into our legal system. It is quite possible, even likely from what I’ve read about the case, that the Windows 98 computer she had in the class room was infected long before she showed up.
Trying to set mom up with internet connection to her MacBook.
software version NEWC_01.05.0A
CDMA 1X-EVDO
Purchased Nov 2006
Settings & Tools:Connections:Bluetooth
Set up Bluetooth - Any Device - not phone
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With the USB cable connected, my mac network dialog sees the phone as a port - Motorola V3c.
—Some links
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-185790.html
I received a Canon Elura 100 mini-DV for Christmas. Very nice for the price! While I am able to transfer video from tape to my Apple G4 PB, I can not seem to get the camera to work as a webcam either for iChat, or for HackTV.
Answer: download QuickTime from Apple (7.1.3) and re-install. There seems to be a problem with the upgrade to 10.4.8 which causes the dreaded “Your camera is in use by another application.” error message.
I can see it on the FireWire Bus in System Profiler.
FireWire Bus: Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec ELURA100: Manufacturer: Canon Model: 0x2 GUID: 0x85000113AA11 Maximum Speed: Up to 100 Mb/sec Connection Speed: Unknown Sub-units: ELURA100 Unit: Unit Software Version: 0x10001 Unit Spec ID: 0xA02D
I should set up a blog page for Jim to see my program.
I realized recently that if I work until I am 65, then I will have at that point 50 years of professional software development to reflect on. I figured it would be good if I started writing down some of what the first half of that career looks like.
I’ve been using VNC to help my family members with computer problems. Since it works on all flavors of OS, I find it very pleasant. I use ChickenOftheVNC as a client.
Use RealVNC as the server.
Install the following
RealVNC for Windows
Need to open a port for https access.
Fix IPATABLES to allow port 443
[root]# /sbin/iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --destination-port 443 -j ACCEPT
Open access through other firewalls
Not shown for clarity.
Get Apache to listen to https.
This is the more interesting aspect, as I run virtual hosts, and that does not play well with https. I think I can do it if only one host needs https.
Good info here.
Ok, add the Listen 443 and I can connect to the server through port 443. I need to do a little more reading to get the certificate set up and usable.
I lost a Z key on a 12″ iBook G4 and need a replacement.
Tonight was the first class, and I very much enjoyed the lecture. Dr. Leonid Perlovsky is quite engaging, clearly enjoying and thinking about his topic while taking the measure of the audience and responding as his algorithms would - with emotional intelligence and dynamic modification.
A long description of the course is here.
The text is Neural Networks and Intellect: Using Model-Based Concepts
I’m trying to think up some project to play with the ideas presented.
A long loop back cognitive tape machine playing Pink Floyd comes to mind.
Some of my notes from the class-
Perlovsky considers culture to be strongly influenced by language. He specifically calls out the successes and problems of the US as being largely due to the English language.
At some point he wrote a paper on how the brain could use Quantum Mechanics in its operation, but it was not clear that he still considers this to be likely.
He considers evolvable ontologies to be a worthwhile current challenge.
Recommends Rhetoric for Alexander as good reading.