Standard Report Format

May 16th, 2007

IEEE Standard Z39-18-1995 was pointed out at work today as a good standard technical report format. I should consider using it for my own reports, as I think I would benefit from a standard look to my work. Using the outline should also make it easier to get to writing the report as I need spend less time worrying about the format.

ASP.NET

May 14th, 2007

I need to show some ASP.NET example work. Ok, I have a proxy from apache to my XP box. And I have IIS set up. I can serve index.htm “HELLO”, why can I not get an asp page showing. No doubt I need to configure to serve ASP. Ok, not sure but maybe it was the reboot? Nope - ISS won’t serve an empty file apparently. I needed the “Good Morning” text to be visible. Now I need a simple ASP example.
ASPX is the file extension for an ASP.NET page. This is in fact the successor to ASP.

Elura 100 wide screen capture

April 7th, 2007

I’ve been using my Elura 100 in wide screen mode. Now the video that I capture with iMovie is squashed. What to do?

Wide-screen fans will appreciate the Elura 100’s true wide-screen CCD sensor. Though it’s not high definition, it still provides a sharper 16:9 image than sensors that crop the top and bottom to achieve this wide aspect ratio. This native 16:9 support is reflected in the camcorder’s 2.7-inch, 123,000-pixel wide-screen LCD.

The movie is capture in 4:3 and I want 16:9, the conversion is 720×480 -> 720×405.

Looks like I might be able to use Final Cut Express in ‘anamorphic’ capture mode.
Yes, this works.

Now I am dropping frames during capture. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305284

Style Chages

March 1st, 2007

I noticed while reading a Webkit blog that the page didn’t scan as well as a Huffpo page I had been reading earlier. The difference in clarity is the font. Now I notice that my site use a font on the less than easy to scan side. Time for an update.

Expect another tool to learn

February 28th, 2007

I’m going over what I hope is a fool proof development install procedure for a large project. I need to include specific versions of gcc, and I think it might be nice to run the gcc tests, since all of this is automated anyway. Which brought me to expect. Sounds like I would do well to know this tool, and possibly it will be useful in the testing of the very project I’m working on.

While writing up the plan I have been assuming we would use svn. I really like svn, but it may be that git is better suited as one of the difficult constraints I have is supporting development on air gapped machines. One comparison note appears here. A long paper on Distributed (git) vs. Centralized (svn) development appears here.

Java const

February 21st, 2007

It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but I will mention it here. Java needs const; and it should work just like it does in C++. Some people will tell you that final suffices, but it does not.

Look into where I should complain.

David Tribble has a complete exposition on what const should look like in Java here.

Points of Attention in Conciousness

February 20th, 2007

I keep thinking about Naur’s presentation, as well as Leonid Perlovsky’s course on neural networks and intellect. I may not be able to get a computer to think for itself, but I may be able to get a computer to help me focus on what I am thinking about. In some ways Google does something similar, but it is not very far beyond simple word association.

Weird Fish - San Fransisco

February 17th, 2007

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.

Very likely unjust

February 10th, 2007

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.

RAZR

February 4th, 2007

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


With the USB cable connected, my mac network dialog sees the phone as a port - Motorola V3c.
Network Preferences

—Some links
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-185790.html