Juicy Data

Newest notes in JuicyData:

  • AndroidNetbookFromAsus - The newest incarnation of the pioneering Eee PC range of netbooks from Asus may be Android powered.
  • Roast Vegetable Sandwich - Healthy and super tasty.
  • WorldInformationSocietyDay2009 - This year's theme is "Protecting children in cyberspace".
  • WinstonChurchillsSpeechesOnline - Sir Winston Churchill's speeches and radio broadcasts are available online, and in the public domain...
  • CppNamespaceAlias - Describes how, why and when to use namespace aliasing to reduce code clutter in your C++ sources.
  • MplayerSubtitleSize - The default subtitle text size in mplayer is too large, and my porridge is too hot.  Change it with a command line or config file change.
  • 7zipForUbuntu - The package containing the tool to work with 7zip archives in Ubuntu isn't called 7z, or 7zip...
  • RichardPyleExploresReefCliffs - Richard Pyle talks at TED 2009.  He presents some of his discoveries at the cliffs of reefs.  Makes you want to become a marine biologist!
  • OmgMangroomerBackHairShaver - A humourous gadget, the Mangroomer Electric Back Hair Shaver.
  • CallToPracticalWisdomByBarrySchwartz - A TED Talk by Barry Schwartz, reiterating Barack Obama's call to virtue.
  • MapCapsLockToEscape - I very rarely use Caps Lock, yet I'm reaching for Escape hundreds of times per day.  Alas, this is the lot of a vim user.  By remapping Caps Lock to Escape, I can switch modes in vim without leaving the home keys.
  • MplayerSlowToInit - A recent version of mplayer (1.0rc2-4.3.2) is slow to initialize.  There's a few seconds of delay instead of the moving picture exhibition. Here's the fix.
  • DaemonTheBook - Ex-Tech worker makes good - publishes book
  • BornDigitalGoogleDcTalks - Professor John Palfrey talks with an audience about his new book, 'Born Digital'.  He discusses the Digital Tribe, and the new breed of 'Digital Natives'.
  • MySQL Lectures On Google Videos - Three lectures on MySQL hosted on Google Video.  Performance, clustering and the MySQL Engine.
  • TeachingKidsToMake - Gever Tulley inspiring creativity in the next generation.
  • CollidingSatellites - US and Russian satellites crash mid-space over Siberia
  • AuditoriumTheGame - Check out this preview of a new flash game.  It's a stylish audio-visual treat
  • Ubuntu 8.10 Not Saving Static IP Settings - Bypass the Network Configuration UI for a static IP address on a simple wired network setup to workaround this bug.

Welcome to the new-look JuicyData.  Due to the economic downturn, soaring power bills, retardation of the earth's rotation due to the moon's gravitational pull, and because the hot topic of cloud computing is ballooning, Juicy Data is now hosted at Google Apps Engine.  Huzzah!

Watch this space.  J.D. will grow organically, given time.

To start with, I've got placeholders for LinuxStuff, ProgrammingStuff, FoodStuffs, FunStuff and MiscellaneousStuff. My UsefulLinks may be useful for you, as well.
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