Comments for Technical Ramblings

Comment on Back in Mac by Tobin

Tobin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:40:25 +0000

Bummer, but I can empathize. On my linux box at home I have Windows 7 in a VM just so I can connect to the office with their crappy proprietary VPN client.

Comment on Back in Mac by John Cowan

John Cowan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:01:14 +0000

Wireless and sound are the two issues that Linux tends to fall down on, mostly because standardization beyond the lowest possible level is dreadfully lacking.

Comment on Caturday Hacking by John Cowan

John Cowan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:40:12 +0000

Okay. So the three essentials are (1) an open house (2) on Saturday (3) that contains a cat. Gotcha.

Comment on Software Fail: Photo Tagging by Kevin Reid

Kevin Reid — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:40:28 +0000

I’ve seen similar effects from when images are automatically cropped to change the aspect ratio (usually to square).

Comment on Software Fail: Photo Tagging by crschmidt

crschmidt — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:39:45 +0000

John: Oh, the images themselves aren’t — but when you tag someone on facebook, it crops that area and displays that. Which means that the picture on the top of her facebook wall was this one: http://imgur.com/HMQid

And while it’s certainly reasonable in context, out of context, it was a bit jarring

Comment on Software Fail: Photo Tagging by John Cowan

John Cowan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:16:07 +0000

I don’t think any of those are one bit suggestive, for what it’s worth.

Comment on Caturday Hacking by crschmidt

crschmidt — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:16:16 +0000

Ah, context, the missing piece in any blog post I attempt to make in a group setting!

Caturday in general is related to some other set of memes on the internet, but in this case, it’s a case of a friend — who happens to have a cat at his place — opening up his apartment on Saturday afternoons for people to hang out and hack on whatever project they feel like. No rules, no limitations, just hang out with a bunch of other people in an apartment and make progress on whatever thing you want to work on.

(Urban Dictionary reports that the origin of the term was from 4chan; “Though the origins are fuzzy, Caturday was spawned on one of the many *Chan image boards by the user Anonymous. On every Saturday, you post cats for lulz.”; this particular interpretation is mostly unrelated.)

Comment on Caturday Hacking by John Cowan

John Cowan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:17:51 +0000

What does Caturday mean?

Comment on Livin’ la Vida Linux by crschmidt

crschmidt — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:01:56 +0000

I’m on Ubuntu Natty. (Unlike some people, so far, I actually like the general feel of Unity; the magic-ubuntu-button thing is a lot like spotlight, which I got used to having on OS X.)

Comment on Livin’ la Vida Linux by Jesse Bishop

Jesse Bishop — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:47:32 +0000

Out of curiosity, what flavor of Linux are you using?