Tim Kerbavaz

rufusisaghost: wat Indeed.

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:54:47 -0400

wat

Indeed.

shortformblog: National Weather Service fiscal scandal evokes...

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:49:34 -0400

National Weather Service fiscal scandal evokes thunderstorm of cheap weather references by SFB staff

Looks like Tropical Storm Beryl isn’t the only storm brewin’: The National Weather Service just had its director step down after a hailstorm of criticism following an improperly forecasted allocation of bonuses to contractors. We’re sure that while those workers had mostly sunny days, taxpayers have a lower level of barometric pressure these days for misappropriated funds — especially $43 million worth, which is high whether you’re looking in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Recently, the storm trackers — er, auditors — showed up. As a result, Jack Hayes felt the humidity rising in his position and got out after the heat got to hot to bear. (Editor’s note: Sorry. We couldn’t help ourselves.)

Weather or not…

doctor-lucky: everycage: savingthedead: i will continue to...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:17:41 -0400

doctor-lucky:

everycage:

savingthedead:

i will continue to reblog this until it gets the notes it deserves because elephants

If your heart isn’t melting it’s because you don’t have one.

I can’t-

I love elephants. I have ridden an elephant, too!

Elephant is win.

In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:43:21 -0400

In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life
Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
High School: Please don't write in cursive
College: If you do not type it I will not grade your paper
Job Applications: Please print

tcsmesh: Darin, Darach and I met up Friday for a few hours to...

Mon, 21 May 2012 02:07:20 -0400

tcsmesh:

Darin, Darach and I met up Friday for a few hours to play with some of my spare routers/Access Points. Most of the units wouldn’t support Open WRT, but one WAP54G seemed to. After a few hours of messing about with OpenWRT on Friday evening, and an hour or so of troubleshooting, we declared the WAP54gv2 brick’d.

This weekend, Darin went out and secured a couple more test routers, including a Netgear WNDR3300. He had to downgrade the version of OpenWRT in order to get the right wireless drivers, but he reports that he’s got it installed, and that wireless works. Seems the WNDR3300 needs Kamikaze 8.09, not 8.09.[1,2] for the wireless to work?

HiI'm realy appreciate your clip "A little look around LHC". We like to subtitle the clip in italian and to spread it for a divulgative (AND NO-PROFIT) aim. There is a copyright on it, or could we use free?Best regards-- Romeo Bassoli - Communication officeIstituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics piazza Caprettari 70, 00168 Roma-Italy,

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:53:57 -0400

I’m glad you liked it. The video is great, but it is not my work. It comes from Oxford Sparks, at Oxford University.

More information about them can be found here: http://www.oxfordsparks.net/

You’ll need to contact Oxford for licensing, but if you just want to link or embed the youtube video, I can’t imagine that would be a problem. though, you’ll have to consult the standard youtube license and your lawyers.

tcsmesh: Darin Got batman to work tonight! He says: It has a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 03:53:48 -0400

tcsmesh:

Darin Got batman to work tonight!

He says:

It has a nifty little diagnostic tool, so I took a screenshot showing that there actually is another node in the network.

Next steps:

- Put a hop in the mesh to test routing. (requires 3rd machine running routing protocol)

- Test AHCP and DHCP with the two protocols, and test whether either can accept clients not running the mesh routing protocol without configuring a bridge or something.

TCS Mesh Networking @ UC Davis: Darin's Computer Report

Thu, 17 May 2012 03:52:39 -0400

TCS Mesh Networking @ UC Davis: Darin's Computer Report:

tcsmesh:

The following is directly from Darin regarding the aforementioned Desktop/Laptop ad-hoc network:

I’ve been working with two computers: The Desktop, and The Laptop.

The mesh network needs two things:

1) An ad-hoc wireless network, which gets the computers’ wireless cards talking to…

BABEL Working!

Thu, 17 May 2012 03:19:46 -0400

One of the many projects I’m working on is a mesh network group study. We’re making some headway into a model network.

tcsmesh:

Darin got Babel to work with an ad-hoc network. Apparently creating the network from his desktop worked better than originating the network with his laptop.

We’re meeting Friday to try installing OpenWRT and Babel on a pair of WRT54G’s to see if we can make a few more nodes, then we can start a test deployment. Exciting Exciting.

When Obama endorsed marriage equality...

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:29:07 -0400

whenobamaendorsed:

… I was like:

What is this from?

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:43 -0400

What is this from?

shortformblog: msnbc: Maurice Sendak, the children’s author...

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:39:42 -0400

shortformblog:

msnbc:

Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83.

The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator.

Image: Ls / AP file

*sigh* Not a great way to start out the morning.

*le sigh*

Too Cool for Skool qbnscholar: This Bear Flag...

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:01:00 -0400

Too Cool for Skool

qbnscholar:

This Bear Flag Restoration/California Republic Dude Was Just Too “I Did Not Even Look in the Mirror Before Walkin’ Out the Door” Cool: Flea Market. Davis, 04-29-12.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:55:24 -0400

I wholeheartedly agree.

A quick look around the LHC

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:59:22 -0400

A quick look around the LHC

matthewnewton: A view from the superhighway.

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:40:56 -0400

matthewnewton:

A view from the superhighway.

shortformblog: Loser AND winner in ultra-dark “Yogi Bear”...

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:54:01 -0400

shortformblog:

Loser AND winner in ultra-dark “Yogi Bear” parody case? Warner Bros.

Credit where credit’s due: Warner Bros. could’ve totally ripped apart Edmund Earle for creating this spot-on (and very dark) parody of the much-derided “Yogi Bear” film that’s coming out this week. But instead, the company’s letting Earle keep it up. There might be some back-end benefit for the Warners, anyway – the parody (which looks like the “Yogi Bear” film, almost too closely) riffs on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” That film, an Oscar-nominated flick from 2007, only made back half of its budget, so it could stand to benefit from the fresh notoriety. And guess who distributed that flick? That’s right. Warner Bros. source

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4-ever-balancing: TeeHee. myedol: by Mobstr

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:01:07 -0400

4-ever-balancing:

TeeHee.

myedol:

by Mobstr

shortformblog: brooklynmutt: C-SPAN: President Obama at the...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:32:24 -0400

shortformblog:

brooklynmutt:

C-SPAN: President Obama at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

ICYMI, we heard this was pretty cool.

graficzny: HTML5[!!!] video of the Pixel Mould Machine in...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:08:53 -0400

graficzny:

HTML5[!!!] video of the Pixel Mould Machine in action via Julian Bond’s Vimeo page.

Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. Called Pixel Mould, the machine produces vessels using a single mould made up of over 1300 individual plaster sticks. The sticks can be individually reconfigured to create unique moulds. Clay is poured into the mould, fired and glazed to create the final product. The vases are created using a traditional slip casting technique, which usually uses fixed moulds, however this machine allows users to create their own one-off designs. The machine is designed to engage with the user allowing them to understand the form they are creating.