Side pilot is the output of Project Aardvark. Take one software startup run my an ex-Microsofty who is opinionated on software development (Joel of course). Take a few interns. Some open source software. Tabasco. Rub together… [tags: project aardvark joel side pilot software opensource] [icbm: dcs]
Starting a startup? Announce it now!
Apparently stealth start ups suck. Or something. [tags: stealth startup] [icbm: work]
Wanted: Someone who knows enough about ImageMagick to do some reviewing for me
I’m writing some stuff about ImageMagick at the moment, and it would be nice to have someone do some technical review of the stuff I’m writing to make sure I’m not a big liar or anything. There’s a possibility of being paid, but you need to know about ImageMagick, Linux and imaging in general. If…
Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding
I’ve talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here’s the dessert I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams…
Collisions in MD5 sums
This is kind of a big deal. Cryptographic has functions are used in a lot of computer science circles to take a large document and turn it into a relatively small description of the document. The transformation has a couple of interesting properties: It’s one way — which means that I can know that I…
New ImageMagick uploaded to Debian Unstable
So, it appears that a new version of ImageMagick has been uploaded to Debian Unstable. Is this in relation to my previous complaint? Probably not. Anyways, 6.2.3 is there, but appears to have troubles building. My Debian insider tells me that you can track the progress of the package from the package’s status page. I…
Herm. Jeremy Wright’s book eats my printer driver
Windows Server 2003. Epson Stylus CX3100. Microsoft Word. Page 9 of Chapter 6 consistently eats my printer driver and causes all print outs until the printer is rebooted to be bogus. Strange. [tags: windows printer driver crash word]
Mental note: Avoid this airline
I hereby make a mental note to find out who this airline is, and avoid them like the plague. Four Two mac minis lost in one trip from luggage whilst in the care of the airline. [tags: theft luggage baggage handler]
Old ImageMagick packages in Debian and Ubuntu
So, does anyone know why Debian Unstable and Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog are still shipping ImageMagick 6.0.6 when the latest release is 6.2.3? That strikes me as being a little bit too out of date. If you look at the bug page for ImageMagick on Debian then you’ll see that there are certainly a lot of…
Quite motivational
An interesting motivational blog post from Mark Cuban: it doesn’t matter how many times you fail in business, you only have to be right once. So right. [tags: business entrepreneur] [icbm: work]