Just the other day, I turned on my desktop computer, waited for KMail to appear and start to download the mails. After 200 spam mails I got a bit suspicious, after 1000 spam mails I had to disable Spamassassin to speed up the downloading. After 5000 spam mails I was somewhat worried. After something over 6000 spam mails the storm seemed to be over.
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Processing is a framework which lets you do all kinds of extremely cool graphical wizardry and visualizations. It’s kind of hard to explain what it is, so just head over to their exhibition and see what’s it all about. It’s worth repeating that those works were created with Processing. And, for many of them you can find source code as well.
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My humble blog got linked to from Linux Today. I’m so happy to see that. Maybe some like-minded people will even visit again, who knows!
Once upon a time in Russia, a design company named Art Lebedev came up with a brilliant idea: make a keyboard with small, configurable screens for each key. This way, the keyboard could physically be reconfigured on the fly for each task for greater useability and better user experience. For example, a word processor might have custom keys for making the text bold or italic.
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Imagine an artist giving the following kind of description of their work phases:
…based on the 5-dimensional Hyper-cube, a structure build[sic] from a set of eighty lines… A subset of twenty lines, containing four lines from each “dimensional-direction” are chosen from this structure. Each “dimensional-direction” consists therefore of four parallel lines, represented by three thin lines and one thick line (drawn in a given 5-dimensional rotation). The work … shows the ten possible combinatorial 2-D projections of such a group of twenty lines at a given rotation.
Can you guess who it could be? “A-ha!”, you say, “Sounds so strange so it must be Dal�!”. But I assure you, there are no melting clocks or burning even-toed ungulates here. Therefore, with high probability, it is not Salvador Dal�. Guess again.
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I’ve been on the lookout for a small, portable machine with enough power to read PDF files, make notes, write text, do some coding perhaps and surf the net – preferably achieving all this without the feeling as if I were slowly torturing myself to death with some medieval high-tech device.
Mobile phones just don’t cut it – try reading PDF files with an M600i, for example. It’s very painful. Changing pages takes forever and the fonts are messed enough to trigger any migraine tendencies you might or might not have.
Then one beautiful day, through a stroke of luck, I got my hands on a nice, black Asus Eee 4G. Overall impression was: wow, that a tiny computer. Check the picture below, a can of Red Bull used for a size measure.
