Archive for December, 2010
nerding.out(): An EC2 API concept map
Earlier this year I was working with Canonical’s design team. We were putting our heads together to develop a fantastic cloud user experience in Landscape. I created a concept map to help clarify the various artefacts involved in the EC2 API. It’s not entirely complete, but it does capture the most important aspects of the [...]
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Eight Geektacular Christmas Projects for Your Day Off
It’s Christmas Eve and if you’re lucky you’ve got some time off ahead of you. Let’s put that time to good use with some holiday-centered geeking out. Come on in for LEGO ornaments, Darth Vader snow flakes, and Christmas light hacks galore. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to [...]
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This Week in Geek History: NORAD Tracks Santa, First HTTP Test, Babbage’s Birthday
History trivia shouldn’t be limited to just treaty dates and wars ending, we’re marking off major milestones in geek history—one week at at time. This week in history we’ve got Santa on the Cold War radar, baby HTTP going for a spin, and Babbage’s birth to help usher in the age of computers. Latest Features [...]
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VirtualBox 4.0 Rocks Extensions and a Simplified GUI
If you’re a fan of VirtualBox you’ll definitely want to grab the new 4.0 update; it comes packed with an extension manager, a fresh and user-friendly GUI, live virtual machine previews, and more. Check out our screenshot tour for a closer look. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to [...]
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How to Disable Caps Lock Key in Windows 7 or Vista
The caps lock key is one of those remnants of another age of computers, back when people used to shout at each other more often. Unless you’re in the accounting department, it’s probably not very useful, so today we’ll learn how to disable it. If you’re using Mac OS X instead, you can follow our [...]
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The Beginner’s Guide to Pidgin, the Universal Messaging Client
If you find chatting with multiple chat clients troublesome, then Pidgin is the tool for you. In today’s article, we’ll show you how to connect to popular chat networks, encrypt your conversations, and render mathematical formula in Pidgin Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC [...]
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James Westby: Couchapp Walkthrough: Part 4: How data gets to the user
This was the confusing part when I first ran couchapp to create a new app, I couldn’t really see where the “entry point” of the app was. In the hope that it might help someone else I’m going to present a quick overview of the default setup. read more
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Matt Zimmerman: Rejoining Debian
A couple of months ago, Debian project membership voted, after extensive discussion, to implement a fundamental change in the Debian community: to welcome as members people who make a valuable contribution to the project, even if they are contributing something other than source code. read more
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Mere Code: Larval prototype for Launchpad dashboards
I mentioned a while ago that I really want to see something like a dashboard in Launchpad, some kind of view that shows you everything that you must do, everything that you are waiting on from others and all of your current work-in-progress. Launchpad could do this really well, since it has rich, inter-linked data about what’s [...]
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Gustavo Niemeyer: Efficient algorithm for expanding circular buffers
Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. read more
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