Incredibly motivating video presentation
August 13th, 2008Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is presenting this video about “Achieving your childhood dreams”. Anyone who has had dreams of success should watch. It’s a long (1:16hr) but an incredible story. Randy has since died of pancreatic cancer which is a significant loss to the world.
Linus Tourvalds on Distributed Source Code Management
July 19th, 2008This video is quite long (1hr) but it will (should) change how you think about source code management.
Linus developed a source code control package called Git because all other version control systems were doing it (badly) wrong. I was sceptical, but having watched the video, I’m convinced there is compelling power in distributed source code management.
If you replace the term source code management with content management and use a bit of imagination then distrbuted source code systems look very similar to what I believe the next generation of Enterprise Content Management systems should look like. (ie source code management and content management are very similar concepts)
The story of stuff
July 3rd, 2008This short video (20 minutes) explains how and arguably why “stuff” is created and consumed.
Homemade Robotic Aircraft
June 15th, 2008These guys have built their own “UAVs”
Strathclyde Police Trial Mobile Data System
May 2nd, 2008
Strathclyde Police are trialing a new mobile data system from 22nd February 2008.
The idea behind the mobile data system is to make police officers much more efficient by reducing the amount of time they spend completing paperwork.
The system also allows officers access to unprecedented levels of information via mobile data terminals in police cars.
From what I’ve seen it looks like the system has been superbly implemented by Arqiva and should make officers much more effective.
Watch a video demo of the system here
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
April 20th, 2008A thought provoking article about computer security. A worthwhile read for anyone responsible for the security of corporate networks.
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
Unbelievable - Elephant Paints a Self Portrait
April 10th, 2008Awesome Scratch Built Model of a Star Destroyer
April 10th, 2008Annoying Disk Activity on Windows Vista
April 3rd, 2008I’ve been annoyed for some time by the periodic (and frequent) bouts of inexplicable disk activity on my Windows Vista machine.
A big thank you to www.mydigitallife.info which correctly suggests that this is caused by a Windows Service called SuperFetch. SuperFetch probably provides some performance gains on systems which are always left on by pre-loading frequently used files into memory when the system isn’t doing anything else.
My system is rebooted somewhat frequently so SuperFetch not only annoys me but is also wearing out my hard drive with it’s constant disk activity.
To disable SuperFetch simply go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Right click on SuperFetch, select properties and set the start up type to “Manual”, then click “Stop”.
Enjoy the peace 