The Toyota Prius takes its name from the Latin adverb, “prior”, meaning ahead, in-front, or leading. Although the name is fitting for the established leader of the hybrid automobile market, the Prius suffers from shortcomings that are often associated with technological forerunners.
First-off, what makes the Prius such an overwhelmingly popular hybrid vehicle given the many [...]
Warning: Toyota Prius Falls Short of Fuel Efficiency Expectations
By phillip on Sep 27, 2007 within Featured | Comments
Install and Configure Fink from Binary or Source [Mac Guide]
By Steve Henderson on Sep 24, 2007 within Apple, Guides | Comments
Fink is a package manager that makes it easy to install Unix Open Source software on your Mac. Anyone who has tried to install/compile Open Source software on a system based on Unix or Linux will understand how heavenly these package managers can be. Keep reading to learn how to easily and quickly [...]
Recommended Music Download - Ellen Allien and Apparat
By Steve Henderson on Sep 24, 2007 within Entertainment, Music | Comments
Thank God It’s Monday! This is a regular weekly post of music that got me through the week last week, so I’m hoping to spread the love. This week includes two albums that continue a previous review of Apparat: Ellen Allien’s Berlinette as well as Ellen Allien and Apparat’s full-length collaboration Orchestra of [...]
Internet Censorship - A Digg “Bury Brigade” Case Study
By Sam Davis on Sep 24, 2007 within Coffee Break, Featured | Comments
Wikipedia defines censorship as “the removal and/or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body.” When I think of censorship, images of the communist governments of the old Soviet Bloc and goose stepping Nazis come to mind. But of course, the attempts of “controlling groups” to silence “dangerous” ideas and erase [...]
How to Use LaPrint to Create LaTeX Labels in MATLAB Figures
By Riley Porter on Sep 21, 2007 within Guides, Tips | Comments
In a previous post I described how to customize and improve MATLAB figures for publication. That guide showed how to create a high quality eps figure that is easily integrated into a LaTeX document or sent off to a publisher. Today I will show how to use LaPrint, a MATLAB function that allows all figure [...]
How to Access Hidden OS X Features [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Sep 21, 2007 within Apple, Tips | Comments
Here are a few commands that can be used to activate hidden features of Mac OS X. There are quite a few of these commands floating around the internet, but I have chosen to highlight the ones that I find the most useful. The commands will require use of the terminal, but don’t [...]
Images for the Week of Sept 21st
By Franklin Davis on Sep 21, 2007 within Coffee Break, Images | Comments
Here are some interesting images that I have come across recently. Have you seen an amazing image I missed? Leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add it to the next collection.
Disclaimer: All credit for the images should go to the website linked in the image.
Recommended Music Download - Spoon
By Steve Henderson on Sep 16, 2007 within Entertainment, Music | Comments
Thank God It’s Monday! This is a regular weekly post of music that got me through the week last week, so I’m hoping to spread the love. This week includes an album I absolutely love: Gimme Fiction by Spoon. You can read some of my random thoughts below, and/or just stream [...]
Widescreen Wallpapers: Yellowstone National Park
By Sam Davis on Sep 15, 2007 within Images | Comments
I’ve posted new wallpaper creations on Zaphu’s Free Picasa Widescreen Wallpaper Gallery. All of this week’s additions are Photoshopped images of pictures I took in Yellowstone National Park. Here is a preview.
Ubuntu DNS Server Guide - BIND Master Server Setup
By Sam Davis on Sep 14, 2007 within Guides, Ubuntu | Comments
In a previous post I walked you through the installation of BIND9 (Berkley Internet Name Daemon Version 9) on Ubuntu (currently Hardy Heron 8.04) and configuring the installation to function as a caching name server on your local area network (LAN). Caching DNS records on a local server will hopefully boost your network’s performance. [...]
Images for the Week of Sept 14th, 2007
By Franklin Davis on Sep 14, 2007 within Coffee Break, Images | Comments
Here are some interesting images that I have come across recently. Have you seen an amazing image I missed? Leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add it to the next collection.
Disclaimer: All credit for the images should go to the website linked in the image.
How to Customize and Improve MATLAB Figures for Publication
By Riley Porter on Sep 13, 2007 within Guides, Tips | Comments
In this post I will be showing how to produce a publication quality figure using MATLAB (2007a). To fully appreciate the content presented here you will need some working knowledge of MATLAB, meaning that you should know how to create a basic plot. If you need some help in this department you can reference this [...]
Google to Sponsor $30 Million in Lunar X Prizes [News]
By Franklin Davis on Sep 13, 2007 within Coffee Break, Google | Comments
Fresh on the heels of securing a $1.3 million annual parking permit for their corporate jet (Boeing 767) at NASA’s airfield near Mountain View, CA the search giant now appears ready to offer up the largest X Prize to date ($20 million for the first competitor to land a robotic rover on the Moon that [...]
Warning: Blu-ray and HD-DVD Might Both Fail [Opinion]
By Franklin Davis on Sep 11, 2007 within Coffee Break, Featured | Comments
The battle for superiority between Toshiba’s HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray is in full swing, or is it? HD-DVD announced with much bravado the defection of Paramount to its camp. Sony on the other hand parades around shouting that sales of Blu-ray are exceeding HD-DVD (thanks largely to the PS3). However, the giant [...]
Ubuntu DNS Server Guide - BIND Caching Name Server Setup
By Sam Davis on Sep 10, 2007 within Guides, Ubuntu | Comments
In previous posts, I shared instructions for setting up a Ubuntu LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP) server and configuring Apache and mySQL to host new sites complete with phpmyadmin and cgi-bin access. I thought it would be useful to write a follow-up guide on setting up of an Ubuntu DNS (Domain Name Service) server on [...]