Archive for August, 2006

Cliff Stoll at Cray Research

August 4, 2006

About 14 years ago or so I saw Cliff Stoll the author of The Cuckoo’s Egg speaking at Cray Research in Minnesota. This was in the era in which the web was virtually unheard of and only computer science majors had email addresses at my college. Obviously it was a more innocent time. Viruses were [...]

Ubuntu and Frontrow

August 1, 2006

Photography is a hobby of mine and I have accumulated a probably 50GB of images. I switched from using a PC at home to a Mac for processing my images with Photoshop. I don’t use iPhoto but I really like Frontrow. Here’s what I want to setup at home: I have Ubuntu Server 6.06 running [...]