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Re: Install Drupal And Joomla On Rackspace Cloud Sites With One Click

penguinsix — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:39:28 -0000

I'm gathering for updates we also have to do it manually?

Re: stochastic epidemic sir model to reveal herd immunity

penguinsix — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:29:38 -0000

Great simulation. Would be fascinating to tweak it into a "school" and "family' situation, showing how something could spread within a classroom, then to older/younger siblings, and into their classrooms, along with their extended connections. EDIT ( sorry--posted before I got to the latter slides doing something like that).

Re: Gonna be a Daddy! Found out while in Japan!

penguinsix — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:58:54 -0000

Congrats Michael. A pretty wild ride is about to begin.

Re: B-mobile 1GB Flat Rate SIM

penguinsix — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:41:51 -0000

Can you buy a B-Mobile sim at Narita Airport? Any recommendation which store to look for out there?

Re: Most famous album covers ever

penguinsix — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:46:49 -0000

What about the legendary Blue Monday single cover from New Order. The tale is it cost Factory Records so much to make the cover they lost money on every sale. But it was iconic. http://designmuseum.org/des...

Re: SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison)

penguinsix — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:13:48 -0000

Did anyone else notice that some of the Space X guys had laptops as well on the side. Guess they are tweeting while doing their job or something.

Re: Poll: What Should Joss Whedon Do Next?

penguinsix — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:31:48 -0000

Logans Run.

Re: Chinese village evicts police, army, Party officials

penguinsix — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:43:34 -0000

Actually this story has been out now for over a week and a settlement has already been reached.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

Re: Disaster book club: What you need to read to understand the crash of Air France 447

penguinsix — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:01:06 -0000

First, this was a gripping article I strongly suggest you read.

What struck me in the article was the asynchronous "joystick" / yoke controls. With one pilot pulling back the other stick did not have the same reaction (as we would expect having watched dozens of airliner movies over the years). This lack of a "tactile" alert could have been the difference between life and death. Had the other pilot noticed "which is this control stick all the way back" the corrections could have taken place far earlier.
I think about this in more advanced systems--sort of that "last chance" kind of option that defies computer programming and is something rendered in an old fashion, more blunt force way. Anyone who has driven in mountains often notices pulls off filled with gravel (runaway truck stops). A "trip cock" on a train system that engages the brakes should a signal be passed. Sometimes a simple option isn't necessarily a bad option.

Anyway, a very important read. Very tense.

Re: Siri and the dawn of the era of intelligent agents

penguinsix — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:31:01 -0000

One of the most interesting things I've seen is the development of SIRI proxy servers in the home, which some hackers have put together (basically re-doing their home DNS to run to their own systems). This brings SIRI into the world of home automation and whatnot, which is pretty exciting stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Astounding 3D effects projected onto a building's facade

penguinsix — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:17:43 -0000

Awesome to see this, though it makes me a little sad thinking of all the permits, licenses, and other regulatory crap you'd have to go through to show it here.

Re: The iPhone 4S Sells Out In Hong Kong - In 10 Minutes

penguinsix — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:01:41 -0000

Actually it sold out in about 30-40 minutes, but the 10 minute story is getting all the press. Not mentioned, however, is the fact that customers were "limited" to 10 iPhones per order, unlike the limit of 2 that is the case in most other countries. As a result the iPhone smugglers to China gobbled up as many as they could find for the trip over the border, where the iPhone will command about a $200-$300 US premium over the official price.

Re: Attack the Block slang dictionary

penguinsix — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:28:21 -0000

Thanks. I mangled the mangles what's going on into what's up. Will fix

Re: DARPA wants vampire satellites to harvest parts from dead sats prior to decommissioning

penguinsix — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:56:49 -0000

I've always thought we should Katamari old satellites. Build a hunter that has claws on it or something and can pull in other satellites until you have a large enough ball to plummet to Earth and burn up.

Re: What Not to Do in Hong Kong (Trust Me on This One)

penguinsix — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:09:27 -0000

Get well soon. I'm sure it must be scary but you're in a good hospital there next to the horse racing track. It's Wednesday night but unfortunately the races are at Sha Tin tonight so you don't get to see the action live.

Re: Back in Shenzhen, Hanging at the newly upgraded SZteam coworking space

penguinsix — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:42:32 -0000

Looks pretty nice. I should come up and work there one day just for a change of pace.

Re: Walking Through a Shopping Mall …Market Research For Chinese Factories

penguinsix — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:05:28 -0000

The plastics you buy in the US tend to be a better quality and weight than the stuff you buy in Asia, from imitation Legos to ice cube trays to bins for storing clothes. We've never really liked most of the brittle plastic crap we've seen available locally in Asia at a cheaper price. Far too disposable after easily breaking.

Re: Visit to Los Angeles Ecommerce fulfillment center

penguinsix — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0000

You need robots to have a good fulfillment center. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Percussive high-speed garlic-peeling made simple

penguinsix — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:15:54 -0000

Ever since I saw Goodfellas I only use a razor for my garlic, just like Paulie did in prison.

Re: Hong Kong Apple Store Will Start Business This Weekend (with video!)

penguinsix — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:41:21 -0000

The Hong Kong Apple Store is in the IFC Mall, which is located above the Airport Express & Hong Kong MTR stations. It occupies the East 'wing' of the building, where they took out about 10 smaller stores, removing the walls, and made one big store. It faces Central Hong Kong, with familiar buildings like the Bank of China visible through the windows. The bridge you see in some of the photos is the pedestrian walkway connecting Central Hong Kong to the Star Ferry terminal.

Re: Sonic.net at my house is 3X faster in download and 10x faster in upload than Comcast

penguinsix — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:29:46 -0000

Have you asked Comcast if they offer DOCSIS 3.0 service to your area? They finished (supposedly) the build out in SF about a year or two ago but I'm not sure what offerings they have for customers. I've read they have it in part of the Silicon Valley but not sure if the city itself has it.

Re: Sonic.net at my house is 3X faster in download and 10x faster in upload than Comcast

penguinsix — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:20:51 -0000

Is it just me or are those numbers really awful, even by US standards. 2.95mbps? That's late 1990s speeds.

My Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 is listed at 110mbps down with a reality of about 60mbps or so. I can't get FIOS from Verizon due to where I live but their numbers are also impressive.

What are they saying you should be getting and is it relating well to your overall performance? Do you happen to have a really really old router or firewall in the mix? When I jumped to 110mbps we discovered that the WAN->LAN throughput on my really old firewall was limited to 7mpbs and thus I wasn't getting the full glory of the speed (I had to buy a new router).

Re: An Apollo astronaut on political quagmires

penguinsix — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:19:38 -0000

Actually many other astronauts have had remarkably similar realizations when looking at the Earth from the same point of view.

http://www.spacequotations....

Re: HK Hackerspace Environmental Monitoring - Pachube

penguinsix — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:53:52 -0000

Some pretty wild swings there. Did you open the window or something?

Re: Google+ Has Been Throttled to Death – Now Blocked in China

penguinsix — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:51:47 -0000

Was working for me from Shenzhen this weekend. The Google iPhone app has worked flawlessly in China since it was released. We'll see how long that lasts.