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Ram As A Fast OS Cache

PC World - Kernel space: How to use a terabyte of RAM
Since I feel physical pain every time I feel or notice my computer swap to disk, I’ve always wanted a kernel module that loads my OS partition into Ram at boot.  Since I’m running on 4 gigs of ram now, that’s almost reasonable.
It’d be […]

Visualizations in Python - NodeBox | Superfolia

If you’ve ever wanted to make pretty things via some code - both still and moving images, check out:
NodeBox | Superfolia (in python) or Processing.org
I’d recently seen some cool examples of stuff made in processing at this blog that Adam sent over, and I stumbled upon Nodebox in some related searches.
Blogged with the Flock Browser

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tired of terminal windows?

blacktree visor is a savior - it brings a quake style console window for osx’s terminal program, and makes it hot-keyable.
if you use osx and spend any time in the term - just try it.  trust me.
hot.

best new things in leopard developer preview

let’s start with something that’s way overdue for an update…. TERMINAL!
backspace fixing in remote terminals (via on option called “delete sends Ctrl-H” , transparent backgrounds, color profiles,  nice tabbed terminals, and just an overall better experience from all of these combined.
I’ve been thinking hard about switching back to linux, and the updated terminal and “spaces” […]

sshfs for mac osx

link is here.
If you’ve never used it - sshfs let’s you mount any network drive over ssh.
Thank you Google Mac team for recently porting fuse to os x and making this possible.  Rock.

Startup School 2007

The date and some details were recently released. Check out info at startupschool.org
The first speaker on the list (more coming) is Chris Anderson (Editor in chief @ Wired Magazine)! I’m in the middle of his book The Long Tail (which is very popular, a great read and mentioned in my previous post/comment […]

my posture sucks

lifehack has another quick tip to try to improve it.  I might write this on the front of my computer.
Posture as a health-hack @ lifehack

Python at google (via Panela et Greg Stein)

Python At Google
Interesting quick read - not necessarily because of what it says (or doesn’t say), but more because of some of the design issues it reminds me of that are very different than those I’m working with now.
Reminds me of a lot of the stuff Adam and I’ve worked on at school (between Design […]

more ajax stuff

writely - write documents online / share with others
ajax examples
Roundcube Ajax Personal Webmail

ajax terminal emulators and more

I need to install one of these tonight. I’m looking to set up one of these as a front-end to a screen session login on all of my servers.
This way - I can just go to a web page and always have access to my work - exactly where I left off.
Anyterm
WebCmd (Not […]