thought cruft http://joshwilson.com/blog an attempt at useful thinking Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:34:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en apple command line wireless tool http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=103 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=103#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:34:35 +0000 jmw computers productivity mac osx http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=103

sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport

via: airport - the Little Known Command Line Wireless Utility - OS X Daily

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=103 Ram As A Fast OS Cache http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=102 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=102#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:03:53 +0000 jmw linux coding computers http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=102 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 nice if it also loaded all of my commonly used applications and garbage collected space as needed for actual running programs - but that’s just icing on the cake.

If this stabilizes at all, I might just give it a try. Awesome.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=102 Which animal is that? http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=101 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=101#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:52:05 +0000 jmw california http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=101 Ever ask yourself that question?  When I’m spearfishing - I’ve honed recently honed my vocabulary down from “Big/Little/Small” + “fish/dolphin/ray/shark/starfish/snail”….to something more along the lines of “7 inch / 3 foot / 10cm” + “Ling Cod/Common Dolphin/Bat Ray/Black Tip Reef Shark” …etc

I’d like to hone it down even more - just for my own knowledge, and Zip Code Zoo seems like a good starting point.

It’s too bad there aren’t more animals listed in 93940 (my previous local dive zip code in Monterey), but there seem to be plenty of fish/plants/animals in the database.

“”"As of Saturday, March 22, 2008, this site is home to 3,238,767 web pages describing 1,313,091 plants, 1,539,073 animals, 13,132 Bacteria, 22,655 Chromista, 308,499 Fungi, and 17,462 Protozoa. Pages contain 256,403 photos taken by 1,363 photographers”"”

http://zipcodezoo.com

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]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=101 Visualizations in Python - NodeBox | Superfolia http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=100 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=100#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:23:41 +0000 jmw coding creativity computers http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=100 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.

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]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=100 tired of terminal windows? http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=99 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=99#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:34:26 +0000 jmw coding productivity osx http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=99 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.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=99 ironman tv spot http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=98 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=98#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:59:06 +0000 jmw mass media movies http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=98 it appeared during the superbowl.

ironman tv spot

psyched for this.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=98 in case you hadn’t read about the 700mhz auction http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=97 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=97#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:31:40 +0000 jmw blog computers mass media http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=97 or even if you have - found a great overview via: the skydeck blog
700 Mhz Auction - What it means for mobile services 

Also - to point out the obvious, it’s been a while since I’ve posted but since I’m in Tokyo I thought, hey - that I’ve heard that blogging thing is big here, I should give it a try.

Lots of Japanese blog via diaries only accessible to their friends on a mobile social network called Mixi.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=97 best new things in leopard developer preview http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=96 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=96#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:43:07 +0000 jmw blog coding productivity mac osx http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=96 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” are definitely changing my mind.

If you couldn’t tell from above - I’m currently experimenting with the leopard developer preview and since I installed it 3 days ago, haven’t booted into tiger a single time.  The Sound system is a little buggy (sometimes have to restart programs that use sound), some programs crash every now and then when you’re playing with new features (transparency in terminal, and photobooth effects in ichat), but spaces really is changing the way I work - even more significantly than virtual desktops did in linux because of expose - and the speed of switching desktops.

if you have a mac and are a developer, you should try it today.  it’s pretty sweet.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=96 Re: Signal To Noise Ratio http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=95 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=95#comments Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:56:18 +0000 jmw blog http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=95 Well, It’s been 3 months since I removed a bunch of crap from my life, and I’ve probably made it through some of the heaviest months (in terms of work/life overload).  The test was successful and I’m convinced, less really is more.
Removing the feeds was a lesson in quality.  I really tried to upgrade the quality of media I presented myself with and have read some good books, gone deeper into subjects that I actually care about, and have been less distracted since removing 1.5 hours of RSS feed reading from my life.

I think it’s time that I can add some more feed reading into to my daily schedule (mobile industry concentrated).  The bar will be much higher this time.

]]> http://joshwilson.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=95 less is more http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=94 http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=94#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:50:05 +0000 jmw blog http://joshwilson.com/blog/?p=94 The signal to noise ratio is too low. (Not high - Edited 4-11 - typo..hah)
The past couple months have been a pretty serious trial in seeing what i can and can’t do (This was self inflicted, fun, and exciting). The next couple of months see more of the same things and I’m starting to feel like I have less than enough time to accomplish the things I’d like to.

Thankfully, I have a new years resolution safely tucked away from 12:01am on January 1st for just this sort of thing.

Less is more.

It’s more of a theme for the year than a resolution, but my goal for 2007 is to harness the power of “less is more” more often than I ever have before. It started with having too much stuff and not using enough of it to make what I really want to (Robot parts / books / spare 2×4s), and as of tonight “less is more” will now extend to my rss feeds.

These are my old feeds: My Old RSS Feed OPML

I’ve narrowed down from that list (typically weighing in at 3000 articles a week - with about 1000 of them being ads I only browsed the headlines of), to a list of 5 (not necessarily my top 5, but just the 5 I’d feel a little better for reading every day.

Top 5:

YCombinator Startup News - what reddit used to be: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

LifeScience.com - generic bleeding edge science news: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Livesciencecom

Forum Nokia Blogs - interesting mobile related articles: http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/rss_entry_feed.rss

XKCD - best comic in the world:
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml

Communities Dominate Brands - Book blog about the title. Lots of mobile material: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/index.rdf

Now this test is going to be for at least a month (could make it) - and I’m counting on friends to email me the really cool shit I miss, but I’m hoping it will work out and at least convince me to put a stronger filter on the stuff I read in the future.

By the way - if you haven’t checked out my top five - try reading them regularly for a week. I will be…

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