Archive for March, 2008

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.
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Which animal is that?

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, […]

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.
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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.