/me reading
It's a great movie with spectacular visuals. It's a must see for anyone even remotely interested in sci-fi or if you're interested about what today's state-of-the-art rendering technology can produce. I've enjoyed every minute of it.
About a year ago I became involved in electronics. This was because the development of the Ultimate Keyboard requires strong electronics knowledge and not only I couldn't hire anybody (without the resources doing so), but I also wanted to understand electronics and over time as I read the articles on Hack a Day I realized how cool electronics really is.
I've been doing software development for a few years and it's always fun, but doing purely software development in itself is not that interesting for me as it used to be. We have a keyboard, a mouse and a monitor, that's mildly interesting. We also have the Internet for several years which is much more interesting. What if create a propeller clock, a line following robot or all kinds of ultra-crazy stuff, both the hardware and software? That sounds to me like the ultimate fun.
Joe Grand is probably the most well-known hardware hacker who became famous as one of the hosts of Prototype This. He is a really cool guy and has tons of interesting materials on his site. I'm grateful for every piece of knowledge that I can learn from guys like him.
Finally, I got my first laptop a week ago which I named nitehawk because of it's color. It's an Acer Aspire 8935G-874G100BN and I think it pretty much represents the level of hardware integration that can be achieved in 2009. With its 18.4-inch LED LCD screen and its load of impressive features it's almost more like a desktop than a laptop and it's exactly what I wanted because I change my location of a two weekly basis and I don't need much mobility other than that.
The first thing I did when nitehawk arrived is I sent it back to Acer so they could remove Windows 7 and give me back its price. When all things summed including the traversing costs I haven't earned almost any money, but I didn't do it for the money. This was my gentle gesture to show Redmond that they're welcomed to taste my middle finger.
nitehawk's keyboard is as crappy as most laptop keyboards from a typewriting point of view, but I do truly appreciate its power efficiency in overall and suspend, hibernate especially. I carry it in a Targus TCB001EU XL notebook backpack because I couldn't get any other backpacks in Hungary that was big enough to hold this beast. :)
Oh yeah, Linode has just reached Europe. Moving from Dallas to London made my ping go from 150ms to 50ms looking from Szeged and the migration couldn't have been easier or smoother.
Thank you Linode staff, you rock!
I've just replaced the microswitches of my Logitech MouseMan Optical dual sensor mouse. I bought it about 6 years ago for about $80 and I was extremely satisfied with it until the switches broke.
Today I managed to get some Omron D2F-01 switches. The original switches are Omron D2FC-F-7N parts but they have been obsoleted. The new switches have a crisp tactile feel which I love, altough they are a little bit harder to press than the old ones.
Being able to replace the switches is one of the "secrets" that manufacturers don't want you to know because chances are you wouldn't have to buy any other mouse ever again. There are other temporary fixes to solve the issue, but replacing the switches with new ones is stongly advised.
Sok minden kiderül a Tudatos Vásárló Digitális Kézimunka című cikkéből és a kapcsolódó videóból. A kínai termékek alacsony árának az oka részben az, hogy ennyire nyomorúságos körülmények között tartják és ennyire túlhajszolják a munkásokat, de én személy szerint szívesen fizetnék többet az árúkért annak tudtában, hogy a teljes termelési lánc összes szereplője jó életkörülmények között él.
Amikor csak tehetem megpróbálok hosszú távon kitartó árúkat vásárolni és mostantól a kínai árúcikkeket is fokozottan megpróbálom kerülni mert ez a helyzet egy ideig aligha oldódik meg.
This is a much harder question than one might think as VSZ and RSS are not accurate. /proc/{PID}/smaps provides the most accurate information as of Linux 2.6.16.
ps_mem.py is a nice script that summarizes smaps information on a per application basis and gracefully falls back to measure VSZ when no smaps support is found.
