Grumble Grumble: The things that piss me off.

You try to give Microsoft a break but no…

16 January, 2016

I feel like Microsoft hates me. It’s not just that it doesn’t care – it is going out of its way to keep me off its operating system, its ecosystem, everything it owns or controls. A few weeks ago I decided to accept the inevitable and “upgrade” from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I know …

Awesome troubleshooting guide from a past age

19 December, 2015

I don’t think I need add anything to this comedic manual page from my sewing machine: Too bad it doesn’t have an entry for the actual problem – missing bobbin case.. but maybe I can guess.. replace bobbin case? :)

Exam/test clock and timer

16 December, 2015

Why is it so difficult to find a simple clock that will show the time on the screen? Honestly you would think building one is rocket science, that’s how hard it is to find one online. I can never find one to show on the projector while my students are taking a test or exam, …

Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware

15 December, 2015

I’ve always been interested in hardware but I’ve never learned much about it past simple analogue PCBs I made back in when I was in highschool. I am a software guy though, and specifically an open source software guy. So the name of this paper got my attention: “Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware”. …

CC Registry – Next steps

14 November, 2015

At Seneca we showed that the Creative Commons registry is technically doable and we wrote software to show how. Now the project needs to be taken over by another organization interested in running it. We don’t have the infrastructure at Seneca to host it. I would love to one day see Wikimedia (perhaps via Wikidata) …

CC Registry – Architecture

14 November, 2015

In this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about CC Registry – Architecture (this post) CC Registry – Next steps I’ll now describe the components making the registry possible. All the source code for this is open source and available from GitHub. Data Source When this goes into production – the images need to …

CC Registry – What it’s all about

14 November, 2015

In this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about (this post) CC Registry – Architecture CC Registry – Next steps Wouldn’t it be nice if one day you could find an image online and know whether you can legally use that image and for what purpose? This is fundamentally what the Creative Commons registry …

Installing proprietary NVidia drivers in CentOS7

11 November, 2015

I don’t even know if this should go into Open Source, but there are definitely machines that will not run X.org with the Nouveau driver with some of the newest NVidia cards, and this is the only realistic way I know to fix it. The procedure for installing this thing is incredibly weird and error-prone …

Printing photos with bash

30 October, 2015

I’ve decided to finally print my photo collection and put the prints in albums like in the good old days. I spent a few days going through the files and picking what I want printed. I was not expecting to see that I will end up with 934 photos. But that’s not going to stop …

Creative Commons in Transnistria

28 October, 2015

I forgot I saw this when I visited back home in Tiraspol. I forgot to make a photo of this car right away, but then saw it 3 or 4 times in other locations. It’s a small city so that’s not too surprising, but was interesting anyway, especially since I was working on a project …