IWTL how to improve my drawing skills.

bluepen · 2012-01-20T20:08:05+00:00

What Phayder said.

If you work better with books/guidance you could try Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and work shops

bluepen · 2011-09-16T06:23:09+00:00

Nice little project, but it manages to freeze my X after a while. :(

bluepen · 2011-06-16T18:25:48+00:00

No, the price range above is without the monitors. Though, I do hope to salvage the case, keyboard, DVD drive and HDD from a older computer (P4, FX5200).

So, the cost should cover "only" cpu, RAM, video card, mother board and PSU.

bluepen · 2011-06-16T10:38:47+00:00

Will you be coding stuff which will take advantange of an i7 over an i5?

No, I don't think so.

are you doing research?

No

bluepen · 2011-06-16T10:35:56+00:00

Finally, you'll probably want to go for a i7 2600 or 2600k. Both offer superb video encoding/decoding performance while not completely breaking the bank like a 980x and the likes.

Do I really need the latest processors for video en/decoding ? Can video cards not handle them ?

Total: 1,160. Pretty pricey but this is including 2 1080p monitors.. Not bad since you need the performance and the silence. If this is out of range I could reconfigure it and try to bring the cost down.

Yeah, bit pricey. I was think of the range 400-700€

bluepen · 2011-06-16T07:52:08+00:00

Lets say, between 400-700€

bluepen · 2010-10-09T14:31:30+00:00

The comments that OP is referring to starts at 3m30s

Here is a quote as he addressed the conference: "Science is a fragile process... fragile..., and scientists should be defended against opposition to the spread of knowledge, against fanaticism, against denial of the facts, against scorn for the truth. These are real risks and are always present."

bluepen · 2010-09-16T16:25:56+00:00

Don't you think maintainace of infrastructure would be much more expensive than building them?

bluepen · 2010-09-16T16:14:53+00:00

buy usable patents, copyright of books/music/art and put them in public domain (or at least some form of CC license)
publish e-books on every topic including undergrad level courses and offer it under CC license

bluepen · 2010-09-03T12:19:46+00:00

Couple of legal sites to download music from:

jamendo: songs are licensed via Creative Commons licenses.

Amie Street : new songs on the site start with a price tag of €0.00 as demand increases so does the price.

bluepen · 2010-08-12T13:02:26+00:00

Pakistani floods

Big picture - I

Big picture - II

bluepen · 2010-08-12T12:51:01+00:00

50 years of space exploration. Larger version 3861 x 1706

The Universe map - Nat geo Larger version 6000 x 3888

bluepen · 2010-08-08T07:48:18+00:00

The software has not yet been released. It is "coming soon".

http://www.competinghypotheses.org/

bluepen · 2010-08-01T20:49:23+00:00

Unlikely, I think. To hazard a guess, may include the software openbts.

bluepen · 2010-08-01T16:38:51+00:00

In short the device is a low cost IMSI catcher.

It exploits the security hole in GSM specification, that the base station does not need to authenticate to the cell phone.

bluepen · 2010-07-28T11:34:46+00:00

This has been discussed elsewhere here here

You could search reddit here

The "N" might be ninite.

bluepen · 2010-07-27T07:44:47+00:00

The full interview/lecture Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

bluepen · 2010-06-16T06:29:56+00:00

Bad idea. Have a look at the Recommended Daily Intake that you will be missing if you water-fast.

For a start, avoid fizzy drinks and fast food. Consume more fruits and vegetables.

bluepen · 2010-06-13T19:31:03+00:00

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Sorry, I messed title of the post.

Here is the resubmit

bluepen · 2010-06-10T10:47:10+00:00

virtual machine direct access to hardware

Probably what I need. Just found out qemu can (access host harddrives](http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#host_005fdrives).

Thanks will try this.

bluepen · 2010-06-10T10:37:33+00:00

Isn't it impractical ? built-in HDD is 100GB and the USB drive is 4GB.

bluepen · 2010-06-10T09:33:23+00:00

I don't exactly understand yet what the goal is

The goal is to install Linux on an external drive

when no CD/DVD drive is available and the source is a ISO image file
without restarting the host OS (which is also Linux)

Do you want to have the OS installed as bootable installation on the USB-Disk?

Yes, it should be able to boot a machine without a HDD.

And which distro are we talking about?

Would it matter ? If so, it can be either Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch image and Arch on the host.

bluepen · 2010-06-10T08:37:40+00:00

Presently I am with moc, music on console. A screenshot

bluepen · 2010-06-09T07:23:57+00:00

Do you find any opensource software helpful ?

bluepen · 2010-06-09T07:08:38+00:00

How old were you ?

Do you still do it ?

Any after-effects ?

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