Stories of an ex-erasmus student
John Underkoffler, a technical advisor for Minority Report, worked on the 3D computersystem for the 2002 Spielberg movie. Today he is the head researcher for Oblong Industries, a company that develops a “spacial operating environment” named g-speak. Take a look for yourself:
(click on the full screen button on the lower right of the movie player)
If this is how future user interfaces will look like, i want one!
I recently had a hard drive crash on my home Linux NAS box. The important files were on a software raid 5 array, but the root filesystem (with the majority of the OS) were on a separate IDE hard drive.
Only the IDE drive crashed so my important files were safe, but I needed to remount the raid array. It took me quite a while before I got that right, so I’ll share my knowledge here for you. Here are the commands needed to reconstruct / remount a raid array with a Gentoo live cd:
Continue reading ‘Mounting a Linux software raid array with lvm’
If you -like me- are wondering why CERN build the Large Hadron Collider and what they will use it for, I found this presentation by Brian Cox very fascinating and informative.
The wikipedia entry for the LHC has plenty of extra information.
The only problem I have with my 13″ MacBook is the tiny harddrive. 60GB really isn’t enough these days. So today I bought a new hard drive, a Seagate Momentus 160GB 7200rpm.
The installation went easier than I thought. Except, as you might have guessed from this post’s title, something did go wrong with the fonts.
