A little project I’m working on at the moment: creating a neural network that will (maybe) learn the aesthetic tastes of a person. There are two parts to this, the first creates tree-like shapes (what Richard Dawkins calls biomorphs in his book The Blind Watchmaker). Here is an online demo of these biomorphs. My version… Read More »
I’ve just finished reading Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, by Paul Carroll. Published in 1993, it’s a bit out of date now, but it provides an interesting look into the mid-80’s to early-90’s IBM. This was a time when it went from being the largest US company, to posting a loss greater than the… Read More »
The default install of Webalizer on Debian doesn’t perform DNS lookups on the log files, although it is capable of it. There are three ways of getting Webalizer to do this, in rough order of recommendedness: 1) make your webserver do the lookups when it writes the logfiles (this makes your webserver slower, and has… Read More »
The purpose of the emusicj category is to give me a place to put information on the development and releases of eMusic/J (a Java-based download manager for eMusic aimed at Linux users). If you are interested in seeing what’s new and shiny in the new versions, then keep an eye on this. If you aren’t… Read More »
So I’ve needed a good bench power supply in order to have something I can quickly hook up to the circuits I’ve been planning on (and started!) building. It turned out that I had a 230W old ATX PSU lying around, so I converted that. There are already basic instructions for this on the net,… Read More »