Archive for July, 2008
Hacking Radiohead’s House of Cards
To motivate you- We are attempting to achieve the effect shown here:
http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html
Sometime last week Radiohead released their music video – house of cards – which is a radical video in a long time.
Since I do not embed youtube videos on my blog, here’s the youtube link.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ]
The video is significant if you are a radiohead fan [...]
Gmail filesystem
This is an old one, but worth the discussion.
Richard Jones has written a python application called Gmailfs which essentially uses the FUSE userland filesystem utilities to allow you mount your gmail space onto your disk.
On debian based systems, you can get this up quickly.
apt-get install gmailfs
apt-get install python-clientcookie
Then either add it to fstab or go [...]
HAMMER filesystem talk- Matthew Dillon
Here is an interesting talk by DragonFlyBSD’s , Matthew Dillon on the HAMMER filesystem:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk154.ogg
A particular interesting part is how the HAMMER Filesystem syncs to the disk and maintains a history of the syncs- one of the motives could be backing up the disk.
It got me thinking if this is similar or better than Apples Time [...]
