Some more on metered broadband coming to Austin: It was no accident that Time Warner Cable included Austin in its plans to roll out tiered pricing plans for Internet access. In fact, the city’s concentration of tech-savvy customers is the very thing that attracted the company’s efforts. And some worrying usage cases being considered: Austin [...]
Web users, the meter is running. In a strategy that’s likely to rankle consumers but be copied by competitors, Time Warner Cable (TWC) is pressing ahead with a plan to charge Internet customers based on how much Web data they consume. Starting next month, the company will introduce tiered pricing in several markets. I’m not [...]
I was struggling yesterday to get my research code running on my laptop. I depend on an open source library called libwebcam to enable pan and tilt control of an off-the-shelf camera. This code works on machines running Ubuntu Hardy, but not on my laptop running Ubuntu Intrepid. It seems that the uvc camera driver [...]
The major computer upgrades have at least enabled me to flash the BIOS. I used these instructions. (I learned how to mount and modify an iso file directly, as well as construct a bootable image.) This approach wouldn’t have worked without a dependable CD drive, so my trip to Fry’s was worth something. I still [...]
So what was I working on? I put the desktop computer shown in the previous post together during college. I’ve since repurposed the machine as a generic file and print server (it was also the web server for this blog at one point). The machine is built around a mid-generation P4, which was kind of [...]
What started out as a simple effort to get my workstation to properly suspend has devolved into this: Of course I consider myself well on the way to success:
Two years ago I upgraded my old laptop to 2GB of memory – an upgrade that cost $300. I was curious if that memory would be compatible with my current laptop – which only has 1GB of memory. I checked out crucial.com and found out that, yes, in fact, the memory I purchased for my [...]
The family visit went well. The IJCAI paper is almost done. So I guess I’m running out of excuses not to post. I bought Ana a 2.1 speaker sound system for the living room. She was listening to music while cooking using only her laptop speakers. In the process of shopping for that gift, I [...]
Here’s what this had to say about me. INTJ – The Scientists The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be pshysically [sic] [...]
I spent my early afternoon figuring out how to turn off the tap feature for the touchpad on my laptop. I know how to do it from the command line, but needed to figure out how to make it sticky across sleep/resume cycles. For those of you searching for a solution to the same problem [...]