dekstop weblog : comments http://dekstop.de/weblog/ On the dekstop weblog: Products and habits (pop culture), things I stopped using, reading, watching or listening to (drop culture), technology, software and resources (tools), and all the rest (stuff). And occasional site updates. en-us Copyright 2009 Martin Dittus Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:00:42 GMT MicroLinks 5.6 (dekstop.de) Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1176 Ah, thanks for the correction.

Great Flickr set, completely missed that!

]]> <p>- martind]]></p> martind http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1176 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:00:42 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1175 Sorry about the double-posting. MovableType kept showing me "internal server error."

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1175 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:37:45 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1174 Re: Dryad.
Michael from Microsoft didn't present it at OSJam. You probably saw it mentioned in my talk on "6 Interesting Ideas" : http://www.oshineye.com/texts/terraNova.pdf

This was at OSJam in November: http://flickr.com/photos/adewale_oshineye/sets/72157603336999888/

The Dryad guys did give a great Tech Talk in Mountain View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1174 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:56:46 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1173 Re: Dryad.
Michael from Microsoft didn't present it at OSJam. You probably saw it mentioned in my talk on "6 Interesting Ideas" : http://www.oshineye.com/texts/terraNova.pdf

This was at OSJam in November: http://flickr.com/photos/adewale_oshineye/sets/72157603336999888/

The Dryad guys did give a great Tech Talk in Mountain View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1173 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:42:19 GMT Comment on "Teaser: Offline Feed Reader for Your iPod" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/05/ipod_offline_feed_reader/#947 I'm trying to move non-"purchased" songs from iPods to authorized iTunes installations on other machines. Such as when you take your iPod to work and want to transfer the tunes to that machine.

I can do this no prob. But of course I don't want to click and drag or go through the drag of opening terminal to do it every time.

Basically, one part of my quest is to find a reliable way to identify a volume as an iPod. I don't care what kind of iPod, I just want to know that it is one.

I got a hint sent to me about the IOKit but it's pretty hairy low-level C stuff that is not fun to dig through.
this is the hint i've recieved:
IOServiceMatching("com_apple_driver_iPodNub")
IOServiceMatching("com_apple_driver_iPodSBCNub")

I've also been digging in Apple's Developer docs, and in the part:
Accessing Hardware From Applications: Finding Devices in the IO Registry

I found something of this, and opened the dev tools app IORegistryExplorer

I've found the PID (product id, listed as idProduct in some IO registry plist xml file) and VID (vendor id, listed as idVendor)

Trouble is I haven't the faintest idea at the moment, how to access the IO registry to check this stuff, or what other iPods will have as PID.

If any of that helps you, let me know and help back...
cheers.

]]> <p>- Goodbye Helicopter]]></p> Goodbye Helicopter http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/05/ipod_offline_feed_reader/#947 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:24:54 GMT Comment on "Prepaid MasterCards: the Missing Link in Financial Privacy" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#944 still didn't manage to actually buy anything yet -- wanted to register the card from a random open wifi network to make the anonymous payment experience authentic, but then I always forgot.

]]> <p>- martind]]></p> martind http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#944 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:21:07 GMT Comment on "Prepaid MasterCards: the Missing Link in Financial Privacy" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#943 was curious about this badboy too. wonder if it works with paypal?

]]> <p>- smallcaps]]></p> smallcaps http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#943 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:57:13 GMT Comment on "On Black WASPs, Elongated Labiae, the Bustle, and Giant African Asses" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/04/elongated_labiae_and_giant_african_asses/#935 I am really thankful I found your page again. Today, a youtube video was shared with me about Saartje. I was not to sure if you had seen it:

This is a link from my main blog:

http://serenitylife.vox.com/library/post/who-is-sara-baartman-every-black-woman-should-know-her-name.html

Enjoy! I thought it was a wonderful story told in a short amount of time for someone who may have a short attention span.

Take care!

- Jennifer

]]> <p>- Jennifer]]></p> Jennifer http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/04/elongated_labiae_and_giant_african_asses/#935 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:19:15 GMT Comment on "Podcasts, Mixtapes, and Post-Apocalyptic Lover's Rock" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/postapocalyptic_lovers_rock/#800 Jay is the truth, check back to the site periodically for more.

]]> <p>- andres]]></p> andres http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/postapocalyptic_lovers_rock/#800 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:39:10 GMT Comment on "Rough Trade East: Gorgeous" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/rough_trade_east_is_gorgeous/#787 A ha. Glad you liked it. Nice space. I found their vinyl stock to be worse than what I've come to expect from their other two London stores. But this is definitely the best 'store'.

Funny how the cafe is right by the door. I think they might make more money off their cappuccinos than their records :)

]]> <p>- anil]]></p> anil http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/rough_trade_east_is_gorgeous/#787 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:17:37 GMT Comment on "Installing Linksys WUSB11 2.8 on OS X" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/10/linksys_wusb11_28_on_osx/#763 i got a superclass error when trying to kextload the driver, im using 10.4.8, help,anyone?
i think it should be recompiled for 10.4 but how?

]]> <p>- John Panlican</p> John Panlican http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/10/linksys_wusb11_28_on_osx/#763 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:52:43 GMT Comment on "internet publishing software still sucks." http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#559 Oh, and I also think the best addressing scheme is a memorable name. Transcends technology and will still work decades into the future. (But that's more of a sidenote.)

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#559 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:32:44 GMT Comment on "internet publishing software still sucks." http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#558 I reckon most people won't even bother typing in a URL that's 35 characters long, and half of it immemorable techno slang. As opposed to a memorable URL that's simply a concatenation of a cute neologism ("antipope") and a short name, with very little techno slang in between.

Additionally it amazes me that people still create web publishing software that doesn't automatically remove index.* filenames in its links when they're obviously not required. There are too many reasons to omit them, starting from the obvious advantages of implementation-independent addresses down to the practical annoyances this causes, such as demonstated by this very case.

My point is simply: as we're relying more and more on such tools people should really put more effort into making the use convenient and transparent. In this instance technology failed.

</soap box>

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#558 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:27:39 GMT Comment on "internet publishing software still sucks." http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#557 So you mean drop the www. and the index.html?

Yeah fair 'nuff :)

]]> <p>- Max Howell]]></p> Max Howell http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/index_html_is_optional/#557 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:54:44 GMT Comment on "new wallet £5" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/tape_wallet/#554 haha, THAT IS SICK! i might try it myself - i've been looking for a new wallet recently and it's tough to get one that falls somewhere nicely between:

a) skater-no prospects-un-educated-don't give a fuck (which i do) and...

b) i wear a suit 9-5 and wipe my ass with The Times.

i live in hope.
lewis

]]> <p>- lewis]]></p> lewis http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/06/tape_wallet/#554 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:41:50 GMT