[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Nathan Myers
Member since: 2005-01-20 04:49:42
Last Login: 2009-07-03 06:21:34
Homepage: http://cantrip.org/
Notes: Currently employed by Aspera, Inc., where I work on secure, reliable fast file-transfer software, uniquely tolerant of high loss and high latency connections, using UDP for transport, and a user-space flow-control algorithm that doesn't confuse packet loss with congestion. Amazingly enough, file transfer isn't a solved problem, and there's no Free Software that does anything like it. :-(
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21 Jun 2009 (updated 21 Jun 2009 at 05:52 UTC) »
9 Jun 2009 (updated 9 Jun 2009 at 04:42 UTC) »
On a completely different topic, I'd like anybody who has, or gets, a canker sore (an oral ulcer) to please try chewing up a mouthful of walnuts, and holding the mash in your mouth for 30 seconds, and to report here whether it helped more or less immediately. Thanks, and good luck.
2 Jun 2009 (updated 2 Jun 2009 at 23:46 UTC) »
I set up a backyard pool last weekend, and before I even got any water in it, the frame was swarmed with about a hundred thousand microscopic crawling insects weighing probably a gram, in total. With the naked eye I could just see there was something there, and identify a color. At 160x, one filled the microscope field. They turned out to be thrips, just one of 4700 known species. More species of thrips are known than mammals, with probably thousands more thrip species unnoted. I wonder why they liked my pool.
My brother-in-law gave me a G1 Android phone, and I took it on vacation to read, and even answer, e-mail on. It's the first time I've gone anywhere in, what, 20 years? without a laptop. It worked, but I had to wait to read the mouse-over punchlines to my favorite webcomix until after I got home. Android won't be there until its browser does mouse-overs.
I only just got my Dell Latitude D620 to resume properly from an ACPI "suspend to RAM". I've been using TuxOnIce for the last 2+ years, but have finally abandoned it. This was part of upgrading to a 2.6.29.4 kernel, itself prompted by trying to get my US$2 "Clique Hue HD" (sn9c20x) webcams working. That failed, but I got a pair of 6-foot USB cables, cheap, and the cameras are good-looking even if they won't themselves look. (The microphones work, I think.) My guess is they ended up remaindered for $2 because the MSWindows drivers shipped with them suck. Who knows, the Linux driver might even work someday.
27 May 2009 (updated 27 May 2009 at 06:46 UTC) »
27 Mar 2009 (updated 27 Mar 2009 at 01:36 UTC) »
I do not wish to take anything away from those who posted on their admiration for female pioneers in computing, nor from the admired pioneers themselves, but hasn't Ada herself been shown to have been a sort of spokesmodel for Charles Babbage, her published work ghostwritten? I seem to recall that something definitely traceable to her indicated a lack of basic algebra. If this is not right I would welcome correction. Perhaps Emilie du Châtelet or Mary Somerville would make a more durable standard-bearer.
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