Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Explaining Linux to the layman computer user
LinuxHaxor.net poses this challenge to skilled Linuxers:
You have five minutes and ten sentences to explain Linux to a complete newbie, without the geekery mumbo jumbo. What would you say?
Now, I’m not a skilled Linux “haxor” by any means, but I’ve had enough good and bad experience with Linux since I started using it a couple [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Boodler, the open-source soundscape tool
Boodler is a free, open-source tool programmed in Python. It runs natively on Linux, with third party binary ports to Windows. Mac users will have to be content with iTunes and how “pretty” MacOS X is.
Essentially, Boodler generates complex (and not so complex) soundscapes made of many small, individual sounds like crickets chirping, frogs croaking, [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
The planets sing to one another
Here is the sound of Saturn, frequency shifted down by a factor of 44 to make it audible to human ears. Seventy-three seconds in the recording corresponds to twenty-seven minutes of Saturn’s opera.
Radio waves are emitted by Saturn’s auroras at its northern and southern poles. Earth’s would sound similar. As it turns out, they sound [...]
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Neon Gauges
Call me names but I’ve always loved tasteful eye candy on the OS desktop.
Neon Gauges is a suite of desktop widgets for the Yahoo! Widget Engine, which I use on my laptop under Windows XP. You can tweak the size, shape, and color of each of the individual gauges, which is a nice feature to [...]
