Adventure Time!

Java QuickStart and Linux?

Dustin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:56:07 +0000

If you have Ubuntu running and would like to use Webex (or any other program using a java plugin) install the package “sun-java6-plugin” from your package manager. Hope this helps… (why its not part of the core I don’t know).

Google Makes Image Search More Spiffy

Dustin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:50:43 +0000

Google has given its image search a new look Tuesday in hopes of helping people weed through the vast number of images to find what they’re seeking. On the main search page, photos are moved closer together to let you see more results on a page and the instant scrolling between pages lets you see up to 1,000 images on a scrolling page.

They have really done an awesome job. All the images are not preloaded until you scroll further down the page to save your bandwidth. On hovering over the images you get a preview as well as some information, and then when you click on an image, the full size is loaded in the foreground while the relative content is in the background (just like lightbox).

Check it out at http://images.google.com

I love linux :)

Dustin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:26:27 +0000

Turns out M4a’s work just fine on linux’s MPlayer…

I don’t think it’s supposed to

Life Before Google

Dustin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:41:47 +0000

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Google Caffeine: Promises of being awesome.

Dustin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:58:49 +0000

Google just announced that they are improving their search results to be more up to date than ever. This time they are using some sort of proprietary blend of scouring the interwebs and new indexing technology to bring more current and useful information to our browsers faster. This is a huge step as people are getting more and more comfortable with blogs, twitter, posts and other form of immediate publishing. If you look at the web compared to just a few years ago, we can see that web pages are no longer created by the few and the powerful. In the past most web pages were created in the Encyclopedia style of creation, where one page was a comprehensive source of information on a subject. Now, we have literally clouds of millions of people posting random thoughts from around the world every second. Where I believe this information could be really useful is for spotting trends immediately in posts, search and tweets, and I think that maybe the true reason for developing Google Caffeine.

Some of the stats of this amazing new software are shown in the following paragraph from the source link

“Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.”

Also I believe this one sentence is pretty important: “As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index.” This is pointing out a design change that they have decided to go with, probably because computers and their software has become faster and better than before. Evidently it looks like they were not able to insert into an index in the past, only able to refresh or update it.

Every two weeks just doesn’t cut it anymore, good play Google.

Lets see how quickly they pick up this post

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Weekend Update: May 31st – June 6th

Dustin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:39:28 +0000

Awesome party for Jon and Liz’s going away (To HAWAII!!) had a great time even though I was DD

Saw Sage, Skye, and Michelle at Outback, they were coming back from Sage’s meet.

Got caught up on Adventure time! awesome!

Work kinda sucked, getting prepared for not working at all.

Thats about it, catch you on the flip side.

IPhone!

Dustin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:29:00 +0000

Oh god I love it!

Weekend Update: May 24th – 30th

Dustin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:33:11 +0000

Holy moly I thing this is my 3rd or 4th awesome weekend in a row! Went to Yosemite for a little hiking and fishing (its amazing, I didn’t even have a fishing pole in the water but I’m still a pretty good fisherman!)

I LOVE camping. These falls were amazing and the lake we stayed on and rented a pontoon boat to go fishing with was the same lake in the movie “The Great Outdoors” with John Candy. Pretty damn awesome.

Weekend Update: May 17th – 24th

Dustin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:27:24 +0000

Went to Dan and Kona’s going away party, mountain biking and helped them move in to Crystal’s. Amazing weekend! Oh yeah and we went rock climbing.

Weekend Update May 10th – 16th: Lets go Vegas! WOOT!

Dustin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:23:46 +0000

Monday: I just want to get to vegas, had a great talk with the boss man on Saturday and I’m gearing up for my big changes.

Tuesday: Talked over my future of my life with my actual boss. He didn’t seem happy but also very supportive. i think they understand. Went out celebrating because it was a big step for me.

Wednesday: Woot woot! Tiff scored us some tickets to the Angels game! Matt Tiff and I all went out to the game after a shot of tequila and some beers (great idea). I also finished up a hefty task for work, so I was pretty happy.

Thursday: Less than amazingly motivated, but it’s my brothers (a little belated) Birthday, and I get to see him tonight to go out to dinner. He’s in town for some dental thing and It just worked out for tonight because I’m going to VEGAS tomorrow!

Friday: Work then to VEGAS!

Vegas was awesome, pictures are worth more than words…