Archive for the 'for:collidr' Category

So You’d Like to Send Some Email

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

post by Jeff Atwood about troubles involved in setting up your own mail server (i.e. in case you actually care that mail you send will actually reach the recipient). While I don’t agree with the post, post and comments (especially comments) do contai…

www.flatpanelshd.com – Your guide to flat panel monitors and TVs …

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Info, tests, specs and other info — this URL is a must when you are in a process getting a new flat panel TV or monitor

HP LP2465 24" LCD Monitor

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

full specs on HP L2465 monitor, older HP high quality 24″ monitor, currently sold “certified” (aka used) at various places around $200-250 ( example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176144&Tpk=LP2465 ) . [PS: current version…

What’s Wrong With the American University System – Culture – The Atlantic

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”

The Real Life Social Network v2

Friday, July 16th, 2010

A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)

NeuroLogica Blog » Barriers to the Acceptance of Science

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Excellent article, shows some aspects why ppl do not accept silence — main cause: due to human nature emotions win over reason

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How do I determine if my x86-compatible Intel system is multi-processor, multi-core or supports hyperthreading?

Friday, May 21st, 2010

CPU Identifications in linux kernels (2.6.18 + rhel patches) , NOTE that this is not applicable when you are running linux kernel on top of virtual hardware (i.e. Dom0 and DomU kernels won’t show proper CPU info because they use “virtual CPU” as set …

Open vSwitch [Project Home Page]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

right now ppl are using linux bridges as virtual switches for XEN/KVM VMs. Open vSwitch is an improvement over linux bridge that supports industry standard protocol and features and IOS-like CLI — [when project matures] ]you should be able trunk yo…

Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition – robertfortner’s posterous

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid=32079936

Linux audio explained | News | TechRadar UK

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Excellent article explaining linux audio stack, describing which component does what and why