Kinda cute looking, no? Add a MP3 player and sell it as iJet!
Korea's aerospace industry is still in its infancy but I am happy to see that its first jetfighter is about to be deployed. T-50 is a trainer jet based on the F-16 design although it's smaller (80%). A-50 is the attack jet version. It's not a bad start but I doubt I'll live to see the first Korean manned-spaceship take flight.
While Linux enthusiasts have touted security as one of the advantages Linux has over Windows, I fear Linux desktops' use of plain password dialogs to acquire system privileages on-demand is a serious vulnerability because:
Are there any Linux features I am not aware of that protects against this?
Erik Veenstra has some interesting ruby articles and tools. Check out RubyWebDialogs and DistributingRubyApplication. Both uses his Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe tools. Cool stuff.
Quite a number of years ago, I was pitching the idea of group search and group memory to a few select VCs. Thankfully, no one really understood what I was wailing about. I am thankful because I I believe being right at the wrong time is worse than being wrong at the right time. So all the hectic search and social software related activities going on these days mean bitter smiles for me.
The difference between smart and sharp is comparable to the difference between a hammer and an axe. You can cut a tree with a hammer, but it will take more time and create far more mess than with an axe.
PassMark Security acquired Vocent Solutions. I think voiceprint authentication is cool so I am looking forward to meeting ex-Vocent engineers next time I get to PassMark's new offices in Menlo Park. Verified-by-Visa with voiceprint authentication is interesting too.
Meanwhile, the second BayPay meeting will be held at one of the Foster City Visa buildings tommorrow. I hope I can get up at decent hours so I can make it to the meeting.
Too busy trying to catch up with promises so I'll so post short comments about movies I saw recently at home during breaks.
House of Flying Daggers
A great looking film with stunning action shots throughout the film except the end which was unbelievably bad in all aspects: terrible CG snow storm, dead heroine coming back to life, sloppy flailing fight scene, etc. Acting was mediocre overall with the exception of Zhang Ziyi but then I am a fan of hers so I might be biased. I think the director, Zhang Yimou, ruined most of the conversation scenes by focusing too much on the scenery and pacing the conversations too slowly. The Road Home, also starring Zhang Ziyi, is still his best film IMHO.
Alexander
Everything about this movie sucked so much that I started skipping across scenes within 10 minutes. I did watch the battle scenes but got only dust and confusion in my mouth afterward. Alexander opened a new chapter in the history of warfare but this movie made him looked like a dustrat. Oliver Stone must have been stoned while directing this movie.
Sin City
Except for the opening and the ending scenes which detracted from the movie IMHO, everything was great although I think more attention could have been paid to background music. Oh, yeah. More of Jessica Alba on the stage would have been nice too. 🙂
That's all.
It's unofficial title is Soviet Kernel Hack according to the URL,
Entering the kernel without a driver and getting interrupt information from APIC
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p dir=”ltr”>It's a limited yet potent technique. I can't recommend anyone to use it though unless you are a desperado.
For more mundane Win32 application developers, Visual Leak Detector might be of more interest.
After coming back from our camping trip at Tahoe, I had a stomach ache which got worse over time. My hands and feet got colder and my face was turning white (whiter that is), bad signs. When all the usual over-the-counter medicine didn't work, I asked my wife to bleed my thumbs.
Bleeding the thumb is a traditional korean home remedy for upset stomach with symtoms I described above. The practice is common enough in Korea that you can buy a specially designed needle at korean drug stores. Outwardly, it looks like a pen but when you press the button at the back, a needle darts out quickly to punch a tiny hole. In absense of such a device, you can just use a needle or anything sharp and pointy.
Before bleeding the thumb, you have to push bad blood toward the thumb you are tapping. This is difficult to explain but it is done by sweeping one's hand across the body toward the thumb. While one hand is doing that, the other hand holds the thumb at the bottom to keep the bad blood from flow away. A few sweep is enough. Once this is done, the thumb should look really red. Now bend the thumb toward the palm and punch a hole just above the thumbnail. If it was effective, you should see really dark blood coming out. If it is done well, your stomatch should feel as if someone pushed the flush button.
I ended up bleeding both of my thumbs. My wife is not that good at it so there was no flushing. Still, my hands and feet got warmer and my face returned to normal color. Pain subsided as well so I was able to watch Kung Fu Hustle with my wife.
Anyhow, I don't know how it works but I do know that it does help if it is not abused. You should not be bleeding your thumbs repeatedly. If it didn't work the first time, it won't work the second time.
Another effective yet less bloody korean home remedy is putting a grain of rice or a small piece of rock under a bandaid to ease throbbing pain. My guess is that it creates noise in the nerve system that interferes with the throbbing pain.
I'll be leaving for the last camping trip of the summer today. Its somewhere on the coast of Lake Tahoe, not sure exactly where because I am just the pack mule. My wife does all the camping trip planning you see. In fact, I forgot about this trip until she reminded me yesterday. Like I said, I am an ass but, thankfully, I was smart enough to find a wife who forgives easily. Hee haw.
Don Park's Weekly Habit 