http://blog.erdener.org/ en-us kaan@erdener.org 2009-07-03T00:51:43-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001371.php "The Little Engine That Could" is a children's story that delivers several lessons to the reader, some of which are obvious and others less so. I read it as a child and remember the obvious lesson of "think positive". Having... 1371@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-07-03T00:51:43-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001369.php What's up with film studios deliberately crippling DVDs? While trying to create my own iPhone version of WALL-E, I've discovered that Disney crippled it with ARccOS. I own a fully-legal copy of the movie (3-disc set, no less), but due... 1369@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-06-13T03:37:04-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001368.php They did a study where they sometimes tricked dog owners into thinking the dog had done something they shouldn't do when the dog had in fact done nothing wrong. Basically the dog's expressions had nothing to do with anything, the... 1368@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-06-12T11:55:35-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001367.php I've heard about this several times, but never seen it. They say it's very inspirational. At a brief 15 minutes, I can't imagine it's not worth watching. Jobs is usually a captivating speaker, even when talking about mundane stuff. While... 1367@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-06-12T02:15:57-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001359.php Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders for the 2nd year in a row. What a beast. I was rooting for Haussler (especially after he got nipped on the line in San Remo), but damn, gotta respect Devolder just storming... 1359@http://blog.erdener.org/ cycling 2009-04-05T22:23:10-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001358.php Click to enlarge Here's a chart I made by extracting data from the overall results of the 2009 Capitol 10k. It shows the number of timed participants for each overall pace. They sold 7,000 timed registrations (according to the... 1358@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-03-30T23:09:46-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001356.php How can you do bulk file rename using shell tools? The wrong answer is: mv *.OLD *.NEW The easy answer is a shell loop, should be pretty straightforward. Or maybe even a simple Perl/Ruby/etc. script. But it's also do-able using... 1356@http://blog.erdener.org/ dev 2009-03-18T11:17:08-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001355.php The new MacBook Pro is a step backward from the previous version. I used a brand new 15" MacBook Pro (backlit LED display, glossy screen, black border, extruded keyboard, etc.) for more than 3 weeks while my previous MacBook Pro... 1355@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-03-15T23:22:55-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001354.php I just read an interesting question & answer at www.cyclingnews.com - "Eating on the bike". I don't know that I've seen anything definitive about caloric absorption rates (during exercise or otherwise) so the response from Scott Saifer is pretty interesting:... 1354@http://blog.erdener.org/ cycling 2009-03-15T21:57:14-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001353.php I've been digging into some odd behavior that ultimately traced back to periodic changes to Windows system clock. After doing some research, I've found that: Sun's JVM (through 1.6) has a bug that pushes the system clock into the future... 1353@http://blog.erdener.org/ dev 2009-03-03T21:54:12-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001352.php Download here: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidazzle/ I've been using OmniDazzle since it was in beta, bought a license as soon as it was available. It's hands-down one of the most useful apps I've ever used, especially in the workplace. As of Wed Feb... 1352@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-02-28T21:29:12-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001351.php While doing some performance testing for a Tomcat-served webapp, I discovered you can enable automatic gzip compression based on content-type. In basic testing, this resulted in ~65% decrease in data transmitted from server to client. Considering a page with 400k... 1351@http://blog.erdener.org/ dev 2009-02-05T16:45:42-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001350.php iTunes Doodad won an award today. It has been certified as "Excellent" by FindMySoft.com. They made me a custom graphic, too. I can hear it already... some of you are you saying, "So what? That graphic was probably auto-generated... 1350@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-01-21T00:48:04-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001349.php I've been having issues with my cable modem, decided to do some digging. First, from within my home network, most cable modems will respond to this url: http://192.168.100.1/ Mine has basic info, but I want to see Power and Signal-to-Noise... 1349@http://blog.erdener.org/ info 2009-01-16T23:16:43-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001347.php I've been on mailing lists before, and take it for granted that "unsubscribe" means "right now". For Microsoft, it means "within the next 10 days". I wonder, is that business days or calendar days? I submitted feedback to Microsoft a... 1347@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2008-11-27T14:57:22-06:00