Musically ut

• 2012-10-05 1 note

  HDDs and file-systems

  This is deplorable.

  

  I bought a 1TB HDD three years ago. And I bought a 2TB HDD yesterday. The storage density has increased 6 folds in 3 years. I was ecstatic.

  My ebullience packed its bags and left for Mexico when I tried partitioning my newly acquired drive.

  There is no decent filesystem which is supported on Linux, Mac and Windows!

  It feels like winning a free ride to Disneyland and walking out to find a zombie apocalypse underway.

  The recommended way of shuttling a media drive between Mac, Linux and Windows is using the NTFS filesystem, which is Read-only by default on Macs and which runs with huffs and puffs on Linux with NTFS-3G.

  Since I don’t use Windows much and I could forgo the luxury, I thought I will be better off.

  Here’s the kicker: even if I want cross platform support between just Linux and Ma, I still don’t have anything.

  Source: Wikipedia

• 2012-04-02 0 notes

  What are you doing?

  1. Me: How are you?
  2. Princess: Royal.
  3. Me: What are you doing?
  4. Princess: Princessing.

• 2012-02-03 0 notes

  Computer Scientists

  1. Me: Somedays, I think why can't we have computers which just work.
  2. Me: But then I remember that I am a Computer Scientist.
  3. Me: So, yeah, I guess I understand why.
  4. Bheek: :-D

• 2012-01-08 4,439 notes

  Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?

  nickpatrick:

  Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?

  The answer surprised me.

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  Source: nickpatrick

• 2012-01-04 3 notes

  Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

  — G. H. Hardy (A Mathematician’s Apology)

  Source: Wikipedia

• 2011-12-28 11 notes

  

  Whoever thought of these subtitles was a genius.

  (via refreshtoukon-deactivated201206)

• 12 notes

  

  uncomplicateme:

  yes, we all are.

  (via refreshtoukon-deactivated201206)

  Source: uncomplicateme

• 2011-12-27 2 notes

  

  Best things in life aren’t things.

  Source: sivers.org

• 2011-12-25 0 notes

  Why most ‘official’ Youtube videos cannot be embedded

  

  The reason has to do with the agreement between the music labels and Youtube.

  Big music labels charge licensing fee for their videos and Youtube generates revenue by showing advertisements in and around its videos. Embedded videos generate less revenue than videos on Youtube main site because the main site has more ads. Hence, Youtube disables embedding these videos to generate enough revenue to pay the licensing fee.

  That’s why.

  Source: allthingsd.com

• 2011-12-23 1,023 notes

  

  Source: nickthejam