Now that you have VMX working, you might notice that kvm/qemu's PS/2 mouse emulation sucks. The VM's mouse cursor totally does not follow the host's mouse cursor at all! That's a horrid mess; how would we clean that up? The ugly hack is to disable PS/2 mouse emulation and present a USB tablet instead:

$ kvm -usb -usbdevice tabletNow, why is PS/ ( Read more... )

/me rounded up a bunch of (old) panoramas and put them into the high-definition panorama viewer. Be sure to check out the (huge spike in memory cache when you load the) panorama previewer (click the "See All" button).

Check out this Google Street View of Arastradero Park:


( Read more... )

Prior to 9.04, the update tool would simply post a notification icon in the tray. Now it pops up without any warning--annoying!

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

reverts to the old behavior.

The first of the flowers (daffodils, tulips):
http://djwong.org/photography/oregon/portland/house_pics/flowers_2009/

The first of the wildflowers too:http

Here are the rest of my pictures of the sliding rocks of Racetrack Playa and the Ubehebe Crater: http://djwong.org/photography/racetrack_playa_2009/

Clickable picspam:


( Read more... )

So here's a crackpot idea of the day, courtesy of Tom's Hardware: Short-stroking to improve apparent hard drive speed. The idea is simple: hard disks contain moving parts. As we can see from a simple bandwidth vs location plot, the beginning of the disk has the highest transfer speeds because angular velocity is kept constant but bit density is ( Read more... )

Heh, the power and energy monitoring tool (pwrkap) that I wrote last year has been accepted into Ubuntu 9.04. You'll need some sort of power supply that reports power and energy, such as IBM Active Energy Manager, or a post-2000 laptop running on battery.http://packages.

I want me an edible car! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBE1l6QexU