Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - How to make the simplest elect We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Egg-Bot Electro-Kistka: An electric hot wax pen designed to be used with the EggBot. A kistka is the wax tool used in the traditional wax-resist and dye (batik) method to produce colorful eggs in the same fashion as Ukranian pysanky. We would like to acknowledge that this is not by any means the first time that anyone has strapped a kistka to an EggBot— We wrote about Ann’s DIY version a few months ago, and we’ve seen other versions (both manually heated and electric) in YouTube videos dating back several years. Hardware The Electro-Kistka consists of two main parts, connected by a cable: A heater assembly that gets mounted to the EggBot’s pen arm (in place of the usual pen holder), and a power control board that sits behind the EggBot. The power control board is relatively simple: it accepts input from a plug-in power supply, and has an adjustment pot so that you can set the power level of the kistka. Process: two-tone
PIKT System Monitoring, Configuration Management Software blog@zkybase | Willie Wheeler's devops blog At my new job we’re reigniting an effort to move to continuous delivery for our software releases. We figured that we could learn a thing or two from Facebook, so we reached out to Chuck Rossi, Facebook’s first release engineer and the head of their release engineering team. He generously gave us an hour of his time, offering insights into how Facebook releases software, as well as specific improvements we could make to our existing practice. This post describes several highlights of that conversation. What’s so good about Facebook release engineering? The core capability my company wants to reproduce is Facebook’s ability to release its frontend web UI on demand, invisibly and with high levels of control and quality. Holy cow. While the release engineering problem for my company is considerably smaller than the one confronting Facebook, it’s not by any means small. How Facebook pushes twice daily to over 1B users Here are some of the key themes and techniques. The size of the diff.
paper cd case How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx This guide explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). From Alfresco wiki: Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging. 1. You'll need a fresh installation of Ubuntu Server 10.04. 2. You need to enable 'partner' repository in /etc/apt/sources.list. 3. As root run the following command to install the required packages: root@dms:~# apt-get install mysql-server sun-java6-jdk imagemagick swftools openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-calc 4. Edit /etc/environment and add the following to it: JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/" After saving the file, it's recommended that you logout and then login again so bash will read the JAVA_HOME variable. root@dms:~# source /etc/environment 5. Restart mysql: 6. 1. root@dms:~# mysql -u root -p
Prediction: Anchor Text is Dying...And Will Be Replaced by Co-citation - Whiteboard Friday The classic ranking signals: links, authority, keywords, and anchor text - have long remained dominant in Google's search rankings. But in the past few years, we've seen the rise of citations for local rankings, and now, we may be seeing more co-occurence of terms and links in search queries, in text content, and in links becoming more of a factor. p.s. I did this WB Friday in a bit of a rush, and will try to write more about co-occurence/co-citation in a more detailed future post. "Howdy, SEOmoz fans, and welcome to a second beardless edition of Whiteboard Friday.
12 sided calendar Download a 12 sided calendar Download a dodecahedral calendar. You may choose between PostScript and PDF format. Choose PostScript format if you want to mark holidays and birthdays. The PostScript file explains how to do it. *) Week numbering follows ISO 8601 **) PostScript software is available from Calendar on a regular dodecahedron Once upon a time I made a PostScript program to print templates for generic polyhedra called polyeder.ps. I've made a few changes to Andrew Rogers' deskcal, and wrapped it into a script to make it more available for people without knowledge in PostScript. Hints for calendar on a regular dodecahedron Regular printer paper (80 g/m²) will be fine, but heavier paper (100-120 g/m²) will result in a more robust calendar. Calendar on a rhombic dodecahedron I have reused Andrew Rogers' calendar generator, so you can get calendars on Nick Robinson's rhombic A4 units, and make a rhombic dodecahedron calendar.
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