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Fedora Core 2: Tettnang
So I was kinda curious what the story was behind the name for FC2 (Tettnang). Honestly, I was a little curious about FC1 (Yarrow), but never looked into it. Historically, Redhat has largely stuck with a naming convention where each release name relates to the immediate predecessor in some way, but not that predecessor’s predecessor (grandparent?). Anyway, this page at the Fedora site seems to cover it to some extent, and here’s a little more discussion on what some of those release names mean (and how they relate) (even more here).
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Job Predictor
Here’s a silly little webpage I Richy clued me into. It supposedly predicts your ideal career based on your name (since it’s probably based on some sort of hash function or something, inclusion of middle and/or last name may improve your career path). For example: Derek, Your ideal jobs is a Kids TV Presenter Derek Gottlieb, Your ideal job is a Bearded Lady in the circus. Derek Brendan Gottlieb, Your ideal job is a Office numpty.
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WebToons: Amy Winfrey
So recently I’ve been watching some webtoons done by Amy Winfrey (works as an animator for South Park), and they’re pretty cute. I started watching her current toon, Making Fiends, that revolves around two little girls, Vendetta and Charlotte, who go to school together. Vendetta makes all sorts of fiends and attempts to intimidate and destroy Charlotte, while Charlotte’s busy making friends. That led me to her previous set of toons, MuffinFilms, which are a variety of short animations involving muffins.
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A4 paper
So I finally have the remotest clue what the deal is with A4 paper (and as a result why the rest of the world feels the need to use it and screw up my print jobs, and make life difficult in LaTeX sometimes). Basically, there’s a slashdot post on it that points to this page that discusses some of the ideas behind why A4 is the size it is. Apparently all metric paper has a height-to-width ratio of the square root of 2.
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E3
So I dug around for a bit, and ran across some pretty thorough coverage of the games at E3 over at GameSpot. All sorts of good stuff coming up. In the FPS category, you’ve got Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Halo 2 that all look pretty good. There’s the next Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas). The next Gran Turismo looks absolutely amazing. And they’ve got a little info on the upcoming Zelda game.
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Zelda!
So Nintendo’s released some screenshots and a trailer for an upcoming Zelda game. Looks freakin’ awesome. I’m totally looking forward to this one!
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Evanescence: DI Photo
Looks like the DI did actually send a photographer to the Evanescence concert… they just never bothered to publish a story or any photos about it until now. Basically, they’ve got a feature on the DI Finest Photos of 2004 (little presumptuous seeing as the year’s not even half over). But apparently, they thought this photo of Evanescence was one of their best of the year. Why it wouldn’t have warranted publishing earlier on that basis, I don’t know.
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Intel CMP
Well, it looks like Intel is finally going CMP (@ The Register and Reuters). They’re apparently going to address some of the issues associated with continuing to push for high performance with big monolithic superscalars (namely: power consumption associated with crazy-high clock frequencies, scaling limitations of centralized hardware structures, and the benefits of supporting higher throughput through parallelism instead of only relying on low-latency for sequential code). Pretty exciting if you’re a geek like me… and would love a multiprocessor system.
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Getting close...
So I’m finally getting close to wrapping up this semester, which marks the end of my required course credits. All of the stuff for Nick’s class finished up yesterday afternoon. The slides for all of the project presentations are up at the ECE497NC website. We managed to slap together something for the poster session for Matt’s class this afternoon. Went ok, but since a large portion of the project is compiler stuff, and I haven’t the remotest clue about compilers in general so… I wasn’t much help in fielding questions.
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Linkage: MuchoSucko
Just ran across an interesting site. Appears to be a collection of oddball videos and such that have surfaced on the net. For example, there’s this vid of a kid going after a pi?ata, and news footage of a helicopter crash (always figured they wouldn’t be pretty with those giant spinning blades). Note: definitely not work safe stuff here (there’s some non kid-friendly stuff there…).