Michael P. O'Connor archive
Category : Geekdom

What is the future of pictures?

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Published on: January 25, 2006

I was just watching a random slide show on my Mac from my iPhotos library. I have pictures from a digital camera from 2001 to present. I also have some older pictures that I have scanned in, that date back as late as 1993, I still have not scanned them all in. All in all[…]

A geek out of control, trying to force one method of mailing list replies

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Published on: January 16, 2006

I was a member of a mailing list called wpascanner on yahoo groups. The guy that is the moderator of it decided that he wanted all replies to be “bottom posting” I informed him that it is a bad idea to force issues like that, he responded basically “Subject not open to debate” talk about[…]

Fun C++ code

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Published on: January 11, 2006

As a programmer I will sometimes do some code because I feel it works out the best with minimal effort, also trying to adhere to the KISS principal (Keep it Simple Stupid). One of the things I have been abusing as of late is the STL Map object. I have the following need: I have[…]

Can I call it or can I call it

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Published on: November 21, 2005

C|net is running a story saying that TiVo is going to do what I said probably would happen back on the 15th of this month. and that is move recorded TV to a iPod video. Boy can I call them.

Why are shows like “COPS” so popular

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Published on: October 23, 2005

Wired is running an article on how the book “Police Call” is ending its publication run. They made a comment in it that I never really thought of. Scanning of the “Public Safety” bands was just the precursor to shows like COPS. It looks like TV has hurt another hobby. The show “COPS” just puts[…]

Yet More Pictures from the Ohio Linux Fest

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Published on: October 5, 2005

http://buglet.rcbowen.com/photos/2005/Oct/OhioLinuxFest/ Also I have added 3 more pictures that Vance Kochenderfer took you can see them here http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=46

My Final review of the Ohio Linux Fest

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Published on: October 5, 2005

Here is my final review of the Ohio Linux Fest. I went to 3.5 talks. One talk I was not interested in so I left half way though it, it was a good talk I just was not interested in it. The first talk I went to was the Linux Terminal Server Project talk. For[…]

More coverage of the Ohio Linux fest

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Published on: October 4, 2005

I just checked over at ohiolinux.org and saw that the Ohio Linux fest was covered by News Forge I will admit it was a good time there (even with me cutting my finger) and I will be going next year. I will have to post more about it later, but I am still having a[…]

More Pictures of The Ohio Linux Fest

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Published on: October 3, 2005

http://aseigo.bddf.ca/albums/columbus2k5/ has 31 more pictures from OLF2005 http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronthul/sets/1060849/ http://www.symphonyos.com/linuxfest2005/ http://shane.lottadot.com/galleria.pl?op=viewpage&id=92&pagenum=1&section=

Trying to type with one finger of no use

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Published on: October 3, 2005

I have been finding that typing with my finger in the current state of uselessness. I can not touch type with out that finger. Also I can not hunt and peak either because when I try to hunt and peak I start to touch type out of habit, and that starts to mess every thing[…]

More Pictures of The Ohio Linux Fest

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Published on: October 2, 2005

http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/linux/olf2005-1 http://www.nivex.net/gallery/olf2005?page=1 http://www.trilug.org/gallery/olf2005 http://www.flickr.com/photos/skippy/sets/1058646 I will post more as I see more.

Pictures from the Ohio Linux fest

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Published on: October 2, 2005

I just got the pictures from the Ohio Linux fest up on my web site up. You can see the pictures here. enjoy

More from the OhioLinuxFest

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Published on: October 2, 2005

The Ohio Linux Fest was great fun. I got some good pictures. I will be posting them later. The talks were good. It was great fun. I got to have Bit more advanture then the rest of the people there. At the end when I was helping taking things down, I sliced my finger open,[…]

So major amount of code in a short period of time

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Published on: September 30, 2005

Yesterday and last night I pulled off a 16 hour code session. I put out about 1000 of code in to the program for work. in those 16 hours. I also debugged to make sure they were working the way I was expecting them to work, and thought they should work. I will admit it[…]

Ohio Linux Fest

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Published on: September 30, 2005

I have gone to the Ohio Linux Fest. Got here around 7pm tonight. It is starting to look like it is going to be a great time. Also when I got in the Central Ohio group was having their Traffic net, so I thought I would send back to Pittsburgh a radio postcard to the[…]

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