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This is the first webinar I did for BigML. I’m pretty sure this is the one where one of the people attending left a comment that they expected the webinar to be live and not recorded. Of course, it *was* live!… Continue reading →
Poul Petersen
Since I currently work at a Machine Learning company, it may surprise some to find out that I am currently enrolled in Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning class thru Coursera. I am taking the class because I want to be able to...
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The game “De-Lite” is now available in iTunes App Store and the Android Market
The Basics
Flip the switches to turn off the lights – it is harder than you think!
The goal of De-Lite is to turn off all of the light bulbs.… Continue reading →
UPDATE
Startcom is now at this URL. And although the certs are still free, they no longer work with things like Chrome, or Safari, or Firefox… which doesn’t leave much 😉
I’m still investigating other free SSL services…
Why do you need a SSL certificate?
… Continue reading →I have a lot of accounts, and I’m willing to bet that you do as well. Banking websites, social websites, work accounts, wordpress accounts, DNS registrars, the list goes on and on. Each of these accounts typically requires a password, which makes for a lot of passwords.… Continue reading →
I used to think that every server needed to have something like a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) or IBM RSA (IBM Remote System Administration) to be really manageable remotely. But the problem is that they are expensive and they are barely functional.… Continue reading →
If you are new to the world of *nix operating systems, you might still be wrapping your head around the concept of pipes. But if you spend any time at the command line, it won’t be long before you are throwing commands together with more pipes than a high rise plumbing job.… Continue reading →
I’ve been working with personal computers for awhile. I’m not quite from the punch card era, but I do fondly remember saving my prime number sieve program, written in basic, to an audio cassette attached to a Commodore Vic-20. Somewhere I still have the 24-pin dot matrix printout of all the prime numbers less than 1,000,000.… Continue reading →
Here is an fun proof I saw during a stay at MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) – unfortunately, I can not remember the reference (or none was given). If you happen to know the originator of this work, please let me know and I will attribute it appropriately.… Continue reading →
“You have a bunch of servers to administer, not enough consoles and a small budget. Roll your own serial console server with USB.”
This is a paper I wrote for Linux Journal after playing around with using USB<->serial adaptors to build a scaleable serial console solution.… Continue reading →