http://www.burex.net Digitalized scribbles Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:18:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Using DeepZoom and Silverlight, Barrack Obama just got his own version of a "Bush mosaic", but without the dead soldiers of course. Many Obama fans and supporters sent their pictures so that a full 1Gigapixel mosaic could be formed (yeah, it's huge - that's 10000x10000 pixels). See it on deepzoomobama.com, ... http://www.burex.net/2008/07/05/is-that-a-zit-nah-its-just-another-picture/ I'm just so freakin' glad to live in a free and prosperous country such as this one... In fact, Serbia is so great and righteous, that it has to remain the last on the list for all things good, and at the very top for all things bad, just for ... http://www.burex.net/2008/07/04/serbiathe-official-arsehole-of-europe-since-the-90s/ How's this for the definition of "unnecessary"? Almost every laptop that exists today and is less than 3-4 years old has WiFi built in (and if not - USB WiFi adapters are a steal), and yet Telenor - a mobile provider in Serbia still had a bright idea of using ... http://www.burex.net/2008/06/21/when-gadgets-meet-morons/ Loads of streaming electrons, oscillating on one frequency, and jumping up and down in amplitude to be broadcasted on a really wide area and get received by an AM radio - what's not to like? The shear simplicity of AM radio is just astonishing and it's ability to jump up ... http://www.burex.net/2008/05/30/the-magic-of-am-waves/ Got a bluetooth dongle today... Small - black - cheap. Hooked it up to my usual USB port out back and inserted the mini CD that came bundled with it... imiddiately the autorun.ini launched setup.exe and installed all the needed drivers for my device. The software driver is called "BlueSoleil". ... http://www.burex.net/2008/05/24/the-blue-dental-plan/ I needed to install a Linux distro on a server machine for (currently) testing purposes, and it's quite weird to not be able to find any install CDs when dozens of them are just lying around - either it's a prehistoric version of Ubuntu, or SuSe 9.x, or Ubuntu for ... http://www.burex.net/2008/05/23/one-click-install/ It's kind of interesting to see retromercials now and then, but today I found some that were really something! Cereal boxes that look like a half drawn cartoon intro, cars that are freakin' long and scream "women can't drive me", and space food sticks (proof that you can even sell ... http://www.burex.net/2008/05/18/gee-wiz-billy/