2.6 kernel compilation notes:

• Debian Kernel Compile How To – read this for which dependency packages to update. Really useful
• rm /usr/include/asm && ln -s /usr/include/asm /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 – thank self later
• Supermount – here’s a guy who has the latest 2.6.8+ patches
• New supermount hint

Oh wait, I have autofs already installed and set up. It just can’t see my cdrom drive properly. Hmm… That’s good b/c I can’t find a 2.6.8 supermount patch

• Is Supermount really needed?
• Autofs Automounter HOWTO

I’ve been working w/ Linux for 10 years now. Why are such seemingly simple things still so hard?

• Wikipedia: Barcode – lots of info
• BarCode – a good wiki page w/ info on codes and implementations
• Semacode – for cell phones, see also the Java creator
• 2D barcode PDF417 library – GPL/LGPL/MPL
• QR Code Generation Software – QR is big in Japan

• a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture – Danah makes some interesting points on RSS aggregation and its “IM” counterpart. By and large I can agree that current models of the ‘feed-reading’ activity are weak (for example, I strong prefer the newsmap [even better with time-based checkpointing). That being said, I do like the idea of flagging what I want to see (things to remember, things I haven’t seen). Some of this has been discussed before. But it’d go a long way into making ‘feedreading’ a fundamentally different activity.
• aaronland.info: stagger into perl – one way of organizing code. My recent thoughts have strayed away from the repository dump and towards a release blog
• c2: The Prevayler – discussion on C2 page
• ABC News Redesigns – Mike Davidson writes more (see also Y! redesign a little while back)
• OpenLaszlo – looking cool. OSI approved. on the TOPLAYWITHEVENTUALLYWHENIHAVETIME list

• Posting to Drupal from VIM – this, I like, but I’d go further (file interface for entries that checks for changes automatically… hmm, let me go code a bit [woo for Transparent Interfaces])
• Beautify Instiki – apply CSS directly; see also: Gmail skinning
• TextMate looks interesting (blog, wiki)
• Michael Kinsley on Slate vs. the L.A. Times, Calling a Lie a Lie, and Opinion Journalism as Indulgence – interesting that Halperin Memo is controversial for calling it as it is
• Ahh, NYTimes coverage had realtime analysis, as did the Christian Science Monitor’s ‘Diablog’

• Treo 650 vs Treo 600 Photo Comparison – the only thing the 650 doesn’t have is multi-threaded browsing/msging (will have to wait for Cobalt for a Palm-phone to do that) and possibly crippled BT for the Sprint version (we’ll have to see)
• Dred Scott = Roe v. Wade – oh. more proof that these guys are fuckin’ nuts
• Rep. Time Ryan is a Good Dude [5.5MB MOV] – you guys have someone to be proud of, Ohio. If only there were more of them
• Derrida dead (decomposing vs deconstructing?), noted on Wikipedia
• “I don’t need the cash, I’d prefer to just change the world.” – that about sums it up, right there (otoh, cash as conversion to units of time… a certain amount of that is nice)

Art Party going on tonight. Looks like it’s going to be a big bash. Should be fun to catch old friends.

• First Drive: Golf V GTI – Wolfsburg to Paris – luckily there’s at least a year for me to restrain my impulse to buy. That and I still think the front end is very un-VW
• Overlap between faceted classification and business rule systems?
• Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth: Center for Private Equity and Entrpreneurship: Articles (see also: their glossary)
• techInterview – Answers to technical interview questions – hey this is a fun (and potentially useful, I suppose) read
• hack a day – another Weblogs inc. blog. Looks cool

• Josh Marshall on the last question of the debate:
  

  This is all of a piece. In the Bush world you never admit
  mistakes. The only mistakes the president can think of are the times he
  appointed people who do admitted mistakes — who put reality above
  loyalty to the president.

  No one likes admitting mistakes. And it’s often especially difficult for public officials to do so. But recognizing
  mistakes — on the inside, if not for public consumption — is how
  you prevent mistakes from metastasizing into disasters. Which all
  explains a great deal about how we got where we are now in Iraq.

• mefi discussion: Vice President Cheney declares the no-wmd report justifies war – some really good points and a few guffaws in there. Saw a student screening of f9/11 on campus, have the DVD coming in, will have to post the ‘WMD’ montage…
• NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society’s less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the United Nations or remain a rogue state. It’s really up to you.
• Need Sum Wood? – The rumours on the internets are true!

A friend mentioned I edit (post to, I assume) my blog than all the rest of the people on her blogroll combined. I’m probably not as much of a junkie as the people on my feedreader, but it is one of the advantages of editing the blog through vim. Sending off a missive is just a xterm-switch away. The next thing is to track up the total amount of day spent clicking away at this thing, but it’s most likely less than the amount of time I spend walking between meetings and offices, so I don’t feel too bad about it.

Danah says supporting the Mac is required for social computing.

You can build enterprise software that doesn’t work on a Mac but you CANNOT build social technologies that don’t work on the Mac. Who are key driving forces behind sociable technology? Freaks, (independent) geeks, academics and other marginalized populations. What do marginalized groups use when it comes to technology? Surprise – they use subversive tools. Conferences organized by geeks, freaks and academics are like walking into an Apple distribution warehouse. If you only lived in this world, you would think that Apple makes up 70% of the market share.

I’d go further and say that any social networking infrastructure MUST be inherently cross-platform, but I’m sure that lots of people are/will try to prove that wrong. Lets hope for their continued unsuccess.