http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com Mon, 05 May 2008 10:32:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walking by Chatswood Chase shopping centre yesterday I noticed the construction for the new Apple store. Here's a pic of the work site. I took the picture with my unlocked / pawned iPhone :). How ironic is that? http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2008/05/05/chatswood-apple-store-opening-soon/ Today Adrian and I went mountain biking at Manly Dam. I brought along my new GPS (a Garmin Nuvi 760) and recorded the actual track. If you have never been there, it is one of the best Sydney mountain bike tracks and I highly recommend it. Manly Dam gps track data http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2008/05/04/manly-dam-mountain-biking-track/ Got this picture from a friend today. Some guy was riding along Beach Road in Melbourne doing about 50 Km/h, when the frame just fell apart. Ouch! http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2008/03/11/scott-bike-frame-falls-to-pieces/ I was at Sydney airport the other day waiting for a flight to Germany and noticed one of the Optus internet kiosks rebooting. To my surprise it started booting Ubuntu Linux. Excellent! http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2008/02/28/internet-kiosk-uses-ubuntu/ Excellent paper on memory and cache from a programmer's point of view. It still surprises how little most programmers know about the hardware they are programming on. Thanks for the great paper Ulrich, it is bound to improve the quality of code out there. Ulrich Drepper (udrepper) wrote, @ ... http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/12/04/udrepper-memory-and-cache-paper/ Now that is a camera :) Hasselblad's 39 megapixel H3DII-39MS DSLR brings the multi-shot: Filed under: Digital Cameras It can't be easy to improve upon a $37,000, 39 megapixel DSLR, but high-end camera manufacturer Hasselblad claims to have done just that with its H3DII-39MS, which adds a multi-shot feature (and $7,000) to the ... http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/10/18/hasselblads-39-megapixel-h3dii-39ms-dslr-brings-the-multi-shot/ I have finally had enough with the all the memory leaks of Firefox and have switched to Opera. I have been a long timer Firefox user, since the really early days, but lately the memory bloat has just increased beyond what is comfortable. My browser is sometimes running for weeks at ... http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/09/30/switched-from-firefox-to-opera/ Mountain Bike Hits 130.7 MPH ... on Snow: A 33-year-old Austrian sets the world speed record for mountain bikes, breaking the mark on a snow-covered course in the Chilean Alps. Technorati Tags: cycling http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/09/29/mountain-bike-hits-1307-mph-on-snow/ Seems like the iPod can now work on Linux again. We've won!: Thanks to some inspired work by a few heroes, we've managed to work out how to get everything working again. This is what we've found out: the hash at 0x58 is the one that matters. And we know how to generate ... http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/09/18/weve-won/ Seems like Apple is trying to stop third parties controlling their new iPods. Apple cuts us off: So, it's finally happened. Unhappy with other media players being better than iTunes, Apple have apparently decided to stop them from working with the new range of iPods. Who does this affect? This affects Linux users ... http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2007/09/16/apple-cuts-us-off/