http://fatpenguinblog.com Donkies Bloggin' for Donkies Sun, 04 May 2008 02:13:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having blogged about innovation, here's another article on innovation -- an interview with Pixar's Brad Bird. It pretty much explains what's needed to develop new products and fostering innovation. Involved people make for better innovation… Involved people can be quiet, loud, or anything in-between—what they have in common is a ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/weinerdoodz/innovation-part-2/ link http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/hiding-from-big-brother/ I want to play ball with my kids before I get too old, and before that happens I need to get laid, and before that happens I need to be in love, and I don't want to hear edddon'tknow I can't help eddon'tknow. No, No I'm a catch and ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/thats-what-she-said/ I was going to put in the time and get a forked ruby out to fill in some feature gaps, but the maker of tender love beat me to it. Brobinus adds some much needed features like Object#tase! and brobinius --screencast my_code.rb for youtube integration. link http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/brobinius/ I've been using Chicken of the VNC for the last month only to be annoyed by it's slowness and scrollbars added because of the higher resolution server. I did a search for VNC clients for Mac and found the.taoofmac.com Mac VNC list. JollysFastVNC is my new VNC client and it ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/jollysfastvnc-gets-the-job-done/ OMG Some behemoth bugs! For instance, those variables at the top should be declared constant. Any ole dev could decide to increment the feature count, decrement the bugs, and set ready to release! http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/vista-source-code-leaked/ Chances are you didn't port install git-core with the svn option: [code] sudo port install git-core +svn [/code] post uninstalling the old hullabaloo http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/missing-git-svn-on-os-x-leopard/ In BlackBerry: Innovation Behind the Icon, If you really want to build something sustainable and innovative you have to invest in R&D. If you build the right culture and invest in the right facilities and you encourage and motivate and inspire both young and seasoned people and put them all in ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/weinerdoodz/sustainable-innovation/ Came across this document that is the progress report for the first half of the grant that CSU Chico received for robotics while I was there. The report included example project papers, one of which was from one of my groups and included several pictures of my lovely boebot along ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/csu-chicos-intelligent-systems-laboratory/ Wooohoo Ubuntu 8.04 beta works perfectly in parallels on Leopard. I had some problems with 7.10 from the iso and cd so instead of using the alternate (text based install that is reported to work) I downloaded 8.04. So far everything is running flawlessly. Parallels tools reportedly ... http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/ubuntu-804-beta-in-mac-parallels/