dekstop weblog : comments http://dekstop.de/weblog/ On the dekstop weblog: Products and habits (pop culture), things I stopped using, reading, watching or listening to (drop culture), technology, software and resources (tools), and all the rest (stuff). And occasional site updates. en-us Copyright 2011 Martin Dittus Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:42 GMT MicroLinks 5.6 (dekstop.de) Comment on "Heatmap Calendars of Last.fm Scrobbles" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1270 Thanks for the links Rick!

I only found out about your calendar maps after I had started on my version last year, and found it interesting to compare the approaches. Surprising that so few people are working on such structured heatmaps, in retrospect it appears so obvious :D

It looks like you're working on some amazing stuff. Good to see that you're receiving such a positive response. Let me know if you ever come to London. (The chances of me coming to NC are pretty slim...)

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1270 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:42 GMT Comment on "Heatmap Calendars of Last.fm Scrobbles" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1269 To learn more about calendar maps, see my JCGS article and the supplemental material on the JCGS website: http://pubs.amstat.org/doi/suppl/10.1198/jcgs.2011.2de

]]> <p>- Rick Wicklin]]></p> Rick Wicklin http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1269 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:55:51 GMT Comment on "Heatmap Calendars of Last.fm Scrobbles" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1268 Manuel,

not yet, maybe at some point. But send me an email at martin@dekstop.de and maybe we can work something out -- I'm not interested in making money out of this, I'm a curious person and always interested in exploring other people's data :)

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1268 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:48:32 GMT Comment on "Heatmap Calendars of Last.fm Scrobbles" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1267 Hi Martin,

I liked a lot your visualization! Is the source code for generating those calendars available for open-source? I'd like to do this visualization using the the social network data from where I work! It's an educational social network called AtePassar from Brazil!

Regards,
Marcel

]]> <p>- Marcel]]></p> Marcel http://dekstop.de/weblog/2011/09/lastfm_heatmap_calendars/#1267 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:24:02 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1176 Ah, thanks for the correction.

Great Flickr set, completely missed that!

]]> <p>- martind]]></p> martind http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1176 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:00:42 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1175 Sorry about the double-posting. MovableType kept showing me "internal server error."

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1175 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:37:45 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1174 Re: Dryad.
Michael from Microsoft didn't present it at OSJam. You probably saw it mentioned in my talk on "6 Interesting Ideas" : http://www.oshineye.com/texts/terraNova.pdf

This was at OSJam in November: http://flickr.com/photos/adewale_oshineye/sets/72157603336999888/

The Dryad guys did give a great Tech Talk in Mountain View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1174 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:56:46 GMT Comment on "Hadoop Summit 2008" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1173 Re: Dryad.
Michael from Microsoft didn't present it at OSJam. You probably saw it mentioned in my talk on "6 Interesting Ideas" : http://www.oshineye.com/texts/terraNova.pdf

This was at OSJam in November: http://flickr.com/photos/adewale_oshineye/sets/72157603336999888/

The Dryad guys did give a great Tech Talk in Mountain View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

]]> <p>- ade]]></p> ade http://dekstop.de/weblog/2008/03/hadoop_summit_2008/#1173 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:42:19 GMT Comment on "Teaser: Offline Feed Reader for Your iPod" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/05/ipod_offline_feed_reader/#947 I'm trying to move non-"purchased" songs from iPods to authorized iTunes installations on other machines. Such as when you take your iPod to work and want to transfer the tunes to that machine.

I can do this no prob. But of course I don't want to click and drag or go through the drag of opening terminal to do it every time.

Basically, one part of my quest is to find a reliable way to identify a volume as an iPod. I don't care what kind of iPod, I just want to know that it is one.

I got a hint sent to me about the IOKit but it's pretty hairy low-level C stuff that is not fun to dig through.
this is the hint i've recieved:
IOServiceMatching("com_apple_driver_iPodNub")
IOServiceMatching("com_apple_driver_iPodSBCNub")

I've also been digging in Apple's Developer docs, and in the part:
Accessing Hardware From Applications: Finding Devices in the IO Registry

I found something of this, and opened the dev tools app IORegistryExplorer

I've found the PID (product id, listed as idProduct in some IO registry plist xml file) and VID (vendor id, listed as idVendor)

Trouble is I haven't the faintest idea at the moment, how to access the IO registry to check this stuff, or what other iPods will have as PID.

If any of that helps you, let me know and help back...
cheers.

]]> <p>- Goodbye Helicopter]]></p> Goodbye Helicopter http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/05/ipod_offline_feed_reader/#947 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:24:54 GMT Comment on "Prepaid MasterCards: the Missing Link in Financial Privacy" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#944 still didn't manage to actually buy anything yet -- wanted to register the card from a random open wifi network to make the anonymous payment experience authentic, but then I always forgot.

]]> <p>- martind]]></p> martind http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#944 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:21:07 GMT Comment on "Prepaid MasterCards: the Missing Link in Financial Privacy" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#943 was curious about this badboy too. wonder if it works with paypal?

]]> <p>- smallcaps]]></p> smallcaps http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/prepaid_mastercards/#943 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:57:13 GMT Comment on "On Black WASPs, Elongated Labiae, the Bustle, and Giant African Asses" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/04/elongated_labiae_and_giant_african_asses/#935 I am really thankful I found your page again. Today, a youtube video was shared with me about Saartje. I was not to sure if you had seen it:

This is a link from my main blog:

http://serenitylife.vox.com/library/post/who-is-sara-baartman-every-black-woman-should-know-her-name.html

Enjoy! I thought it was a wonderful story told in a short amount of time for someone who may have a short attention span.

Take care!

- Jennifer

]]> <p>- Jennifer]]></p> Jennifer http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/04/elongated_labiae_and_giant_african_asses/#935 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:19:15 GMT Comment on "Podcasts, Mixtapes, and Post-Apocalyptic Lover's Rock" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/postapocalyptic_lovers_rock/#800 Jay is the truth, check back to the site periodically for more.

]]> <p>- andres]]></p> andres http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/postapocalyptic_lovers_rock/#800 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:39:10 GMT Comment on "Rough Trade East: Gorgeous" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/rough_trade_east_is_gorgeous/#787 A ha. Glad you liked it. Nice space. I found their vinyl stock to be worse than what I've come to expect from their other two London stores. But this is definitely the best 'store'.

Funny how the cafe is right by the door. I think they might make more money off their cappuccinos than their records :)

]]> <p>- anil]]></p> anil http://dekstop.de/weblog/2007/08/rough_trade_east_is_gorgeous/#787 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:17:37 GMT Comment on "Installing Linksys WUSB11 2.8 on OS X" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/10/linksys_wusb11_28_on_osx/#763 i got a superclass error when trying to kextload the driver, im using 10.4.8, help,anyone?
i think it should be recompiled for 10.4 but how?

]]> <p>- John Panlican</p> John Panlican http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/10/linksys_wusb11_28_on_osx/#763 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:52:43 GMT