Jason's Blog! http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu Just another Plymouth State University Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 20:13:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Artist’s Notes http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/06/artists-notes/ http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/06/artists-notes/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:55:33 +0000 Jason http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/06/artists-notes/ I’m really interested in technology and weather. Both are constantly changing, so there is never a boring moment. My blog contains links and information relating to computers, new technology, and computer security. Visit my webpage, http://jntk.freehostia.com, which includes an extensive weather section, culling current weather information from multiple sources, including the National Weather Service, and the Plymouth State Weather Center of the Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute here at PSU.

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]]> http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/06/chat-with-chris-pirillo/feed/ Many Consumers Are Unclear What “Online Tracking” Even Means http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/many-consumers-are-unclear-what-online-tracking-even-means/ http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/many-consumers-are-unclear-what-online-tracking-even-means/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:33:09 +0000 Jason http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/many-consumers-are-unclear-what-online-tracking-even-means/ A study released this week shows that a huge percentage of Americans don’t grasp just how intensively their online habits are tracked, analyzed, and used to serve ads back to them.

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]]> http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/many-consumers-are-unclear-what-online-tracking-even-means/feed/ Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/ http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:28:12 +0000 Jason http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/ Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.

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]]> http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/11/05/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/feed/ Online auto-tracing tool (converts bitmaps to vector art) http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/30/online-auto-tracing-tool-converts-bitmaps-to-vector-art/ http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/30/online-auto-tracing-tool-converts-bitmaps-to-vector-art/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:38:43 +0000 Jason http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/30/online-auto-tracing-tool-converts-bitmaps-to-vector-art/ Stanford University research project on converting bitmap images to vector art, aka “auto tracing” or “automatic vectorization”. Similar to Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace and CorelDRAW’s PowerTRACE but works better in many cases. Upload image and get a converted result (EPS/SVG) in a few moments.

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]]> http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/30/online-auto-tracing-tool-converts-bitmaps-to-vector-art/feed/ Hands down the best performance by a 12 year old girl ever caught on film. http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/28/hands-down-the-best-performance-by-a-12-year-old-girl-ever-caught-on-film/ http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/28/hands-down-the-best-performance-by-a-12-year-old-girl-ever-caught-on-film/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:45:35 +0000 Jason http://jnkaiser.blogs.plymouth.edu/2007/10/28/hands-down-the-best-performance-by-a-12-year-old-girl-ever-caught-on-film/ Singing probably the most over done, badly done, “omg please tell me they’re done” song ever mutilated in front of a live audience, a 12 year old South Korean girl enters stage center and stuns a television audience with the first five words of the song. I thought they were dubbing her voice at first..You’ll find yourself wondering too.

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