http://www.heavygravity.com Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:21:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently had a chance to work on a Cuban Music website - http://www.cuband.com - and hope that it ends up working out.  It has a pretty big catalog of Cuban Music in MP3 format and targets a small market - people that are interested in the classics from Cuba ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2010/03/03/cubandcom-if-youre-into-cuban-music/ I'm not sure about you, but I don't know what these are: TI-83 (Plus): n=82EF4009ED7CAC2A5EE12B5F8E8AD9A0 AB9CC9F4F3E44B7E8BF2D57A2F2BEACE 83424E1CFF0D2A5A7E2E53CB926D61F3 47DFAA4B35B205B5881CEB40B328E58F p=B709D3A0CD2FEC08EAFCCF540D8A100BB38E5E091D646ADB7B14D021096FFCD q=B7207BD184E0B5A0B89832AA68849B29EDFB03FBA2E8917B176504F08A96246CB d=4D0534BA8BB2BFA0740BFB6562E843C7 EC7A58AE351CE11D43438CA239DD9927 6CD125FEBAEE5D2696579FA3A3958FF4FC54C685EAA91723BC8888F292947BA1 e=11 TI-84 (Plus): prp77 factor: 67070508990537181066342707695603050521324524613874331879259881495826493920589 prp78 factor: 186923771200711284770368041572205320486346816476524340240220962467860568859381 n=EF5FEF0B0AB6E22731C17539658B2E91E53A59BF8E00FCC81D05758F26C1791CD35AF6101B1E35 43AC3E78FD8BB8F37FC8FE85601C502EABC9132CEAD4711CB1 p=94489014C63CC9E1E1ADB192DBBDD1F78F90A630DA9C86EFC4CBCA44E5B4D54D q=19D431AF2794229620B884E3750D622D1C74F2E4569DC15486FC8D5A3BCDFE2F5 d=2A3E1B2010F318D9BD7C7E19300980B055A0E2A9554B77E7142E23CDF7C7CA13C233A3D462FDFC 968B1F9CEAF2AC2CF305147992AD9E834192ACEBB517DB9941 e=11 TI-89: prp76 factor: 2231124525637629443181963045297394875470510167130210300957267082210173784611 prp79 factor: 3226885534240147415018248397410101286362761128614350056368675111071170873486957 (these are factors of 71995834568684773636720438651160472297127884480206535156843307841378050889714332 73011970552138960583799368215373582308591928985045059261105298431035818727) Hopefully someone out there would find this useful. Oh, and they might have something to do with this: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Suppressed_Texas_Instruments_cryptographic_signing_keys,_28_Aug_2009 http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/09/28/ti-calculator-keys/ This kind of thing pisses me off.  A corporation threatens to sue a guy and make him "publicly apologize" because he expressed an opinion about an Energy Drink that they didn't like.  They also had his Facebook account banned, and the group he started on Facebook removed.  Then, after he ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/06/09/rockstar-energy-drink-theyll-sue-you-if-you-dont-like-it/ I've never upgraded a Linux distribution before. Actually, I've never successfully upgraded any distribution – it's always a clean install for me. Since switching to Ubuntu about a year ago, I've been pleasantly surprised about how things “just work”. That is the way it should be ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/05/01/upgrading-ubuntu-smooth-as-silk/ As I was searching for some things today using Google, I noticed that more and more websites were coming up erroneously as “Malware Sites” as determined by Google. In fact, after a few minutes, EVERY site came up with “This site may harm your computer”. Check out the screenshot (notice ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/01/31/google-hacked/ I was thinking about getting a radio receiver lately (probably the Icom PCR1500) and I stumbled onto a couple of neat sites. The first one is called “HamSphere”, and it's an interesting program that turns your computer into a Ham Radio without any extra hardware. You could also ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/01/30/remote-radio/ A comparison between the treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust and the treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510. Wow. http://www.heavygravity.com/2009/01/19/great-job/ SETI finally released a CUDA client that will allow you to use your NVidia card (it has to be fairly new) to process satellite data up to 10x faster than before.  Wow! My system seems to be doing one work unit in about 25-30 minutes now [EDIT:  Ok, that's normal I ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2008/12/18/seti-cuda-client-released-use-your-gpu-to-crunch-satellite-data/ Some hours ago, the Phoenix lander touched down on Mars, and just in the last few hours sent back some pictures. One of them has an interesting feature in it: Click the image below this to see the entire picture and the strange white 'blip' in context. Whats interesting ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2008/05/26/phoenix-touches-down-sends-back-first-images/ Oh, the gods were angry at me last week. Very angry. They not only put me through the hell of completely destroying my computer (or so I thought), they also influenced me to exhibit my geek stubbornness and not replace anything, but instead break out the soldering iron ... http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/12/10/the-zalman-reserator-or-how-i-horribly-broke-my-pc/