Here's a nice little app that let's you pick color from the screen. It's very useful when creating web pages. The author also has other nice little apps.
CatchColor
http://www.dr-hoiby.com/CatchColor/index.php
Robot dog
Just found this video from Boing Boing. It's a video showing a quadruped robot with an amazing balancing skill. I've seen this robot before but this new video just blew my mind.
More Info about the robot
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
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Technology
No more Vista!
About month ago I bought a new laptop, Acer 5520. It came with Vista Home Premium and I've been using it until last weekend I finally had enough. All and all the Vista experience was negative. I had lot's of issues with the wireless connection and usually after resuming from hibernation, Vista was not able to find web site addresses anymore (tweaked a lot with DNS settings but there was no fix). The most serious issues had to do with power management. Sometimes the laptop wouldn't shutdown when powering off or hibernating, only choice was to cut the power by force. Putting the laptop to sleep ended in blue screen of death.
There really wasn't any reason I could think of why I should use Vista instead of XP. Only difference (in my needs) is that Vista looks "better". Other than that there isn't anything new, just more heavier OS. So now I'm using XP and everything works like a charm. I am however tempted to try Linux and after I read an interesting article from lifehacker, I might just do that.
Windows XP drivers for Acer 5520
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/AcerDrivers/Aspire%205520.pdf
Run Windows apps seamlessly inside linux
http://lifehacker.com/367714/run-windows-apps-seamlessly-inside-linux
New Blog is open!
So here it is, new blog. I though I'd open new blog outside cubicreality.com. Every once in a while, I come across with some "interesting" information that might be worth sharing or just archived for my own use. That's the motivation for this blog.
Anyway, I'll still have to tweak these graphics a bit but you'll get an idea on how it will look.
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General