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September 2014

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Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door

http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images/
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
#android #hacking #imported:pinboard #linux
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Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door

http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
#android #hacking #linux
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God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0
EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.
#biology #evolution #imported:pinboard #religion #science
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God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0&action=click&module=MostEmailed&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&src=me&version=Full
EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.
#biology #evolution #religion #science
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Ken Shirriff's blog: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works.
#bitcoin #crypto #imported:pinboard #sha256 #to:twitter
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artisan - Visual scope for coffee roasters - Google Project Hosting

https://code.google.com/p/artisan/
Artisan is a software that helps coffee roasters record, analyze, and control roast profiles. When used in conjunction with a thermocouple data logger or a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller), this software can automate the creation of roasting metrics to help make decisions that influence the final coffee flavor.
#coffee #diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #roaster
archive.org #31781

artisan - Visual scope for coffee roasters - Google Project Hosting

https://code.google.com/p/artisan
Artisan is a software that helps coffee roasters record, analyze, and control roast profiles. When used in conjunction with a thermocouple data logger or a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller), this software can automate the creation of roasting metrics to help make decisions that influence the final coffee flavor.
#coffee #diy #electronics #roaster
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What Twitter could have been

http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
As I understand, a hugely divisive internal debate occurred among Twitter employees around this time. One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. In this scenario, Twitter would have turned into something like a realtime cloud API company. The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.
#advertising #api #business #design #imported:pinboard #twitter
archive.org #25145

The Satanic Temple’s hilarious response to a pro-religion court ruling - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/16/satanic_temple_hands_out_activity_books_to_schools_in_response_to_judicial_ruling/
Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”
#christianity #imported:pinboard #religion
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The Satanic Temple’s hilarious response to a pro-religion court ruling - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/16/satanic_temple_hands_out_activity_books_to_schools_in_response_to_judicial_ruling
Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”
#christianity #religion
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The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor."
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #youtube
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An Introduction to the MEAN Stack

http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-mean-stack
The term MEAN stack refers to a collection of JavaScript based technologies used to develop web applications. MEAN is an acronym for MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js. From client to server to database, MEAN is full stack JavaScript. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #pocket
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How to manually mount a USB Hard Disk, including a disk that was part of a RAID1 array - SynologyWiki

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_manually_mount_a_USB_Hard_Disk,_including_a_disk_that_was_part_of_a_RAID1_array#How_to_mount_a_USB_enclosure_containing_a_RAID1_disk
This wiki shows you how to manually mount a USB Drive enclosure containing a Hard Disk. The term "mount" is the Linux term for adding a data device to a system so that its contents are navigatable. The procedure also describes the steps necessary if the Hard Drive in the USB enclosure was previously part of a working RAID 1 configuration (e.g. removed from another Synology Server). The same procedure will also probably work for RAID 0 drives, but I have not tested that.
#imported:pinboard #linux #storage #synology
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