I’ve been meaning to post this video for awhile (been busy). Stanley Clarke is one of the most amazing bass players I’ve seen. He really explores the instrument and is not afraid to push it to new sounds. This upright bass solo is just awesome!

(requires Adobe Flash plugin… click HERE to watch it on YouTube)

I’m always forgetting how to register my machine name with the DHCP server so I can ping my box without having to remember my IP address. Here’s how to do it on Fedora Core 9:

1. Set the hostname: `# hostname <hostname>`
2. Add ‘HOSTNAME=<hostname>’ to ‘/etc/sysconfig/network’ (makes the change permanent).
3. Add ‘DHCP_HOSTNAME=<hostname>’ to ‘/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0′
4. Restart the networking service: `# service network restart`

Volia! Now you can connect to your box via hostname.

References:

• Configuring Linux Static DHCP Clients by Sending Host Name
• Linux setting hostname and domain name of my server

So, we’ve been developing a slick cross-platform media framework to standardize or products on (proprietry, of course), and I couldn’t resist building an ASCII text renderer. It was surprisingly easy using our SDK and a free library called libcaca… seriously, that’s it’s name. It looks okay small, but of course it breaks down as you scale up. Anyways, now we can watch video using xterm via ssh… use case? Who cares!… it’s ASCII video

Okay, now the large size (video source: D1 MPEG-4 30 fps):