June 29th, 2006 by fredd
Ok,
Maybe I was the only one that had not yet seen MIT courses on-line. This is what they write about the initiative:
Welcome to MIT’s OpenCourseWare:
a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
but what is available there?
practically a whole collection of lessons, courses, teaching materials. See here the complete list.
And the whole bunch is distributed on the terms of a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
Creative Commons Licence!.
I am personally a great enthusiast of self learing. To learn lessons are not the only ingredient: you need problems, a community of learners, some teachers, some structures, materials… But indeed i find the fact that MIT wants to share the didactic content produced for free and with a free licence refreshing.
So I will like to follow a couple courses in the next days, just to see if I can do that, and report here if I find them useful. I would like to chose a course in something I know more or less well, one in a field close to what I know but somehow more advanced and a basic course in something I don’t know much about.
Maybe something like:
Other suggestions? Or a wish to find your own…
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May 6th, 2006 by fredd
Today for a very intimate daemon lab we attempted wiith success the triple boot configuration on a imac intel 17″ using dynebolic a s a live cd distro to do so.
As a reference here are some pages you can check and our to do list.
Of he two ways to get to the result we followed the easyer, Apple’s Bootcamp routine. You can easily follow our steps.
As a reference here are some pages you can check and hour to do list.
- First thing d/l BOOT CAMP here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/. You have to install the utility on your imac. Then read and eventually print the manual. Bootcamp will make a patrition on your disk without the need of formatting it. But still, as every time you play with your OS, MAKE A BACKUP and be prepared to start all over again. By the way, _read_ the instructions…
- We successed in installing Windows following the instructions so we won’t reapeat them here. Just a notice, we installed a win XP pro localized for the Netherlands. In many places I have read that it works with localized win, even if bootcamp reccomands a US version of it.
We successed into installing then to startup dynebolic, as shown by nightgolo on the #dyne irc channel some days ago. We are now trying to install a steady distro and we will experiment some…
In particolar you can find here all the needed instructions for installing a generic distro:
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp
these are some links you need to find info on the procedure:
http://onmac.net/
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/linux/
and this is the theme of our next experiment:
http://twoalpha.blogspot.com/2006/04/run-windows-mac-os-x-solaris-and-linux.html
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April 18th, 2006 by jaromil
Both for visual artists and programmers, demo partying can be big phun. The so called DemoScene is running since personal computers exist, nowadays counts thousands of enthusiasts - coders, musicians, pixel artists and 3d modelers - gathering together on several happenings around the world, creating amazing real-time generated videos.
A few days ago the Breakpoint 2006 has been running in Germany and the results are all available online on their website - Rumble in the Jungle!
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April 3rd, 2006 by fredd
As a follow up to the small introduction we had in daemon 02 about futurist painting and new media barbarism, I thought of posting the paper I had read to whom I will add my comments, expanded on the basis of the discussion we had afterwords.
The paper, originally written to introduce to the exibition of London in 1912, can be found here: http://daemon.dyne.org/?page_id=17.
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April 1st, 2006 by fredd
About distributed arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/en/
“Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.”
Arduino is a open hardware project too…
In particular a very good gallery of interesting design concepts made with this kind of boards here: http://courses.interaction-ivrea.it/strangely/index.html
I came back to arduino’s site to write this comment and sow many improvements since last time i was there. The board is for sale at a very interesting price, there is a good attempt to have high quality documentation, and the board has been re-engeneered to be controlled not only with serial port, but also via USB and bluetooth.
The system of data communication of these devices can interact with various other software: Pure-Data, Processing, Flash, Director, Max/MSP etc.
Give them a look, I hope to find someone to give a small presentation of this project to one of the next daemon lab.
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April 1st, 2006 by jaromil
Today in the Open Daemon Lab we are looking at the many possibilities of hacking small and compact devices, like gaming consoles and network access points, running GNU/Linux on them.
We started with the GP2X game console launched on the market as a free and open source “toy” which offers possibility to playback video (XVID / Mpeg4), audio (Mp3 / Vorbis) as well runs game emulators (Mame, SNES, Genesis etc.). The market strategy of this device seems to be very succesfull in taking advantage of lively open source communities which are gathering the attention of a lot of people in Europe, especially Germany and Spain.
More about the HiveNetworks project run by RayLab: they are turning wireless accesspoints into “cellular automata” entities networking each other independently. They run GNU/Linux on small ASUS devices and experiment with small FM transmitters to form mesh networks in which data flows thru spontaneous information routes. It is a very interesting project considering the potential given by running portable devices that can find each other and network automatically to communicate, exchange data and evaluate the network surrounding them, eventually bulding services for the users that run them: independent networks and spontaneous streaming topologies.
In Amsterdam a similar technology is being employed by the Amsterdam Wireless Collective to build an alternative network giving access to the internet across antennas placed on the roofs of the city. The routing is built automatically using the OLSR daemon, running it on top of the OpenWRT distribution which can turn an ASUS or Linksys wireless accesspoint into a node joining the network. An easy to use software to set them up is being developed also: What a Mesh provides an easy to use interface for people that want to join the network. If you live in Amsterdam and you want to join, visit the ASCII hacklab during a wireless workshop day.
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March 30th, 2006 by fredd
Hallo,
Just a moment of your time to remember that Saturday the 1th of
April, starting at 15:00 and going on until 18:00, we will gather in Montevideo; Keizergracht 264 Amsterdam, the daemon lab number 02.
In the kitchen for of this meeting there are some presentation with open discussions about:
- Hacking the GP2, Raylab (London) and hive networks, Veejay with Niels Elburg and Mattijs van Ente, 15 minutes with a book by Umberto Boccioni and why bother about him.
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March 15th, 2006 by fredd
I received today this interesting announcement, and i repost here for you all to know. Louvain is far, maybe we can arrange a car if others are interested, I am.
*Hyperbolic*
with 0kn0, FoAM, Agentschap, Daina Tamina, Stefaan Quix and IBK/IAK,
curated by Ed.projects
where: STUK expozaal, Naamsestraatweg 96, Leuven, Belgium
when: 24 March 2006 - 21 April 2006
info: http://www.stuk.be/
FoAM has developed several low-tech experiments, exclusively for
*Hyperbolic*, exploring pattern, structure and materials able to tangibly
express non cartesian geometries. What happens when mathematical functions
become knotted, knitted, folded, cut and stitched in physical space? What
shapes can we experience, once parallel lines become a bit less
equidistant, diverging toward infinity? What effects can different scales
and dimensions of hyperbolic geometries have on our sense of balance, or
our perception of space? We explore these questions by making prototype
hyperbolic surfaces and structures that will continue to grow in STUK.
Join us for a month long exploration of tangible and intangible geometry,
through the exhibition, performances, talks, or hands-on workshops! For
more detailed information about specific events and opening times see:
http://fo.am/events/2006_hyperbolic/hyperbolic.jpg
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March 4th, 2006 by fredd
Ok, is true that if you have a os x machine you can always format your HD, and install a linux distro. Or make it a dual boot machine. But unfortunately there is’nt anything like dynebolic for power pc owners (yet).
What you can do if you like to follow daemon lab with your mac? And if you like to use free software for mac multimedia? Well, actually you can do a lot. We are starting today a page to talk about this issue, feel free to contribute.
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