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Link - Women in Tech: Building Confidence and Visibility, via the Glass Hammer, by Melissa J. Anderson |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:37 AM PDT Women in Tech: Building Confidence and Visibility Melissa J. Anderson, the Glass Hammer, 6/15/10 The Glass Hammer is an on-line community "designed for women executives in financial services, law, and business." I recently came across the Glass Hammer website when I followed a link to an interesting article written by Melissa J. Anderson, about women in technology. Melissa Anderson, the author of the article, is the associate editor of the Glass Hammer, and is completing a Master's degree at NYU in Media, Culture, and Communication. Nicki Gilmour, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, is the woman behind this organization, with a background in the media industry. She is also the CEO of Evolved People Media. You can follow Glass Hammer on Twitter, Mixx, Digg , Delicious, become a Glass Hammer friend on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/theglasshammer) or join groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. Contributing writers at the Glass Hammer at the time of this post: - Pamela Weinsaft (New York City) - Elizabeth Harrin (London) - Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan) - Liz O'Donnell (Boston) - Natalie Sabia (New York City) - Caroline Shannon (Dayton, Ohio) - Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago) - Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) - Gigi DeVault (Munich) RELATED Women in IT: The Facts (Downloadable from the National Center for Women and Information Technology website) http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
| Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360 Offers Full-Body and Gesture Interaction: No controllers or remotes! Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:14 AM PDT Project Natal was the code name for the Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360. For $149.99 you can pre-order your very-own system from the Microsoft Store that will allow you to interact with video games with your body alone. No need for controllers or 'motes! Presentation about the fitness benefits of the Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360: This video is a preview of a dance game for the Xbox using the Kinect Sensor: It would be great if I could do my Zumba moves with Kinect Sensor system and a great Xbox application! Here's another video that explains the system in more detail, with brief interviews of innovators from Microsoft: Here is a copy of my previous post about Project Natal: How It Works: Microsoft's Project Natal for the Xbox 360 video from Scientific American Microsoft gathered a wealth of biometric data to recognize the range of human movement in order to develop an algorithm for the next generation of controller-less gaming. "Natal will consist of a depth sensor that uses infrared signals to create a digital 3-D model of a player's body as it moves, a video camera that can pick up fine details such as facial expressions, and a microphone that can identify and locate individual voices." The technology behind Natal has the potential for a range of uses beyond gaming. Scientific American article: Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360 http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
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HOWTO: Use Ubuntu Software Center in Mint 9 |
| HOWTO: Use Ubuntu Software Center in Mint 9 Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT There are a few reasons why I use Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu on my systems. That being said one of the reasons I do not list for using Mint over Ubuntu is their "Software Manager". The software manager in Mint 8 was flat out sad compared to the Ubuntu Software Center that Ubuntu 9.10 included. Now even though the software manager in Mint 9 has many improvements, it still has issues, and I don't think it is quiet on-par with the updated Software Center Ubuntu 10.04 includes. Now I still like Mint and a poor software center is not enough to make me to stop using the distro as a whole. As such, a quick fix to the issue is to remove Mint Install and apt-get the Ubuntu Software Center. Now this works fine in Mint 8, but after installing the Ubuntu Software Center in Mint 9 I was greeted by a lovely terminal out when the application failed to load: jeff@jubuntu ~ $ software-centerAfter having a thread go nowhere useful for a day and a half on the Mint forums, I decided to put my python background to use and try to resolve the issue myself. The following steps are what I have done to resolve the issue. Open a terminal and run the following in order: sudo apt-get install software-center wget http://www.tophattwaffle.com/wp-content/files/jeff/custom__init__ sudo rm /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py sudo mv custom__init__ /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py And you are all set! Run software-center and it should pop right up for you. Now, if you are like myself and want the Ubuntu Software Center to run instead of the Mint Software Manager when you click "Software Manager" on your Mint Menu run the following in terminal: sudo apt-get purge mintinstall sudo ln -s /usr/bin/software-center /usr/bin/mintinstall Now in case you are curious (or don't trust me) the edit I made to the __init__.py file you are downloading is made on line 72 in the _get_distro function. By default this line reads: distro_id = subprocess.Popen(["lsb_release","-i","-s"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip() My updated line simply manually sets our distro_id to be Ubuntu. distro_id = "Ubuntu" Hackish, but it works :) Isn't it fantastic when you have the source code for a piece of software so people can create fixes such as this? Have any input on the subject or an issue with the HOWTO drop a comment below. ~Jeff Hoogland  |
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