I still don’t know if my Mac hates me or not, but I bought it a new friend to play with last week. Why would it hate a new friend you ask (if you are as deranged as someone who acts like a laptop can have emotions..)? Well its a… Dell… and if Microsoft and Apple are like Tom and Jerry, then Dell must be the bulldog…

Anyway, I think they can get along, since it’s the exact same monitor as I got in my office for the Mac Pro, and yes it gets even weirder still, since I have an old version of the same model at my student desk as well…

Alright, so its a Dell 2408WFP, which means 24 inches of super nice colours (Extra Wide Garmut), perfect for work and play

The wicked statistics:

1 x 2408 WFP  | Home / Dam Consult
1 x 2408 WFP + 1 x 2407 WFP  | Rockefeller office DTU Space
1 x 2405 WFP  | Student Office, HEP

When I catch habits, they die hard

I’m sick and tired of being carpet-bombed by fear, despair and stupidity by the media.
Checking news sites is part of my daily routine, so to counter that, I did something as simple as inducing a bit of self-censorship, and added the following lines to my “hosts” file:

For the unfamiliar with this file, it simply is a local lookup table where domain names are translated into ip addresses, and the 127.0.0.1 is the local computer, so instead of pointing say: cnn.com to their own webserver I just redirect the request to my local webserver.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

# Fuck the fear mongers
127.0.0.1 www.jp.dk
127.0.0.1 jp.dk
127.0.0.1 pol.dk
127.0.0.1 www.pol.dk
127.0.0.1 cnn.com
127.0.0.1 edition.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 bbcnews.com
127.0.0.1 news.bbc.co.uk
127.0.0.1 politiken.dk
127.0.0.1 www.politiken.dk
127.0.0.1 bt.dk
127.0.0.1 www.bt.dk
127.0.0.1 eb.dk
127.0.0.1 www.eb.dk
127.0.0.1 nyhederne.tv2.dk
127.0.0.1 seneste.dk
127.0.0.1 www.seneste.dk
127.0.0.1 berlingske.dk
127.0.0.1 www.berlingske.dk

I’m pleased to announce the release of the DTU Space Satellite Tracker. 

The web application tracks satellites in real-time using the new Google Earth Browser Plugin. The current version is in Danish, but an English version is on it’s way.

Track the International Space Station

Wolfram and our Systems Administrator has been so kind as to give me an 8-core Mathematica 7 license, so the least I could do was to benchmark it. 

A very interesting result is that linearity as you add more CPU’s seem to be quite good, only when you activate the last available core, you see a performance drop. This is naturally explained by the fact the the system needs to run other processes then just Mathematica Kernels.