This is a scratchpad post to remind myself how to put together a machine-learning system on a Mac. This won’t work on a PC as some of the software is Mac-only. In this configuration a WiiMote (input device) is connected to Wekinator (real time interactive machine-learning software) through OSCulator (OSC bridging and routing software). Wekinator outputs are mapped to MIDI to drive Ableton Live through another instance of OSCulator.
Here is a block diagram (clicking on it makes it bigger)
A scratchpad post as I diagnose and repair an electrical fault in our Power Trac PT-1850. Pretty sparse right now, just starting. Continue reading
Another scratchpad post. This one is a reminder of what I did to repair MySQL on OSX Server after the upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite kinda broke things.
I was working to solve two problems: intermittent “unable to connect to database” errors on all our WordPress sites, and the dreaded “unable to update PID” errors when starting and stopping MySQL. Continue reading
This is a scratchpad post for links to Drone articles that have caught my eye
Click here – to get back to the “Aerial Favorites” page on PrairieHaven.com Continue reading
Several of my ICANN pals have asked “how are you doing??” recently and I decided to write a little blog post to make it easier to describe the current sorry state of affairs.
Basically, dropping the ICANN stuff has freed up a lot of time. What follows is a sampling of how I’m filling it. Continue reading
I decided it was time to make a little statement and add “always on” encryption to this completely innocuous site. The online equivalent of moving a lemonade stand inside a bank vault. Now when you read about refurbishing my car, or fixing a seed drill, you’ll be doing it over an encrypted connection.
This is another scratchpad post for folks who run an OXS Server and want to use a multi-domain UC (unified communications) SSL certificate. The rest of you can stop here — this is probably the most boring post of all time. Continue reading
Samantha Dickinson Tweeted this photo from the ICANN meeting today and tagged it #VolunteerFatigue. I’m living proof.
Let’s say that each of those 7 working groups needs 4 volunteers — that’s almost 30 people. Just from the ccNSO. Just for upcoming working groups. Never mind the GSNO, ALAC, SSAC and GAC. A rough extrapolation puts the total required at over 100 volunteer community members just to handle the IANA/Accountability/Transition work.
ICANN is dangerously thin at the bottom of the bottom-up process. Are there that many people with the experience/time/expertise/will available? What happens to all the other Working Group work in the meantime?
There’s a difference between being a customer and being a client. People on both ends of a relationship always get into trouble when they don’t understand this.
A customer – is always right
A client – expects to hear the truth, especially when it’s unpleasant
This is true in professional relationships. Doctors, lawyers, accountants are expected to provide good advice in their professional relationship — but their customers are always right. Reports should be: on time, of high quality, and delivered at a fair price. Continue reading
I do these scratch-pad posts for really narrow audiences, the rest of you will find them a bit bewildering. Sorry about that. This one is aimed at the GNSO Council, as we ponder the question “how do we increase the pool of PDP working-group volunteers?” Continue reading
This is another scratchpad post to remind myself how I set up two of my favorite digital audio workstations (Ableton Live and Apple Logic Pro X) to run at the same time. I like facets of each of these systems and want to have the best of both worlds — the live-performance flexibility of Live and the instruments and signal processing of Logic. In some perfect future, Logic will run as a Rewire slave and a fella won’t have to do all this goofy stuff. Until then, this is a set of notes on how I do it. Your mileage may vary. I’ll will try to respond to your questions as best I can (click HERE to contact me) — but I’ll be sluggish, don’t count on a reply in anything less than 24 hours.
The goal is to use MIDI coming from Live to control instruments in Logic, and get that audio back into Live. This is where you’re headed and this diagram may be all you need.
This post is a heads up to all uber-geeks about a terrific research initiative to try to figure out causes and mitigation of name-collision risk. There’s a $50,000 prize for the first-place paper, a $25,000 prize for the second place paper and up to five $10,000 prizes for third-place papers. That kind of money could buy a lot of toys, my peepul. And the presentation of those papers will be in London — my favorite town for curry this side of India. Interested? Read on. Here’s a link to the research program — you can skip the rest of this post and get right to the Real Deal by clicking here:
I love toiling at the bottom of the bottom-up ICANN process. And it’s also quite entertaining to watch senior ICANN “managers” running wild and free on the international stage. The disconnect between those two things reminds me of the gulf that usually exists between the faculty and administration in higher education institutions. Both sides think they run the joint. That same gulf exists in ICANN and, while I was hopeful for a while that the new guy (Fadi Chehadi) was going to grok the fullness, it’s starting to slide into the same old pattern. Continue reading
So once upon a time I worked at a terrific ISP in St. Paul, MN. Back then, before the “grand bargain” that led to the shared hallucination known as ICANN, there were several pretty-credible providers of DNS that later (somewhat disparagingly) became known as “alternate” root providers.
In those days, we offered our customers a choice. You could use our “regular” DNS that pointed at what later became the ICANN-managed root, or you could use our “extended” DNS servers that added the alternates. No big deal, you choose, your mileage may vary, if you run into trouble we’d suggest that you switch back to “regular” and see if things go better, let us know how you like it, etc.
Well. Fast forward almost 20 years… Continue reading
Another scratchpad post — this time about what a “get ready for new gTLDs” project might look like. I’ll try to write these thoughts in a way that scales from your own organization up to world-wide.
I’m doing this with an eye towards pushing this towards ICANN and new-gTLD applicants and saying “y’know, you really should be leading the charge on this. This is your ‘product’ after all.” Maybe we could channel a few of those “Digital Engagement” dollars into doing something useful? You know, actually engage people? Over a real issue? Just sayin’
Here we go… Continue reading
This is another scratch-pad post that’s aimed at a narrow audience — network geeks, especially in ISPs and corporations. The first bit is a 3-minute read, followed by a 20-minute “more detail” section. If you’re baffled by this, but maybe a little concerned after you read it, please push this page along to your network-geek friends and colleagues and get their reaction. Feel free to repost any/all of this.
Key points before we get started
If I were you, I’d:
