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Debian installer on a USB key
I couldn’t find a concise article about creating a Debian installer USB key with a writable file system, so here is my take. This assumes you have an available Linux system. Note that some old BIOSes might not happily boot USB drives created in this way. …
Fixing up your Android OTA file
If you’ve deleted some apps (e.g. using TitaniumBackup) and have a custom recovery, but you still want to apply an OTA, here’s what you can do:
unzip the OTA file (into a directory named “n”) Run some sed commands: …
USENIX Security Conference 2011
I am attending the USENIX security conference this week. Sessions are available online. Here are my notes from sessions that I found interesting (bold for extra): Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061–2561 AD, Charles Stross Stross is one of my favorite …
BuddyNS
BuddyNS is a free secondary name service. Yes, free. I started using it a couple of months ago and had no issues. Good for your random project domains where you can’t justify spending on DNS fees.
Max More is now CEO of Alcor
It’s interesting to see one of the major characters in the Extropian movement (precursor to the H+ movement) become the CEO of Alcor.
Moving your Android Contact List to a New Phone
This is a somewhat technical article and assumes knowledge of Android and Linux. Just got a Nexus S, and had some issues moving my contact list from my old phone. So I decided to write this up. You have two options: * If you come from a ROM that allows export …
Atomically Precise Fabrication
Zyvex can now build atomically precise 3-D structures from silicon. That’s a nano equivalent to the MakerBot. Arbitrary structures can be used to build templates and tools that can further build other tools, bootstrapping a new industry.
Brain Emulation by 2030
Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about whole brain emulation (WBE) and the required computational resources. My conclusion is that the required technology level will be reached in the 2025 - 2030 time frame. Although most estimates focus on …
Singularity Summit 2010 – live blogging – day 2
Missed Eliezer Yudkowsky: Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism. 9:40 - Ramez Naam: The Digital Biome Plenty of carrying capacity for the biome - 30-300 billion people with advanced biotech. We are using only 1/1000 of the incident energy from the sun. …