gallery of computation
November 12th, 2005
This guy is no Jon Klein, but his computer-generated abstract art (and the nifty flash-based web site!) are very, very cool.
(Congratulations, by the way, to aforementioned ldopa contributor Jon, who has just gotten a sweet-ass job working for these guys; they designed the visuals for a little application you might have heard of, called **iTunes**).
~jeff
Yesterday’s conversation with Jonny, and the state he left my computer in last night, prompted the following idea for a short but useful script:
Backtrack
A script that checks the last few system-level changes made to your computer, and displays them for you. Not as creepy as a listening device for your keyboard, and almost as useful when something gets slighly f*cked up.
I have no idea how to make this happen. I don’t even know what to write it in.
Joshua has suggested the alternative name of “Whuzza?”. He has not, however, volunteered any programming advice.
HA! I will continue to take threads off topic until my demands for posting permissions are met!
To the off-topic mobile!
Windows XP sort of does this. It keeps a list of things that have happened that would make your computer not work, and lets you roll your machine back to a more stable state. It works about 75% of the time.
I will fix your computer if you feed me.
“feed”
hmmm….
What about a script that would check changes to permissions on browsers, terminal emulators, and other programs that contain network protocalls?
Check out this… I don’t know the relation of the content, but the site you linked to has the icons for this(http://www.levitated.net/)site at the top of the images.