Daily Archives: 3/18/2005

New Cholesterol Numbers

3/18/2005 – 5:53 pm

Congratulations and huzzahs for me. By dropping 67 lbs and exercising over the last year, I managed to cut my total cholesterol from 262 to 200, with my LDL going from a high 202 to a much more reasonable 138. Still got a ways to go on the weight loss, but [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in My Projects | Comments (1)

The LiveCD List

3/18/2005 – 3:59 pm

A giant list of LiveCD projects.
Hopefully I’ll have one joining the list soon.

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Link of the Day, Operating Systems | Comments (0)

Have a piece of Pi

3/18/2005 – 3:47 pm

a[52514],b,c=52514,d,e,f=1e4,g,h;main(){for(;b=c-=14;h=printf(”%04d”,
e+d/f))for(e=d%=f;g=–b*2;d/=g)d=d*b+f*(h?a[b]:f/5),a[b]=d%–g;}

Try reading this interesting paper to learn more.
Source code, since Wordpress insists on doing something to the quotes in the code above.

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Any comments on my mobile podcasts?

3/18/2005 – 9:53 am

Has anyone got any comments, positive or negative, regarding the quality and/or content of my last two podcasts which I recorded in my car using my PDA? Just curious if people find them more compelling due to their less formal nature, or irritating because of the background ambient sound…
Drop me an email or [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Audioblogs and Podcasting | Comments (0)

Towards my own LiveCD…

3/18/2005 – 8:09 am

Well, I’ve bit the bullet. I’ve decided that I have a couple of projects that could benefit from my own ability to produce a customized version of Unix that can boot from a CD (or alternatively, a flash memory device), so I’ve embarked upon trying to follow the path of others who have gone [...]

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