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Update: PKR on VMWare

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I'm still getting a lot of people asking me if PKR runs on VMWare. The current release of PKR and VMWare seem to be broadly compatible. Here is a scrappy video of my settings so people can give it a go. I run PKR off of my bootcamp partition but there is no need to use a separate partition. Click through to watch in HD where it is a little better.

It's a little grainy but you should be able to see the settings I've been using for DX, VMWare and PKR.

This doesn't mean that future verisons of PKR or VMWare are going to work btw.

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Microcontroller Demo Scene

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

There is something really fucking cool about making demos and there is something even more cool about making the hardware it runs on as well.

I should point out that I came across this video when reading Make Magazines RSS Feed.

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Data Visualisation

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

If you've ever had the displeasure to sit anywhere near me at work you will know that I love graphs. If I get a data set I love to graph it. I've used graphs in gnuplot to model player acceleration when writing the controls for a FPS, graphs to show people playing a game over time and graphs to show memory allocation over time. I just can't stop myself.

For me graphs allow me to unlock the huge potential of the human mind to see data. Numbers are abstract but graphs are somehow more real, more tangible. There are huge areas of the brain devoted to image and pattern recognition so I see no reason to ignore them with abstract data sets.

So when Webb Alert put me on to this TED talk I was really pleased to see graphs, graphs and oh yes animating graphs.

On an important note Hans Rosling uses his software to graph statistics for the third world and succeeds in changing my opinion on the nature of first and third worlds.

Here he is in 2006 with his graphs

and in 2007 with more graphs, more animated fun and good news about the opening of statistics about us (and mostly paid for by us as well)

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