Dustin Kirkland: When is Amazon’s EC2 appropriate for your workload? : a little helper app for Ubuntu. cute (via Danny)
(tags: ec2 linux via:danny ubuntu screen amazon aws costing)SpamAssassin running off the grid : powered by a wind generator and some solar panels, to be exact, in the remote northwest of Scotland (plenty of wind there!)
(tags: scotland wind-power spamassassin linux servers electricity power)HubLog: Making a Lucene index of Wikipedia for MoreLikeThis queries : nice contextual hack
(tags: context wikipedia search bbc lucene solr indexing freebase hublog php)SUB-MIT: The Great McMurdo Jello-Wrestling All-Hands Meeting : pen-pushing on the polar frontier
(tags: bureaucracy denver funny mcmurdo south-pole jello jello-wrestling wtf all-hands meetings pen-pushers bigdeadplace)pHash – the open source perceptual hash library : ‘a fingerprint of an audio, video or image file that is mathematically based on the audio or visual content contained within. Unlike cryptographic hash functions which rely on the avalanche effect of small changes in input leading to drastic changes in the output, perceptual hashes are “close” to one another if the inputs are visually or auditorily similar.’
(tags: video audio open-source sound signature search hashing algorithms fingerprint phash perceptual hash similarity)