A Credit Crisis explanation

TraceMonkey and howto run two versions of firefox

It seems the next thing in browsers performance is going to be javascript performance. With the V8 that Google Chrome uses, the standard is quite high, and it seems Mozilla was working with the same approach with their TraceMonkey, which is really fast.

Now you can try TraceMonkey by downloading firefox-minefield.

Since TraceMonkey is not used by default, you need to go to about:config in the address bar, then search theses two keys: "javascript.options.jit.content", "javascript.options.jit.chrome", and press toggle true.

But since minefield crashes, how do I enjoy its speed and browse my important webs in a safe Firefox?

You can run two versions of Firefox by following these steps:

Create a new profile for firefox.
Ubuntu: firefox -profilemanager -no-remote
Windows: Goto Start >> Run >> type: firefox.exe -profilemanager -no-remote

This will start up the profile manager. Create a profile, I've called it 'minefield'.

Then we need to launch Firefox adding "-P minefield -no-remote".

Ubuntu: In the installadion dir run "firefox -P minefield -no-remote &"

Windows: Righth click on a Minefield shortcut, update the target field to look something like this: "C:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe" -P minefield -no-remote

Signing NxP Contract

Robotics

Impressive Robotics Dynamics

Viewed here

NoC simulator Code

After a request from a Electrical and Computer Engineering researcher from Villanova University, I decided to publish the code of my Network on Chip simulator under GPL v2. To do that, I have written a quick documentation and a README explaining how to use the simulator and how to add new modules. I hope you enjoy it.
The code is available in my NoC simulator blog.

Tie Race

I just want to sum yesterday primaries polling numbers.



Update: Clinton won the primaries by 15564 votes of a total of 14.8 millions votes.

And these were the primaries, in the caucus Obama built a clear victory(by 35811 state delegates):




Taking a look to the number of registered voters of these Caucus:
Alaska(477,040; 68% independent-democratic),Idaho(693,965; No registration by party),Kansas(1,646,599; 53% independent-democratic), North Dakota(495,411 estimated eligible voters) is easy to estimate that Obama won the popular vote in Tuesday 5, 2008.

I am impressed to see how Obama is so close in California. 50% of California electorate voted in January, where Clinton was leading because she was the inevitable candidate: The people didn't know Obama at that time, as in Florida or Michigan where no campaign was done.
Clinton only won 52% California. I would like to know the results of the people that went yesterday to vote in California, because I believe Obama outperformed Clinton there.
We will need to wait to know the delegates numbers, because in primaries votes are only the first step, the CNN estimation of the total number of delegates until now is:

Hillary Clinton
Pledged: 625

Barack Obama
Pledged: 624

1 delegate.
Tie race. But something is clear: Obama is going up, Clinton and the old-politics are going down.

PS:I just do not count the super-delegates because they vote in the convention, so I don't buy NYT polls on that. Or at least until all the super-delegates are taken into account a few days before the convention.

Fon Memo

[Story]
Here it is the last thing I wasted my time in: A Fon memorandum to help them build a better network.
Yeah, I also think that I waste a lot of time with different things, but I just felt that to present all my thoughts about Fon would help them a LOT to develop their WiFi network.
[Video]

RaycoHM Fon Memo from Rayco on Vimeo.

[State]
Update: They answered:
""""Hi Ray,
Thank you very much for your memo, I found it very interesting. Mesh is something that we have been debating about and certainly something for the future of FON, when there is better density of points.

Thanks again for your insight and good work.

Best Regards,

Diego Cabezudo
COO FON"""
It is always nice to know that someone inside has viewed it. I hope it will be useful, at least in the brainstorming of the Next FON.

Guy Kawasaki quote

Great conference from Guy Kawasaki back in 2006 about entrepreneurship, but today I just want to point out something about the Killer gene in men, it is just brilliant.

[Minute 16:16]
"""
Ask woman about your business model.
I believe you should not waste your time asking men about business models and business ideas.
I believe this is because mens have a fundamental genetic flaw, We all have the killer gene. Men want to kill things...
we want to kill plants,
we want to kill animals,
we want to kill other companies and products.
To a large degree this killer gene has been suppress by society
One place is hasn't been suppressed is entrepreneurship. It is sociable acceptable to want to kill a competition.
Thus when you ask a men should I start a company to kill Oracle, to kill Google, to kill Microsoft,
all men always say: YEEEES!!!! that's a great idea
[Audience(hahahahahah)]

Women do not have this fundamental genetic flaw.
So when you came up with an idea for business model ask women. Do not waste your time asking men. """

Copy Paste ends up as ŸŸ (Ubuntu+VirtualBox)

[Problem]

When I start using Virtualbox for a while I always have problems with copy and paste. All pasted text ends up as: ŸŸ. I can still c/p in the Windows XP inside the Virtualbox.

[Solution]

I was using VirtualBoX 1.5.2 but the guest additions of my virtual machine were 1.5.0.
I reinstalled the guest additions from the 1.5.2 image and the problem was solved.