Summary: Allegations of “Negativism” in Techrights and in “Boycott Novell” are put in perspective.

THIS is not a proper episode of TechBytes Video. I have been testing a few things in order to improve future delivery (when Tim and I both find time) and in the mean time I do try to convey some messages in means that are not text-only. In this video I speak about my experiences facing the allegation that this site is too abrasive.

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YouTube: On Techrights Negativism

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his series of videos is a rough explanation of the approach taken in order to utilise principal component analysts (PCA) in the task of shape classification. This was done without preparation or second takes, so the quality and clarity are not particularly high.

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 0

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 1

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 2

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 3

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 4

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 5

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 6

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 7

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 8

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 9

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 10

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 11

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 12

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 13

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 14

PCA and Multidimensional Scaling in Shapes – Part 15

Summary: Delays and procrastinations as the cause for TechBytes Video not being released more often

TechBytes Video has not produced anything due to difficulties associated with setting everything up. In this video, an explanation is informally given (no preparations made, so pardon the quality) as well as a teaser about another new show.

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YouTube: TechBytes Video – An Update

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Summary: Rusty, Tim, and Roy get together for a discussion about the latest news, in particular about GNU/Linux

THE LATEST show spoke about a range of subjects, mostly distributions, desktop environments, and the situation Ubuntu is in.

The show’s tracks are “Rise Up”, “Free Software Song” by Jono Bacon, and “Solo Un Poco Mas” by Debayres. We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subscribing to the show via the RSS feed. You can also visit our archives for past shows. If you have an Identi.ca account, consider subscribing to TechBytes in order to keep up to date.

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VER the past few months I have been running many experiments and compiling about 200 pages of text and graphs to document this. Today I made a short explanatory video that was unplanned and totally unscripted (I tend to prefer spontaneity, I loathe staging or reading from outlines/talking points/scripts).

This video is a bit of a test intended to get the hang of the recording software. These are some preliminary thoughts on the approach taken by GMDS (generalised multidimensional scaling) and the one adopted by GPCA (generalised principal component analysis) proponents. Admittedly, I am only at the early stages of properly learning about both. However, the basic principles as they are applied to distances (in space, not within data instances embedded in the shown hyperspace) are analogous at some underlying level, i.e. they measure something which is theoretically a surrogate of one another. The premises are hinged upon unification or use of one method to complement another, perhaps just comparing the results of each one in isolation.

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Summary: This quick episode combines many topics ranging from the area of patents to Microsoft trolls

LAST NIGHT’S show covered some of the important issues from the past week or so. It wasn’t released until now because one of my monitors died and as a result my 2.5 months old KDE session needed to be restarted, then I needed to buy a new monitor. Thankfully it’s all back to normal now.

The closing tracks are “Caught in Your Freedom”, “Volcano” by Anti-Pop Consortium, and “The DJ” by DJ Revolution( language warning). 2 are taken from SXSW 2010 (get the torrents legally here).

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y most used and highly valuable applications are probably Kate, which I wrote about some days ago, and Thunderbird. KNode and Firefox used to be used a lot before I found ThunderBrowse.

Here is a sort of overview of how I used Thunderbird, in case someone ever thought of it as a weak application. Click on the image below for an explanation of my workflow in desktop 2.