Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
Posted on February 27, 2006 - Filed Under books, listing, sf | Leave a Comment
So, edgio has gone live. Looks interesting. Here’s where I try and get rid of a book using said service. I may even get to be the first Australian listing.
Anyway I have a paperback copy of Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card that I no longer need. In the spirit of testing out edgio, I [...]
Read More..>>Cancelable Biometrics
Posted on February 25, 2006 - Filed Under biometrics, research | Leave a Comment
When you find out that your credit card number has been compromised, you can easily cancel it and obtain a new number. Same with passwords, keys and many other forms of security available. So what can you do if your biometric has been compromised? Use a different finger?
Cancelable biometrics refers to a way of designing [...]
Redirecting a blogspot blog to Wordpress
Posted on February 24, 2006 - Filed Under blogger, computer, howto, wordpress | 2 Comments
UPDATE: An alternative method that moves more of the smarts to wordpress is available here from Tom Sherman of underscorebleach.net.
In case you haven’t noticed this blog used to be at cebidae.blogspot.com, but I decided to move it to my own server so I had more control over what I could do, now, and in the [...]
A Scanner Darkly
Posted on February 21, 2006 - Filed Under movies, sf | Leave a Comment
A Scanner Darkly looks like it will be a pretty cool movie. The animation looks awesome. Now I’ll have to read the book. Link to trailer.
Read More..>>Fixing OpenGL on my HP TC1100
Posted on February 17, 2006 - Filed Under computer, opengl, tablet | 3 Comments
I’ve been having a bit of a problem getting OpenGL (in particular, second life) working on my HP TC1100 tablet. It used to work, but recently when I attempted anything that wanted to use OpenGL it would report “can’t create gl rendering context”.
I tried uninstalling my video drivers, and updating them from HP’s website but [...]
New Blog
Posted on February 16, 2006 - Filed Under admin | Leave a Comment
So, here is my new blog, now at www.cebidae.com. It’s a bit bare at the moment, but I’ll probably get around to fixing that. Probably.
Read More..>>About David Dean
Posted on February 16, 2006 - Filed Under uncategorised | 1 Comment
UPDATE: More up-to-date information is available here.
I am currently a PhD research student working in the Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies Research Laboratory (SAIVT) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). My research topic is “Audio Visual Speaker Recognition”, and if all goes well I should be submitting a thesis on that topic early [...]