The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck.
A little optical illusion for you
How would you keep yourself grounded as the project you started at college less than ten years ago prepared to file for a $5 billion IPO? Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg kept this little reminder on his desk during the historic day (via This Memo Kept Zuck Focused During Facebook IPO Day)
Source: thenextweb.com
This is actually the craziest chart about Apple following their insane earnings today.
There is exactly one company on that entire list that is not an oil and gas company. And they’re not that far from the top.
Source: parislemon
The MegaUpload Shutdown Effect
The popular file sharing site MegaUpload was shut down by the US FBI and Department of Justice on Thursday, January 19, and executives from the company were taken into custody. This story is very well covered by the Wall Street Journal and includes a copy of the indictment for your reading.
As you would expect, this was a wildly popular site with users from all over the world. So much so that even notable celebrities appear in a video discussing MegaUpload, almost endorsing it. Previous work by Arbor Networks showed that content providers and hosting sites like MegaUpload are the new “Hyper Giants”. With enough global data, you can actually see the traffic drop when the shutdown occurs. Based strictly on the traffic rates it appears that the shutdown started just after 19:00 GMT on January 19, with traffic plummeting down over the next two hours. The graphic here shows three main client regions – Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the US.
Over the past 24 hours, the top countries (in aggregate) using MegaUpload were the United States, France, Germany, Brazil, Great Britain, Turkey, Italy, and Spain, although dozens more countries are represented.
As for the traffic drop off, we’re not the only ones to notice. As seen on Twitter, South America experienced a dramatic traffic drop at about the same time, presumably due to this MegaUpload shutdown. Furthermore, we’re seeing reports of a fake MegaUpload site that is supposedly a malware infection site.
Friends of mine from elsewhere in the world have been joking that the Internet seems to be running a bit smoother today. That may be, given how much bandwidth appears to have been freed up.
Source: ddos.arbornetworks.com
How to Enable TRIM Support For All SSDs in OS X Lion
Ever since the release of OS X 10.6.8, Apple has been selectively enabling the TRIM command for SSD’s in OS X. This support continues on on Mac OS X Lion, but as many have noted, it only seems to work for Apple SSDs. Here’s how to enable TRIM across the board:
The TRIM command is an important disk command for SSDs that keeps your flash memory appropriately cycled so that you can achieve faster read and write speeds, as well as a longer lifespan for your SSD. As such, TRIM support is not the trivial matter that some make it out to be (although certain manufacturers, such as Other World Computing, include firmware that eliminates the need for OS-level TRIM support).
In you have an SSD that supports TRIM, and you’re running OS X 10.6.8 or Lion, follow the below instructions to enable TRIM. Note: This involves the use of terminal commands, so proceed at your own risk.
Backup the file that you’re about to patch:
sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage /IOAHCIBlockStorage.original
Patch the file to enable TRIM support:
sudo perl -pi -e ‘s|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00).{9}(\x00\x51)|$1\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00$2|sg’ /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage
Clear the kext caches:
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel sudo kextcache -system-caches
Important: reboot your Mac!
To disable TRIM support in the future:
sudo perl -pi -e ‘s|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00).{9}(\x00\x51)|$1\x41\x50\x50\x4C\x45\x20\x53\x53\x44$2|sg’ /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage
Finally, if this does not work as expected, or if something goes wrong, simply restore the backup:
sudo cp /IOAHCIBlockStorage.original /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage
This patch simply edits a file called IOAHCIBlockStoage, removing a string that makes TRIM work for only Apple SSDs.
Our last day at 36 Cooper Square. This is how it all started (Feb 2009)
Thanks again Lock & Kevin. We owe you guys a beer or 15,000,000.
(by dpstyles™)
Source: Flickr / dpstyles
parislemon: Google Is "Surprised" That Twitter Is "Concerned"
Just to give everyone their fair airtime, here’s Google’s response to Twitter’s response to Google’s announcement about Search+. Naturally, this was posted to Google+:
We are a bit surprised by Twitter’s comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their…
Source: parislemon
Scrollorama
dhs:
There’s a nifty new trick appearing on various good-looking websites. The first example of it that I saw was Ben the Bodyguard (scroll down the page to see it). Now there’s an open source library to help you create these effects with jQuery. It’s called Scrollorama and if you’re into web design you should check it out.
Source: dhs
