Use the image resizing powertoy in windows? I just stumbled upon this equivalent for Ubuntu (among others).
follow the simple instructions and your off to the races… you can resize & rotate single/multiple images with a simple right-click.
Great post from http://adventuresinswitching.blogspot.com
I couldn’t embed the player here 
but please watch…
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/491
As if there wasn’t enough reason to have a n iPhone. Now I can blog from my phone. I haven really figured out how usefull this is, but I would imagine that it will work quite nicely for uploading pictures of my son. Check out the WordPress application out if you have an iPhone.
Bye,
Eric
Firstly let me state for the record that I love nationalist stereotypes. I find them hilarious. Not in a mean spirited way, but in a Dave Chapelle, celebrate our differences kind of way,
There is the story about how the US/Nasa spent million a pen during the early years of our space program. We *had to have* a pen that would enable our astronauts to scribble important notes, do calculations. It simple had to work. There were many design requirements. It had to work in any orientation, It had to work in zero g environment. It also had to be able to sustain performance across an very wide range of temperatures, underwater, etc…
This is all very cool, and impressive, until you get the punchline of the story, which is that when presented with the same problem statement, the Soviets decided to just use pencils.
Oh yea, Americans coming up with a $20 solution for $.05 problem. how typical!
Like stories that involve nationalist or cultural stereotypes, they tend to be false in the specific, and true in the general. Case in point being space pen. The story is totally not true, but it does highlight some significant differences in way that the US and Soviets approached engineering. there are lot of examples of this. Fighter planes being probably the most obvious example.
Having been around cars for some time, these cultural stereotypes really do themselves out in automotive engineering. It’s an an endlessly entertaining topic onto itself, specifically when you get to make fun of the Germans.
I’ll stop short of giving the Russians credit for inventing Screw propulsion, but they clearly throught this technology was useful. I would imagine in the shitty weather and terrain they have, this would be a pretty sweet ride. At any rate, this is unbelievably clever engineering, that clearly, only a russian could seen all the way through. My hat off to the comrade who polished off a bottle of vodka while making this thing work in real life.
It’s probably a good thing that the Germans didn’t come up with this idea during the late 1930s.
Update: 5 minutes after I posted this… I was again reminded why Americans rule this planet… There is about 0.000001% probability that two French guys working in a garage would build one of these:
Go Team America!
With all the hubub surrounding the iPhone, and the SDK, i see the light, and realize that you would have to be an idiot to not be rushing a cool $1 app to market. A buddy and I would like to take a stab at it, however… Steve apparently thinks that you need to have an apple to develop on too. While my wife uses one (a Mac), interestingly against her will, I’m certainly not going to drop coin on YAAP for playing with the SDK. My internet quest to Google (“leopard guest vmware”) and subsequently on to here:
The ubergeeks have apparently figured out how to get leopard to run on non-apple hardware, but maybe not quite so successful in getting OSX leopard to run in VMware, where i would acutally find it useful.
Here is a screencap from the thread.
If anyone can sort this out, and get leopard to install in VM on windows, please send me a message, (like by commenting) and let me know how this can be done.
Microsoft just picked up a player in the data warehousing appliance space. interesting to see how they will slot something like this into their BI stack. For those of you who don’t know much about this stuff. Microsoft has a really good set of BI Tools (analysis services, reporting services, proclarity) but their core relational database product doesn’t scale up very well.. This has more to do with it’s locking behavior than anything else… thus far, that has prevented Microsoft from getting market share in large companies that need to have thousands of users plugged into their warehouse(es)… As a byproduct, organizations that otherwise would otherwise be interested in Microsoft’s BI offering simply pass on it, since it’s “Not industrial strength”. This could change that. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this.
Mosha sounds quite excited about it… which, in my mind, makes it all sound very promising 
The battle for king of the road (Nordschleife) is heating up. It will be very interesting to see what Nissan’s response with Spec V will be. Toyota also has some tricks up it’s sleeve. I’ll stay tuned. I like the short shifts in the vette. many torques! These are really sick ring times.
I can’t wait for Top Gear to Get a hold of it.
