Tweets per Hour about "Swine Flu"

This is my newest Statistic about Twitter. I’m using Twitter for some weeks now and I’m impressed by the … textflow.
It reminds of Google Trends which covers a much longer period than this. But that’s Twitter. One day on Google is one hour on Twitter.

So this is about how many Tweets are posted about “Swine Flu” (per Hour). Written in PHP (Cli) and stored in SQLite (cool!), imported to OO.Calc, exported to PDF, converted to PNG => here it is.

I will therefore probably clean the whole blog from old posts and just keep essential or latest posts.

I lately worked on a mysql db containing the whole freedb for school (teaching php ). First we just wanted a simple database for doing some SQL Stuff, but there are serious statistics you can dump!

Here’s an example: I just throwed the following SQL:
SELECT year AS Year, count( * ) AS Count, AVG( track_count ) AS Tracks FROM `cds` WHERE year >1950 AND year <2010 AND track_count >5 GROUP BY year

And this is what turned out:

Development of Music Industry

You can easily see how the whole music industry grew since 1950, but you can see the crisis as well, just look at the data after 2005 (filesharing getting big). This is probably another effect, beside cd sells: less cd’s are produced then estimated!

And adressing the track count: i always had the feeling the overall track count of my cd’s is getting smaller each year… but this is obviously not true.

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Okay, just a side note:
I’m now twittering on twitter.com/ireemo ! Follow me and my experiments with the Arduino, a microcontroller fully based on opensource layouts and so on.
Curious about putting AvrX on it!

Finally i can give my iPod Nano to my brother. The x5 is famous for its great sound quality, apart from that the original f/w supports playing FLAC and some other lossless formats.

Anyway, since the original f/w is slower than i tought, i switched to rockbox. Great f/w, much potential and: theme support Since most of the available themes were broken (and me being ill atm) i created an own theme from scratch, released under CC-by-sa license. Here it is:

You can download and modifiy it here: iReemo X5 Theme

Leave me a comment about it, or modify it to fit your needs

Reemo

Update: 0.2 is available iReemo X5 Theme 0.2

Its great to create some kind of raw mask for your application. Even it threw some errors first (had to correct some mistakes in the generated Perl code) it creates quite clean code.

I will use it for my Jukebox Project, in which i made a major step forward today: Sound works. Okay, not good, i have to dump mpg123 stdout to /dev/dsp via pipe, anything else doesnt work, but anyway, i have sound (Alice Cooper was the first song )

Another thing: I had to search like hours for a useful documentation for wxperl. Maybe useful for others: wxWidgets Doc is useful even for wxperl.

Ahh, and I set up a SVN Repo today. I will post further information if some useful software finds its way to it.

1. Chilling with some pals (and a PS³ and a subwoofer greater than my 22″ lcd)
2. Watching Scrubs (Season 1 to 5)
3. Setting up Debian on a battery-damaged non USB bootable non cdrom drive Fujitsu Biblo B112 Lifebook

Since it was just capable of booting from floppy i had to use the debian floppies. After like 2-3 Hours with errors like (attention: keyword!) pcmcia: unknown symbol release_firmware etc. I switched from Debian Lenny Install Floppies to Etch. And hooray, it works!

But its annoying to do a dist-upgrade to lenny with a 10mbit nic, a 233mhz cpu and 160Megs of stupid slow SDRAM. Anyway, it runs with Fluxbox.

The touchscreen (its like the grandfather of a hybride of the GeCube Genie Senior and my EeePC) is hard to configure, if anyone knows a good calibration gui, please tell me

So, I plan to use it as a jukebox for parties. Therefore I need the following:

• A way to disable gui stuff for closing windows, maximising them, almost everything.
• An audioplayer which has the following features:
  • Comfortable Song Index which can be used only with touchscreen
  • Queueing songs in a queue
  • A Perl API? (That would be… greatest)
  • Lightweight

If you have any idea to solve my issues, please drop me a comment.

Now that you got a local apt mirror… why not use it on all linux machines?

Install was quite easy. Kernel 2.6.24 runs fine aswell. Compiz doesnt, nor does screensaver. But thats nothing I hadnt have with ubuntu.

Maybe I’ll retry Ubuntu 8. But never 7.10 again.

I use gtk-window-decorator, the whole gconf stuff was new to me and emerald isnt in official repos atm

Anyway,  i just installed gnome-themes and restarted gtk-window-decorator.

And now i have a nice desktop. Human/Clearlooks is just a nice theme.

I will have to pay:

• 8€ for Processing my order
• 18€ for delivery
• 6€ for the rcpt thing (10x)
• 2€ for the header thing (10x)

Thats a total of 34€ for just 20 tiny little pieces of plastic. Great. I will think about that.

The solution:

The webcam uses USB and I (and some others) think, that the feature of disabling it (echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera) disables the whole usb port, so this is the perfect way to disable your gadgets when you want to save some energy.

I already bought a small usb hub and the Hama Nano Bluetooth Stick, so I’m quite ready to go.

But theres one thing left, maybe someone can help me. I would like not to cut the cable to the camera, so I am looking for the same jack the camera chip has so i can solder it on the usb hub instead of that MiniUSB Port. Addiitonal i would need the same connector which is on the cable to the camera for connecting the camera back to the usb hub.

Today i opened the display chassis and made some photos of this jack (which, whats confusing me, has a 5wire jack, but just 4 (the usual usb’s) cables connected). Camera model is eMPIA 2760. There’s no datasheet for this on eMPIA’s official website.

Update: parag0n from #eeepc (freenode) says its a JST SR Jack. Even he says its a 04 i believe its a 05 since those for the camera are definitely 5wires. So the next thing is to find a reseller selling those.

Anyway, thank you for your help, maybe this informations can help others modding their EeePC