Author Archives: Ean

Hello,

I am Ean Bowman. I am a Computer Science student and I live and work in Peterborough, Ontario.

I am interested in many things. My tastes are so varied that this site may seem a bit disorganized sometimes. I’ll try to curb that as much as I can.

If you enjoy what you see feel free to leave a comment.

If you’re a hater just go to someone else’s site. ;)

Cheers

Chinese 7″ ARM Netbook running Android

So I bought a crazy 7″ Windows CE netbook from ebay just for something to hack around with. One day I came across this recovery image which can re-write your netbook’s flash to boot Android OS 1.6. Well I just had to try it out, so I did. I found in the ZIP file you …

August 22nd, 2010 – 3:57 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)

Free Public WiFi

One day I decided to take my 11 megabit 802.11b access point by Belkin with me to school. This was in 2004/2005. When I set up the network I made it an ad-hoc network called Free Public WiFi. I wanted to give my laptop access, and students as well who had laptops with WiFi. The …

August 15th, 2010 – 12:47 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (1)

Portfolio Piece: ExpoDisplays.ca

I’m still a proud of this one. Design is by Corby Simpson and the PHP custom CMS and front end coding is all me. It was a fun project to work on, and not terribly complex but it looks nice.

August 5th, 2010 – 12:35 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Fair and Balanced Copyright for Canada

This is an open letter from my good friend Ryan Oram to the lawmakers in Canada reposted with permission: The recording industry has begun to astroturf to get support for Bill C-32 and the digital lock provisions. http://balancedcopyrightforcanada.ca/ http://www.facebook.com/balancedcopyright The Minister of Heritage has also called everyone against the bill “radical extremists”. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/23/copyright-heritage-minister-moore.html http://video.itworldcanada.com/?bcpid=7044989001&bctid=101481423001 —– …

June 24th, 2010 – 3:52 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Unfair Use

I think one important point the film makes is about mashups. Many of my favourite songs are mashups. Here are some examples by a guy who goes by the name of Pogo: Toyz Noise: Upular: Bangarang: And of course, Alice ( I can’t find Pogo’s copy anymore. Was it deleted? ):

June 17th, 2010 – 9:40 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)