Wednesday, October 25, 2006
There was an article today at Linux.com that reviews various screenshot programs available for Linux. What it doesn’t tell you, is how to take screenshots painlessly in Linux. Let me try and do that. Since I use a Mac, I’m quite used to the Mac OS X way – Command+Shift+3 takes a full screenshots and [...]
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Apple has been flaunting the advantages of Mac over Windows for quite a while now, be it using the “get a mac” ad campaign or via their cheeky (if not totally irresponsible) comments that Windows security is partly to blame for the virus that shipped with a few fifth generation iPods. Not to mention their [...]
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Is the solution to this apparent to you? Given this piece of C++ code: // definitions (a and b are primitive types) a = b+1; if (a == b+1) cout
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
<Goat25> what is the volume of a pizza of radius z and thickness a ? <Goat25> answer: pi z z a How much better can bash get?
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Arstechnica has a preview of the Zune: on the rear of each Zune, in small inscription on the bottom next to the serial number, is a message: “Hello from Seattle.” Maybe this is just irrational, Microsoft-dreading old me, but this one really freaks me out!
Thursday, October 5, 2006
When you buy Windows Vista, you’ll be purchasing a product that is, to borrow a phrase from the anti-DRM guys, defective by design. Microsoft announced enhanced anti-piracy measures for Windows Vista today. If Vista detects a pirated computer, it will lock down your system to a reduced functionality mode after a certain amount of time. [...]
I keep my everything related to my research in a Subversion repository for easy versioning. Originally, the repository was located at a remote server in MIT (to which I have access thanks to SMA). Recently, though, accessing this through the NUS network has become really slow. There’s nothing more painful while doing work than waiting [...]
Last Friday, after exactly 5 weeks, I finally got my new Powerbook battery. I guess Apple gets their estimates right – they’d said it would take 4 – 6 weeks! An interesting observation – during the five weeks of torture, I so wanted to buy a new laptop. I was nearly at the edge of [...]
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