Monthly Archives: January 2007

I find it funny how this myth of an all powerful “hackers” that can break into any computer anywhere at any time is about as prevalent as the myth of super-spy. Most of us has really no idea of how … Continue reading →

Anyone knows what in the hell is going on? Do I still get revenue for clicks and page views while their site is down? Because Google adds are still showing up on my site… Was this scheduled, or did one … Continue reading →

I saw this flier pined on a bulletin board outside of the Computer Science Department at MSU the other day: At first I thought this might be a Computer Science class on translation algorithms. That would actually be kinda cool … Continue reading →

You probably know this already but let me reiterate this for you: The Pirate Bay – a group of Swedish torrent tracker operators, webmasters, and the founders of the first Pirate Party in the world want to buy Sealand – … Continue reading →

Someone asked me today about Playstation emulators. I actually still own a PS1 – there is probably like a 3 inch layer of dust on the laser lens, but I still have it somewhere in the house. So I never … Continue reading →

One of the web applications I maintain stores md5 hashes in the database, instead of the actual passwords. This is a good practice – passwords are not stored in plain text, and knowing the has still does not give you … Continue reading →

It’s always interesting to see other people’s desktops – the choice of wallpaper, and the visible icons tell a story about who you are, and what are you into. Here is mine: click to view full size This is from … Continue reading →

I just noticed how busy the My Computer directory on my windows box got lately. I didn’t even realize it: click to enlarge Can you beat me in the number of drives/partitions/devices showing up in your My Computer? [tags]my computer, … Continue reading →

If you know this anime you get 10 geek points: youtube link It’s reeealy old. On top of that, if you watched the Italian dub, with subtitles or lector you get another 10 geek points – cause that’s how I … Continue reading →

Randoms screenshot of the stuff I’m currently working on: click to enlarge The scrolling text on the left side is the output being generated on one of the test machines at school. It is running in a screen session, and … Continue reading →

When you insert an image into your latex document you can rotate, and resize it it at the same time. It is useful, especially if you are importing a full page postscript graph that has a landscape layout: \begin{figure} \centering … Continue reading →

I’m at loss for words: img © sam.zoy.org From the site: Wiibrator is a small Python application that interfaces the Wii’s Wiimote and the PS2’s Trancevibrator. Hours of fun for the kids! So, I’m thinking… This may help us in … Continue reading →

I was watching some move on TV in which one of the characters is an author struggling to finish his novel under a strict deadline from a publisher. Naturally you see him typing it away on his laptop in a … Continue reading →

Ever wondered how would Simpsons look if they were made in Japan? Here you go: img © spacecoyote How about Futurama? img © satomi-chan Or an alternate version: img © spacecoyote I don’t know about you, but I found these … Continue reading →

This is the first time I see these: found on the internets; author unknown If you can’t figure out what it is, here is some much needed education for you. [tags]tachikoma, tachikoma plushie, plushie, ghost in the shell, gts, toys[/tags]

One of my users suddenly started experiencing this problem on their WinXP SP2 laptop. During system startup they would get the following error message: Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba . A problem caused Windows Defender Service to stop. To start … Continue reading →

If you need to delete massive amounts of text in Vi try these next time: <d><G> deletes everything below the cursor <d><1><G> deletes everything above the cursor. <d>/foo deletes everything till the next occurence of foo And finally: <m><a> and … Continue reading →

Dreamhost is having it’s monthly hiccups again. I swear – it’s like clockwork. I’m starting to wonder if maybe they are using a cron job to reboot my server every 20 days or so. :P They seem to have resolved … Continue reading →

I came up with this mnemonic device to remember the most important screen command line switches: We Start with capital -S because we want to Specify a name for our Session. We rapidly reattach a screen session with lowercase -r … Continue reading →

So far the most efficient task tracking, and scheduling tool I have found is a notebook. This is the truth. The thing about online calendars and todo lists is that I can’t get into habit of using them… Ever. I … Continue reading →

I just did a batch of test runs of my NMF code, and I noticed that I forgot to capture the elapsed execution time in the code for the projected gradient approach. I also forgot to use the time command … Continue reading →

Holly crap! This movie looks amazing: direct link: 300 trailer on youtube I never read Frank Miller’s graphic novel on which this movie is based, but I think pretty much everyone knows the basic story here. 300 brave spartan warriors … Continue reading →