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As maybe the observant reader can see, I’ve chickend out and replaced my old blog system, pyblosxom, with wordpress. Just me being waay to lazy [ READ MORE ]
Just came over this one: Sixty Symbols from the Uni. of Nottingham. Basically, it’s a collection of 5 minutes youtube videos where scientists talks about a mathematical symbol / constant of their choice And it’s really not as boring as it sounds like. They even have rockets under η [ READ MORE ]
In order to provide the CUDA developer with a low level programming language without exposing any of the underlying instruction set, NVIDIA have given us, the developers, the option to program in PTX ( Parallel Thread eXecution ). The PTX being somewhat similar to “assembly code” in structure opens up a new set of features to the developer, which [ READ MORE ]
So, I’m going to kick off my new mac category by recommending a new recommendation for a nice app for OsX. Usually, I’m a fond user of VLC when it comes to playing my media. However, it seems like the newest version has some bugs in it, notably some problems with some files. Thus I was trying to [ READ MORE ]
So, last week I went with some of my fellow Ph.D students to Acaces, which is a summer school for computer architects and compiler designers. Here we could meet up with a lot of other students and industry people from the rest of the world, to build network and learn stuff in classes. Needless to say, I had a [ READ MORE ]
So, a couple of weeks ago I posted a entry on how to make your favorite mail client ( MUTT ) read HTML mails, using links. Now for most mails that works just fine, but I seemed to have some problems with certain character sequences. Now, I did some playing around, only to figure out that the easiest thing [ READ MORE ]
So, first some background. This weekend the Americans introduced their DST. Well, not everybody did but most parts of the United States as well as Canada. This as always quite confusing to the big masses. Now as a part of my personalized Google search thing, I’ve added the hot trends application. All in hope that it will some day [ READ MORE ]
So, I feel this one is worth bloging about . Yesterday, we had a power outage at the university. And with no power to drive our computers, the only sane thing would be to sit and drink coffee. But making coffee without power is somewhat of a challenge. However, as Ph.D students, we are expected to solve the [ READ MORE ]
Seeing how I’m lately have grown more and more involved into the OpenGraphics project, I’ve started a separate blog category for it. For those unaware of the OpenGraphics project, we’re trying to create an open graphics board. At the moment we’re close to having the Verilog down for the two main chips, just some infrastructure and testing left. And [ READ MORE ]
Well, there’s a lot of people sending HTML mails out there. And it’s starting to get annoying not being able to read them in our favorite mail client, Mutt. Now, I know, mails being sent in HTML format are usually not worth reading, but here’s a quick how-to anyways. in your .mailcap file put something like this: text/html;links %s; nametemplate=%s.html text/html;links [ READ MORE ]