I have a 24 hour programming competition tomorrow! Can’t wait. It’s called IEEEXtreme
Programming competition tomorrow!
October 22nd, 2009Ubuntu “Checking Battery State” hang
April 12th, 2009If your system hangs on “Checking Battery State” while doing updates you can look for the process that is trying to start the acpi subsystem by doing a ps aux | grep acpi
the line should look something like this:
root 25873 0.0 0.1 4012 1504 pts/1 S+ 20:48 0:00 /bin/bash /etc/init.d/acpi-support start
That second line is the PID (process id) to kill that process you just need to issue sudo kill 25873
Of course, the PID on your system will differ from 25873.
Right-brain math
April 8th, 2009I think that how come people on reddit talked about foiiling was related to right brainness. Specifically, they mentioned that they would first do many (a few?) of the problems and then after a while their brain (I’m considering this their right brain) simply did the calculation for them and they had trouble doing it in the L-mode (rather than r-mode = right-brain mode). This makes sense because the right brain is non verbal and they did not quite understand how they were getting the answser (because r-mode is unable to verbalize information).
Right brain correlation with handwriting
April 8th, 2009I wonder what the correlation of handwriting is with right brainness. I think that if someone is more in-touch with their right brain (heavy right brainness if you want to get technical 
) than they have neater handwriting. I think this goes well with some theories that I have read because being able to use both hands (ambidextrous) is more prevalent amoung (intelligient) people. Of course I am just remembering these theories/facts out of my memory which is of course inherently unreliable since every read is a write.
Satellite Radio is doomed
February 28th, 2009Satellite radio is only a temporary solution to the problem of radio-wherever-you-want-it. It will soon be superceded by streaming internet ala iPhone. With this kind of service you can simply get your music fix from the internet instead of going through a third-party like Sirius. Sirius is doomed.
Quote
January 28th, 2009Everything is relative — and thats why you need to know what it’s relative to.
I just semi-made up this quote.
Dreams
January 13th, 2009I am not a dreamer.
Simple way to use Gmail with Mutt over IMAP
November 2nd, 2008mutt -f imaps://youraccount@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com
That’s all there is to it. There must be other more intricate ways of doing it, but that is the simplest one. No I just need to learn how to use Mutt.
How to change the Window Manager in KDE4
October 29th, 2008To change the window manager is very similar if not the same as in KDE3. The major step is to export KDEWM=”your-window-manager” General instructions can be found at http://developer.kde.org/~seli/kdewm/
But instead of doing the exporting in ~/.profile as mentioned in that article you should put it in ~/.kde/env/*.sh so for example you could name your file kdewm.sh and make it’s path ~/.kde/env/kdewm.sh
Unfortunately it does not work straight off the bat with the Awesome window manager. Does anyone know how to get it working?