Tag Archives: computer

tools-hnb,xpdf, and ratpoison

So I’m going to try to be a little more disciplined in posting about ways in which I use the computer. In this post, I very briefly describe the combined use of xpdf, hnb, and ratpoison. For a long time, I’ve been looking for a good method of reading, notetaking, brainstorming, and organizing. In addition [...]
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Bare Ruined Choirs

(I wrote a bit about this earlier in the year, in a post with ‘electric sheep‘ in the title.) More on Kurzweil. I was thinking about standards and web standards. I just finished css/htmling a page for a site and I thought about how basic my ‘look’ is (you can see it here, it’s for [...]
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finally transferred to new server

Exciting stuff here. My server transfer is finally totally over. Well, my wordpress admin editing panel is still really weird looking, but everything else is good. I can now upload images again into posts. yay! The photo gallery now works again. yay! That all I’ve got to say. yay!
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computer movements

This is some of the new software/plugins I’m using: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex- I installed it on a windows laptop using the wubi tool. It basically completely automates a ubuntu linux install on a dualboot system, so now I have windows and ubuntu installed, without partitioning. (It’s slightly different, really. The Ubuntu installation is on a [...]
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Learning about Dijkstra

I’ve been reading some of the papers of Edsger W. Dijkstra, who was most recently a member of the computer science faculty at Univ. Texas- Austin. The title of this post links to a great archive of his work, both in text form and in .pdf’s of original hand-written stuff.He was very concerned with the [...]
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