Things related to the Linux operating systems. Particularly prominent on things about Gentoo, my preferred flavor.
2009.11.1017:58:53 GMTSayonara, e-nibbles; hullo, Gee-Mi-NiIt's final: e-nibbles is no more. e-nibbles was my trusty Dell D600 which I purchased summer after my Junior year in college through the Student Computer Initiative. Immediately after receiving the ob
2008.03.1514:04:23 EDTMidori web browserFirst a screenshot: That was Midori, a lightweight web browser based on the Gtk+ port of the WebKit engine. As seen above, it scores an 88/100 on the Acid3 test, only behind a version of Safari that
2007.12.1102:30:48 ESTppmglobe and map of the earthSaw a question on Yahoo Answers. Decided to help the bloke out. See, he wants to make a globe. And can't find a good conformal/spherical map to cut out and paste onto the ball. So I discovered the pow
2007.08.1212:16:00 EDTFirst Vista experienceHoly macro, so that's why the Math department terminals got an upgrade! It is an arms race! Came into the cluster computer lab today (need to use Adobe Acrobat to edit some things) and found, lo and b
2007.06.1516:25:27 EDTblogOhm b0rkage in new bashOh this is fucking beautiful. I upgraded to bash-3.2 on May 18, and haven't tried using blogOhm until today. And blogOhm completely b0rked! Turns out version 3.2 changes the regexp behaviour when usin
2007.06.1516:10:19 EDTUpdate on math department SSL mail server(Updated 10:36pm: Josko [one of our compudocs] informed me that the problem seems to lie with openssl. Scroll to bottom for details.) (This is an update to this post from more than a year ago.) So rec
2007.01.0501:31:39 ESTChinese soft keyboard via XKBDOh well, since oxim won't run on my laptop, I've decided to code myself an on-screen keyboard to use with gcin. Ideally I would like to have done it with xvkbd, since its layout scheme is more elegant
2007.01.0417:40:51 ESTgcin: another Chinese XIMI've been running into some problems with XCIN: the default install is missing a few things here and there, I can't get libtabe to work (so no bimsphone module). I tried the Gentoo-Taiwan overlay, and
2006.11.1513:16:08 ESTminiHOWTO: Mathematica over Cygwin/XS wants/needs Mathematica for problem sets (apparently the professor explicitly said: "I work under the assumption that students can evaluate integrals just fine; there's no need for you to show your
2006.08.2703:37:49 EDTFvwm config upgradesHave been playing around a bit more with my Fvwm configs. Updated files and screenshots here. Some of the things that I changed: The default font is now no longer the silly default fixed-width sans s
2006.06.1300:17:20 EDTteTeX discontinuedThomas Esser, the te in teTeX, has announced that he would no longer maintain the code for teTeX, partly due to it being too time consuming and partly due to the code base being completely incorporate
2006.03.2911:23:58 ESTUpgrading laptop to Modular XModular X.org, aka X.org 7, was placed into the Gentoo testing branch just a short while back. After syncing my laptop last night (the first time so in almost 3 weeks), I decided to follow the migrati
2006.03.0213:30:06 ESTminiHOWTO: Import SSL certificate from Math departmentThis document describes how to import the Math department SSL certificate for use with fetchmail. Background. I forward all my university e-mail through the Math department server. At home, I use the
2006.02.2519:41:08 ESTAcroread slow start-upArgh. The problem with running closed-source software. Adobe's Acrobat Reader for linux, version acroread-7.0.5 and higher has a nasty problem (at least on Gentoo) with an extremely long start time (o
2006.02.1617:57:52 ESTMore on Gaming with WINEHum... funny thing: apparently WINE looks for the joystick device at /dev/js0 instead of /dev/input/js0, which was why it couldn't see my USB joystick. To get WINE working with a joystick is, apparent
2006.02.0803:27:46 ESTWINE + XvT ....... failedThis is curious. Wine 0.9.{5,6,7} would compiles with gcc 3.4.5 but would always segfault on startup. But if I switch back down to gcc 3.3.5 to compile, it seems that the program would run fine. Now a
2006.01.1222:46:23 ESTWireless problemsI had this weird problem with using the built-in IPW2200 wireless card on my Dell D600. After updating to firmware version 2.4 and ipw2200-1.0.10 with wpa_supplicant-0.5.0, the wireless stopped workin
2006.01.0703:18:09 ESTFvwmI've decided to give Fvwm a try. My config files are here. I guess I am getting bored with Enlightenment. It is customizable, but it has also tons of features/eye-candies that I don't need. For me, pr
2005.09.1222:05:17 EDTDepartment Reception; Cooking JournalToday was the reception for first year grads. I woke up earlier than usual (8:30am), showered, dressed, doodled around, had breakfast, and left home at 10:30. Got to school by 11. Spent about half an
2005.08.1822:30:24 EDTJournal (in memoriam of PG)After three months, I pulled out the ol' saxophone again. I was a bit rusty and playing with some of the up-tempo tunes was difficult for me. I should spend some time to work on my scales again. In ge
2005.08.1722:19:28 EDTJournalWoke up. Late. As usual. Surprised to find e-mail from Elika, Princeton Unix User's Group's president, announcing the coming Student Activities Fair. As usual, the P-ug has a booth (half a table long)
2005.05.1005:34:00 EDTFixing MuttMan... it took me five hours to trouble shoot this problem. So I noticed yesterday that I've stopped being able to send out e-mails in Big5 encoding. Tracing the problems back through all the content
Anime/Manga (3) News, reviews, recent purchase, thoughts, and pretty much everything about Anime and Manga.
Books (7) Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
Chinese (33) Posts written in Chinese, posts about the Chinese language or culture, or posts concerning my experience being of Chinese descent. (以中文寫作, 或是內容有關於中國語言及文化, 和我個人的華人經驗的文章.)
Creations (12) My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
German (1) Posts written in German. It will be empty for a while, until I become passable writing in German.
French (1) Posts written in French. (Les entreés écrivées en français.)
Religion (1) My thoughts about religion in general, specific news about the various religions.
Japanese (1) Posts written in Japanese. It will be sparse until my Japanese becomes better.
Linky! (55) Boing-boing-like entries which links to fun stuff I found on the web (many of them through boing-boing).
Linux (22) Things related to the Linux operating systems. Particularly prominent on things about Gentoo, my preferred flavor.
Mathematics (59) Posts about mathematics. Upcoming conferences, conference descriptions, papers I am reading, papers I am writing, pre-prints, all sorts of goodies. Also some of my thoughts about mathematical education and such.
Movies (1) Movies I saw recently. Reviews. Movies I plan to see in the future. Expectations.
Music (10) Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
Politics (7) Things that, unfortunately, I have to deal with as an American in a democratic republic, but about which I really wish I could just stop caring.