06.25.10 - 03:34pm
I ran into a conflict between two LaTeX packages when writing my thesis. Both the hyperref and cleveref are useful packages for automatically dealing with references in a document.
Hyperref is a TeX package for making documents with live links in PDF and HTML output formats. This places automatic links for \ref{} and \cite{} commands into [...]
01.18.10 - 03:36pm
Cliff Click from Azul Systems gives a talk on one of my favourite subjects, Computer Architecture. He looks at the difficulty of predicting performance on modern x86 CPUs.
01.10.10 - 09:37pm
Turing’s Cathedral is an interesting look at computing at the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s proposal for the digital computer. It cover aspects of computational models, biology, AI and the growing wealth of knowledge on the internet.
The quotes below show how we have far exceeded the original expectations of computation. Even though we are [...]
10.26.09 - 10:40pm
Q: Why did the programmer call his mother long distance?
A: Because that was her name.
06.21.09 - 08:56am
Computing Then is an interesting look into the past of computing. With much focus on the “now” of computing and electronics, this is a nice break. I always enjoy the 16 & 32 years ago column in the IEEE Computer publication. I remember 16 years ago quite vividly but alas I am not 32 yet. [...]
05.26.09 - 11:02am
Dynamic range compression is a technique used by audio engineers to optimise the distribution of frequencies in a mix. In popular music it is often abused, resulting in a flat and overly loud sound. An audio engineer applies some static parameters of threshold, knee, compression ratio, attack, delay and gain based on the typical listening [...]
01.24.09 - 07:06am
# uptime
06:01:30 up 509 days, 6:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Now that I have passed the 500 day mark I can bring myself to install a new distro. Time to say good bye to Slackware after 14 years and replace it with noobuntu server. Package management just seems easier. This is my last [...]
10.29.08 - 01:44am
Today I gave a presentation within my research group at QUT. It discusses the submissions I made for the XML Mining track at INEX 2008. This required classifying documents based on previously known examples (classification). Another task required grouping similar documents together with no prior information other than the documents themselves (clustering). I also looked [...]
06.06.08 - 02:40pm
Here is my brand spanking new 50″ plasma TV. It is the Samsung PS50P91FDX. I have been happy with it so far. The video quality is awesome and it replaces my AV receiver as the audio and video switching device. It does HDMI, component, composite and vga where as the receiver only switched component. According [...]
04.23.08 - 04:35pm
I am sharing my favorite news stories via Google Reader. This is one of the many nice features of the product. Hope you find them interesting.