I just upgraded one of my home computers to Microsoft Windows Vista Business and discovered that my Canon PowerShot G2 camera was unsupported. I hadn’t bothered to check whether my camera was supported; it seems most digital camera drivers are just glorified USB Mass Storage wrappers and support for those is generally a given.
Unfortunately, Canon’s [...]
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Penguin Meets A Huge Leech, originally uploaded by zeroion.
Perhaps the penguin represents Linux and the leech represents Microsoft, who has been “leeching” ideas from Apple and Linux. Unfortunately I didn’t have any apples in my [...]
An article posted to Linux Journal today reminded me of a recent incident where Linux saved the day. “How Linux Saved My Files and My Job” tells the story of a Windows user who used a Linux boot floppy to recover data from a damaged NTFS partition. My dad and I did the same thing [...]
Anil Dash makes an interesting observation: many nerds, at some point in their lives, have made an Excel spreadsheet documenting some aspect of their lives. Dash concludes his post by asking readers to comment about the spreadsheets they’ve made. Truly entertaining stuff.
As for myself, I made an Excel spreadsheet of my daily weight a [...]
A few days ago, Mark Pilgrim blogged about the interoperability of OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. He applauded OpenOffice for being able to open a PowerPoint document that could not be opened in its native application.
While I’ve heard many such stories, I’ve had the unfortunate luck of always being stuck in the position where OpenOffice will [...]
Wednesday…the day I normally get a 4 hour break between my two large blocks of class…
However, today I’ve had to spend my otherwise normally peaceful break doing chemistry work, reading physics, studying for math, trying to decode quantum theory, and searching for a ::real:: calculus book (linear algebra based). Ok, I’m a nerd, but I’ll [...]
Wow! crucial.com just cut the price of 1GB of notebook DDR PC2100 to $295.99 from $330. I’m waiting for the price to reach $200 so I can load up my ThinkPad T40. I’m seriously in need of more memory!
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Just under 12 hours till my EECS 20N midterm. I haven’t started studying yet (#)($#($ MATH HW), [...]
If you think I mistyped the title of this post, go watch Hackers sometime soon.
I’ve survived an all-nighter + an 8-5 day. However, I have to do physics now. ::sigh:: 3 hours and counting…
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Concentrated HCl burns. Immediately rinse in case of exposure. Cytosine + uracil can be a new way to get high.
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Cigarette smoke contains [...]
Yay! I’m back in Berkeley. However, I already miss home again. I guess I’ll have to wait another 2-3 weeks before I come back. I really can’t wait to get back too, since I’m going to Europe for winter break! But first, I must survive these last few weeks (and tests) of the Fall semester…
I [...]