A few days ago I saw this on reddit, linking to a well-written article about genetic algorithms (GA):
Genetic algorithms are a mysterious sounding technique in mysterious sounding field—artificial intelligence. This is the problem with naming things appropriately. When the field was labeled artificial intelligence, it meant using mathematics …
From Google Blogoscoped:
Google has released something to the open source world they call the Native Client. It is meant as a way for website developers to execute rich code faster within the browser… by having it run “natively” on the computer. This could help any program needing fast graphics …
I’ve been hearing some good things about Arch Linux lately, and I wanted to see how it compares to Ubuntu, which I’ve been using for a few years now. I loaded up a new VMWare virtual machine and mounted the iso. Let’s see how this goes…
I …
A while ago I posted on this blog how you could resolve the “Insufficient page file space” problem in Sacrifice. Since then a few people have emailed me, saying that the fix described in that post does not longer work. After trying various things with various people (thanks for all …
I love Virtualbox, it’s definitely my virtualization platform of choice for daily tasks [1] on a Linux-host, and it’s quickly replacing VMware on Windows hosts as well.
However, recently I had to expand a virtual partition of a Windows guest. There are already lots of options and methods …
Note to self, if you can’t find your installed ODBC-driver. It might be because you installed a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit system. Try looking in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
That’s all.
Wanted to play an Realmedia file? Installed w32codecs? Now Totem is freezing your Ubuntu Hardy? And by freezing, I mean: you can move the mouse, nothing else works, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no ctrl-alt-F1.
Then do the following:
I got to confess something: I love Muxtape! Did you know there is a userscript which lets you download the songs? It’s not encouraged though…
I’ve been trying to learn Shell Scripting. So I decided: why not make a Muxtape downloader. This is my first shell script (longer …
I recently tried to install the Nokia Software Updater, but it gave me this error:
Error 1935. An error occured during the installation of assembly component{303994BA-6487-47AE-AF1D-7AF6088EEBDB}.
Quick research showed that this had something to do with MSXML 4.0. So I went here and downloaded …
Just found this, pretty handy!
// browser detection
var isIE = document.all;
var isIE7 = isIE && window.XMLHttpRequest && window.ActiveXObject;
var isIE6 = isIE && document.implementation;
var isgteIE6 = isIE7 isIE6;
var isIE5 = isIE && window.print && !isgteIE6;
var isIEDOM2 = isIE5 isgteIE6;
var isIE4 = isIE && !isIEDOM2 && navigator.cookieEnabled;
var isIE3 = isIE && !isIE4 && !isIEDOM2;
var isNS …