(This is the first part in the University Of Waterloo CS Club Tron Challenge post series. You can find the second part here.)
The Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo is currently organizing an AI challenge, sponsored by Google. I’m (as always) a bit late with my …
Update: see herefor a new version which works on the new steam site.
Using Python and Beautiful Soup. Just a quick (ugly) script thrown together for future reference.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
import re
import codecs
html_text = urlopen('http://store.steampowered.com/search/?advanced=0 …Recently, I had to give a presentation and wanted to use a “presenter screen”, allowing to view a clock, current and next slide, and slide notes on my laptop screen. Of course, the audience only sees the current slide fullscreened on the projector screen.
Powerpoint comes with this option built-in …
So I just got this mail in my inbox:
Needless to say, I was pretty surprised, I didn’t know Steam accounts could expire. Sure enough the e-mail looks legit, it’s mailed from support@steam.com, didn’t get caught by Gmail’s spam filter, and the corporate footer …
Legacy note: this program was pretty popular around 2010-2012, but now has fallen out of use, since most games have been patched to prevent this issue. The source code and last binary release have been moved to GitHub, as Google was thinking it was malware and flagging my blog.
A few days ago I got my hands on one of these:
A Tetris Cube. Twelve pieces, and a box of 4 by 4 by 4. Your task: to put the pieces neatly in the box again. The box said there are more than 9000 solutions, but I knew nonetheless …
There are two things I currently not like about Ubuntu or Linux in general: the whole sound mess, and the whole graphics mess (but both are getting better). This problem is about the first mess.
Skype was working perfectly in Interprid, now in Jaunty it was telling me that there …
So, you’ve just gotten yourself two .iso’s for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (your backups, of course), which you want to play in Wine. What do you do?
That’s easy, you say:
sudo mkdir /media/isoimag
sudo mount -o loop ./cd1.iso /media/isoimage
And start the …
(This is part 6 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)
Tabu search is not really “modern” anymore, but still widely used nonetheless.
The pseudocode …