Tag: software
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Bouncy bouncy
When my housemate told me of his scheme for constructing a physics simulation, I did the only decent thing I could. I stole his idea. I turned to my copy of Serway and Beichner (a ~1600 page physics book that I keep under my pillow for just such emergencies) and sat down to work out…
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Corporate websites
Trawling through the sites of three hundred or so ICT companies gives you a new perspective of capitalism. It’s a perspective I could have done without. It’s not the graphics-heavy sites, or the menus that pop up in inconvenient places, or the occasional horrifying overuse of flash. It’s the way in which corporate PR people…
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Window focusing
The user interface of OS X has many things to commend it. Its click-to-focus function is not one of them. OS X, by design apparently, lacks a click-through capability. As far as I can tell there is no way to enable it. This generally means that when you click on a window to select it,…
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Cron just keeps going and going…
What happens when you set a cron job to run every fifteen minutes, generating mail, and then leave the computer in the hands of someone who doesn’t know what a cron job is? 266MB and 54500 messages stuck in a mail directory that would never be read. Today it was turned off, and all trace…
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How does this experiment work?
Statistics. It all seems to easy until you have to do it. No worries Dave, I confidently assured myself as I fitted the last details of my delicate experimental design into place, all set to be unleashed on as many undergraduates as I had chocolate to bribe. Now all I have to do is plug…