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ACM SigPlan style with latex on ubuntu 26 Mar 2010 | 03:56 am
These are just some notes on how I got the ACM sigplan class style working with LyX under Ubuntu. Install class file Download class file Save in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sigplanconf.cls (mu...
How to bypass voicemail prompts 19 Feb 2010 | 08:56 am
David Pogue of the NYT has been tirelessly bugging cell phone companies to reduce the irritating messages that you must listen to before you can leave your friend a voicemail. Today, he posted some in...
New recipes posted 19 Feb 2010 | 08:28 am
Theresa had a “cooking club” meeting at my house last week. She showed us how to eat Polish Borscht (I say that because she prepared it that day before). And she showed us how to cook Gołąbki. Both we...
Video and music with XBMC, Boxee, and Windows Media Center 15 Dec 2009 | 01:10 pm
Here’s what I do today. Mostly I’m running XBMC on Linux on a computer under the TV. I get TV shows via bittorrent — mostly documentaries from PBS. I also boot into Windows 7 so that I can watch strea...
9 Gigabytes of Spam 10 Dec 2009 | 09:34 am
I run my own mailserver, for better or for worse, and I use SpamAssassin to catch spam. For years I have been tucking it away in a folder. Guess how much was there? Give up? Nine gigabytes! Thanks, sp...
Tomato 1.27 and Ubuntu Karmic 8 Dec 2009 | 11:19 am
Curious thing some of you may run into. I tried to plug a Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 linux machine into my router running Tomato 1.27, but it failed. Turns out you need to disable IPv6, since Tomato does not ...
LyX, Memoir, run-in headings 25 Nov 2009 | 01:30 pm
Here’s the magic code for your document settings -> LaTeX preamble to get run-in headings: What is a run-in heading? Normal headings are on their own line. Run-in headings have the text immediately f...
LyX and Jurabib 23 Aug 2009 | 01:15 pm
I’m writing a book, so fussy things like getting references to appear right in the text have been occupying my time unexpectedly. I use the LyX document processor, which I really enjoy for writing lon...
Adding comments to PDF's -- free 21 Aug 2009 | 11:13 am
My extensive research into the subject (i.e., googling for 30 seconds) has revealed that there are two free PDF readers (Win/Mac) that will let you add comments to PDF documents. I’ve tested them, and...
Chapter revision 7 Aug 2009 | 12:18 pm
Ok, so it doesn’t have the pizazz of a whole new chapter, but the chapter on architecture models has been seriously revamped. I changed the example that runs through the chapter and added several sect...
