The government is trying to ram through an anti-Internet set of electronic surveillance laws that will invade your privacy and cost you money. The plan is to…

About two months ago I bought a Solomon SL-30 from a1parts.com, the online store for A1 Electronics here in Toronto. I chose that station after a lot of research, despite not being familiar with the name. This review is not based on a series of cleverly designed test, but just my day-to-day use of the station for soldering connectors, wires and even a little PCB work.

Recently, I’ve been getting a few of people wanting to use tfreq, autocorrelation and vibrational density of states to analyse data from CPMD. tfreq is written to process output from Quantum-ESPRESSO‘s cp.x output. The two options are to modify the source file tfreq.c to read the new input, which could be difficult for someone inexperienced [...]

In case you don’t already know, the big Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Canada want to start billing Internet usage by the byte. Anyone with a smart phone is familiar with this system. For anyone who lives on the Internet, as most twenty-somethings and younger tend to do these days, this could easily become prohibitively expensive.

One day before the release of Ubuntu 11.04, I decided to reformat my netbook a day early. I was really disappointed to find that Natty is still stuck in the past with TeX Live 2009… I’ve avoided doing a manual install of TeX Live 2010 because I’ve imagined as being such a pain in the ass. But to my surprise, it was pretty simple.

I usually go to sleep listening to gnaural or watching old TV shows on the computer beside my bed (which my wife just loves). Rather than have it running all night, I’d rather have my computer sleep after a certain time.

Here’s a simple (Bash) script to do just that.

A few of my students are having trouble using Maple to pull off a quadratic approximation. I wanted to post a little code to help them along.

Proof positive that you just can’t run from the cops… Even if you have a time machine.