I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.… Read More »Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
When I first heard about the plans that the British Library had about an exhibitions called Science is Beautiful I got very excited. I did even make an entry in my diary about the date… Read More »Science is beautiful exhibition
Last week, in preparation for the Six Nations match of England v Wales, the BBC put out a video of Elijah Wood reading To Others Than You by Dylan Thomas. I believe it is only available from… Read More »Friend by enemy…
Optimist: Someone who figures out that taking a step backward after a steer forward is not a disaster… it’s more like a cha-cha…
The work computer of one of my colleagues has recently closed the circle and he has now a shiny new apple computer. He is very well-versed in a bunch of computer related tasks, nonetheless he… Read More »Navigating the terminal
I quite like what google have done with their Doodle for the Sochi Winter Olympics….
I am sure you, like me, have had the need to reduce the file size of a PDF. Take for example the occasional need of sending a PDF by email just to find out that… Read More »An alternative way to reduce the size of PDF in a mac
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
