Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Data Backups to DVD
Just a note to myself regarding the creation of DVD backups of my external USB hard drive.
Mount The Drive — Plug in the USB Maxtor drive and determine what device it is on using fdisk -l. Then, add the appropriate line to /etc/fstab (/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk auto […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
SpringerLink and BibTeX
This handy script can be used to generate a BibTeX entry from a SpringerLink citation. You can even save it as a bookmarklet, which is a very handy feature.
Ref: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~niu/cgi-bin/springer.cgi
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Installing LaTeX fonts for TeTeX
I spent way too much time trying to install the bbding fonts for TeTeX under Ubuntu. Sadly, the tex-live packages did not work for me. So I had to install the fonts manually. Like everything under linux, this is easy to do if you know what you’re doing. I found a […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
The Sixth Sense: Great Engineering Research
The Sixth Sense from Pattie Maes’ research group is a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. This truly inspired engineering research. Check it out here and here.


