If you want an excellent introduction into Java 3D, look no further than here. I was following the tutorial I found there to get started with what looked to me as the perfect way of spending a Friday evening, when, somewhere at the end, it told me that: (…) it does not mix very well [...]
Last weekend, I bought an Asus Pro36s notebook, also known as a U36JC. It features a quad core 64 bit Intel Core i5-2410M CPU at 2.3 Ghz, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, a 500 GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce GT 520M video adaptor. It weighs less than 1.5 kilos (that’s including batteries) and is [...]
Another Boinc milestone for me: 250.000 points. According to Boincstats, about half of that I got for calculations for the Docking@Home project. In the last week, this is even 93%: From their website: Docking@Home is a project which uses Internet-connected computers to perform scientific calculations that aid in the creation of new and improved medicines. [...]
Between 2004 and 2008 I used to work for a lab of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, where scientists crystallised proteins to be able model them. Crystallization is a neat way of lining them up perfectly. This is necessary because they are so small that if you measure just one of them, you don’t get a [...]
Today, I found this in my mail: The “success kit” included a lifetime membership card for (…) an elite group of Oracle Certified Professionals (…) And I had hoped for a coffee pack But still. Excellent.
According to the Geek Zodiac, I am an Undead, since I was born in 1976. I am apparently soulful, transcendental and know the value of all life. I am also haunted, tormented and have difficulty connecting to humanity. Obviously, this is utter nonsense. I am clearly a Robot: law-abiding, dedicated and logical as well as [...]
I got a new phone. It’s my first real smart phone, it has Android and two CPU cores. I like it. It’s an LG Optimus 2x and it looks like this: I like it for having a Linux kernel, a big screen, a 3.5 mm earphone jack, convenient volume buttons, a slick design and because [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about Scry, a PHP photo publishing script that I basically like for the same reasons I like my favorite Linux distribution: simplicity and elegance make it easy to use and to maintain. To make things even easier, tonight I wrote a small bash script that allows me to publish a collection of [...]
For some time now I’ve been meaning to write about Arch, the Linux distribution I’ve been using for almost a year now. Today I stumbled onto an old OSNews article, which perfectly describes my feelings on Arch. The article is in fact from 2004, but if you replace Mozzila-firebird in the text with Firefox, it [...]
Whenever I do something or go out with family or friends, I usually take lots of pictures. And so do they, at least some of them. Afterwards, we are often interested in each other’s pictures, so I usually collect them all to show them to everyone. But that is easier said than done. I have [...]
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