IEEE Digital Library still outrageous

I continue to be appalled at the IEEE digital library’s terms and conditions. From http://www.ieee.org/products/ieeemdl/

Find the research you need, when you need it. Subscribers can read, print and save up to 25 full-text articles each month for just $35 a month. A six-month commitment is required, and your credit card will be billed monthly.

As a full . . . → Read More: IEEE Digital Library still outrageous

Just exploring…

Poking around with stylesheets, layouts. No cause . . . → Read More: Just exploring…

As a last resort…

If the write-up and subsequent defense go poorly, I can always take advantage of those many emails I receive…

UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS OBTAIN A PROSPEROUS FUTURE, MONEY-EARNING POWER, AND THE PRESTIGE THAT COMES WITH HAVING THE CAREER POSITION YOU’VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF. DIPLOMAS FROM PRESTIGIOUS NON-ACCREDITED UNIVERSITIES BASED ON YOUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE EXPERIENCE If you qualify, . . . → Read More: As a last resort…

Penguin Jumpers!

Woot!

Penguin Jumpers – Pattern

Handknitted 4 ply




4 ply wool 1 pair No. 10 needles (old measurement)




1 pair No. 12 needles (old measurement)




With No. 12 needles cast on 50 stitches.




K10 rows in K1, P1 rib

Change to No. 10 needles and K2, P2 rib whilst increasing at the end of every row 6 times (62 stitches) then continue to . . . → Read More: Penguin Jumpers!

IEEE Digital Library: A Joke?

The ACM digital library is, in my opinion, a fair deal. I join the ACM for roughly $50/year as a student, and I gain full access to everything in the Digital Library (DL). Nothing is off-limits.

The IEEE DL, on the other hand—I have no idea what I can and cannot access with my membership. For example, . . . → Read More: IEEE Digital Library: A Joke?

I do not enjoy working on my review of literature

But I created a South Park Avatar of my housemate!

Right. Perhaps dinner . . . → Read More: I do not enjoy working on my review of literature

50,000!

Just for Matt Lavine:

fifty-thousand-bang.txt

(It turns out that MovableType can’t handle a post with the number in it. So, I had to put the number in a separate file.)

The program that generated this was actually quite short; it was written in Scheme, and if you download DrScheme, you can use it to generate your own very . . . → Read More: 50,000!

Mercy

I wrote a little Scheme script to recursively traverse directories and find out how “big” they are.

[Lyra] mcj4 > dir-size analysis/
1240389 files, 8252 directories
30GB 472MB 596KB

[Lyra] mcj4 > dir-size Music/
1918 files, 635 directories
10GB 243MB 469KB

[Lyra] mcj4 > dir-size docs/
56065 files, 2683 directories
7GB 505MB 570KB

[Lyra] mcj4 > dir-size Pictures
4211 files, 269 directories
3GB 262MB 312KB

My analysis . . . → Read More: Mercy

KGTD: Kinkless Getting Things Done

I’m watching the demo movie over at Kinkless.com regarding “Getting Things Done,” and I am amazed at this little suite of Applescripts for OmniOutliner Pro. Given that I have OOP, this looks like a really nice way to organize projects.

I’ll write more if/when I play with it in . . . → Read More: KGTD: Kinkless Getting Things Done

WordPress.com “major drive failure”

“Unforgivable?”

WordPress.com “major drive failure”:

This is unforgivable. No matter how small a hosting organisation you are (and WordPress.com couldn’t be considered small), your users data is sacrosanct. Users will tolerate occasional downtime but not loss of data.

If you use computers, and you think your data is safe anywhere, you’re confused.

If you think paying a few dollars a . . . → Read More: WordPress.com “major drive failure”