Access Linux Partitions from Windows

4 09 2009

Simply googling led me to so many alternatives; but only one worked for accessing my Kubuntu 8.10 partition from my Windows XP: http://www.ext2fsd.com/

So long procrastination*!

*) You know, wandering your mind while rebooting from Windows to Linux and back is some sort of procrastination…





Virtually virtual

18 03 2008

For poor experimentalists who don’t have enough money to buy a lot of computers, but yet still want to do experiments with computer networking, there’s a way to build a virtual network which runs on one computer only. Check out this page.

And if it’s not enough, I mean, if these experimentalists are too lazy to setup a dedicated computer to run the experiments, the virtual network can also be built on a virtual machine! Check it out here. That is, virtual network running on virtual computers… hah!

But don’t get too excited, this bunch of virtual-computers-in-a-network-which-runs-on-a-virtual-machine are, for obvious reason, useless for high performance computing (a.k.a cluster-based supercomputer) =)





Google Almighty

17 12 2007





Securing PDF files

23 11 2007

Our recent experience showed that it is pretty easy for industrial copyright violation to take place. One step that we took to at least minimize the risk of having our rights from being violated was to secure the PDF documents that we distribute, by restricting the rights of contents extraction and printing.

I found that there’s a free tool called Pdftk to do this. It seems to have quite a lot of features. The interface, however, is not so intuitive, as we need to do everything via command-line. Do you have any experience with other similar tools?





LaTeX Cross Reference

22 11 2007

For anyone who’s STILL using LaTeX, keep this in your mind:

LABEL MUST BE PUT AFTER CAPTION, OTHERWISE YOUR CROSS-REFERENCE NUMBER WILL BE WRONG!!

Read also this FAQ.