Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

EasyEclipse

I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html

Development Environment

I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]

Memory simulator done, C# TreeView trick, TF2 + Wine + Susanna = win

Today I finished aggregating the data from the Python memory simulator logs into CSV files, and plotted the data. The graph can be viewed here. As you can see, there is a worst-case, normal-case, and best-case set of data, each corresponding to a page-removal algorithm. I think for a first program in Python, while it’s [...]

Knowledge

I recently reflected several differences in my knowledge:

My desire to know everything about computers, networks, and security, and what I actually know
In that context, what X is needed to know before learning Y

I want to know all there is to know in these areas, and in thinking about this desire, I realize that there are [...]

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Triple Boot

So there are a lot of triple-boot tutorials available on the net (most noteably ubuntu’s wiki), and they do a really good job of addressing most details. However, there is one snag that is missing from all of these tutorials, and it can trip up people if you don’t know what it means or how [...]