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Cambridge Science Festival - Part Two

The Cavendish Laboratory is located in the West Cambridge Site - the newer (modern!) buildings are located in this area. It is quite a distance from the City Centre, so we drove there on our car and parked at a road nearby. It wasn’t as crowded as in the previous venue, there were plenty of [...]

Cambridge Science Festival - Part One

We are indeed privileged to be in Cambridge this year, just in time for its 800th Anniversary year. There are various events organized by the University throughout the whole year to mark the occasion. Additionally, there is also an annual event called the Cambridge Science Festival, which is held in March each year. The Science [...]

What?s That Word Again?

I was cooking dinner one evening, and my sweet daughter Aya was helping me in the kitchen. Out of the blue, she asked me, "Nanay, what does bitch mean?" I was taken aback, and immediately I worried about where exactly she had heard that word. Did she hear one of her classmates or friends say it [...]

Balance vs. Mediocrity

I’ve been thinking a lot on how I can possibly apply some of the ideas I’ve learned at the women’s forum I attended late last month. I chose two workshops to attend in that forum, one of them was on assertiveness, and the other one was on work-life balance. One of the things I learned [...]

Ingglisera

"Why did the banana go to the doctor?" my six-year-old daughter asked me one day. Startled, I replied, "Well, why don’t you tell me?" Grinning from ear to ear, she excitedly said, "Because he was not peeling well!" This was followed by loud girly giggles. Wow, I thought to myself. Did she just tell me a [...]

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Debugging with gdb

GDB is the GNU project debugger which can be very helpful when you’re trying to figure out what goes wrong in the application you’re developing. With gdb, you can start a program, specify points or conditions where the program’s execution will be stopped so that you can examine its current condition, and experiment correcting values [...]

All about SVN

Subversion (or SVN) is an open source version control system that can be used to maintain several versions of files such as program source codes, webpages, and other documentation. It has several features including most CVS features, versioned copy, delete, renames, etc. Most Linux installations already include SVN so that you can use it immediately [...]

Generating self-signed certificate using ADT to sign AIR applications

To package an Adobe AIR application using ADT (AIR Developer Tool), a certificate is needed. Digitally signing your application with a certificate from a recognized certificate authority identifies you as the publisher. It also provides assurance to users that your application has not been accidentally or maliciously altered. For these purposes, you can get a [...]

Installing NinfG version 5

NinfG is an open source grid middleware which provides a programming framework for grid-based remote procedure calls (GridRPC). It is a reference implementation of the GridRPC API (application programming interface), allowing programmers to create applications that can call procedures/executables installed on remote computers. In particular, it provides client library APIs that can be used to [...]

Using SSH for Passwordless Remote Login

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol allowing secure data exchanges between two networked devices. It is designed to replace Telnet, which sends information over the network in plain text making it susceptible to interception or eavesdropping. SSH, on the other hand, provides secure communication by encrypting the data sent over the network. It [...]