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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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Installing Youtube Direct

Youtube Direct is a new tool from Google/Youtube that makes it easier for media organizations or websites to request users to submit video clips, review submitted clips, and possibly re-broadcast these clips, just like CNN?s iReport.  It allows websites to embed Youtube?s upload functionality with ease, includes moderation panel to approve or deny submitted clips, [...]

NinfG and Firewall

The latest version of NinfG (version 5.0) has a lot to offer in terms of allowing client-server connectivity. First, it introduces the invoke server module separating components used to invoke remote applications from the core. This does not only decouple NinfG from the Globus Toolkit like the previous versions, but it also allows the use [...]

How to change hostname in Linux

In order to change the hostname of your linux machine, you can do the following: 1) Edit file /etc/sysconfig/network using your favourite editor, say using vi. [root@mycomp]# vi /etc/sysconfig/network 2) Look for the line with HOSTNAME in it and change the entry to the desired hostname HOSTNAME=mycomp.mydomain.com 3) Save the file and restart xinetd service [root@mycomp]# /sbin/service xinetd restart That?s it! [...]

Regular expression

Especial Characters: [ \ ^ $ | ? * + . ( ) If you want to use [...]

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 [...]