Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
That's a video from a "theory" computer science course - a type of course that all computer science students have to go through (at the University of Illinois, they are the _73 courses - 173, 373, and 473). There are some lucky students who find these courses fun and interesting, ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
As a new Blackberry user, I was not aware of the BIS, the Blackberry Internet Service, when I set up my Blackberry for the first time. Basically, the BIS allows you to manage your email accounts that are used on the Blackberry, like the Display name for sent email, and ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
One of my pet peeves is when people post links or URLs in prominent locations (posters, advertisements, etc) with the "/index.htm" or "/default.php" or "/default.aspx" or any of the derivatives of these. Please people - with very few exceptions, URLs with default.htm or index.htm or things like those do not ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
The University used to have an online searchable "phonebook" that was invaluable when students needed to contact each other. The information displayed by default listed name, email, major, address, phone number, web site address, and department (if the student worked for the University). This has all been disabled except for ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Notepad++ is one of my favorite text editors for Windows, but getting the spell checker - GNU Aspell - to work can be slightly tricky.
The key is do not forget to install the dictionary. Both the Windows installer and the pre-compiled dictionaries for Windows are available on the Aspell Windows ...
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