di 12 december 2017
This post was originally written in 2012, and was slightly updated in 2017.
When I first started writing stochastic, individual-based computer simulations in 2005, I thought it would be a pretty straightforward job. Although I'm technically a biologist, I already had quite some (self-taught) experience in C-programming and knew about …
wo 17 mei 2017
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Just months ago, I knew next to nothing about Central Asia. Probably like most people, I knew there was a group of countries just west of China, with names that all end in -stan. I was vaguely aware of a …
vr 05 december 2014
This article was originally written in 2011, and was slightly updated in 2014.
Despite the fact that we're no longer living in the 1980s, filesystem-compatibility between operating systems seems to remain an issue in computer-land. The filesystem basically defines the way in which files …
vr 20 juni 2014
wo 11 juni 2014
I don't like to get new equipment if I have old equipment that still works fine. My Asus A2500S laptop is now more than 10 years old, and although it has received a few small repairs and a memory upgrade over the years, it still works fine. Its Pentium 4 …
wo 21 augustus 2013
For some reason, repairing broken equipment is one of these tasks that I tend to put off for months, if not years, because it feels like it's going to be a lot of hassle.
About a year ago the volume knob broke off my Kenwood KRF-V5090D audio video surround receiver …
do 27 juni 2013
This article was written in 2010 and was slightly updated in 2013 and 2017.
I've been running Ubuntu as my main operating system since around 2004, and I must say I love it. However, every OS has its problems, and Ubuntu is no exception. Here's a few I ran into …
zo 10 maart 2013
A few weeks ago I started teaching a mathematics-course for first-year biology students, as part of a larger three-month Systems Biology course at the University of Utrecht. A couple of years ago the university started to record a number of its lectures, which were then made available online for students …
ma 01 oktober 2012
UPDATE (2012-10-01)
OOoLatex is no longer being updated by Geoffroy Piroux. Roland Baudin
has created an up-to-date fork for LibreOffice called
TexMaths. To install that on a
recent version of Ubuntu, first get the required packages:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martin-gieseking/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive dvipng dvisvgm …
zo 09 september 2012
One of the drawbacks of a monolithic kernel is that you're often stuck with outdated drivers that don't work for your hardware. Even if a fix is available upstream, there's no easy way to update just a single driver. Luckily, LinuxTV now at least offers a script to automatically recompile …