(via Google Blog) If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that … Continue reading “rel=”nofollow””
Category: Computing
Converting ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8 (and back again)
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An Interview Question
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KLatin and Kiten
While updating to the latest version of KDE, I came across two nifty apps. The first is KLatin – a program to help revise Latin. Yes, probably not terribly useful, but a fun time waster. The other is Kiten – a Japanese reference/learning tool. This one is actually pretty useful, at least for me, since … Continue reading “KLatin and Kiten”
Matrix Template Library
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Two Free Computer Algebra Systems
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slash_amigos Version 0.1 has been Released
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slash_journal Version 0.2 has been Released
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Bill Gates Crashes at CES
(via SFGate.com) But while promoting what he calls the “digital lifestyle,” Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers — even the world’s richest man — are to hardware and software bugs. During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn’t respond to Gates’ pushing of the … Continue reading “Bill Gates Crashes at CES”
Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A45-S130: Part II
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