So after spending hours trying to find the appropriate driver that would work with the CD/DVD device in my Lenovo Y710A I bumped into a post on the lenovo forums that said that acpi=off fixes the problem, or to replace grub with lilo.
Bash variables
October 17th, 2008These things pops up from time to time, manipulating variables and strings using bash. There are a few very handy variable operators that can reliably detect whether strings are set or not, strip of tails or heads, and even do some basic replacements.
Assisting with the ACM ICPC
October 14th, 2008Last week I had the privilege of being the technical lead on the technical aspects surrounding the contest, specifically, the south african regionals. Whilst this wasn’t all clear sailing and presented numerous challenges (some technical, and some not) it was never the less a very good experience.
Collecting a SPAM corpus
October 8th, 2008One of my employees pointed me at 10 Minute Mail again today. A quick discussion of the concept sparked a few ideas …
