March 2, 2010
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February 28, 2010
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January 24, 2010
Dear Van Gogh mug by Mike Mak
8:48 pm
July 7, 2009
Imagine a mental illness is described as being 80% heritable. This is often taken to mean that four fifths of an individual’s risk is down to his or her genes, but this is not the case. What it means is that 80% of the variance in the measured illness was explained by genetic factors in the specific group that was studied.
6:05 am
You put your name into Google, and the first entry is about a transgression from 20 years ago, the penalty for which only lasted three years. Now you can’t get a job.
5:43 am
It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.
Archie Bunker (via rlrr)
5:42 am
July 6, 2009
My wife got lost in Beijing after getting off a bus.
I happened to call her. Found the place she wanted to go on google map but she could not tell me where exactly she was. Is there an online map service in Chinese?
12:28 pm
July 1, 2009
install kubuntu on Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X
Got my unit today. This is my 2nd netbook. The first one is a MSI WIND. I tried to put kubuntu 9.04 on USB drive. The drive booted my desktop and the Wind. The USB drive was detected in the Bios, but no matter what I do, it won’t boot the Eee PC. Finally I gave up and tried Wubi from WinXP. That did not work either because the new Wubi won’t run. Not sure why. In the end, I had to burn a CD and install it the old fashion way via a IDE CD-ROM connected through a USB interface (from a USB external hard drive).
The 160G hard drive has four partitions on it. The first one is WinXP, I put kubuntu on the 2nd partition, which may have some backup files for WinXP but I don’t really care about that.
The first surprise is that there was no network, wired or wireless. After finding out the hardware, AR9285 for wireless and AR8132 for ethernet, I found this post and installed the AR813X driver. The other driver did not work.http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1141529
For wireless, I used aptitude and installed the driver. (apt-get complained about dependencies)
sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
So far, so good. The fan does come on after a while. The noise is audible but not very annoying.
Sound worked out of the box. Have not tested the web-cam or blue tooth yet.
6:08 pm
June 27, 2009
Jabref vs Mendeley for the management of scientific pdf files
Short: I still like JabRef better.
Slightly longer: JabRef allows using PMID, which is unique and short to rename files. I use PMID as the plug for refs when I write. So I can work without any ref manager using text editing apps like vim. Mendeley is faster. It has an integrated web account, which is convenient. Not sure how useful the social network aspect of it will be.
9:44 am
June 23, 2009
Memphis Methodist Hospital Says It Did Jobs’s Liver Surgery http://bit.ly/qGdqS
9:56 pm
