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Today, Qt 5.3.1 was released along with Qt Creator 3.1.2.

Post summary: The level set method is a powerful alternative way to represent N-dimensional surfaces evolving through space.

In the store today, I wanted to check that the Huawei E3331 3G USB dongle I was about to buy would work with my Ubuntu Linux laptops.

Just in case you run into the same problem I did when upgrading Roundcube from version 0.9.5 to 1.0.1, I’m posting the exact steps I took to fix the Error in DDL upgrade problem.

mu4e is a mail user agent for your Emacs.

Update 2014-11-18 I’ve forked the original Deft, added this recursive directory listing feature as well as support for multiple different file extensions, and pushed it all to github as deft-turbo!

I’ve recently discovered the absolute joy that is writing and publishing wordpress blog posts using Emacs 24 and org2blog.

The syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks in GitHub flavored markdown, or GFM, are a beautiful and useful invention.

This is just in from the department of silly Zotero hacks: I’ve recently started using the brilliant papercite wordpress plugin to publish a list of my academic publications.

impress.js is a great system for building Prezi-like non-linear presentations using HTML5, with the added benefit that it’s open source, and your infinite canvas is in 3D.

Have you ever wondered to which extent you could emulate the beautiful ColorBrewer single hue sequential colour schemes with some form of linear interpolation between the endpoints?

Usually we use Google Hangouts for group video calling and also for screen sharing with more than two participants.

I recently acquired the Samson C01U USB condenser microphone for better quality voice-overs on the sleep-inducing screencasts I sometimes make.

I recently needed a new mobile development workstation.

(tl;dr / post summary: Many current SSDs do super fast hardware AES encryption, but only a very few expose this correctly to the user, meaning you often still need a third-party software solution.

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I’ve just purchased an Intel 520 SSD drive, which does hardware-based AES encryption of the whole disk, and is clever enough to encrypt the AES passphrase with the ATA / HDD password.

The Motorola Atrix 4G, flagship phone about a year ago, is now a great budget option if you need an unlocked and high performance Android phone.

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Themes: Software architecture, data visualization, data science, machine learning, 3D graphics techniques, (medical) image processing.

When you export bibtex from zotero, it includes the URLs in the bibtex records.

An important warning: During installation, do NOT activate home folder encryption.

As you know, we here at VXLabs are of the educated opinion that the HTC Desire Z is an absolutely brilliant telephone.

In my view, Zotero is currently the best reference manager available, and it’s also completely open source!

We’ve all been there: You’re used to the terminal on Linux or OSX, and then for some or other reason you need to work on Windows and you’re confronted with the half-baked monstrosity that is cmd.exe: It’s 2011 and this is Windows 7: Why does the console s…

As you know by now, I really do love my HTC Desire Z phone.

I recently upgraded my Dell E6410 with NVS 3100m GPU laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) to 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), and I can’t shake this feeling that the distribution has taken a few steps back.

I wanted to read the web preview of the Django Book’s second edition on my Kindle.

The VXLabs collective sometimes releases art works in the form of Android Apps.

(Post summary: The real-world throughput of current generation Homeplug AV 200 Mbit/s powerline ethernet adapters in a modern house is woefully inadequate.

After recently spending some hours configuring my new Cisco SPA3102 Voice Gateway with a Betamax SIP provider (voipbuster / voipstunt / voipcheap / and so forth, see http://www.backsla.sh/betamax for a full list of all Betamax providers) and the Dutch PSTN

I’m typing this up because it took me far too long to find, probably because I wasn’t using the right search terms, or because I was trying stupid key combinations… In any case, if you want to make international characters (that is, characters with accent…

This review differs from other HTC Desire Z reviews because I’ve actually been using this phone as my only smartphone quite intensively, and because I’m writing up, in great depth, my iopinion as a gadget-toting ex-Linux-zealot computer science nerd.

Well howdy hoo!

I can’t tell you what the Visual X Laboratories are.

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