tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213051192011-04-21T20:37:05.201-04:00This blog is where I indulge in one of my favourite past-times - discussing Linux, computer science, mathematics, and physics. I'll be posting a combination of articles, random thoughts, photos, and whatever else I think will be interesting for others. I hope you will find the information here useful or at least fun to read. Feel free to comment, critique, etc.Antonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11531138014003708539noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21305119.post-54181286485826645462007-08-28T12:24:00.000-04:002007-08-28T15:01:50.539-04:00

Intro Everyone knows that e-mail spam is a major problem. It affects individuals, governments, and corporations alike. I am no exception to this rule, but in the past I took a very passive position on the issue: I had all my e-mail come into my GMail account and let the awesome Google spam filter deal with it. However, I was getting over 1200 spam messages per month, and I finally said, "Enough

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Intro I've been planning to start blogging again for a few weeks, and the recent talk by Richard Stallman (R.M.S) given at the University of Waterloo (UW) provided the perfect excuse. Background Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU project. He is an outspoken advocate of copyright reform and a slew of other issues. On R.M.S. At first glance, Stallman

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Today Wired News ran an article titled Reasons to Love Open Source DRM. This article represents the first ray of hope in the land of Mordor... or rather Digital Rights Management. To summarize, Sun Microsystems is working on a new DRM system called DReaM that would have two major advantages over standard systems (from a user point of view):The rights would be associated with an individual person,

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Here is a very interesting article I came across in Business Week Online. It is about how mathematics are being applied to economics, marketing, information retrieval, and other aspects of the macroscopic world. I think it's important that people realize just how relevant mathematics are in our lives. Math is not just the realm of ultra-nerds and university professors; it touches every part of

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This morning Google activated the GoogleTalk feature in GMail. Now one can send e-mails and chat with people all from the same page. This sounds familiar somehow... oh ya, MSN's Web Messanger & Hotmail combo. So how is this different? Well, for one, we know that GMail is already superior to Hotmail in many ways (please, I don't want to go into this one). Furthermore, GoogleTalk has some big

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Here is an interesting thought that came to me today, and I have to write it down before I can go to sleep. Disclaimer: The ideas presented here are mere hypothetical speculations; I will not be held responsible for any consequences that arise from the information contained in this article. Introduction You have probably seen the movie Terminator 3 where artificial intelligence arises from the

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Here is a trully fascinating article I found recently (it's up on Slashdot too). This one's to do with psychology, but also artificial intelligence, so I thought it was appropriate: http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5354696 On Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/02/2343232 Funny quote from the article: A frequentist way of doing things would reduce

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With the purchase of a new hard drive comes the exciting activity of partitioning it for use, and with that, choosing the filesystem to use. In the past, I have always used ext3 for my root partition, and played around with xfs and reiserfs for the other ones. Here is my subjective opinion: Ext3 has always been rock-solid, easy to recover (even after creating a reiserfs filesystem *on top* of

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I just found this great screensaver for KDE; it uses OpenGL to create a very beautiful slideshow of images. Even on my crappy ATI Radeon 7000, it runs perfectly at 1400x1050. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=33197 This is actually the first screensaver I have used in over 6 months. I am really bored of all those flying lines, matrix simulations, and other fancy graphics.

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Hello everyone, Welcome to my blog, "Die-Hard Linux Bits-and-Bytes". This is a place where I get to post all the lastest and exciting linux- and tech-related news, debate the latest controvesies, and generally endulge in tech-talk. I hope you will enjoy your stay. The next two articles you will find above were originally posted on my personal blog a few weeks ago, but I copied it here for

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