Guest Post – Quantum Computers: Cool Computer Science of the Future
Put the word “quantum” in front of any other term, and you get something that sounds like it belongs on an episode of Star Trek. Quantum computers, however, are no longer relegated to the world of science fiction. In a few short years they will be science fact.
Categories: Guest Articles, Miscellaneous by Alexis Bonari
Tags: Quantum Computing
A Frustrating Experience with Chromium OS
Recently I reinstalled my laptop and was hoping to add chromium onto my multiboot setup. I can get it working with the standard USB key approach that is recommended on all of the guides, however it seems like moving it to the hard drive is a completely different story. When it is compiled from source and put on the USB key, the partitioning scheme is GUID, and I use the older MBR scheme. It seems to me the only way to get it to work together is either to use a full GUID partioning setup or use some weird hybrid or mixed scheme. From what I’ve read on other blogs, it doesn’t seem particularly easy to get Windows to work with GUID. Also when you look at what gets created on the USB disk itself, its a mess of many partitions, and I’m not particularly fond of that. Perhaps this is an artifact of the GUID scheme since I’m not very familiar with it, so maybe someone can point me in a direction on how to proceed. For now I’ve given up and will wait and hope that Google will eventually release it in a way that is easy to add to MBR :S Until then I’ll just grudgingly use the USB version since I don’t want to dedicate my entire laptop hdd to using chromium os.
*note* I’ve also tried to the hexxeh version of chromium, but for some reason it won’t boot on my laptop, and I also prefer to be able to compile from source rather than using a pre-built image.
Categories: Miscellaneous by Jason Ernst
Tags: 2010, Chromium OS, Google, GUID, MBR, Multiboot, Operating System, Partition
Website Updates: WordPress 3.0, New Theme
Just some quick news about the site, I have upgraded to the release candidate of wordpress 3.0. I chose to do this because some of the features in the new version are exactly what I’ve needed for some of my new plugin and template ideas. My favourite is the ability to create custom post types. Eventually I will use this to support a project section of my site, which will be easily be administered within the wordpress admin interface. I have also created a plugin which can grab my status off of social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. These also use the custom post types. The new template I am working on is available to view, but it may not be entirely working at this point. You can see it by clicking the white box near the search. To switch back, there is a similar button in the new template. I am planning on cleaning up the code and releases both the old and new templates to the general public. It will take some work however since the old template was quick hacked together. The new template was designed carefully, but is not complete quite yet.
Categories: Miscellaneous, News by Jason Ernst
Tags: Custom Post Type, Template, Wordpress 3.0
ICC 2010 – Cross-Layer Mixed Bias Scheduling for Wireless Mesh Networks
This post is somewhat motivated by Prof. Andrew Eckford’s post that encourages graduate students and faculty members to post more about their work on sites like Twitter. Since I attended the same conference (ICC 2010), I thought it would be good to share a bit about my presentation and my experience at the conference.
While I don’t have a video for you to watch the entire presentation, I do have some pictures, and I’ll post the paper and slides I presented in case any one is interested. If you have any questions feel free to post on here or email me directly and I’ll be happy to answer any of them.
Categories: Computer Science, Featured, News, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: 2010, Bias, Ernst, Guelph, ICC 2010, Jason, Mieso Denko, Mixed, Presentation, Publication, Scheduling, Wireless
Tutorial: Ubuntu 10.04 – Grub 2 with Themes
In this post, I will show you how to install grub 2 with themes so that you can replace the standard text-based grub menu with something that looks a bit nicer. This tutorial will use code which is under development, so it may be best not to use on an important machine. We will actually replace grub with something called burg, which is a developmental branch of grub.
Categories: Linux, Tutorials by Jason Ernst
Tags: Burg, Grub 2.0, Lucid, Ubuntu 10.04
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