I accidentally found a very interesting course from Berkeley today. The title is Mesh Generation and Geometry Processing in Graphics, Engineering, and Modeling by Jonathan Shewchuk.
Computer graphic course
Posted on
Installing leJOS NXJ for Lego Mindstorm
Posted on
I was trying to install leJOS to my Lego minstorm brick. I used ubuntu and got into trouble when I tried to flash the lego brick. I realized that the problem is that I didn’t have write permission to usb device. If I used sudo, I didn’t know how to export the environment variable NXJ_HOME….
Video stuff in Ubuntu
Posted on
Switching to Linux means relearning of many old skills. I finally got DVD Decrypter working again. I first tried installing it in a guest XP under virtualbox but it doesn’t work very well. It does do ripping but the output is all messed up somehow. On the other hand, installing using wine goes quite well…
DNS problem of virtualbox
Posted on
I wasted a couple hours today trying to figure out why my guest winxp has no connection. It is the third ubuntu machines that I have installed a virtualbox with a guest winxp. I am very satisfied with virtualbox. It is very fast and I can do almost anything I need for a window machine….
DVD authoring
Posted on
A friend asked me how to burn his grand daughter’s video to a dvd disk. I have done something like that using windows couple years ago. As I moved to Ubuntu recently, I was annoyed to found it quite complicated. I tried a couple of ways. Eventually my solution is the following: One major difficulty…
A site collection of “lets”
Posted on
I found this from when browsing randomly on Nuit Blanche. It has nice collection of links to curvelets, ridgelets, and so on.
Useful Tools
Posted on
Just found a list of good tools suggested in Nuit Blanche. The list may be a bit dated but many of the tools are still very useful.
Hong Kong
Posted on
It almost concludes my short trip back to Hong Kong. Asia is blooming. Nothing can hide this fact. To my surprise, the cost of living in Hong Kong even excluding housing is on par with the US now. Food is no longer cheap. I still have the impression that going out lunch is less expensive…
Another GPS stolen
Posted on
I went to the post office near 61st and Yale just now for 15 minutes and my GPS got stolen. If my students can be that quick and effective, I’d be really impressed. This was my second GPS got stolen in less than 1 year. My first one got stolen just less than 1 week…
chkdsk is evil
Posted on
As title. I erased everything in my drive with chkdsk /r. After frequent trouble with Cygwin, I finally decided to give Ubuntu a try. My drive had 3 logical partitions. I have one with WinXp 64, one with WinXp and the last one without any OS. I tried to install ubuntu in the third partition….