Cours d'Initiation à Linux
Dans le cadre du LLLC, je donne des cours d'introduction à Linux. Voici le brouillon de mes notes de cours. Avez-vous des suggestions pour les compléter?
View ArticleThe Jornada 820 under Linux!
Yay, the Jornada 820 can now be used for good under Linux. Big thanks to George Almasi who got the console and PCMCIA to work! A lot of work remains to do, but that's significant progress.
View ArticleWireless Joys and Pains
I installed WiFi at two of my uncles'. Works quite well... under a recent version of Windows. Couldn't get the PC-Card to run on an uncle's Windows 98, and I still haven't got around to compiling...
View ArticleUnix: Terminal Madness
The Linux framebuffer console for the Jornada820 and other machines does not heed all the cursor controls that it has on the x86 console. Therefore, many programs that try to reprogram the cursor,...
View ArticleFlying Penguins
I may have been out of the loop, but I was happily surprised to see how Linux was present everywhere during my air travels. First thing, I hear Dell spending several minutes in an on-flight radio...
View ArticleASDF, not SHRDLU
When in Amsterdam, my friend Gustavo had me introduce him to Common Lisp so he could start writing a program that would play logical argumentation games. I decided that such software would be much...
View ArticleInstalling Linux on an old Powerbook 3400c
My friend Mahesh had this PB3400c with 80MB of RAM and 2.5GB of harddisk, that he wanted to transform into a jukebox. A few weeks ago, he asked me to install Linux on it, to play music off the...
View ArticleMonotone
You may remember that I am looking for a solution to the SNAIL problem, which will have to be based on epistemic monotonic logic. Well, monotone offers half of the solution, monotonic logic. And that...
View ArticleA Tale of Two CTs (Computer Terminals)
Whereas I usually only buy one computer every so many years, this year I bought myself not one but two laptops. When you hear about the first, you'll understand why I got the second. * My first laptop...
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