I’ve been fighting with a very ugly issue on my system for the past 2 days now. I’m running an Ubuntu box, having 2 accounts: (i) one local user and (ii) a LDAP user. Most of the time I’m logged in as the LDAP user and do all my work from there. Yesterday …

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For a long time now I have been trying to get the “perfect” working environment on my desktop (in this case, Ubuntu). My requirements for this are simple:

Everything (well, almost everything) should be grep-able (documents, presentations, tasks, mails, chats)
A tiling window manager – as screens on …

It’s been a while since I didn’t write some C/C++ code, and as it turns out, I will be starting work on a C++ project.
So before going into the actual project, I took up some tasks:

Get some reading done on C++ to brush up things
Get the dev environment working

The two …

I’ve been trying to get all my communications into one place for a long time now, and went out and hacked all that could be hacked to get this. So, I tried:

Talk only of GTalk – this way I was able to get all my conversations into the gmail inbox. …

As in the past months I have been working a little bit with clusters, I have found the need to be able to start a task on multiple computers in a cluster (not many, but sufficient as to make me think of an easier way to do this).
Browsing around I …

For those who are interested in both hardware and software, I would like to announce the Digilent Design Contest.
The contest is open to all university students and features in its 5th edition two tracks: the hardware design contest and the software design contest.
Digilent Hardware

VHDL digital design based …

In the past weeks I have been working on a distributed database management system, and have run into the difficulties of running certain tools (such as JVM or Ruby) from within a cluster of computers, without having root/su on the cluster machines.
Installing JVM and Ruby on a linux machine on …