Yesterday I was trying to find a bug in my source code which lead to quite unexpected results. I thought that I narrowed down the possible origin and will be able to localize the problem within a short time. However,…
Yesterday I was trying to find a bug in my source code which lead to quite unexpected results. I thought that I narrowed down the possible origin and will be able to localize the problem within a short time. However,…
This week I was involved in a discussion about the accuracy of Google Maps. It seemed that the position derived from a geodetic GPS receiver matched well with the visual location inside the Google Maps image, having a residual horizontal…
Subversion (or just SVN) is a software versioning and revision control system which has been used for countless projects since its release in 2000. Also the software project to which I contribute is managed and distributed via SVN. Yesterday, I…
Playing with partial differential equations can be great fun. I guess the shallow water equations are one of the most easiest to understand system, which have a clearly visible impact in daily life. It does not matter if you have…
Imagine you have a text (ASCII) file that holds a table/matrix, e.g. A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 but what you need, is the information transposed, i.e. A1 B1 C1 A2…
When we navigate through the World Wide Web, we visit many pages and quite a few of them have lengthy privacy policies. Even simple pages usually have a kind of disclaimer and the creator/owner of the web page mostly puts…
Whenever, I ride on a train here in Tokyo I see approximately the following situation: I have touched this topic in a blog post before, but I want to elaborate a little bit more on it today. We can see…
After giving up installing (and running) CUDA under F17, I gave it a try with the latest version, i.e. Fedora 18. As usual I selected the 64-bit version and it turned out that CUDA become usable under this OS again.…
Since roughly six months everybody in the office is equipped with his/her personal tablet. As our meetings are performed paperless it has been decided that everyone can purchase a tablet of his choice. A few people selected an iPad and…
This morning I received an email from Google telling me that my Adsense account has been suspended due to “invalid clicks”. Actually I have no idea what that means and how Google decided to stop my account. I have used…