http://andreasblaafladt.com Random thoughts on studying and computer science Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:29:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mine did, anyway. I have a ThinkPad R52 which I have been running with the same installation of Windows XP from the day I got it, approximately 19 months ago. Recently I've noticed that disk operations were slow and required huge amounts of cpu cycles (mainly kernel mode) ... http://andreasblaafladt.com/2007/03/13/does-your-hard-disc-drive-hdd-appear-slower-than-it-used-to/ I've been using Remind for several years now, with great success. For instance, I've put Remind in charge of reminding me of upcoming birthdays, whether it is relatives or friends, giving me a fair chance of greeting them or buying a present in advance. The scripting language is ... http://andreasblaafladt.com/2007/02/02/remind-a-sophisticated-calendar-and-alarm-program/ Last week I spent quite a lot of time on CRM114 which according to the website is "a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the incoming files or data streams according to the user's wildest desires. ... http://andreasblaafladt.com/2007/01/28/crm114-the-controllable-regex-mutilator/ Last week I attended a short presentation given by Mark Burgess entitled "How to get research done". While I've heard most of the advices before, it still seems valuable to repeat them from time to time. So without further introduction, here's some key elements: Just do it! It's better to try and ... http://andreasblaafladt.com/2007/01/16/how-to-get-research-done/ This is my first post in this new publicly available blog. http://andreasblaafladt.com/2007/01/04/first-post-on-andreasblaafladtcom/