After reading this article in the Wired Magazine, I got interested in learning with spaced repetition. Assume you want to learn a particular subject, e.g. spanish vocabulary. You might want to write your word-pairs (spanish/english) on flash cards and practice regularly. It has been shown that you both speed up learning and improve retention if [...]
Tags:english learning | Filed on December 28th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think many folks have been waiting for this. R is a statistical language widely established itself in the life-sciences. However, many lab people dislike it due to its bare commandline interface. This might change with a new program called RGG:
Self written R scripts are usually not longer than 100-150 lines. In most cases, there [...]
Tags:english R science | Filed on December 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
Linux workers like you and me often need to move a bunch of files. For example, you want to rename all *.dat files into *.dat_save, or you want to rename all files foo.* into something like bar.*. This, however, is not easy to do using the move command as 1) “mv” only supports a single [...]
Tags:commandline english linux tech | Filed on November 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, I never thought that the following could possibly happen: I hereby recommend a great and free piece of software manufactured by Microsoft! I’ve been looking for a photo stitching tool that does the job fast and does not require for much marking nor readjusting by hand. Microsoft has the Image Composite Editor (ICE), a [...]
Tags:english photos tech | Filed on November 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
It took me a while to figure out why my Image Uploader of Wordpress does not work anymore. When trying to upload new images to Wordpress, the Flash Uploader would not open at all. That is, clicking on “Choose Files to Upload” has no effect, while it worked perfectly before. I have updated Wordpress from [...]
Tags:english tech webdev wordpress | Filed on November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Setting up a SVN server on an Ubuntu Vserver running Plesk is smooth like butter. Mmmh, butter… Just for future reference, i’m going to explain it here.
Update: Configuration of basic authentication is included now.
Tags:english linux tech webserver | Filed on September 16th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Imagine you set up a new domain on your VServer. After filling in all the data, Plesk creates a directory /var/www/vhosts/FOODOMAIN which is the home directory for the domain’s ftp user as well. This makes sense for FTP access as the directory contains all the important subdirectories such as httpdocs, conf, statistics and more. [...]
Tags:english linux tech webserver | Filed on September 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As outlined in this article, aging is no outcome of accumulated cell wearout. Their theory states that key regular pathways drift off track with age, since no evolutionary pressure forced them to work properly after reproduction. This actually means that we were able to cure aging if we can somehow put these pathways right.
Tags:english sience | Filed on August 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a quite neat visualization of the music I listen to, isn”t it? The new webapp LastGraph creates them for you if you use last.fm.
Tags:english music | Filed on June 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This screencast shows how you can use emacs as an IDE for Ruby development. It demonstrates many nice but not so known features such as ido-mode, tramp and snippets. The screencast has been produced in 2006 and is still worth seeing.
Tags:emacs english | Filed on May 27th, 2008 | No Comments »