An installation using Linux Mint 13 based on Ubuntu 12.10. Install virtualbox and download Linux Mint XFCE 13. Install Linux mint 13 XFCE on virtual box. Once installed open terminal and run. > sudo apt-get update> sudo apt-get upgrade> sudo apt-get install build-essential Get some coffee beans and start brewing :D. Back to terminal. > […]

Frubo is “File Relationship and User Behaviour Ontology”. We research on producing high relation models using passive tracing methods. Background FRUBO (File Relationship & User Behavior Ontology) also known as previously: AFRO (Attention File Relationship Organiser) System is a user behaviour based document sorting application. By capturing the users document usage patterns, we can build […]

Installing NginX If you are installing Nginx on MacOSX, i recommend using homebrew. Once you have home brew running, install nginx via: brew install nginx Once you have it installed, there are a few notes of where you will need to get your nginx running. You nginx config file will be in: /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf if you […]

Installing RVM for ruby is a better choice than using homebrew on MacOS X. You can install Ruby through terminal by running the following if you have homebrew installed. Homebrew is an application manager for MacOS X. Some have opted for homebrew ruby + rbevn combo: brew install ruby Homebrew is good…..I just found the […]

Ever got this: “To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages” With Service Pack 2, Outlook Express is set to ask about Compacting messages after every 100th closing of Outlook Express. Before Service Pack 2, the default behavior had Outlook Express set to compact messages in the background which has lead to the […]

I am not a fan of eclipse but lets try to get over this nightmare. (fan of lightweight editors: nano and editra) Installing Eclipse on Mac First download Eclipse Classic from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/Unzip the file and drop the folder into your applications folder.Launch “eclipse.app” from the app folder. Setting up Eclipse on Mac Go to Help […]

Choosing and Using Latex  Personally i feel that latex is a bit bloated and too confusing for first time users. If more effort can be put into front end. It will definitely be the choice of writing. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Word_vs._LaTeX For LaTEX, I recommend the use of texmaker http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ . It just makes everything look more manageable just like word. Adding URLs […]

As of writing, realised that I have been out of the javascript world for sometime. HTML5 and canvas has gone leaps and bounds. Important technologies that we should be concerned on is as follows when WEBGL becomes the de-facto standard. WebGL Defacto standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL Web Data using html5 Css: http://d3js.org/Etherpad which is an online editor: […]

Author : Michelle Lim It’s another ordinary Saturday night, except it is breezy due to the heavy rain in the noon. Logged on my hotmail and read through some e-mail after dinner. Inadvertently found an article about different months’ birthstone. My curiosity got aroused and so I started google on images of gemstones. Here is what i got, all arranged […]

Han Xin is a famous general who is skilled in the art of war. He influenced many with his tactical warfare in early 200 BC against the might Chu army and annexed the Chu country. Famous proverbs such as “waging war with no return” (杯水作战) and “the more the merrier” (多多益善), was some quotes he […]