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Entries from July 14th, 2003

Calculators in Waterloo

July 14th, 2003 · No Comments · Useful Information

I hope the following information is useful for anyone who’s planning on joining Waterloo Engineering (especially Comp – cause I’m a CompE and what I’m saying will have the most relevance re the courses I know). At any rate, at some point you’ll have to make a decision as to what calculator to buy (quiet [...]

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Parrot and More

July 13th, 2003 · No Comments · Useful Information

So yesterday as I lounged across the web I came upon Parrot – a VM for the yet to be released (and slow developing) Perl 6. What’s interesting is that they are interested in having other languages (for example Python, Tcl, PHP etc) use that as their own VM base. Sort of like .NET. You [...]

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Omigosh…Dashboard!

July 13th, 2003 · No Comments · Useful Information

So on Friday I took a little hike (ok, more like an extended trip) to gnomedesktop.org. Ahh…my favorite source for GNOME information. What do I find there but…the GNOME Summary. I enjoy reading the GNOME summaries – they often give me a whole lot of information I would not have found out otherwise. At any [...]

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