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My three HP laptops I have serve as latter-day museum pieces of how technology has progressed. I am not trying to slag Hewlett-Packard. I like their printers, and despite their reputation, I also like their laptops. Today, I am mentioning Continue Reading
I am one of those hopeless romantics who believe that words must mean something. “Universal” is quite a stong word when used, and its all-encompassing reach implies that it is good for … well, everything. As in the whole universe Continue Reading
Like a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, computers are now seemingly taking matters into their own hands and possibly overthrowing their human overlords. Many news outlets are telling us that Facebook bots can talk to each other Continue Reading
I was playing with a geometry software package and decided to explore Thales Theorem. The theorem states that for any diameter line drawn through the circle with endpoints B and C on the circle (obviously passing through the circle’s center Continue Reading
I moved my window manager from xfce to gnome today, and spent most of the day so far getting gdm3 to work. For a while, I was using two window managers, then narrowed it down to gdm3 and uninstalled the Continue Reading
I am not proud of possibly inventing the ugly acronym “BOUOW”, but “BASH on Ubuntu on Windows” appears to compel it. Maybe we can pronounce it “bow-wow” — not sure if that’s complementary. Just did a Google search, and, no, Continue Reading
Even-ordered magic squares are not difficult just because they are even, in my opinion. They are difficult to design because their order is composite. My experience has shown that by far the easiest to design are magic squares whose order Continue Reading
First of all, let me say that there is some currency to what the title and pictures imply. Cygwin/X really has come a long way. 10 years ago, the only viable way to run Cygwin was through a DOS-style UNIX Continue Reading
This article was inspired by a vlog from Numberphile, on the discussion of “5040: an anti-prime number”, or some title like that. A contributor to the OEIS named Jean-François Alcover came up with a short bit of Mathematica code that Continue Reading
The Lucas sequence follows the same rules for its generation as the Fibonacci sequence, except that the Lucas sequence begins with t1 = 2 and t2 =1. Lucas numbers are found in the petal counts of flowing plants and pinecone Continue Reading