It’s amazing stuff. My laptop battery tells me the percent charged, remaining capacity (in Watt-hours), full charge capacity, voltage, current, temperature, cycle count, manufacturer, manufacture date, first used date, serial number, and so on. My battery’s currently at 30 degrees Celsius = 86 degrees Fahrenheit. It also has a full charge capacity that exceeds its…Continue Reading…
Someday I’m going to figure out how this owrks and what it really means. From IMDb Top 250. The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate: weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where: R = average for the movie (mean)…Continue Reading…
I am very, very close to ordering a Firefox Laptop Backpack. There’s an international version which is a shiny gray color, but I’m going to go for the North America one which appears to be black.
I’d been running 2.0.1 since it was released, and I skipped over all the intermediate releases until today’s release: WordPress 2.1. This seems to be quite a major upgrade. It seemed to go smoothly, but it’s hard to tell with these things. If you notice any hiccups, let me know. One problem I have noticed:…Continue Reading…
Unfortunately, USC gives each email account only 75 MB storage space. I feel like I’m living in the dark ages of the Internet, when hard disks were expensive and bandwidth even more so. I quickly maxed out the space limit, but it’s not a problem thanks to Google Gmail. For my own curiosity, I shall…Continue Reading…
Yesterday I helped Jenny Zha submit her CSCI 101 homework. Most people do not understand FTP and SSH. Here at USC, we use CoreFTP for file transfers, but it’s actually over SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), which works the same way as FTP. She had written her homework using Notepad, so in order to use…Continue Reading…