Engineering and technology notes

The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation – The New York Times

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

Brewster Kahle is a librarian by training and temperament. In the mid-1990s, when many saw the nascent World Wide Web as a place to sell things, he saw it as data that cried out to be preserved and cataloged. Later, he widened his scope to include material — film, books, music — that was not native to the web but could be digitally gathered there.

Source: The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation – The New York Times

[SM-N900*] CF-Auto-Root | Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

PLEASE TEST IF YOU HAVE THE multitouch issue BEFORE ROOTING, AS ROOTING WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY Read this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show…&postcount=279. I have not had time to look into this myself unfortunately, as I’m travelling. Better safe than sorry. Check your device model ! Settings -> About device -> Model number. See the third post for exact supported model numbers. If your device is a totally different model, it will not work (may even brick) ! CF-Root is the root for “rooting be

Source: [SM-N900*] CF-Auto-Root | Samsung Galaxy Note 3

The Aloof Blackjack Player Who Created Our Digital World

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

Every digital device you use operates on a string of ones and zeroes, the binary “yes/no” decision at the foundation of modern computing. It’s a concept so fundamental to our modern day that we rarely stop to wonder where it came from. But it’s all the work of one man: Claude Shannon, whose fascinating story you’ve likely never heard.

Source: The Aloof Blackjack Player Who Created Our Digital World

Configure Delay for “Disable Touchpad while Typing” Xubuntu | Computer Correct

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

So, basically the problem started as this: you got tired of accidently moving the mouse while typing on your laptop, so you naviagated to the touchpad settings screen and enabled the option that reads “Disable touchpad while typing”. You thought that you did well.Then your problem quickly became this: the delay before you are able to move the mouse is much too long. In fact, it is an irritatngly long two full seconds by default. We’re going to adjust that delay and fix both your new problem and old problem with one little command.I’m using Xubuntu 12.04, but this may work for good old Ubuntu as well. It should also work for any other linux distro running XFCE. One caveat: I think that you must be using a touchpad supported by the Synaptics driver for this fix to work (although I’ve never had a touchpad not use this driver on my laptop linux installs)

Source: Configure Delay for “Disable Touchpad while Typing” Xubuntu | Computer Correct

[SOLVED] lscpu – (32bit or 64bit)

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

i want to know if my cpu hardware is 32bit or 64bit…although i know i have installed 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 version on my system,,, yet i m not sure if my system/cpu is 32bit or 64bit,, as in either case, i could have installed 32bit operating sys on it… 1…when i try to check it by lscpu,, it show CPU op mode both 32bit and 64 bit as shown under…what does this mean???? 2….architecture says i686,,,, what does this mean,, what are other options??what does it show/means???? someone to plz

Source: [SOLVED] lscpu – (32bit or 64bit)

Cron

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

The software utility Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. It typically automates system maintenance or administration—though its general-purpose nature makes it useful for things like downloading files from the Internet and downloading email at regular intervals.[1] The origin of the name cron is from the Gr

Source: Cron – Wikipedia