Natural Blogarithms

There have been a number of interesting projects I’ve been asked to work on over the course of the last few weeks.  They all involve writing a little code and so I want to document some of those projects here.  They are not math related but my interests are broader than just numerical analysis [...]

In my Fall course of Math Models, I have three groups working on projects to finish up the semester.  One of the groups have an assignment to explore a model of the spread of a forest fire.  The assumptions are that the trees are on a rectangular grid, or a lattice.  The time is a [...]

I had to solve two problems for myself today.  I am posting my solutions here, mainly for my own reference but maybe somebody out there might have the same issues to be solved.
The first problem I faced was installing a network printer so that it would be available to all users on that machine.  [...]

I wish I’d thought of that.
Thanks to a post in LifeHacker, I have set up a few bookmarks in Firefox that will open in the sidebar. I recently discovered the trick of opening links in the sidebar but I did not think to use mobile apps such as the new iphone app in Google [...]

A friend of mine saw me running a distribution of Linux from within Vista and asked that I post how I set it up so here it goes:

Download and install Virtual Box (see www.vitualbox.org)
Download your favorite distribution of Linux. Download an install disk image (*.iso file). Here are a couple suggestions

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download

Be sure to note where [...]

Technorati Tags: excel,microsoft,access,bioinformatics
Both Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel became heavily used tools in my bioinformatics research.  Scripting came in handy on occasion to automate tasks but my lask of “skills” in that arena left me relying heavily these applications.  Within the last two months, I couldn’t count how many tables and queries I’ve created (point-and-click [...]

I finally finished getting my laptop setup to dual boot with Fedora Core Linux and Windows XP.
I had a few major issues but was finally able to find the correct solution to my problem.
Problems:
1. After setting up separate partition with Partition Magic and then install Fedora Core 8, the Windows system would not boot saying [...]

In responding to a comment on the last entry, I answered the questions of what equipment and software I am using to create our online course materials:

For our College Algebra course, we cover the last six chapters from an Intermediate Algebra textbook. There will be a lecture for each section of each of the chapters. [...]

I have tried to do a little research into the compatibility of Maple 11 with Microsoft Vista. A student of mine report that he attempted to run his new copy of Maple 11 on his new Vista machine and was unsuccessful. I could not find a statement on the Maplesoft website confirming or [...]

A while back, I started using the site, del.icio.us, for my bookmarks. My primary reason for doing so was so that I would have access to my bookmarks from any of the multiple computers that I use. Way down on the list of reasons to use the delicious bookmarks were for the “social [...]