nointrigue.com » computer http://www.nointrigue.com/blog Enoch Lau's Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ New computer http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/07/16/new-computer/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/07/16/new-computer/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:14 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/07/16/new-computer/ It’s the new financial year, and I’ve got a new desktop! It’s got the kitchen sink:

Kitchen sink

Hmm. Wrong kitchen sink. It looks like this:

New computer

It glows blue! And it’s fast. Here are just some specs to make you all drool:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo 3GHz
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 with 640MB memory
  • 2GB RAM (ok, this isn’t spectacular, but even with my hectic use and Windows Vista, I can’t imagine I’d be needing any more in the near future)
  • 500GB SATA II HD
  • TV tuner

I’ll be away to Melbourne for three days from Tuesday to Thursday, and I’ll have plenty to blog about when I get back! :)

Oh and I got my full driver’s licence today – another menace for you to watch out for next time you step out onto the street :P

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/07/16/new-computer/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Chapter 2 of Selfish Routing http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/03/15/chapter-2-of-selfish-routing/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/03/15/chapter-2-of-selfish-routing/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:35:21 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2007/03/15/chapter-2-of-selfish-routing/ At today’s meeting with Tasos, we went through chapter 2 of Roughgarden’s Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy. This chapter contains the background mathematics and graph model required for understanding this topic. As homework, what I think I’ll have to do is write up a summary of key definitions and propositions, and work through some of the proofs slowly. Next week, we will discuss the multicast routing paper.

On an unrelated note, my honours computer is a piece of crap: 15″ screen, 512MB RAM, Pentium 4, 27GB HD. I want ViSLAB’s hanuman with the 19″ screen! :( Today, I installed Ubuntu on top of Windows that was pre-installed, because I find it convenient to have both platforms readily accessible (I have Vista on my laptop), and have somewhere to ssh into. Many thanks to Masa who let me borrow ViSLAB’s Ubuntu 6.10 CD – I burnt myself a copy but the installer fails with a cryptic I/O error. The lab upstairs tends to be a little sparse in terms of useful little tidbits of tools like that, which I am a little disappointed about.

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