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Selenium script to reset a ZyXEL NBG4115 4G Router

The ZyXEL NBG4115 is a small, cheap 3G router that can be used to build a wireless network where there is no access point available. You plug one of those 3G dongles into it, enter the PIN number, and you have a local access point in the middle of nowhere. At Neurobat we use these [...]

Automatic data collection without FTP

I haven’t written anything in a while, so I thought I might begin by sharing some ideas on how we collect test site data at Neurobat without using FTP. We have a Dropbox Teams account, which gives us about north of 1 TB of storage. The idea is to install Dropbox on each netbook that [...]

Pomodoro + Workrave = Well-being

I’ve been a big fan of the Pomodoro Technique for almost a year now. No, I don’t go as far as actually having a ticking timer in my office in front of my co-workers, and I don’t necessarily plan the day in advance, but I do try to break up my work in 25-min iterations [...]

Converting Sweave/R plots for inclusion in Word/OpenOffice

Just a quick note to myself: When you use Sweave and produce high-quality plots in both EPS and PDF formats, you sometimes want to include them in Word or OpenOffice documents. You can’t directly include PDF files, and you can only include EPS files when they have a preview, which Sweave will not do by [...]

Polyphasic sleep

Wikipedia defines polyphasic sleep as the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period. Proponents of this practice argue that it results in a much reduced total sleep requirement, sometimes as little as two hours total sleep per day. This concept immediately caught my interest when I heard about it, as it should interest [...]

Ubuntu fonts problem after reboot

My screen fonts under Ubuntu are occasionally completely screwed up. They show up in blue with overstrikes: I think this happens when I reboot my machine without a second monitor being attached to it, which it usually has. I suppose X.org gets confused when it cannot find a monitor that used to be there. To [...]

Strongest chess program money can (not) buy

Kinda offtopic, but I’m also an avid chessplayer, so… Crafty is recognized as one of the strongest open-source chess engines available, having once achieved a rating of 2792 on the internet chess server and having an estimated 2608 ELO rating. A default installation on Ubuntu 8.04 (e.g. aptitude install crafty and aptitude install crafty-books-medium) will [...]

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