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Basic Emacs Tutorial

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

In my last post, I wrote about how I had to write a guide to using a piece of software for a class. Well, I had to do another one, but this time it was individually rather than in a group.
So, I wrote a guide on how to do some basic tasks in emacs.
Let [...]

Dot Name

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I had some trouble with my domain recently where it was pointing to a parked page. This was because my hosting provider didn’t update my registration in time, but this has all been resolved now.
This dilemma got me thinking and I decided to purchase a dot name domain. ryan.lewis.name now points here!

Random Numbers and NTL

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

According to its website, the Number Theory Library (NTL) is a:
high-performance, portable C++ library providing data structures and algorithms for manipulating signed, arbitrary length integers, and for vectors, matrices, and polynomials over the integers and over finite fields.
I have been using it a lot because of the Cryptography class that I’m in this semester, [...]

Samsung LN32A450, nVidia Drivers, and Ubuntu

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I just recently purchased a Samsung LN32A450 television and wanted to use it as a monitor. I figured that it shouldn’t be too hard, just plug in my computer to it’s VGA port and then change the resolution.
But, when are new things ever easy?
To make a long story short, I had to [...]