The possesive 's

Very informative!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv57.shtml

Some stuff about finance and investment

This post may seem a bit strange. I had an opportunity to read some articles about some weird stuff of the financial world! Those guys of finance are crazy, and we are to blame that we leave our destiny in the hands of such a bunch of crazy financial people! Here are some links about possible ways of investment:

• http://ezinearticles.com/?Debentures-Vs.-Stocks-And-Bonds&id=392416
• http://transformyourself.com.jm/faq_fixed_income_investing.html
• http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Debenture+stock

Comics about SW Development

I saw this link posted by a friend, and I followed it. I'm posting it here because it is very realistic and happens to anyone working in the SW industry.

http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com/index.php?p=1

Buffer Overflow Exploits

I have recently read the news about Google Chrome Buffer Overflow vulnerability (see this link). Admittedly, I was ignorant enough not to understand how a buffer overflow can cause severe security breaches! Wikipedia came to the rescue, as well as some research into the topic of Assembly-language programming. At last I can understand how SEVERE such an attack could be!

You can dig for it too ;-)
check the Wikipedia article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

and the excellent book of Programming from the Ground Up, for much better understanding of Assembly:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/

Enjoy!

Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering

At last, lecture notes on Biomedical Engineering =)

http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/bme/3/1

GNU/Linux from eight miles high

This an excellent article released recently by embedded.com:

http://www.embedded.com/design/opensource/208404045?pgno=1

The article is a bit advanced. But anyone with good understanding of computer architecture should be able to go through it!

A Good article about ECG Signal Processing from LabVIEW

At the time I visited this article it was rated 4 out of 5 which is very good!

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6349

GUC Students' Blogs

Here are some blogs by students of the GUC. Currently they are all in Germany for their bachelor projects. I am really proud that I had a chance to work with such amazing and wonderful people! Enjoy:

http://husfahmy.blogspot.com/
http://thoughtsandtips.blogspot.com/
http://lewjee.blogspot.com/

Introduction to PhysioNet

http://www.physionet.org/NIH/NIH-PhysioNet-Intro.ppt

Add Circular Scrolling (and more!) to your laptop touchpad

From the Chinese Linux University!

http://www.chineselinuxuniversity.net/articles/13049.shtml

Add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or whatever your xorg.conf is at)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "3"
EndSection

Be sure to have Synaptics added to the Server Layout

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Dealing with Debian source packages

I found this interesting post, quoting:

apt-get build-dep glibc
apt-get source -b glibc

should work

or, if you already have the build-dependencies and source files
downloaded (.orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .dsc):

dpkg-source -x glibc*.dsc
cd glibc-*
make -f debian/rules build

randolph
--
Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/

The dpkg-source utility is found in dpkg-dev package.

Compiling over NFS

Ever needed to compile over exported NFS system in Linux. I needed it to compile some programs on my PC using a compiler in a virtual box ;-)

On the NFS server

add the following line to /etc/exports (Debian/Ubuntu systems)

/path/to/exported/directory *(rw,no_subtree_check,insecure,no_root_squash)

On the client machine (the one that will compile)

add the following line to /etc/fstab

10.0.2.2:/path/to/exported/directory /path/to/mnt/point nfs user,rw,exec 0 0

Note: replace 10.0.2.2 with the server IP or hostname

Warning: this setup is TOTALLY INSECURE!!

but who cares ;-)

I need to visit this blog later on

http://blog.akkaya.de/blojsom/blog/jpabel/

Contributors Needed!

Please contribute to this new emerging WikiBook

Biomedical Engineering: A Roadmap

Don't forget to add your name to the authors list ;-)

Israel hospital to deploy largest RFID installation in Middle East

http://healthcareitnews.eu/content/view/1068/43/

What is linux-gate.so.1?

Check this excellent article by Johan Petersson. Be sure to equip yourself with good knowledge about ABIs before reading!!

http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate/

BUG! -- the Biomedical Unix Geeks club

Biomedical Engineering make extensive use of software. Signal processing algorithms and other aspects of the biomedical engineering needs extensive study of computer science and software engineering. Unix platform is of special importance in the medical field due to its stability and ubiquity.
This club is for all biomedical engineers who love Unix, Software Engineering and Computer Science.

IMHO, Unix provides the best environment for the study of algorithms and computer science. The Unix tools and development also implements important point of the software engineering. Hence, came the idea of this club.

Please share your ideas with me on how this should go!

Puppy Linux trials with the eBox series

eBox 2300SX
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21864

eBox 2300
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=21059625&t=13722
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14719&search_id=21059625

eBox 4300
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=21059625&t=26982

Mixing C and C++

Did you ever think of creating C code suitable to be linked from C++ code !!

Just check:
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/mixing.html
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html

e-dsp.com

I just arrived at this amazing website for DSP and Electronics:

http://www.e-dsp.com/