July 2008
4 posts
Second "das keyboard"
So, I just got my second http://www.daskeyboard.com/ in the mail. The first one I had was the “original”, and I loved and continue to love it. I’ve been using it as my work keyboard (where I do the majority of my coding) for the last 3 years or so.
I just got a second one, but it’s the “new” version (the only one they offer now). It’s cleaner design-wise,...
Problems with Vinagre
So, the default remote desktop app in Ubuntu changed from, um, I don’t know what actually, to a new app called “Vinagre”.
You’d think that’d be something I wouldn’t give a patooty about. The first thing you notice is that it has a list on the side that lets you keep track of servers you connect to which seemed nice enough.
I didn’t use it much at first,...
Windows iTunes
I genuinely don’t understand.
I’m not trying to be difficult. I really tried to use iTunes this time. It seemed like the march of inevitability if I wanted to get iPhone apps, and I thought perhaps it would be nice to use. I grabbed the new 7.7 that has iPhone apps, since I wanted to have a look at what was available. It was a little large at 60meg, but hey, whatever, there’s...
Project Euler, problem #10 in F#
Problem’s quite simply stated this time:
The sum of the primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17.
Find the sum of all the primes below two million.
First typed in solution was simply:
[2..1999999] |> Seq.filter(isprime) |> Seq.fold1(+)
Which got me a number pretty quickly that looked lovely, but was completely wrong. I ran it again, apparently hoping that’d it magically be...