When you are in an empty room for some time, you may hear whispers. There’s a fully sound-proofed room at the annexe of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. It’s used for measuring and calibrating units of sound intensity and frequency. The decibel was first set in that office, and so was …
Don’t sleep with a patched OS X
I am running a triple-boot (Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and a patched Mac OS X 10.6.3) on a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Intel Core 2 Duo, 250 GB HDD and 3 GB Ram, and using Grub 2 as the bootloader. A few days ago, Debsankha, one of my collegemates, installed for me the last of …
Inquivesta Wallpaper
I designed this wallpaper for Inquivesta 2011. I just took the logo and inverted the colours. Hope you like it. By the way, I decided, right now, to participate in WordPress’ Post a Week 2011 Challenge (I’m not so sorry now that I migrated from Live Spaces – it’s frankly cooler here), starting with this …
Default fonts in Chrome appear in Italics
Most of my pages in Google chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 were showing text in bold and italics. I tried changing the default font settings of the browser, but those were okay. Then I tried to change the chrome theme, but that didn’t work either. Then I found a couple of threads that addressed the issue, …
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
It was during a boring lecture at NCRA that Debsankha and I came up with the idea of this game. We were wondering how to pass the time, when he suggested we play a 4X4 tic-tac-toe. I had tried it by myself once, and it wasn’t too good, so I suggested a 3X3X3 version instead. …
One Life 