Life and the Office, and Work, too

Did you ever wonder how much the terms “guilt” and “office” are connected? Did you ever wish to just relax while working (and have your work benefit from it), but didn’t actually do so, since it looks bad? Wish you could work at home, knowing you’d be more …

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Losing my Faith in Debian

I really do not like the way things are going in recent times within the Debian project. I feel that a group of people has gained way too much control over how things are run, and those people do not seem to care about users, they seem to care about …

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These are turbulent times.

To follow up on the previous post, my laptop did find its way back to life. But unfortunately, only briefly so. It started all the way into X just once, and now seems to be dead forever. In the light of this, I’ve given in and ordered aramiss …

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Uh, yay.

This July 4th could have been better. While it was a very appropriate day to get my visa (yay!), the evening was actually fairly bad. First, I discovered that a heavy rainstorm this afternoon has found its way into my laptop through an opened window. As yet, the laptop is …

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ARPACK/LAPACK Symbol Duplication

Update: The packages distributed here have been superseded by the new autotoolized ARPACK.

This evening, I ran into a pretty frustrating problem with ARPACK. It aborted without being able to compute an Arnoldi factorization from within one program, but the same snippet of code (with the same matrix!) would work …

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