Put It In the Bond?

November 2nd, 2008

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If you’re servicing a mortgage at the moment, and you happen to come into some money, the “best” advice you’re probably going to get is: “put it in your bond”. Not bad advice, i guess, but i’m not so sure it’s the “best”.
**DISCLAIMER: I’m NOT a financial advisor; am not pretending to be one; [...]

MATLAB R14sp3 On Ubuntu 7.04

June 4th, 2007

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A couple of things to be aware of if you’re doing this installation, which i discovered through trial and error
The machine id used for activation is based on the MAC address of eth0. On my machine, for example, my active interface is primarily the wireless card which is set as eth1. Hence, no [...]

Fractions and Foating-Points

May 22nd, 2007

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Floating-point arithmetic on a computer is hazardous, at best. This post is not a detail description of the problem. Varied descriptions of the problem already abound, like this one, for example. There’s also documented pain out there to understand that it’s not just your computer No, this post is just one way of [...]