Ants in my laptop - II

The extermination

I got suggestions ranging from "Put your laptop in a refrigerator" to "Put your laptop in the microwave" :). I chose to use the laxman rekha approach.

So, last night, I put my laptop on a cardboard box and encircled it using the killer chalk. The result is shown in Figure 2 ;)

Figure 1: The setup

Figure 2: Suicide (or mass murder?)

Ants in my laptop :(

There are heaps of tiny red ants crawling out of my keyboard and USB ports from time to time! I have eliminated around 40 today. I wonder how many are still inside! What do I do!!!

Scilab 5.1.1 on Linux

Well, if you have landed on this page, you must have got something like this when you ran Scilab 5.1.1 on linux

bin/scilab: line 132:  8184 Segmentation fault      "$SCILABBIN" $*

The easiest way to get around this is to run it as

$ bin/scilab -nogui

You obviously will have to sacrifice the "improved" GUI features of Scilab 5.1.1. But it really shouldn't matter much as gedit/kwrite are perfectly fine as text editors. And I think the terminal version is much much easier to use than the GUI version.

Update:

1. Well, no GUI is a problem when you want to plot graphs :( I haven't yet figured out a way to get around this.
2. Ubuntu has a deb package to install scilab 5.1. Fedora users, bad luck.
   

Intelligent IITians

A few people I admire most

	Abhiram Natarajan - For his never ending repository of algorithms and swear words
Anup B Prakash - Simply awesome at everything he does
	Chaya Ganesh - For being such a wonderful person
Rama B - For shamelessly lying about his academic abilities all the time
	Netra Malagi - For being a geek, and an open source enthusiast right from the beginning
Prashant Borole - Coder++, writes his own kernels, file systems and what not. IMO, one of the best systems guys in the world
	Sriram Kashyap - An extremely helpful Geek++

A lecture series on Analysis and design of algorithms

A lecture series on Analysis and design of algorithms

Just happened to find it on youtube :) .The above set of videos is from the under grad algorithms course offered by Prof. Abhiram Ranade and Prof. Saisundararaman Vishwanathan at IIT Bombay. More subjects here

Bought an Acer 5738 :)

Comes with Linux, 3GB DDR3 RAM, Core 2 Duo T6500 2.1GHz, 320GB hard disk, Gigabit ethernet card, fingerprint reader, an HDMI port (pretty useless unless you have a decent graphics card), multi touch touchpad (allows to zoom using a 2-finger motion), laptop bag, and the usual stuff. More here.
Price: Rs. 34,000