Jorge Martinez de Salinas

An interesting read on Virtual…

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:45:48 +0000

An interesting read on Virtual Machines http://amzn.to/98HWn4

Industry Education Recommended Reading List by Intel

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:32:36 +0000

The other day I found a very interesting reading list made by Intel that includes recommended books from different technological areas (HW, SW, parallel computing, etc.). If you’re working on any of these topics, it’s worth taking a look.

Object Oriented C

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:27:29 +0000

Object Oriented C? Sure. In the end what’s important about object oriented programming is the techniques not the languages. If you are interested on the topic take a look at this book.

Windows Powershell

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:48:07 +0000

Certainly, one of the main strenghs of Linux is its powerful shell. A few years ago Windows lacked a competitive counterpart. This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, thanks to Windows Powershell. By now I don’t have enough info to give an opinion, but it’s something I want to look into. I’ll be back [...]

Check your computer’s RAM type and speed

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:18:02 +0000

If you want to know which RAM is installed in your PC (DDR, DDR2…) and its speed, type this command: $ sudo dmidecode --type 17 Remember that dmidecode can provide additional (useful) information about your HW.

Verilog plugin for Eclipse

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:35:52 +0000

If you are going to develop Verilog/VHDL code using eclipse I’ve got good news for you. Veditor provides a nice environment to work with Verilog. To install it click Help->Install new software. The repository URL is at: http://veditor.sourceforge.net/update Be sure to uncheck Group items by category, otherwise Veditor won’t show up.

Installing Sun’s JRE on Fedora Core

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:22:09 +0000

First go here and choose your operating system and architecture. Download the corresponding jre. $ chmod +x jre-6u16-linux-i586-rpm.bin $ sudo ./jre-6u16-linux-i586-rpm.bin Probably your system has another java version already installed: $ java -version If this is the case select the new jre using alternatives: $ sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jre1.6.0_16/bin/java 2 $ sudo alternatives [...]

HP Invent

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:07:01 +0000

Manage VMware virtual machines from the command line

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:40:41 +0000

To control VMware Workstation Virtual Machines from the command line use the vmrun utility. For instance, to stop a running virtual machine use this command: # vmrun stop myvm.vmx For a comprehensive guide on vmrun take a look at this document.

Indent first paragraph of the section in Latex

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:41:51 +0000

By default Latex indents all the paragraphs except the first paragraph of the section. To modify this behavior include the indentfirst package in your document’s preamble: \usepackage{indentfirst}