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About joelgranados

I'm fascinated with how technology and science impact our reality and am drawn to leverage them in order to increase the potential of human activity.

Phase Change Memory documentation

Regarding the project for the fall SDBS class in ITU of 2010.  I will list some resources that I found that could be helpful in completing the PCM part of the project (Question 2).  Though most of my list refers … Continue reading

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Sending mail from the console is cool! ssmtp with gmail.

Quick Cheat-sheet on configuring ssmtp on my machine.  This is really cool for me because it enables me to send git patches from console.  I confess, I like the console. yum install ssmtp -y cat << EOF > root=postmaster mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 … Continue reading

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Adding a printer CUPS & SAMBA

The IT University of Copenhagen has this printing system where you have a centralized server receiving all the printing requests.  I was having a hard time finding the way to configure my Fedora to talk to this server.  A colleague showed me … Continue reading

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Just another way of reinstalling Fedora.

I have Fedora installed.  I’m very used to its packaging system and feel very comfortable using it.  Fedora releases every 6 months (more or less) and I like to a “fresh” reinstall every time there is a release.  I can’t … Continue reading

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The marker thingy worked :)

After a week of debugging I got the code to do what I wanted.  I have successfully detected a bit stream in the chessboard marker image.  I had to correct for a small error that I encountered las week that … Continue reading

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Principals of Computer System Design: Some comments (II)

While doing some more problems I noticed some more little issues that I want to get down before I forget: There is a misspell on page 282 in the before last paragraph, second line.  It says “flip-flip” when it’s supposed … Continue reading

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Principals of Computer System Design: Some comments (I)

This semester I was TA in a class called Building Database systems, Taught by Philippe Bonnet.  The class had a strong systems design focus and the book that was used was Principles of Computer System Desing by Jerome H. Saltzer … Continue reading

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New project image label

After some weeks of fiddling with opencv chessboard functions, I finally managed to detect some information on a modified board.  I do still need to address some small mistakes that are related to color detection.  These should be ironed out … Continue reading

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Useful (To me :) Vim commands.

It’s been a while since I have changed my vimrc file.  I recently had to do it to activate “textwidth” in my home box.  I still do not understand why it was not set to the usual 80 characters that … Continue reading

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New Annotation feature

After discussing the current state of the annotation software, I realized that it needed a  bit of attention.  One of the issues that we discussed, and the one that stayed in my head, was the strangeness when editing the annotations. … Continue reading

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