When it comes to programming, editors matter. Despite what others might say, I truly believe that the right tool is required for a good level of productivity. My work environment involves a nice mixture of Windows, Linux and OSX. My choice of editor for each platform is quite clear: Textmate for OSX (it is THE editor), E-Text Editor for Windows and gvim for Linux. I would like to spare the discussion of why those editors are great choice for each platform in another post. In this post, I shall discuss the importance of a good editor.
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You are what you read
In one of Dr. Venkat’s inspirational speech, he emphasizes the importance of readings for Computer Scientists. Reading opens many doors to knowledges. Many goes as far as claiming that "You are what you read"
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I have been a fan of Asus motherboards for some time now. I bought my first motherboard from them back in the socket 939 age. I recently bought another board from Asus with SLI capabilities. What really bugs me is there bad website. It is really hard to go through and find the driver for my board and download them. The website responses very slowly on my Comcast connection and this has been aggravated me quite a lot. On the contrary, this morning I put together a Gigabyte motherboard computer. Downloading driver was extremely fast and their website is nicely designed in a way that I can find my driver with 2 clicks. I know where I will be buying my future motherboards from.
Manufacturers, please keep your website sane.
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More site update coming soon
In an effort to revamp my site, I have been making quite a bunch of changes to the site structure and design. Although it does look better, I don’t think it is on par with some other blogs out there yet. So please stay still as I am working more on it 
. Now that I have finished with my first semester of my Senior year, there are a few things I need to take care of regarding my post-graduation plan. Those tasks will take some of my time; however, I will keep this blog updated as well
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I happen to feel a bit bored reading all my previous homework for Statistics so I decided (actually Ami did) to play with some pictures on our laptop webcams. We struggled for a while trying to find the feature similar to OS X Photobooth in Vista. No luck. I googled a bit and found out that I can use Cheese in my Ubuntu. This application allows me to take pictures and apply a bunch of funny effects on it. We had a blast.
I notice that Linux apps are getting cleaner and better. The UI of Cheese is simple, unclutter and fits well with the desktop. It allows me to work on those shots with external apps as well. Kudos to Cheese developers.
Here are some pix that we took.
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Sometimes, life is not so smooth. My Vista Business keeps hanging for some unknown reason. I found out later that there are some tweak to do.
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