Fred Palma | Computer Scientist

sudo apt-get install gs pdftk (Debian, Ubuntu) gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=mergedfile.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf […]

Open Scite, click Options > Open global options file search for “#code.page=65001″ and uncomment it (remove# symbol) -> code.page=65001 comment out “code.page=0″ (add # symbol) ->  #code.page=0 save the global ooptions file and restart Scite […]

http://validator.w3.org by W3C W3C validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XML,  XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available. […]

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. D.E. Knuth Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University […]

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http://www.truecrypt.org/ It’s open source! http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS. Not even FBI was able to decrypt it. […]

How Google works […]

#sudo aptitude install subversion libapache2-svn The install should automatically enable the module.To check it: #sudo a2enmod dav_svn You need to configure Apache: #sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf Edit the file: DAV svn SVNPath /home/svn AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion Repository" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd Re […]

From Computerworld by Steven As everyone knows by now who follows technology news, the Financial Times reported that Google “is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns.” Some doubt this story, because they say that’s its vague about sources. Well, I asked, and the story is ‘mostl […]

Georgia Tech’s College of Computing today announced that a group of its students and their professor have been awarded a Sustainable Vision Grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to move LifeNet, a flexible ad hoc communications network, from the classroom into the marketplace. LifeNet allows one person to share n […]