There was one post that got a handful of comments this past week, so I will try to repost most of those.Review: KahelOS 020212An anonymous reader asked, "Is KahelOS a rolling release?"Commenter kelvin said, among many other things, "kahelOS is progressing nicely and its a fairly new distro memory is quite high arch with gnome3 and a few extensions running idles at 230mb on my laptop. to install from AUR you need yaourt/packer I find yaourt better uses the same commands as pacman they both find and install dependencies. "I don't understand the...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Thursday, 23 February 2012
I have reviewed Chakra GNU/Linux a number of times here both before and after its split from the Arch base, and I have fairly consistently said that it is an amazing distribution and has a great implementation of KDE. But when it comes to Arch-based distributions, I have never tried the other side of the DE coin — GNOME — until now.Main Screen + KahelOS Welcome CenterThat is where KahelOS comes in. It is an Arch-based distribution that ships with...
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
During the spring semester of last year, I took 8.022 which is the slightly more difficult version of freshman E&M. Contrary to most classes which use SI units (meter, kilogram, second), 8.022 used Gaussian CGS units (centimeter, gram, second — hereafter referred to simply as "CGS units") partly because of tradition and partly because the professor is personally more comfortable using CGS units as he uses it in his own research too.I have a few friends who are freshmen taking 8.022 during this spring semester, and I was rather surprised and...
Sunday, 19 February 2012
There was one post this past week that got a couple comments, so I will repost those. Review: Salix OS 13.37 Xfce LiveAn anonymous reader said, "Good to see a review of a less well known distro. Salix is rather less newbie friendly than (say) Vector Linux and I think that is intentional. It's meant to be close to the real Slackware experience with a few conveniences, but dependency checking in Sourcery is not one of them. It's meant to be 100% compatible with Slackware, so if the base distro uses an old version of xfce then so will Salix....
Friday, 17 February 2012
Main Screen + Xfce Right-Click MenuI have wanted to review Salix OS for a while now. It does seem to be the one derivative of Slackware that really synchronizes itself with Slackware development, to the point where even the version numbering system is the same. I have already tried out a few other derivatives, like Zenwalk, Kongoni, VectorLinux, and Porteus; on the whole, all of those worked relatively well, but there were a few things here and there...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
A few days ago, I and the rest of MIT SPS went to see the play "Photograph 51". It details [and dramatizes] the life and work of Rosalind Franklin, who was the first to see the helical nature of DNA. For all her professional life (which tragically ended rather early due to ovarian cancer), she worked extremely methodically and refused to draw any conclusions or make any models unless there was solid data to support that. By contrast, Crick & Watson, who are traditionally the ones credited with discovering the structure and nature of DNA, went...
Sunday, 12 February 2012
There were no featured comments the previous week because I didn't post anything for that week due to my end-of-IAP business. There was one post this past week that got a couple of comments, so I will repost both of those.Comparison Test: Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" KDE vs. Netrunner 4.1 "Dryland"Reader Bart said, "It is a bit.. surprising to see a Facebook shortcut installed on a Linux desktop by default. You write that Netrunner also considers for example Google docs, GCal and Youtube as applications. So in that way it is a sort of a net-runner...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Linux Mint: Main ScreenBoth of the latest releases of these particular distributions came out this week. Also, Linux Mint now has a partnership with Netrunner for Linux Mint with KDE; hence, this comparison test may be the last meaningful one between the distributions while they remain as separate as possible, because I think they will converge in the coming months. Finally, Kubuntu just lost its funding at Canonical, so like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Yesterday my fourth semester here started. This semester, I am taking 8.04 (Quantum Physics I), 8.044 (Statistical Physics I), 14.02 (Principles of Macroeconomics), and 18.06 (Linear Algebra). In addition, I am continuing my UROP (though my work will likely change soon) and doing some other work too.It's going to be a busy semester, but given that I am now used to this kind of workload from last year, I think I will be able to manage it better. Plus, now that my classes start each day no earlier than 11am, I can get more sleep! Yay! That aside,...
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