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AGames: Toss it – great relax in public transport
This game doesn’t need to have your brain “connected” to the rest of the body 🙂 It’s cool. Your mission is only toss the crumpled paper to the basket. Great idea and cool relax … your other task is to deal with the side wind. This game is ready on the Android Market … and it has my recommendation to test: Great Android Game
Ubuntu Upgrade: from 9.10 to 10.04 – Intel Graphic card issue
During the upgrade procedure was removed xserver-xorg-video-intel . Upgraded system wasn’t able to start. Instead of login screen was displayed black screen … ( not blue screen of death, well known from Windows 😉
Just follow these steps to fix it: Restart the system -> from Grub choose safe mode -> simple graphic mode -> then login into the system -> open synaptic package manager -> install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Then everything should work correctly again …
Missing Volume Button after upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04
If you’ve just upgraded to 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” from ver. 9.10 and you found out the volume icon/button is missing in the system tray. Here is the way how to fix that issue.
System->Preferences->Startup Application Preferences – Add
gnome-volume-control-applet
Or
Just open the terminal and run up #gnome-volume-control-applet
… PhD, Hudson-mobi, OpenGL : simply Android
Last days I had no time for blogging… I’m really missing it! I’ve been working on project for my PhD and PhD itself. It’s pretty hard to stay focused when the weather outside is almost sunny 🙂 … I’m glad I have time go to the gym or biking.
During the mean time I’m glad for my participation on Hudson-mobi for android. I’ve changed layout, implement animations, workflow, class changes and I did couple of fixes inside the source code itself. Well, I don’t want to forget about app graphic design which I’ve done too. I hope all users gonna be satisfied with look-and-feel design. It’s really excited to participate on this. Everything gonna be published soon! Have a quick look now and here…
Yesterday I had just feeling I should open OpenGL SE implementation for Android. Emulator is doing pretty good. 3D implementation is working pretty fast, no doubts here. Much more excited is hardware implementation on your device. (HTC Desire, Nexus One). Here are only two images … from glass effect which is quite simple to implement using OpenGL tutorial … HERE .
Most special effects in OpenGL rely on some type of blending. Blending is used to combine the color of a given pixel that is about to be drawn with the pixel that is already on the screen. How the colors are combined is based on the alpha value of the colors, and/or the blending function that is being used. Most people think of Alpha as how opaque a material is. An alpha value of 0.0 would mean that the material is completely transparent. A value of 1.0 would be totally opaque.
Ubuntu 9.10 – two external LCD (laptop)
I have Intel X3100 graphic card on my laptop and External 24 inches LCD connected in. Well to use both LCD under Ubuntu (9.10, in my case) you need to open command line and type several commands. Have a look bellow:
After this step is everything quite intuitive. Just manage your LCDs as you want. xrandr tool allows you to use following:
xrandr –output LVDS1 –off;
xrandr –output VGA1 –off;
xrandr –output VGA1 –auto –primary;
xrandr –output LVDS1 –auto –right-of VGA1;
Mobile Technologies and medical/clinical usage #Android
In parallel with my PhD thesis I’v started work on other Android project which is directly connected with my thesis (so cool). I really like my PhD topic because I have been interesting in neurology since my childhood. Brain is big mystery to me ( I guess also for others 🙂 and so excited. Maybe it’s on similar line as Android 😀 and other mobile technologies I have used till know. Medical branch needs a lot of improvements to do analysis and checkups much faster then now (more mathematics, statistics, algorithms and right implementation). It gonna be definitely more comfortable for any patients .
Next days I’ll by improving my framework and analyzing subjects affected by Schwannoma. I’ll see how big improvement they have done after surgery and rehabilitation by using my framework. It would be definitely excited.
I’m apologize to anyone who doesn’t agree with my state but keep in mind that faster and more reliable framework helps to make such checkup faster. Affected subject gonna have time for relaxing and don’t be so stressed around…
quick photo walk through the Lab … my PhD thesis
Today morning I did couple of photos from the Lab where we have done quite almost all subject measurements. Lab is at Neurology Department and we are investigating movement disorders on this device, STS… EnJoy photos!
Rainbow …
Just for relax… I have taken them two days ago…
What it’s going on last weeks…
well, last weeks I’m very busy … like close to superBusy as I have duties around Thesis, Android, Google App engine, medical projects … it’s tonnes of things need to be finished very soon. Honestly, I really have lot of things to share around, you won’t believe, but it’s logical after work … it’s never ending story … I hope I’ll get time very soon…
Cheers, stay tuned…
The point connected with algorithms… designer vs. engineer
To become a good algorithm designer, you must understand the rudiments of the theory of NP-completeness. If you can establish a problem as NP-complete, you provide good evidence for its intractability. As an engineer, you would then do better spending your time developing an approximation algorithm or solving a tractable special case, rather than searching for a fast algorithm that solves the problem exactly. Moreover, many natural and interesting problems that on the surface seem no harder than sorting, graph searching, or network flow are in fact NP-complete.
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