Computer Science and Technology

Steve Ballmer: Microsoft's arrogance incarnation

Wednesday, 15 October 2008 00:31 Joel

Everytime I read some interview of Steve Ballmer, current CEO of Microsoft, I think: "How can such an arrogant person lead one of the most important companies in the world?" This might be a stupid idea, but I continue hoping that the most important people in the business world are also among the most clever and most broad-minded people. While Bill Gates always appeared to me as a genius, specially for business, his successor doesn't look like him at all...

How can Windows be easier to use than other Operating Systems?

Sunday, 06 July 2008 13:57 Joel

Before I got into the École Centrale Paris, I almost knew nothing but Microsoft Windows as an Operating System. I even knew many tricks about Windows, and learned some of the things that would inevitably make it unstable... I then thought that Computers just had to be that way...

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Installing Tomcat on Mac OS X

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:30 Joel

Having to work with Tomcat for an important project I am working on, I installed it on my Mac. However, on the beginning, I didn't make much effort: I just uncompressed the official archive in my /usr/local, and I was able to start and stop tomcat manually, that's all... But today I decided to learn a few things about Mac OS X, trying to install it properly. Let's see what I did!

Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 May 2008 11:56 ) Read more...

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mmv under Mac OS X Leopard (for Mac Intel)

Monday, 12 May 2008 13:18 Joel

Since I switched from Debian and Ubuntu to Mac OS X Leopard, I got used to most of the differences between those operating systems. Yet one very important thing for me was still lacking: A command line utility called mmv...

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Japanese in LaTeX documents and in Unicode with MacTeX

Saturday, 10 May 2008 22:51 Joel

Since I discovered LaTeX, I have become a real fan of this typesetting system. Yet, something bothered me very much: I could not use easily Japanese with LaTeX using a normal encoding, that is to say using UTF-8. Using CJK is not too difficult, but getting CJKutf8 to work is much harder. I just couldn't resign myself to use some strange encoding popular in Japan, mostly for Windows Addicts...

But I just found how to do it. Since it is not so easy, I want to do a copy-paste how-to explaining precisely how to install UTF-8 Japanese support in MacTeX. So, just follow the guide...

Last Updated ( Friday, 14 November 2008 12:33 ) Read more...

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