GECCO 2008 Deadline Extended to January 30th

I just got an email from the GECCO 2008 organizers extending the deadline till January 2008.

Jan 9, 2008 · 1 min · 16 words · Xavier Llorà

GECCO 2008 Deadline

The deadline for the next Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008) is approaching. Januray 16, 2008 is the date. Get ready!

Dec 4, 2007 · 1 min · 22 words · Xavier Llorà

Reasoning for the semantic web

Jena 2 Inference Support is a nice introduction to the inference engines provided by the Jena package. Besides standardized reasoning for RDF and a subset of OWL/Lite and OWL/All ontologies, it also provides the mechanisms for creating your own rule-based inference engine using the generic rule-based inference also provided.

Nov 26, 2007 · 1 min · 49 words · Xavier Llorà

Wordpress and your iPhone

WordPress iPhone / Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.

Oct 12, 2007 · 1 min · 19 words · Xavier Llorà

Reset the MBR using Linux

Here is a simple trick if you need to clean it. Recently I needed to clean some Rocks Clusters node’s HD to allow it to reinstall dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/HD count=1 bs=512 This avoid the computer to try to boot from the hard drive. However, if the node was already on the cluster, you need to run # insert-ethers --remove="compute-0-1" To remove it from the cluster, where “compute-0-1” is the name of the node in cluster. Then, you can start insert-ethers, and boot the node and it will start reinstalling itself. ...

Sep 21, 2007 · 1 min · 90 words · Xavier Llorà