Fri 17 January 2014

I just installed a footnote plugin[1. FD footnote]. It works! About page update.

Category: blog

Sun 05 January 2014

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350"] still no fish to english translator (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

That news is quite useful (or not). In short, some people find a way to add one really strange language in transloators. This language is as strange as alien languages but more common in …

Category: fun Tagged: dog Education language Social Sciences translator fun tools

Sat 04 January 2014

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="75"] Music illustration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

The next step in the music category of this blog consists on writing/editing/encoding/playing with music.

The keywords to find music editor related software are scorewriter, sheet music, score editor, input music language and music score …

Category: music Tagged: Lilypond MuseScore Music sequencer Musical composition Musical notation Mythbuntu Scorewriter Sheet music music tools

Fri 03 January 2014

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Natural rhythms generator[/caption]

I'm still interesseted in music (de)composition. In this post, I want to focus on rhythm, i.e. only when a note is played and for how many time.

Category: maths Tagged: bar beat duration note rhythm Typesetting music maths

Sun 29 December 2013

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] old disk drive (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

I just found a study about hard drive failure. It reminds me another study held in 2007.

The first thing I see is that the failure rate is still higher in the first year and after 3 …

Category: hardware Tagged: Failure rate Hard disk drive failure Hardware Solid-state drive

Mon 23 December 2013

Explications here are based on what I've learn thanks to this youtube channel and the related researches (including the famous french documentary series c'est pas sorcier)

Category: maths

Wed 11 December 2013

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Date format by country. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

When writting the date, the format depend on many things. in France, it is usually written in DD/MM/YY. Today, we are the 11/12/13.

Category: fun Tagged: Calendar date France ISO 8601 Standards

Sun 08 December 2013

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] what's your name? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

After seeing a post on a blog I follow, I decided to use my own. For me, the most important is not running your own DNS server (but it is the funniest), but the fact that you …

Category: tools Tagged: DNS Domain Name System Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Local area network Name server OpenDNS public recursive DNS Resolv.conf

Tue 03 December 2013

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Many N-grams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

I just found a tool that existed long ago:  the google books ngram viewer. It basically counts the occurrence of a ngram (not restricted to a word) in books digitised by google and present this number versus the …

Category: tools Tagged: Google Google Books Google Ngram Viewer Ngram

Tue 19 November 2013

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="227"] Brittany model for 3D printing (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

I just found a news: a company (with another) in Brittany decided to use algae for 3D printing. This decision adds an item to the list of usable material for 3D printing (paper, metal, plastic …

Category: fun Tagged: 3d print Brittany