An online web persona is essentially a collection of online personal effects: web pages, profiles, and accounts. It’s important to have a well maintained web persona for a few reasons: to be easily discovered by potential employers, to build connections, and to be easily contacted. I try to saturate search results for my name with [...]
Some Nvidia graphics cards suffer from a bug called the “Black Window Bug” when running Compiz (the Linux 3D desktop). The Nvidia drivers will stop rendering windows after a certain memory limit has been reached. This is a known Nvidia driver bug and has been fixed but did not make it into the Ubuntu Gutsy [...]
As a follow-up to my reverse interviewing article, below is an outline of some of my theories on interviewing in general. Reviewing vs. Cramming Preparing for interviews is a smart idea but there’s also some things to be careful of. Preparing can be split into two methods: reviewing and cramming. Reviewing material which the interviewee [...]
In the first few months of my senior year of university, I’ve probably spent close to 30 hours interviewing for prospective employers1 and received offers from a few of them as well. With so much interviewing in such little time, it’s pretty easy to recognize patterns and potential motivations behind interview techniques. These techniques are [...]
Like everyone else, I used the /bin/false guide to install Ubuntu on my MacBook. Either I did something wrong or there was/is an error in the guide because lilo was installed to the MBR of /dev/sda and not the third partition, /dev/sda3, like specified in the given lilo.conf. I think the error in the guide [...]