Entries from July 2005

Everything that has a beginning has an end

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 31, 2005 at 2:04pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

You probably remember that quote from “The Matrix”. It is a fact that I hate endings and that quote makes sure you don’t forget that whatever begins now, will end some day. I believe that this is one of the most important things you learn growing up. And most of the times you learn it […]

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The beach

Comments   2   Date Arrow  July 28, 2005 at 8:23pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I extended my last weekend till Tuesday since there was a festival at my village. Every village in Greece has a special celebration day. My village celebrates on S. Friday, which is on 26 of the July. It was fun and relaxing. It is always good to see old friends and enjoy nature at its […]

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An other contribution to OpenSource

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 22, 2005 at 3:53pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Ok… after a lot of hard work, I managed to implement RQ decomposition in SciPy. It was a rather bad experience. I hate Fortran and I had to mess with it. Patch is send to the scipy-dev mailing list and I’m ready to continue my work.

But wait… it is Friday!!! I’m off!!!

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RQ Decomposition

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 21, 2005 at 11:39am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

My master thesis requires a lot of maths and linear algebra. For the purpose I use SciPy. It is a very good library and the fact that it is in python makes it very flexible. The problem is that it is (most of the times) just a wrapper around other older libraries like the famous […]

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Migration from XFree86 to Xorg

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 20, 2005 at 11:31am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Migration from xfree86 to Xorg

I don’t know why but, I always wanted to get rid of xfree. It must be the traumatic childhood with it. As the biggest bug stumbler that I am, xfree never worked for me the way it was supposed to. Having to mess with all the 3D acceleration stuff, just made […]

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