October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:44 AM

Man (Manual) -> PDF

groff -Tps -m man filename.n | ps2pdf - output.pdf

or

groff -Tps -m man filename.n > output.ps
ps2pdf output.ps
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Monday, October 23, 2006 10:58 PM

Firefox 2.0 Browser Launched

The Mozilla Corporation posted the final release of Firefox 2.0 today. (Someone told me that the final version is the same as RC 3. Not verified yet.)
An official announcement is expected Tuesday. 
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Friday, October 20, 2006 10:27 PM

Mr. Daganzo visited MIT today

Mr. Carlos Daganzo from Berkeley came to MIT today and gave a talk on  "Urban gridlock mitigation and other ideas to improve future urban transport".  The talk was part of the Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by the Center for Transportation and Logistics.  Some interesting ideas were presented through vivid demos such as the one-lane ring road program.

After the talk he came to our lab and we presented him a few demos on MITSIMLab and DynaMIT.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:15 PM

Use Google Docs & Spreadsheets to Convert Doc or Xls Files

Google Docs & Spreadsheets accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODF, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc., and it claims the files can be saved in DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODF, PDF, RTF and HTML formats.  So this is potentially yet another way to convert MS Office files to open document format.
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Monday, October 02, 2006 9:51 PM

CPU + GPU =?

PeakStream released their commercial product which, according to their study, would exploit the power of GPU's floating-point computation ability to achieve substantial performance improvements.

http://www.peakstreaminc.com/
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