http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog Network Simulation Cradle PhD Development Progress Journal Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:54:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A nice excerpt from a form handed in today: It's done -- "there's no going back now." I thought when I finally handed the thesis in I'd have a lot to say here. However, I don't. http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=634 ... Should really be opened up. This post is just a **TODO** to remind me to look into this. http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=632 **TODO**: * read through thesis, check grammar, etc. (*done*) * incorporate fixes from reading above (*done*) * check margins (make into PDF, make sure paper is A4, measure margins to make sure they are right, possibly look for an A4 printer here (might be hard, everything is letter)) (*done*) * check Waikato dissertation style ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=631 Some time ago I hacked up a little script to view my subversion repository version over time. I lost the initial script but I've recreated it today. Thought it was interesting to look at as the history dates back to 2003. Creating this is very easy with the help of ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=629 One of the recommended ways to upgrade WordPress these days is [with SVN](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion). This is a convinient way of updating that is a lot quicker than the previous method. One of the problems with WordPress I've found over 4 years of running the software is that it has required many ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=628 The `url` package in Latex does a good job of formatting URLs and breaking them over lines when need be. Unfortunately, when you use `hyperref`, the package which makes PDF links and stuff work, the breaking over line functionality... breaks. The solution of this problem is described [in the FAQ](http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=breaklinks). Basically, ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=627 I was finding my list environments (enumerate, itemize, etc.) in Latex were taking up a *lot* of space. While space isn't a huge concern in a dissertation, they tended to look a bit too... spaced out. I did a bit of research on this and mostly remedied the situation. Turns ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=626 I got some feedback from my PhD supervisor recently and one of the comments was as follows: I had been using "performant" to mean something along the lines of "fast enough". But is it really a word? I wasn't actually sure. Turns out a few others have had the same problem. ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=625 Released a new version of NSC after over a year. It has support for Linux 2.6.18 amongst other things. As usual, it can be found at: http://research.wand.net.nz/software/nsc.php http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=623 PhD seems to be getting a bit bigger. Went past the 40,000 word mark. Well, the word count *is* approximate, so maybe I haven't. Or maybe I already have. But it's probably about right. [code] sam@hesiod:~/900/thesis$ make wordcount Approximate word count: 41095 [/code] (40,000 words doesn't seem like much for the size of the document. ... http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/blog/?p=622