A Simple Program for Finding Palindromic Prime Numbers
A palindromic prime (palprime) is a prime number that is also palindromic. So out of curiosity I wrote a simple […]
CFL Capacitor Problem
Many of you may still remember the capacitor plague that caused massive motherboard failures back in the early 2000s. While […]
An Alternative Illustration of Prime Number Distribution
Prime number theorem dictates the asymptotic behavior of prime number distributions. In layman terms, the distance between prime numbers increases […]
Why Current EVs Do Not Make Sense From Economical And Environmental View Points
About two years ago, I blogged about why hybrids were not saving us any energy by taking into consideration the […]
Strange Windows Authentication Behavior
I was writing an ASP.Net 2.0 web application using Windows authentication (since I needed to capture users’ credentials). The web […]
Monodevelop on Ubuntu 9.04
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit. One thing I noticed is that the integrated debugger is behaving quite flaky for […]
Google Finance Down Earlier Today
It appeared that Google Finance was down for at least half an hour (from before 9:30 EST till after 10:00 […]
Image Blur Detection via Hough Transform — IV
In my previous three articles (1,2,3) I discussed how to use Canny edge detection and Hough transform to identify blur […]
Image Blur Detection via Hough Transform — III
I will continue where I left off in my previous post. After performing Hough transform, and extracted the longest sections […]
Image Blur Detection via Hough Transform — II
In my previous post, I briefly discussed the rationale behind automated blur detection in digital imagery and did an overview […]
Image Blur Detection via Hough Transform — I
It is often necessary to identify and classify images based on their clarities. For instance, it is desirable for an […]
LaTeX Math Equations in WordPress
Getting LaTex style math equations to work in WordPress is actually pretty easy. I followed the advice here and everything […]
My First Few Days With Bing
So Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has been available for the general public for a few days. While I have […]
Timing Methods in C++ Under Linux
Measuring the execution time for code sections can be done in multiple ways in C++. Except for the time resolution […]
Magick++ Missing Delegate Error
As I wrote last time, I did a clean Ubuntu 9.04 install on my main PC.