Vivek Haldar

Here’s a collection of some hardware acquisition hacks I’ve been using over the last few years. By no means are these original ideas–they’re quite well-known within their own niches. But all the same, they don’t seem to be very widespread among the other...

Over on my YouTube channel, I make talking head videos, covering various computer science topics, mostly research papers. One of the most time-consuming yet mindnumbingly boring parts of that process is finding out all the dead air in the original video...

Just thought I’d put this tip out in the Internet…
So I recently got a Thinkpad Trackpoint II keyboard, which I like to use with my MacBook when docked to an external monitor. Yes, I realize that’s mixed up.
But it happens to have a “PrtSc” key right on the space-bar row that is perfectly placed to be the “Cmd” key. Mac OS X, in its Keyboard Preferences, lets you remap some standard keys (Caps Lock to Ctrl, for example), but not PrtSc....

Unix has won in every conceivable way. And in true mythic style, it contains the seeds of its own eclipse. This is my subjective historical narrative of how that happened.
I’m using the name “Unix” to include the entire family of operating systems descended from it, or that have been heavily influenced by it. That includes Linux, SunOS, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and many, many others....