PhD Life: Gradschool is Cruel

Our Poster Paper

This is our poster paper to be appeared on

Pameran Hasil Penelitian

Program Riset ITB dan Program Hibah DIKTI DIPA ITB 2011

Galeri Utama Campus Centre Timur ITB

29 – 30 November 2011

Note: We do not follow the template because the posters have been printed before we found out that there is a template!

So let us present our research in contemporary design

From Poster Paper Hibah DIKTI 2011 BR

From Poster Paper Hibah DIKTI 2011 BR

PhD Life: Simply Unpredictable

PhD Comics: Phd Horror

Retrieving lost passwords in MacOS

For some reasons I cannot explain here, I have several accounts for emails and socmeds and chat service. Today I forgot one which refers to another account, which I forgot the password, which refers to a dead email. Recursive craziness of losing passwords.

I tried several ways like guessing all passwords I could remember, trying to find out how to switch the address of the dead email to a live one, an so on. And then I remembered that I connect to most of the accounts (Gmail, YM, FB, etc) using Adium, so tinkered with it to try to recover the passwords, but for no avail.

So I googled, and find out that all passwords are stored in Finder > Application > Keychain Access. I just need to click the account list there, and put a check on “show password” and enter the mac password, and yay!

Drawing Elliptic Curve with Geometer Sketchpad

Point Addition:

Point Doubling:

Associative:

[*Note: Big thanks for Fajar Yuliawan for his brilliant tutorial ]

Git for Snow Leopard

We are developing software and looking for a platform for sharing and versioning management. Considering suggestions coming from our fellow programmers, we decided to use Git.

Git repository: GitHub, BitBucket, Unfuddle
Git Tools for Mac: like GitX, GitBox, Gitti.
More about Git Tools here.
I’m giving Gitti a try for right now.

Here’s a useful link on how to install Git on Snow Leopard.

Still cannot connect GitX and Gitti to BitBucket.

Will post how to resolve it later.

Back to VHDL

One of our papers is invited to an international journal, so in order to add new content of at least 30% to the conference version (further analysis, additional simulation/experimental results, detailed design/synthesis, further comparison with other related methods, a more elaborated discussion), we decided to do more exploration and experiments on composite field implementation with VHDL.

And I have to read this.

Macbook: New Power Adapter

My almost-5-yo Macbook needs power adapter to be replaced this morning.

This happens because I pushed a table to keep the adaptor stick to the power outlet on the wall when I was working at the hospital 2 days ago.

Luckily the apple store have the stock ready

It’s charging and I’m ready to work

Phew. The macbook has gone through many things during the gradschool. What a long journey.

Rest In Peace, Steve Jobs

My tribute to Steve Jobs here.