The job takes one microSD card and two files that you download from the Internet: a CWR .img file, that you use to make the microSD card bootable; and a ManualNooter .zip file, which you do not unzip; you simply copy it onto your bootable microSD. You will google this, and instructions of different vintage [...]

You may find yourself on a job where people use SAS, but you would rather use Stata. If you have both SAS and Stata installed on your computer, you can simply put Dan Blanchette's usesas to work. That's all you need. If you don't have SAS installed, make your colleagues' lives easier and give them [...]

I turned a 7-year old Motorola WR850G (v3) 802.11b/g router into a repeater for a dual-channel Netgear WNDR3700 that I bought a few weeks ago. Dual-channel means that the thing works over both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. More on that later. The job took some googling, but flashing an old router and installing third-party firmware turned [...]

The other day I ran across this ranking of computer science research institutions worldwide. It includes academic, private sector and government entities combined. What's nice about it is that it includes a measure of quantity -- publications -- and one of quality -- citations. This got me wondering about three questions: First, does publication output [...]