Just stumbled across an interesting link that has info on converting a Microsoft Docx file into a latex file! Harri Kiiskinen over at http://pastcounts.wordpress.com/ wrote up an XSL stylesheet that can match elements in Microsofts OOXML format and print out …

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Seeing as I haven’t written in awhile…I figured I’d at least drop a link to my xmonad.hs file that I’ve put together for my own setup. For those of you who don’t know what XMonad is, it’s a tiling window …

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Well…I don’t have a lot of time to pour into this post unfortunately, but I have just enough time to mention that I’m still plowing through my capstone proposal so I can finally start working on my final project for …

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For this reason… RIT Hockey on Halloween!

Well, RIT’s officially alive and classes are back on track and going full swing.  I decided that there’s plenty of time in a day for me to do various kinds of work: working on my capstone, finishing my last online …

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I’ve been toying with the notion of encouraging faculty that teach our “welcome to the IT major” courses to include information on FOSS and the FOSS community.  Specifically, I’d like to see students exposed to IRC, blogs, wikis, etc., earlier …

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Well, back to working crazy hours this week to make up for my short excursion in Pittsburgh (I’m hoping to write about this at a later date!). So, working 40 hours in 3 days is a little exhausting, but it’s …

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So Wednesday was a lot more interactive and seemed to really pick up with getting into the tools that students would need to learn in order to become fully immersed in helping out the open source community. The first thing …

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Alrighty….now that we’re through the second day of POSSE, time for a second reflection! Looking back on today, it was nice to get a little more into the technical side of some of the open source world.  I feel that …

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Sitting through the first day for POSSE at RIT.  One of our ‘homework assignments’ is to write a blog entry reflecting on today’s activities.  This post will be a placeholder until I fill in the rest of it 🙂 As …

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