Category Archives: Programming

Neptune’s Pride Battle Calculator v0.3

By admin | Published: March 26, 2010

I’ve upgraded the calculator a little, tinkered a bit with the design with a new header and some minor tweaks for better appearance, and managed to get the javascript to run in IE as well, thanks to a little help from saiboten. What went wrong was as simple as using type=”text/javascript” for javascripts in stead [...]

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Neptune’s Pride Battle Calculator

By admin | Published: March 12, 2010

I got introduced to Neptune’s Pride a little while ago by a friend… It is a simple 4X game, with small games for 8 players in each in the free ones. The game uses some simple math to calculate the outcome of battles, and since I am lazy I got tired of doing that math [...]

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Making international characters searchable in LaTeX documents

By Jostein | Published: January 6, 2010

By default LaTeX generates some international characters in a weird way when building a PDF and so on. For example, the norwegian Å will be represented as ˚A, and thus making any word containing the letter impossible to find when searching for it. This can be solved by using the package fontenc, with the parameter T1 [...]

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Useful BASH-command: !!

By Jostein | Published: December 15, 2009

When ever you use the terminal in Linux or OS X, and forget to add sudo in front of a command that needs the privileges, you can simply type sudo !! to run the same command with sudo. awesome. “!!” Will repeat the last issued command, and can probably be used for other useful things, [...]

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Citing / displaying source code in LaTeX

By Jostein | Published: December 11, 2009

I am writing my master thesis using LaTeX, a typesetting system most commonly used for scientific documents. Since my thesis is in computer science, I have the need to display a fair amount of code. After searching around the net and with some trial and error, I have come up with some settings that does [...]

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Simple quiz-program in Python

By Jostein | Published: May 1, 2009

When we were studying for exams, Tobias and Peder1 decided to make some tools to help us study. This is Tobias’ version, written in Python. “The program is fairly simple. You select a text file containing lines with topics you want to learn, and then you have to type inn all of them. The program [...]

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