Category Archives: Tutorials

Kibibyte or Kilobyte?

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Nicholas Pier

Ever purchase a 1TB hard drive and find yourself disappointed when it showed up under ‘My Computer’ as 931GiB? If so, you may not have really understood why and felt cheated by the manufacturer. However, there is a simple and … Continue reading →

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Java Normal Probability Approximation Method

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Nicholas Pier

Recently, I’ve decided that I want to write my own statistics package in Java (I’m too bored for my own good). Originally, I wanted to write my own classes to handle the probability calculations under curves. However, this became a … Continue reading →

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Securing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Nicholas Pier

This will be the first in a number of tutorials which I plan to post regarding IT topics and solutions to problems which I run into both in a business environment and personal tinkering. I currently run a Linux home … Continue reading →

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