David Gleich's Notebook

After I updated my Ubuntu distribution to 8.04, I discovered that the virtualization software I used to compile MatlabBGL didn't work with a 64-bit version of Windows XP anymore.  No one seems to mention this next fact, but I simply couldn't get qemu/kqemu to work with Ubuntu 8.04 and XP64 with a network interface enabled.  Instead, kvm --- the "new" and "official" kernel virtualization module --- worked instantly, it even uses the old qemu/kqemu images.

So don't bother with kqemu under Ubuntu 8.04 --- just use kvm. 

I moved a few posts from my old "blog-like" site to this notebook.  That's why there are posts going back to 2006.

Going forward, my goal is going to be a post a week. 

I don't like the standard beamer fonts in LaTeX for linear algebra presentations.  I find the "I" as a big vertical line quite annoying.  Previously, I used the lxfonts set, which has gorgeous characters.  However, lxfonts is too "wide" and makes long equations slightly challenging.

The arev package is a nice compromise: it has a nice I glyph.  Continue reading for some screenshots.