Revidivus
I’m back– previously nucoder.l33t.ca– after several months of downtime. My never-ending todo lists have been wiped, so I will start from scratch, and hopefully make a better job of it this time around. Especially considering I’m paying for this hosting now…
This summer, I will be interning at Lawrence Livermore National Labs in California, so I figured it would behoove me to set up an easily accessible recording system, as I won’t have ready access to a personal computer there. Hence the use of MT. I eventually, *if* I can find them, will upload the 2+ years of entries I had previously accumulated, if only for my benefit– it’s a neat way to see how much and how little I’ve changed over time.
Today, I discovered Linearized PDFs: have you ever wondered why PDFs that you read over a dial-up line tend to take so long to become viewable? That’s not memory or any of the other usual culprits, it’s because regular PDF files are meant to be read from EOF, so the viewer must download the entire file before it knows how to render *any* of the pages. Linearized PDFs are an attempt to help optimize PDFs for viewing over networks. To date, I can’t recall having encountered any files that use Linearized PDF technology, but then, I just found about it today.
Possibly relevant posts:
- Changing File Associations in GNOME (3/4/2007)
- Relaxing (12/16/2003)
- Installing local Perl modules, using CPAN (5/8/2004)