http://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa10/labs/procedural_java/assignment.htm
ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) on mai netbook
my best guesses as to what packages to install:
Ubuntu Software Center (the shiny UI package manager) or synaptic or apt-get install
sun-java6-jdk
eclipse (Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE)
libsvn-java
then install subclipse http://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa10/labs/procedural_java/subclipse.html
if you have a slow processor
eat some ice cream and come back after ten minutes
the progress bar hangs @ 60% for a while, just let it run (don't Force Quit eclipse like me and deal with stupid errors)
[Edit 7-Dec-2010] Note that the eclipse package that comes with Ubuntu (the one that's installed if you go to [Ubuntu Software Centre]) is an outdated version, Galileo. Because subclipse or just SVN access got very messed somehow during my update from Lucid to Maverick, I ended up downloading the newer version directly from the Eclipse website.
I do like Helios more, however note that if you install Galileo, don't completely uninstall it, and then download and untar Helios, funky things happen. For instance, I use the DockBarX applet (aka win7-like GUI for managing windows) and if I run Helios from the directory I unpacked it in, the eclipse icon will associate with Helios appropriately, but clicking on the icon if no eclipse is running will launch Galileo. Of course, one can easily without [right-click>Properties>Edit Launcher] and pick out the right file to launch.
[edit 8 dec 2010]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2276932/subclipse-plugin-doesnt-work-in-eclipse
Friday, September 10, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Re: Food and Feminism -- China Summer 2010
Diary : Wednesday, August 4, 3:45 AM
What's up in China? Weather's hot, there's lots of people, and I'm enjoying the chance to really dig in and practice my Chinese. Sometimes I can't resist the temptation to watch hulu and browse English blogs like I'm used to, but my Chinese has improved a lot even if not as much as it could have.
Darn characters, I feel like I've learned a lot, and then I realize there's 2000 more (on my list) to go, and I'm already getting them mixed up. Then I have thousands of 词语 (words) I need to learn once I learn the characters that compose them. Meh. (for an amusing rant about learning Chinese, see here: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard).
Wait, did I mention the awesome food? Many of my relatives are older-generation Chinese (aka super-客气 《polite》) who will shove insane amounts of delicious food at me, who are and all say "你吃的这么少，回去你妈妈一看瘦了那么多会说我们照顾的不好" 《you eat so little, when you go back home mom will be shocked at how skinny you are and will say we didn't take care of you properly》.I feel like crying (I believe OTL sums it up), 'cos the other thing about China is that it has way more skinny people and the fat people are not nearly as fat as Americans. -____-|| I thought I was average-size, but I can't fit in a vast majority of the pants around here, haha.
For me, not keeping track of how much I eat and trying not to care much about how I look stems from crackpot readings during my impressionable years about the never-before-possible equality in anonymity that the Internet afforded. Of course, nowadays the Internet seems primarily to have let people air their prejudices without bothering to think at all and spread mass hysteria and just FAIL about Vaccines Are Teh Evil ... Ugh. Some level playing field, more like level spitting field =___=;;
I've never liked wasting food, and in college since I (absurdly, I know, but the truth) pride myself on crufting food (well, actually fellow putzen and the free-food mailing list are more consistent sources than CSAIL's vultures), food has always seemed precious and delightful to me. However, surrounded by relatives who own a beauty parlor and skinny girls and guys everywhere, I may not be able to stubbornly insist on this philosophy much longer. The words of my auntie echo in my head, "青春年都浪费了~" 《youth / pretty years wasted like this》. Also, as a half-putzen once said (roughly), "I'm going to be eating food for the rest of my life." (I still find it impossible to sympathize with that viewpoint though, it's simply too foreign to me).
Oh dear, what would the feminists say? If they could agree in the first place, that is. For me, my freshman roommate, Maja, has reinforced that idea that there's no reason why smart techie girls can't dress up and look girly too. On the other hand, I can see the strings of society tugging me along into dressing up because that's how a girl of my age should act, and it makes me want to bare my teeth and growl at the whole thing. The convention that "you should dress up now to take advantage of your youthful prettiness while you can" doesn't sit well with me.
Also, people like to believe that their society is 平等的 《equal》yet every single adult here who has commented about my major has said something along the lines of "哦，机械－女的学这个还是挺少的" 《oh, mechE... few girls study that》in a kind of slightly-weirded-out way (though perhaps I am just insecure and they are simply surprised). I must admit that it's worse than America. One time, I mentioned that I was interested in mechE, EE, or bioE, and the guy automatically assumed that I was most interested in bioE. Sorry bioE, point against you, much as I hate to let stereotypes like that influence my decisions. Sometimes I'm afraid that, instead of naturally trying to figure out my own likes and dislikes, I've cast myself into an "anti-stereotype" stereotype.
Ah, I just rediscovered the 2010 i3 EC video on my laptop. I miss EC and MIT a lot. Social stresses abound there too, but at least I don't have to deal with any myths about MIT students being geniuses (uhmm.... no. just no. See #2.) and I don't have to deal with erroneous jabs at Linux versus Windows. (Maybe that's my technical elitism (#9) talking here, but I have to have some superiority complexes to cover up my insecurities =]).
Seriously though, Ubuntu / Linux fits me way better than Windows ever will. Way more customization possible (my putey shiny shiny), powerful bash, clean software installs, zero(-ish) worry about malware, super-easy switching between languages, frequent updates, they more than make up for any mucking about to fix display or Internet or whatever issues.
(Also, I secretly found it fun when I was stuck with a text-only terminal when I screwed around with X back when tablet support was not so great. Linux is self-documented to a very nice extent. I think man man helped me find apropos which helped me find nano and everything was dandy). >__> <___<
Well, that's long enough for one blog post. I conclude with this pic:
(I purposefully asked for dishes I wouldn't be able to get in America). I think my relatives called them 木虫, although that must be one of several common names. They actually taste quite nice. If you close your eyes, all you can tell is that you're eating something friend, crunchy, and small. :D
The kids I was with were squeamish about eating this dish, actually. But they do really like pig tails (dish visible to the left back).
EDIT: 08.07.10: Entomophagy
Oops, I labeled the pic in the last post incorrectly. They're actually 竹虫，bamboo worm [larvae], not 木虫。I looked it up because someone told me that I'd eaten some sort of precious 冬虫夏草, aka Caterpillar Fungus. Hee.
Or so wikipedia says, at least: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamboo_worms_on_plate.png
What's up in China? Weather's hot, there's lots of people, and I'm enjoying the chance to really dig in and practice my Chinese. Sometimes I can't resist the temptation to watch hulu and browse English blogs like I'm used to, but my Chinese has improved a lot even if not as much as it could have.
Darn characters, I feel like I've learned a lot, and then I realize there's 2000 more (on my list) to go, and I'm already getting them mixed up. Then I have thousands of 词语 (words) I need to learn once I learn the characters that compose them. Meh. (for an amusing rant about learning Chinese, see here: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard).
Wait, did I mention the awesome food? Many of my relatives are older-generation Chinese (aka super-客气 《polite》) who will shove insane amounts of delicious food at me, who are and all say "你吃的这么少，回去你妈妈一看瘦了那么多会说我们照顾的不好" 《you eat so little, when you go back home mom will be shocked at how skinny you are and will say we didn't take care of you properly》.
For me, not keeping track of how much I eat and trying not to care much about how I look stems from crackpot readings during my impressionable years about the never-before-possible equality in anonymity that the Internet afforded. Of course, nowadays the Internet seems primarily to have let people air their prejudices without bothering to think at all and spread mass hysteria and just FAIL about Vaccines Are Teh Evil ... Ugh. Some level playing field, more like level spitting field =___=;;
I've never liked wasting food, and in college since I (absurdly, I know, but the truth) pride myself on crufting food (well, actually fellow putzen and the free-food mailing list are more consistent sources than CSAIL's vultures), food has always seemed precious and delightful to me. However, surrounded by relatives who own a beauty parlor and skinny girls and guys everywhere, I may not be able to stubbornly insist on this philosophy much longer. The words of my auntie echo in my head, "青春年都浪费了~" 《youth / pretty years wasted like this》. Also, as a half-putzen once said (roughly), "I'm going to be eating food for the rest of my life." (I still find it impossible to sympathize with that viewpoint though, it's simply too foreign to me).
Oh dear, what would the feminists say? If they could agree in the first place, that is. For me, my freshman roommate, Maja, has reinforced that idea that there's no reason why smart techie girls can't dress up and look girly too. On the other hand, I can see the strings of society tugging me along into dressing up because that's how a girl of my age should act, and it makes me want to bare my teeth and growl at the whole thing. The convention that "you should dress up now to take advantage of your youthful prettiness while you can" doesn't sit well with me.
Also, people like to believe that their society is 平等的 《equal》yet every single adult here who has commented about my major has said something along the lines of "哦，机械－女的学这个还是挺少的" 《oh, mechE... few girls study that》
Ah, I just rediscovered the 2010 i3 EC video on my laptop. I miss EC and MIT a lot. Social stresses abound there too, but at least I don't have to deal with any myths about MIT students being geniuses (uhmm.... no. just no. See #2.) and I don't have to deal with erroneous jabs at Linux versus Windows. (Maybe that's my technical elitism (#9) talking here, but I have to have some superiority complexes to cover up my insecurities =]).
Seriously though, Ubuntu / Linux fits me way better than Windows ever will. Way more customization possible (my putey shiny shiny), powerful bash, clean software installs, zero(-ish) worry about malware, super-easy switching between languages, frequent updates, they more than make up for any mucking about to fix display or Internet or whatever issues.
(Also, I secretly found it fun when I was stuck with a text-only terminal when I screwed around with X back when tablet support was not so great. Linux is self-documented to a very nice extent. I think man man helped me find apropos which helped me find nano and everything was dandy). >__> <___<
Well, that's long enough for one blog post. I conclude with this pic:
 |
| Some of the delectable food available in China ;P |
The kids I was with were squeamish about eating this dish, actually. But they do really like pig tails (dish visible to the left back).
EDIT: 08.07.10: Entomophagy
Oops, I labeled the pic in the last post incorrectly. They're actually 竹虫，bamboo worm [larvae], not 木虫。I looked it up because someone told me that I'd eaten some sort of precious 冬虫夏草, aka Caterpillar Fungus. Hee.
Or so wikipedia says, at least: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamboo_worms_on_plate.png
Friday, February 12, 2010
IAP 2010 -- Trip to Rural Central Mexico (thanks, MIT GPI and PSC)
I haven't blogged in roughly forever, mostly because I never got around to it. But I hope to start keeping a blog regularly from now on. (Maybe voy a practicar español y 中文 too).
Anyway, I spent IAP, Independent Activities Period, a special time during the month of January for MIT students, in a little town in rural central Mexico called La Vaquita (hur hur that literally means "Little Town") as part of PSC-GPI (Public Service Center and Global Poverty Initiative) Poverty Action Team. This program was new for this year. I found out about it by attending a GPI General Body Meeting, checked it out on the GPI website, and then submitted a short application. A bit later I had an interview at the PSC, and then right before Thanksgiving Break (1 or 2 months later) I found out I'd gotten in.
Three of us went, Sam (Senior, Environmental Engineering), Sivakami (Junior, Bioengineering / Premed), and I (Frosh, Undecided between courses 2/6/20).
A little photo overview. I think I'll post some of the funnier pictures in a followup post.
We spent 3.5 weeks there and had an awesome time. Now we're documenting all the possible future projects for other MIT students, such as biogas digesters, computer classes, solar heating of homes and water, etc.
Ooh, it's light outside. And all the snow melted :( So much for a crazy blizzard. Good night!
Anyway, I spent IAP, Independent Activities Period, a special time during the month of January for MIT students, in a little town in rural central Mexico called La Vaquita (hur hur that literally means "Little Town") as part of PSC-GPI (Public Service Center and Global Poverty Initiative) Poverty Action Team. This program was new for this year. I found out about it by attending a GPI General Body Meeting, checked it out on the GPI website, and then submitted a short application. A bit later I had an interview at the PSC, and then right before Thanksgiving Break (1 or 2 months later) I found out I'd gotten in.
Three of us went, Sam (Senior, Environmental Engineering), Sivakami (Junior, Bioengineering / Premed), and I (Frosh, Undecided between courses 2/6/20).
A little photo overview. I think I'll post some of the funnier pictures in a followup post.
This was the room we stayed in. Yay we had beds!
Carla is part of our host family. We're taking a short hike just outside of town.
We are always fed super-well. There were no restaurants so all the food is homemade.
We built an awesome ecostove! It's a program of the government. Two holes for food, one hole for the chimney. Made from local materials and a bag of cement. This was done with a mold.
We're making a stove without a mold in Señora's ovenplace! Sam, Sivakami, and I crawled in to help pound the cement mixture. The other kids did too, child labor ftw.
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Some home food! Found on one of the rare occasions when we left La Vaquita and went to a neighboring town. It was really spicy for fried rice.
Yep, there electricity. Most of the streetlamps are broken though, and it's not very fun walking at night because there's lots of working dogs that are trained to bite at cows.
Oops, when we get locked out of the house we have to climb onto the roof and into the inner courtyard. This open-to-the-air architecture made our room especially freezing because (a) No heating (b) No door to our room, just a curtain. Think 5°C (40°F), probably less since we definitely got ice and frost overnight, freezing.
Our host mom. She's pretty amazing and acts like a person twenty years younger.
Next to her are Bobby and Marado (I think that's his name, it means brown or something).
Doing some laundry! Washing machines, but rinse cycle is by hand. The water comes from a well to one spigot for each house. Then take a hose and fill up the barrels (there's one to the far left). Use buckets to withdraw water as needed throughout the day.
Do this in the afternoon if you don't want to freeze your hands off.
Hanging up some laundry yo. Don't want things to fly off into cacti or dirt, and it gets pretty windy some days.
Look at us, we're working! (1) We called a town hall meeting. The paper is for ideas and such. (2) For our last meeting, we split up into groups and then got volunteers to present conclusions. CW from lower left: Sam, Carlos of Zacatecas who came down to help us out, Señor Martín, a prominent figure in La Vaquita, Franchesco, a prominent figure from a neighbouring village, and Francisco, a student at ITESM in Zacatecas who works on his parents' farm on the weekends.
(3) Lindsey, ITESM employee and director of Study Abroad programs, Sivakami, behind her is Don Jesús, comissario of La Vaquita, and then the rest of the town.
Some beautiful scenery. You don't get this at MIT, we're in concrete city-land here.
Helping out with chores! Not really, we are cow milking novices.
There was this sketchy part where the Health Team came to give H1N1 vaccines. The nurse guided us into giving vaccines and I, learning on the job with a questionable grasp of her Spanish, vaccinated maybe 15 people. Including babies. *sadface*
Homemade tamales for the win! Delicious, and there was this awesome warm milk (fresh from a cow, no doubt) + cinnamon drink.
Far left is Señorita María. She's this awesome lady who gives a grandmotherly schoolmaster aura when she talks. To my right is a guy who, like many of the other guys in the town, will leave for cities to find work to support family. There sure aren't enough jobs in La Vaquita. To the far right is the Promotor of the Health Team, Javier. He truly believes in his job. Carla is to Sam's left, and then there's Sivakami.
The doctor of the Health Team. This is the Casa de Salud of a nearby community.
The typewriter is new technology from 2009, before that they wrote documents by hand.
Because there were no public trash bins, trash was an issue. It's really fun picking trash out of cacti... Also, like most rural areas trash was burnt because of lack of pickup programs.
Trash pickup day! Then we burned it all. There was still lots of trash left when we ran out of trash bags (they went fast), but it was a good start.
We spent 1 day sightseeing in Zacatecas, a large city (largest in the state of Zacatecas) about 3 hours away from La Vaquita by car+bus . We're crazy workaholics or something, I'm not sure what drove us, but we had tons of fun and I wish we could have stayed longer.
Our family owned lots of cows. This is right behind our house.
At the convive, a picnic for us just before we left to go back to the States.
There's a slide in progress there.
Did I mention the beautiful scenery?
We spent 3.5 weeks there and had an awesome time. Now we're documenting all the possible future projects for other MIT students, such as biogas digesters, computer classes, solar heating of homes and water, etc.
Ooh, it's light outside. And all the snow melted :( So much for a crazy blizzard. Good night!
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