Happy Easter! I logged on for a couple of minutes to make some tweaks to my article on my paternal … More
Author: Jay Jay Billings
I'm a physicist with a serious addiction to computing. Most days you can find me bumming around ORNL and Twitter.
What counts as good genealogical evidence?
I thought it would be a good idea to say what I look at as good genealogical evidence since I’m … More
Billings Family History (2016)
Back to my roots I’m very excited to be getting back to a little genealogy. I’m especially excited since this … More
Coming to an EclipseCon 2016 near you: Science!
I’m pretty psyched about EclipseCon 2016 in North America, which is happening March 7-10 in Reston VA (more info on … More
Launching Eclipse in a Browser with the GTK Broadway backend
I recently published a video on my YouTube page showing what Eclipse looks like in a web browser when launched … More
The brand new Neutron Reflectivity Simulator in Eclipse ICE and what it took to make it
I’m really excited about one of the newest capabilities that we have added to Eclipse ICE: a neutron reflectivity simulator! … More
The Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment (ICE)
In what may be the longest overdue blog post I’ll ever write, I would like to take some time to … More
Well… hello…
So I guess I finally decided to start a real blog. I had one at my website some time ago … More
Configuring A/V Equipment in Linux for Recording
Microphones You can check the sound card configuration with “cat /proc/asound/cards” and the pcm configuration with “cat /proc/asound/pcm”. These produce … More
Renaming a volume group on Linux without a reboot
It is possible to rename a volume group on Linux without rebooting the system and loading up a rescue image. … More
