I'm Ben. I'm begining my Senior year at Harvey Mudd College after transfering from RPI. I was and still am majoring in CS. As you might guess I spend a lot of my time playing with Linux I'm particularly interested in the variety of cool graphical interface "stuff" for Linux.

I recently got AT&T Broadband working with my computer. It was a pain to get working but I finally figured it out.

Tips & Tricks for all sorts of things, mostly computer related.

Linux links:

• The GIMP is your friend. It is the Open Source graphics program. (Think Photoshop.)
• My minEguE theme for Enlightenment.
• the matching minEgtk GTK theme.

Enlightenment Things
Enlightenment is what got me started with Linux in the first place. After seeing a screenshot like this I was hooked. Recently Raster sent a call out for some ideas for the default theme for E 0.17. Just this afternoon dphase Released a cool mockup screenshot which I've been playing with some. You can find my revisions here and his original is here.

Paper Airplane Project
This semester I'm working on a URP to build a computer program that will first allow the user to fold a paper airplane, then display it and do flight testing on it, all inside the computer. So far the folding algorythm is working prety well and I've got some OpenGL outoupt. Here's a screenshot. Here's another If you cross your eyes and line up the planes you'll see it in 3D. (Once I get my hands on some 3D glasses I'll use that but for the time being this is what I've got :-)

Math stuff:

• Eric's World of Math is a great collection of answers to almost any math question.
• Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences This was linked from slashdot. Prety interesting.
• Inverse Symbolic Calculator Someone linked to this in the slashdot discussion about the integer sequence page. You give it a real number and it gives you some expressions that could have resulted in it.
• Some multivar notes. I've written up some notes in LaTeX. I don't promise everything is 100% correct but it should be.
• Some DifEQ notes. (same deal :-) Take a look at the last page(s) of this one. I've got it set up with indexing. All you have to do is write \index{something} in the LaTeX source to add to the index. (You have to do a bit more but it's prety streightforward.)
• Fractint is a great fractal rendering program for DOS. I've done a bunch with it.

• I was the one riding around campus in the snow at RPI on a unicycle with snow chains. Here's how I made them.