Various writings
by Gary Benson
Guides »
The Linux on the Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 Notebook guide is, surprisingly, a guide to installing and configuring Linux on Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 Notebooks. This one is mostly the work of Robert Brown (who seems to have dropped off the web since); he sold his HiNote at roughly the same time that I bought mine so I became the maintainer of the guide with his blessing.
Book reviews »
Sometimes during the course of my work I carelessly agree to review a book for Apache Week. Usually the books are promptly delivered only to sit on my desk, ignored, until guilt overwhelms me and I move them to the bookshelf behind my chair where I can't see them. Occasionally, however, the heavens will align and I'll be pestered enough to actually write a review at a time when I'm susceptible to such pestering. The results of this process are these reviews of Professional PHP4 XML and Practical mod_perl.
Papers »
These are the papers that I wrote whilst researching power system simulation. They are here not because I have any illusions of their value to research, but because the pitiful state of academic publishing today has rendered them impossible to obtain freely.
To progress in any form of research one must write and publish papers. The word 'publish' derives from the Latin publicare, to make public, yet in most cases the very act of publishing a paper makes it less accessible to the public.
Consider if I hadn't gone to the trouble of making my papers accessible on the web. In that case, in order to read one of them, you would either have to order a copy from a library and wait for it to arrive or pay an exorbitant fee to access it on the publisher's -- usually badly designed and difficult to navigate -- website. So much for advancing the cause of science!
So without any further ado, may I present Compartmentalised validation of models for complex nonlinear dynamic simulators using a trusted third party generic simulator (the result of a contest in our lab to see who could write the paper with the longest title ;-)) and the much more reasonably named A high-speed transient simulator for on-line and off-line analysis.
