Installing numpy with the Intel Math Kernel Library (mkl)
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Today I installed numpy on a cluster. Normally, as a Gentoo admin, I just install things with emerge, and all the details are taken care of automagically. However, this cluster runs Red Hat Enterprise, and I don't have admin privileges, ...
Redirecting text output from Python functions
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Two posts ago, I described how I wrote a function in Python that reads in a binary file from Labview. In my last post, I described using wxPython to write a GUI to process the data from those binary ...
Blog infrastructure update
Sunday, October 7th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »During the past week, the blog engine was updated and a few things were tweaked "under the hood." You may have already noticed that the theme has been totally changed. It's a modified version of the Blue Box theme by ...
How do you say “bye bye Ubuntu” in Zulu?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I finally had enough and wiped Ubuntu off of my computer at work, and now Gentoo is happily running. Maybe I could have gotten Ubuntu to do what I wanted if I had spent more time with it, but I ...
Who got fired for this?
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What an unusual pine tree! Who would have guessed that this is actually a giant antenna, cleverly disguised as a tree? I just hope that my taxpayer dollars weren't used on this monstrosity.
How the E815 dies
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a Motorola E815 cell phone. This morning, I was reminded why it hasn't been an entirely satisfying experience. The E815 has excellent reception (on Verizon's network) and lots of software features that work really well. Unfortunately the mechanical ...
