TeXLive and Asymptote on CentOS 5
Monday, October 3rd, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Tex Live For reasons unknown, a TeX Live package is not available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Centos 5 from the major repositories (EPEL or DAG). I consider this to be a glaring omission, since TeXLive is a great improvement upon teTeX. ...
How to install Octave video tools on CentOS 5
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This post describes how to get GNU Octave up and running on a CentOS 5 Linux system for use in reading, processing, and writing video files. You will need to use the EPEL and DAG/rpmforge repositories, but I won't explain ...
Moving example code to GitHub
Friday, March 4th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As this site has grown, the example code has gradually become unmanageable. I've posted snippets and fragments here and there over the years, and the original code is scattered in various locations across several computers. Further, as ...
Reading an array from a text file with Fortran 90/95
Friday, May 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »If you're used to coding in more modern languages, Fortran I/O can seem a little bizarre. Strings in Fortran are much more difficult to work with, since they are fixed-length rather than null-terminated. The following example illustrates a simple ...
Managing a pool of MPI processes with Python and Pypar
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »MPI is a standard for communication between multiple processes in parallel computing. These processes can be running on different cores, CPUs, or entirely different computers in a grid. MPI is a standard, and there are many implementations available ...
Redirecting text output from Python functions
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »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 ...