Category Archives: The wonderful world of free software

Compression!

Posted on 4 July 2009 by Åsmund

skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ ls -s | cat
total 3,9G
4,0K bulk-42m/
779M bulk-42m.7z
1,4G bulk-42m.tar.bz2
1,7G bulk-42m.tar.gz
skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ du -hsc bulk-42m
3,3G bulk-42m
3,3G total

Verdict: 7-zip > tar/bzip2 > tar/gz, both for compression performance and time use.

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Excuse me, what?

Posted on 26 September 2008 by Åsmund

bio88163:~ junior$ sudo fink ((Fink project: An apt-get/emerge-like package manager for Mac OS X)) install imagemagick
Information about 7314 packages read in 0 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
imagemagickThe following 86 additional packages will be installed:
avahi avahi-dev …

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Geotagging hurra. Garmin == dustar.

Posted on 29 April 2008 by Åsmund

Turistane mine har reist ned igjen. Eg har vondt i kontoen. Snøen har byrja å smelta.

Det finst noko som heiter geotagging. Det betyr at du legg inn info i eit bilete om kor du var då du tok det. …

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More game

Posted on 19 July 2007 by Åsmund

It turns out FreeCol is starting to look quite good. Yay free software!

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Integrasjon på tvers av språk og plattformar

Posted on 10 May 2007 by Åsmund

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
void * handle;
void * cli;

…

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I return

Posted on 16 November 2006 by Åsmund

I’m back. It was a hectic week. But fun. Seems I know what BLAST does now. Nice to have my ideas adjusted by the experts.

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Yankee land

Posted on 11 November 2006 by Åsmund

So, I’ve been in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY) since Tuesday, learning about computational and comparative genomics. It`s been very interesting. Lots of information-dense lectures and workshops about things I need or will need to work with when I return …

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Firefox!

Posted on 24 October 2006 by Åsmund

Snart kjem Firefox i versjon 2. Mykje nytt og fint, og det beste er nynorskomsetjinga.

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Spam spam spam spam

Posted on 11 May 2006 by Åsmund

Bloody vikings.

The spam bastards have found me again, but the spamcatcher built-in in Wordpress seems to work nicely. Very nicely. Not that I had much legitimate comment traffic in the first place.

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MySQL

Posted on 16 March 2006 by Åsmund

I need to use MySQL in one of the projects at work. Fair enough, databases are useful little thingies. Big thingies. Frustrations mount quickly, though.

Example.

Dataset in text file contains N unique rows which I may want to update now …

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FAQ writing guide

Posted on 16 December 2005 by Åsmund

Okay. Listen up. For any project worthy of a FAQ, the first, the first question answered is the following: What is this?

Got that? Right. Now behave, or the wall is next.

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