Category Archives: The wonderful world of free software

Compression!

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. skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ ls -s | … Continue reading

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Excuse me, what?

bio88163:~ junior$ sudo fink1 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 bison dbus dbus-dev dbus-shlibs default-icon-theme fltk-x11 fltk-x11-shlibs freeglut … Continue reading

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Geotagging hurra. Garmin == dustar.

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. … Continue reading

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More game

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

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Integrasjon på tvers av språk og plattformar

int main (int argc, char **argv) { void * handle; void * cli; handle = dlopen(“./brugs.so”, RTLD_LAZY); if (handle) { *(void **) (&cli) = dlsym(handle, “CLI”); *cli(); dlclose(handle); } return 0; } Varför gör dom på detta viset? int main … Continue reading

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I return

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. I’m back. It was a hectic week. But fun. Seems I know what BLAST does … Continue reading

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Yankee land

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 to … Continue reading

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Firefox!

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

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Spam spam spam spam

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. Bloody vikings. The spam bastards have found … Continue reading

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MySQL

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 … Continue reading

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FAQ writing guide

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. Okay. Listen up. For any project worthy of … Continue reading

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