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.
Excuse me, what?
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 …
More game
It turns out FreeCol is starting to look quite good. Yay free software!
Integrasjon på tvers av språk og plattformar
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
void * handle;
void * cli;
…
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.
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 …
Firefox!
Snart kjem Firefox i versjon 2. Mykje nytt og fint, og det beste er nynorskomsetjinga.
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.
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 now …
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.
Kingdom of Loathing