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Eclipse Windows 7 Plugin Problems

Wow, Eclipse is really a piece of work. I wasted an hour trying to get it to behave reasonably with multiple plugins installed on Windows 7. Online forums were little help until I finally came across...

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Globus Toolkit 5.0.2 on Cygwin 1.7

Updates (2011-02-20): Cygwin patches did not make it into GT5.0.3, but they may make it into a future release.Updates (2010-12-08): Binghamton University TeraGrid has written up instructions for...

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Chords: "Holiday" by the Kinks

The chords posted around online are a bit wrong. And it's such a great, simple song! Fixed it up a little: Artist-The Kinks Song-Holiday Album-Muswell Hillbillies Writer-Ray Davies Tabbed by S....

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Bluegiga WT12 Breakout Board V0.2

I just got my first ever printed circuit boards back from BatchPCB. Pretty exciting! One of the boards is a Toyota audio system interface, but it needs to have a chip replaced and the pinout is...

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Startup GNU Screen with multiple regions (split screen)

Since I've been doing a lot of work remotely lately I've been brushing up my GNU Screen skillz.One thing I'd like is to be able to reattach a screen with a number of regions (AKA split screens) setup...

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Faster median calculation and generic rank selections in MatLab via nth_element

Update (2011-09-03): I've added new functions to the release that edit the arrays in-place. This is not good Matlab style but gives significant speedups for the very performance conscious. It appears...

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DIY KitchenAid attachments

Update: (2011-03-14): So this does not quite fit perfectly into the Attachment Hub, but it is good enough that with a housing for the shaft I'm pretty sure it will work. I'll take more precise...

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Globus Toolkit 5.0.3 on Cygwin 1.7

Cygwin patches (see earlier post) did not make it into GT5.0.3. The patch requirement is therefore the same as for GT5.0.2 (see earlier post). These patches may make it into future distributions.I took...

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Combining USDA SR23 with glycemic index data

USDA provides a National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference currently in Version 23 (SR23), which has loads of nutritional data on a good selection of food products. On my wishlist would be...

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Mac OS 10.6.8 breaks OpenSSL dev compatibility

Update (2011-07-29): Globus Toolkit devs have told me that this is a frequent problem with Mac OS updates. Thanks Apple. So they recommend running with the --without-openssl-header-check flag if you...

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Broken Mac OS 10.6 (and 10.7 and 10.8 and...) Java

Apple has a pretty lousy history with Java support, but this still surprised me. If you are having trouble getting programs to compile with older Java versions (e.g. for backward compatibility), you...

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Simple(r) concurrent Matlab programming with Theron

Preamble: What follows are my (long-winded) musings on the current (Sep. 2011) state of concurrent programming in Matlab. For a specific guide to using the Theron C++ library for Actors concurrency in...

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HOWTO: deploy multithreading on Matlab with the Theron C++ Actors library

Preamble: What follows is a HOWTO guide for getting Theron-2.09 multithreaded C++ mex files built on Matlab. For my general musings on Matlab concurrency and Theron, see the previous post.Building...

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Matlab internals and in-place editing

Here's a couple of articles I wrote for the blog Undocumented Matlab: Matlab mex in-place editingMatlab's internal memory representation If you're interested in how Matlab works behind the scenes...

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Kitchenaid drill adapter

Update: this coupler has started to fail. See details on the update post, as well as a new model. Here are the links to Thingiverse and Shapeways, but be aware the current 3D printed plastic material...

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Update: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachment

Update 3: More updates to the design, particularly housing for a ball bearing in the flange.Update 2: It seemed like a Wiki was actually more appropriate, so I am retiring the Google Group in favor of...

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Update 2: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachment

More updates to the previous 3D printed prototypes. The pieces are available on Thingiverse and Shapeways. These pieces were 3D printed by Shapeways in their White, Strong, Flexible material. Screwing...

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CDC Infant Growth Curves in Google Docs/Drive Spreadsheet

I thought other parents, etc. might find this useful. I copied the CDC's 2000 Infant Growth Chart data (weight-for-age, length-for-age, head-circumference-for-age, weight-for-length) into a Google...

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As XKCD says: "Log scales are for quitters". So, dear internets, I hope you will enjoy this playful critique of Marco Rubio and his pandering Young Earth Creationism.

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LIRC RasPi remote control configuration for GE Air Conditioner

I set up lirc_rpi so that I can use my RaspberryPi as an infrared remote control. As detailed nicely here, the process has been much simplified, at least if you're on Raspbian. Note, as I commented...

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Mount Auburn Cemetery Map and Key

Mount Auburn Cemetery used to distribute this map of the grounds with notable monuments marked. Maybe they still do distribute it, but they don't seem to have made it available online. A few other...

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Update 3: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachment

Probably final update to the previous 3D printed design is here.  (No change to the previous bearing adapter piece design.)  You can also order these designs essentially at cost here.  The main changes...

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Smoked trout on a Weber Q1200

I recently watched Jamie Cooks Summer and was inspired to try smoking some trout. I didn't have a bucket handy to do his method, but I have a Weber Q1200 small gas grill, so I wondered if it would be...

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Hummingbird nectar recipe by weight (grams)

Online resources say 1:4 sugar to water ratio by volume. This translates to about 1:5 by weightTo be more precise: 0.25 cups sugar is 48 g, 1 cup water is 237 g, so the ratio is 1:4.9375 or 0.2025:1 or...

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VL53L0X NIR laser time-of-flight distance sensor with cover

These distance sensors are pretty nice, but most are sold without a protective cover and the makeshift glass or tape covers I tried did interfere with the ranging to some extent. This could be okay...

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