Archive for September, 2008

Calling Gnuplot from Perl

In my previous post I discussed how to call Gnuplot from C and Python language. If you are using Perl, then, here is the script:

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# Generate postscript and png plot with GNUplot from Perl
# Author: Ioan Vancea
# Usage: Give "data file" as an argument for script
 
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $file = ARGV[0];
 
# POSTSCRIPT
open (GNUPLOT, "|gnuplot");
print GNUPLOT [...]


Graphics with Gnuplot from C and Python language

If you are doing a lot of calculations/simulations, like me, using C or/and Python language, you also need to visualize your simulated data. One way to do it is just to generate/write a “data” file and plot it with your plotting preferred package after the simulation is finished. But maybe, sometimes, you want to see [...]


Football again … after more than two years

Today, I decided to play again football. I didn’t play in the last two years because I was two lazzy . So, in the morning I arrived in front of JJB Sport, 10 minutes before their opening time to buy some football boots, socks and football shinpads, Here is what I bought:

Adidas Predator Absolion [...]


The article has been accepted

I have just arrived from Comsol Multiphysics Workshop and I found an email that my article, submitted some time ago, has been accepted and it will be published in Physical Review E journal. If you didn’t notice yet, I have to mention that it is the first article where I am the first author, so [...]


COMSOL Multiphysics Workshop

Today, I attended a small workshop, “Comsol Multiphysics”.  If you are not aware what is this “piece” of software I can say that is a great environment to solve any physical problems on computer. From their website:
“The COMSOL Multiphysics simulation environment facilitates all steps in the modelling process, defining your geometry, specifying your physics, meshing, solving [...]


Chrome in Wine on OpenSUSE

Yes, it is running …
here is what you have to do:
Get the latest Wine (>= 1.1.3) from the Emulators:Wine repository.
wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe
winetricks riched20 riched30
wine chrome_installer.exe
… click away crashes and terminate it …
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/*/*/*/Google/Chrome/Application
wine chrome.exe –new-http –in-process-plugins
And, a screenshot:

Thanks to Marcus.


Quick configuration for Munin

From project website:
“Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily [...]