Archive for November, 2008
High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA
I found an interesting video. If you have about a hour to spend and if you work in scientific computing, maybe these talks would be useful for you:
Mod_python on OpenSUSE 11.0
Mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. Here is step by step what I did to configure it for OpenSUSE 11.0:
1. Install mod_python:
1
$ sudo zypper in apache2-mod_python
2. Enable mod_python: edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add python to the APACHE_MODULES line, so your line will look like:
1
APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_host [...]
OpenSource/Free Software for Windows
Maybe you saw already my previous post, and you realized that I am using maybe 90% free software also on my windows computers. So, I would like to point out just a few links with free or opensource software for windows:
Ultimate List of Free Windows XP Software from Microsoft
Ultimate List of Free Windows Vista Software [...]
Software I am using …
If you would like to see what software I am using on my desktop, laptop, workstation (Windows, Linux, Unix) in order to get my research/scientific work done, or if you want to know what software I am installing on my servers for customers, check this section of my website.
Insert Tables in Wordpress posts
I needed to insert tables in wordpress posts, but I found just one plugin for this task WP-Table. But it will not work, it is not compatible with the new wordpress versions. What I did is to use google docs: File -> New Document -> Table -> Insert, populate your table.
Now, when you finished the [...]
Scientific Software
If you are working in Scientific Computing, like me, then the next links are for you:
Free Software :: Scientific Software
Graphics Software
Numerical Analysis Software
Scientific/Engineering Software @SourceForge.net
Scientific/Engineering Software @Freshmeat.net
Wiki du laboratoire MAS
Applications @Ubuntu
Applications @OpenSUSE
Access a running X session via x11vnc
I am using FreeNX but here is a solution to access a running X session with x11vnc.
* install the package:
1
$ sudo zypper install x11vnc
* ssh to remote machine and:
1
$ x11vnc -display :0
* ok, now on local machine:
1
$ vncviewer your_remote_ip:0
For more details and some comments (password option, …) check the following link and try: man x11vnc
Clone your hard disk using linux
Just a simple method to clone your hdd, doesn’t matter if you have also windows on it. I am using OpenSUSE and ddrescue:
I consider:
/dev/sda – old hdd
/dev/sdb – new hdd
1
2
$ sudo zypper install ddrescue # install the package
$ sudo dd_rescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb # "dd_rescue" on OpenSUSE
Kubuntu upgrade from 7.10 to 8.10
I am using Kubuntu in Vmware just to play arround with it, so I decided to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.10, and this means that I will have as well KDE4. The upgrade process has been very easy, but I needed to upgrade first to 8.04 and finally to 8.10, so, here are the steps:
7.10 [...]
