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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2010-04-28

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April 28th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2010-04-21

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April 21st, 2010 at 12:11 pm

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How to Setup a MBOX ( Uni Stuttgart ) Calendar in iCal on OS 10.6

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Here is a little description for how to setup an mbox calendar of the University of Stuttgart under iCal on OS 10.6

  • in iCal go to Preferences, to the “Accounts” tab, add a new account by clicking on the plus on the bottom left
  • fill everything like in the first screenshot;
    • in the blurred out section, put your user name
    • instead of “iws” put the abbreviation of your institute or department
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first screenshot

  • if an error message occurs, don’t give up, but try again!
  • fill the second screen as shown in the second screenshot. Again: in the blurred out section, put your user name
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second screenshot

That’s it! You should be ready to go!

Enjoy!

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April 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm

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iPython Shell to Execute both Python and traditional Shell commands

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Wow, I just learned about this today: I am running gstat fairly frequently, for simulation purposes. Here is a nifty little way to run this from a shell that understands both python and traditional shell commands.

  1. open such an shell typing

    ipython -profile sh -pylab
    

  2. Let’s assume you want to simulate 30 fields, then type:

    import time
    for i in range(30):
     !gstat.exe "{name of gstat setup file}"
     !move "{gstat output file}" ${ "%03i" % (i,) }
     time.sleep(12)  
    

Here are some explanations:

  • the gstat output is copied into folders that are named 001, 002,… up to 030
  • in order to invoke traditional shell commands they need to be preceded by an exclamation mark
  • the time.sleep command is placed, because I found that for a new random seed to happen in gstat it needs to pause for a little while. I am not sure if this is correct or if there are better ways to do this. If you are aware of any, please let me know.
  • a “$” is necessary in front of a python command if it is inside a shell command, so it is processed before it is passed to the shell.
  • important: “cd” is to be treated like a python command! so do NOT use “!cd ..”

Big thanks to Thomas, master of many things and especially of PyMF!

This is so wicked! I also discovered folder actions in OSX yesterday. How awesome are these two discoveries? 🙂

Well, it’s weekend now, and three machines are running full throttle. Cheers!

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April 16th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2010-04-14

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April 14th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

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NHL Stanley Cup Play-Offs Schedule

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It’s Play-Off time!

And the season ended with an awesome goal by Daniel Sedin and with Patrice Bergeron scraping the puck off the goal line!

This sets the expectations to a fairly decent level! So I drew up a schedule (pdf)

Enjoy!

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update Thursday; April 15, 2010: I hope I can update the scores on a regular basis!

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April 12th, 2010 at 8:51 am

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2010-04-07

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April 7th, 2010 at 2:11 pm

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World Water Day – National Geographic Special Edition on Water

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March 22nd was “World Water Day“. This day gave reason for National Geographic to devote a full issue to the topic of Water. Even more, they let you explore this issue online, for free, and with a few extras such as interactive maps and background stories. It really is a nicely done interactive version, taking advantage of browsing, searching, video and audio. The only unfortunate thing is that it is based on flash.

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Cover page of the April 2010 issue of the US National Geographic

For the same occasion, world water day, boston.com has a water-themed collection of astonishing photographs in their “The Big Picture” category

Written by Claus

April 4th, 2010 at 10:19 am