http://www.xenocoder.com/blog A place to learn and share OS and programming tips, and generally dissect all things digital. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:39:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I broke down and jailbroke my phone last night. Partially it was just to try it, but also because I was getting sick of the subpar 3rd party apps that were inundating the App Store. After following the instructions via Lifehacker to install Cydia, I was able to install OpenSSH ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/08/04/ipython-on-the-ipod-touch/ A coworker recently approached me if asked if I knew how to make Pie Wedge plots in the Generic Mapping tools using the -Sw(w) switch. I had never done this before, but I thought it would be a cool thing to do so I tried my hand a making one. It ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/08/01/creating-pie-wedge-plots-in-gmt/ A funny thing happened on the way to forum. I fired up my virtual XP machine yesterday for the first time in a while, and I was prompted to upgrade to build 5608. OK. No problem. So I hit update, downloaded the 88 MB dmg package and waited for it ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/29/untitled/ OK, another night, another trial. I must say, tonight was a lot more fun than the last couple of nights, because I really felt that I learned something, which is really the whole point of this exercise. So the example I was trying to code tonight is a simple EOF ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/28/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-ii-running-trials-2-eof-3/ OK, another night, another trial. I must say, tonight was a lot more fun than the last couple of nights, because I really felt that I learned something, which is really the whole point of this exercise. So the example I was trying to code tonight is a simple EOF ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/24/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-ii-running-trials-2-eof-2/ OK, another night, another trial. I must say, tonight was a lot more fun than the last couple of nights, because I really felt that I learned something, which is really the whole point of this exercise. So the example I was trying to code tonight is a simple EOF ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/24/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-ii-running-trials-2-eof/ This was quite possibly the worst idea for title naming that I could have thought of. Anyway, I played around a bit more tonight, and I thought that I would give an update to the three people that are waiting with bated breath. Anywho, I decided to continue trying to ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/22/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-ii-running-trials-1-continued/ Part 1 of the sage experience was just installing the software. This was incredibly easy on both OSX and linux (CentOS 5.2 and Fedora 9). For the Fedora 9 install I just downloaded the latest version of sage which was compiled for Fedora 8, and this seemed to be just ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/21/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-ii-running-trials-1/ In an earlier post I alluded to some thoughts that I had on proprietary vs free open source systems for dealing with scientific data. Somewhat out of time constraints and somewhat out of laziness, I had decided to pretty much just stick with the proprietary status quo system that I ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/20/trying-sage-mathematical-software-part-1-installation-osx/ Well, I couldn't pass up a good deal on a slightly used 8 GB iPod touch. I mean, it still had the plastic sticky cover on it! One thing that bugged me was that they seem to sell them now in the store with the January update included, yet this one didn't ... http://www.xenocoder.com/blog/2008/07/17/apple-itouch-8gb-2/