Aug 20 2010
Been playing with prototype and jQuery, they both like to use $ to invoke them but after rewriting a couple of trivial plugins I have jQuery doing what I need. I do like the way prototype extends JavaScript.
In ruby I have begun to use 1.9 getting ubuntu to automatically use 1.9 instead of 1.8 has been an issue, as has incompatible gems. Next I want to play with ruby waves, a rails alternative.
Apr 20 2010
So we have a simple network here, three floors to the house so three wireless routers.
All linked together via wifi. Or at least that was the case til a power cut washed away the settings of the main gateway router connected to the dsl.
No matter what I did, I couldn’t get them all talking to each again. Restoring the settings backup didn’t work either. So I figured I would update it to the latest dd-wrt firmware, a day of playing at tftp and repeated reflashings later I went from having a linksys wrt54 brick to having a working router.
Now I used to do the networking over wds but I soon discovered that you need the same firmware version on every router, this wasn’t the case before, I guess I was just lucky.
A day later and now I have 3 routers all with the latest dd-wrt firmware. But can I get wds going stabely no! By now I am a little frustrated so I gave up with getting wds to work and am now just using client bridging, no range increase for the wifi, but atleast it seems stable.
Feb 23 2010
i found this here http://www.unixguide.net/unix/sedoneliner.shtml
HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR SED (Unix stream editor) Oct. 29, 1997
compiled by Eric Pement
Latest version of this file is always at
Dec 21 2009
Seems to be working fine so far, but if you notice anything funky then please let me know!
Dec 03 2009
I have a Syscomp Circuit Gear Oscilloscope, its a nice little USB device…. but they dont supply drivers that work under 64bit Linux,
however, i did find that someone had done the work to make them work under 64bit Suse, and saved it as a RPM file.
getting this into Ubuntu proved to be an issue….
Continue reading “Installing Open Instrumentation on Ubuntu 64bit”
Oct 27 2009
I have found it very usefull to use ploticus to create simple plots via scripts this script plots a time lines, for things like volcanic eruptions.
the ploticus script looks like this
Oct 27 2009
for some reason i never seem to remember this right, so i rely on this link to tell me how to set up new repositories
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion
Continue reading “Quick helpfull link for subversion on ubuntu”
Oct 26 2009
Started to work on the Kasatochi / Okmok presentation,
i am using the ajax framework from here
http://robertnyman.com/ajax-s/
the link where he talks about this stuff is here http://robertnyman.com/2006/09/07/add-on-for-ajax-s/
Oct 05 2009
So DWM seems to be working and Olga seems happy with it. It still needs some documentation and also a test site so people can see all aspects of it.
Anatexis.net seems to be coming together ok, as does the setting up of the mediawiki.
Not sure of my next step, either more phd thesis or perhaps a iPhone app, to let me post streight to a drupal blog. Like the one on lithophile.com
The app I downloaded to do that just plain doesn’t work.
Sep 26 2009
So I got jquery going and doing basic binding of events to actions. It also provides a very reasonable Ajax frame work.
I found a nice couple of jquery plugins to provide a server side directory listing and also an upload progress meter. [uploadify].
I also found a way of sending a file for download instead of linking to a file I now need to get that launched in a new window, and also to put more into the page.
After this is done I think I can role it out onto lithophile and we can start using it.
Also need to get the anatexis.net webpage looking good and linking to all the projects. Also need to get the mediawiki looking good so that it has pages describing what I have made and some documentation.
Also I should consider if a help forum would be a good plan?
