My Corner of the World

To install clamav on Slackware 13, I used the SlackBuilds.org SlackBuild. To update the database: freshclam To scan all files in direc...

Couldn't easily find it, so here it is. As root, run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart You may have to change the "eth0" if ...

I had some difficulties getting gretl 1.8.4 installed on Slackware 13. Here is what I did. The problem was with the LAPACK libraries. Afte...

Scratch this: It worked once and now it doesn't work upon reboot!!! This is so frustrating I may just give up on Slackware altogether. W...

I could not find a Python function to evaluate the multivariate normal distribution in Python. Here's one that gives equivalent results ...

To find information about a static IP address in Slackware 12: 1. Open /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf Find the IP address, gateway, and netmask. 2....

My main production machine has a 64-bit AMD processor and runs Debian Lenny as the primary OS. As I have noticed substantial (often 5x) spee...

R is generally pretty good, although it has more quirks than other languages, such as automatically dropping dimensions from an array. (You ...