My Corner of the World

From what I've read and based on the time I've played around with it, Clojure looks like a very good language. There's no reaso...

I always forget the proper command to start R to run Rmpi jobs. Here it is: mpirun -np 1 --hostfile [name of hosts file] R --no-save The...

I've struggled with slow printing of PDF files in Linux recently. It's only been in recent months though. I do not recall having thi...

This was much easier than I expected. Note that I'm running Slackware 13.1 32-bit. Step 1: Install the latest NVidia driver (256.44 in...

I recently built gretl 1.9.1 for Slackware 13.1. I needed to install two packages first, fftw and gdk-pixbuf. Both are available from slackb...

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 ...