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One of Tech’s faculty and a post-doctoral research associate are working on a book for Wiley, and they want to have a list of references after each chapter, rather than one set of references for the entire book. Wiley’s LaTeX guides don’t give particularly good information on how to do this, and I never got …
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Just for future reference: Scan images at 300 dpi (might be able to make this work at a lower resolution, but this is fine). For one sample page, this resulted in a 2348×3129 pixel image where each baseline height was around 50 pixels, and capital letters had a height around 30 pixels. Install ocropus 0.3.1-2 …
One more set of bug fixes for this original post. Sometime early this week, Twitter broke some redirection I had been relying on. That is, if I was on my phone, URLs on twitter.com automatically redirected to mobile.twitter.com and kept all my parameters for status and such. mobile.twitter.com had no problem handling the request if …
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See the original post for the basic information. This post exists only to highlight a few bug fixes. Since running with my sign for a few days, the main bug I’ve run into is that Twitter doesn’t let you post identical status messages over a short period of time. One recommended fix is to append …
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A sizable amount of my work week is spent outside of my office, and is difficult to schedule ahead of time: Material testing jobs show up with little notice. Students or faculty need help fixing a coding, instrumentation, or other problem, and it’s easiest to fix those on-site rather than in my office. etc. I’ve …
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(See this Wikipedia article for a quick review of Power law fits.) So linear curve fits are easy in MATLAB — just use p=polyfit(x,y,1), and p(1) will be the slope and p(2) will be the intercept. Power law fits are nearly as easy. Recall that any data conforming to a linear fit will fall along …
We’re in the midst of upgrading our Windows Server 2003 servers to 2008R2. Three down, one to go. We noticed that the 2008R2 servers threw errors back to Nagios that the 2003 servers never exhibited. Lots of: CRITICAL SMB anon access: Domain=[CAE] OS=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 7600] Server=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1] errors. …
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One of the faculty has some axisymmetric diffusion simulation code written in Excel and VBA. He didn’t think his 2D graphs of chemical concentration along a particle’s radius would be suitable for an audience he’d be presenting to, and that they’d be better served seeing an animation of how the concentration varied over time and …
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We’ve had a research project requiring a fair amount of image acquisition and processing, requiring higher resolutions than most industrial cameras can offer. As a result, we’ve tried at least three different digital cameras (Canon PowerShot S3is, Nikon D40, and Canon PowerShot SD780is). Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages: S3is advantages: good …
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Quick and dirty notes for getting XFS project quotas running: I’m working on making storage areas for various capstone design class groups, vehicle teams, etc. I’d like to ensure that they don’t take an excessive amount of storage, too. These instructions are slightly different than what I’d found elsewhere, and I’m hoping to have someone …
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