This script (using BASH and AWK) allows to log the core temperature of NVIDIA’s GPUs. #!/bin/bash count=0 sum=0 oldt=0 while true do val=`nvidia-settings -q [gpu:0]/GPUCoreTemp | grep “Attribute” | sed -e “s/.*: //g” -e “s/\.//g”` t=`date +%s` if [ “$oldt”…
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GMT is nice for making topography plots, but always needs gridded data. This can be quite nasty. If you just need a quick-and-dirty workaround, I recommend to use gnuplot. Assume you have a text file with the irregular ground points…
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Since I had to do this task quite often, I summarize the necessary steps. First get the data (in this case for the Eurasian block) from ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2/SRTM3/Eurasia/ E.g. I downloaded the area between N43-45/E141-144. Thereafter unzip and convert with GMT…
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If been using skencil for quite a long time now, but was never really with its performance. Since Fedora 9 64bit currently crashes with skencil I was looking for a replacement. After checking some community pages I decided to give…
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Since almost one month the Fedora guys are working to bring back the update repos for Fedora. Ok, there’s been an attack on one of the servers (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html) but why does it take so long to bring everything back online?…
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Since my handy phone died last Tuesday after it has been literally “washed away” from a sudden heavy rainfall which hit me when I was returning from office, I had to find a new cell phone. After checking advertisements and…
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Those three things won’t work together. Of course, if you don’t mind to bringing Firefox always manually into online mode you can keep things as they are. Otherwise, I recommend to turn off (or even disable) the NetworkManager. Unless you…
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Geforce will start selling its new GPU from this week. The specs are quite impressive and as soon as the card is on the market in Japan we’ll try to get one for testing.
Yesterday we found a strange item above the entrance door of our house. Soon it turned out that some insect has started to make its nest and after some time the owner of its nest appeared. I am sure you…
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At the middle of the week I tried to upgrade from Fedora 7 to release 9 ending up with a system which did not want to run smoothly. Thus, the only the option of a clean install remained. Fortunately I’ve…
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