Monthly Archives: May 2008

A week of computer caused stress

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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GMT interface for Python

Here’s a nice Python package which allows to call GMT. It supports all the basic mapping and plot options.

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Long lines with Gedit

When writing some Latex code with Gedit it can happen that the programs slows down significantly. This is caused by long lines which are covering one paragraph. This bug has also been reported here . I hope that it gets

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Creating PDF reports with Python

ReportLab is very sophisticated Python module which allows you create PDF reports directly from your Python scripts. But not only reports, you can include images, make tables or draw sketches with a few commands. This toolkit demonstrates well how powerful

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