Maybe the easiest and most comfortable way to run a backup under Linux is to utilize rsync. E.g. if you want to backup your home directory rsync -aruv –delete –progress /home/username/ /media/disk/mybackup The –delete option automatically removes files from an…
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After updating some packages with yum, my was no longer recognized by Fedora. After checking some blogs on the web, I found the (simple) solution: It seems that one of the updates turned on the mouse control via keyboard. So…
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When running the GPS software receiver one post-processing task is to decode the navigation message bits into meaningful human-readable format. Thus, the 6 parity bits which are transmitted after each 24 message bits are valuable to distinguish if the decoding…
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Trying to port our ray-tracing software to a single GPU was quite a success. Thus,encouraged by this enormous performance gain we purchased three GTX 280 to really boost the application. Unfortunately, it seems that CUDA’s multi-GPU support is not really…
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Octave is quite OK to do a rough data-check or to test some simple algorithms. But I noticed that the contained function detrend does not take into account that the data might be irregularly sampled. So here’s a quick and…
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Usually I am very satisfied with the output from GNUPLOT, but one nasty thing is that for EPS outputs the 2nd, 3rd … line become dashed, dotted or whatever. The easiest way I think is a simple hack of the…
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In order to post to this blog I stumbled over ScribeFire, which is a small add-on for Firefox. Thus someone can easily blog from his favourite browser.
