Install portal_client on Linux
A user asked for help installing Portal Client. Which is a: Python-based client for downloading data files hosted by the an instance of the portal software developed by the GDC and further modified by...
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VAST Storage API & JQ
Hiking Glendalough Park in Ireland Vast builds some neat storage systems that provide management functionality via a REST API. jq is a command-line JSON processor, or as the author describes it “sed...
View ArticleEdx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
View ArticleCentos 7: qt5 packages missing when installing synergy-1.9.1
The fix is to installed qt5-qtbase & qt5-qtbase-gui: yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-gui The specific warnings are:# rpm -i synergy-1.9.1-322.stable.2a0225c1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm error: Failed...
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt Cert & Nginx (Using a Web Proxy) on Centos 6.x
This was done on Centos 6 where prebuilt ‘certbot’ packages are not available. On Centos 7, install ‘certbot’ from the EPEL repo. cd ~root; mkdir certbot; wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto; chmod...
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Build & Install Osra 1.3.8 on Ubuntu 11.10
Summary Osra is a a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures create by Igor Filippov at the National Cancer Institute. This page documents how to compile and install...
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Cogs games on Linux not working?
See this forum posting for a potential fix, if your using an ATI graphics card: http://forum.lazy8studios.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=h1d37r13a2d2ccnk5c5j6b2c94&topic=475.msg837#msg837 This is a fix...
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Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu Karmic & Lucid
If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable)....
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Compiling EIGENSOFT on Ubuntu Januty
These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft 3 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Update, Eigensoft 4 is available and should compile on more recent versions of Ubuntu:...
View ArticleHi Lenny
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, codenamed Lenny, was recently released. Here’s a round of of articles about the release and why you might want to consider Debian for your infrastructure. Techworld sums up what...
View ArticleRAD7.5 on Debian or Ubuntu
If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5
View ArticleDuh!
Note to self: Disable the firewalling scripts (that listen on and block port 80) when starting webserver!
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Rails for Eclipse!
Aha! There is RoR support for Eclipse, via Aptana. I’ve just installed it and the instructions are a bit cryptic. Basically you have to install Aptana first (you can do this as an Eclipse plug-in)....
View ArticleSpam!
Can you believe this: 21,027 spams caught, 65 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 100.000%. So this rinky-dink blog has gotten over 21,000 spam comments since July 2007, and 1,723 in...
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Netbeans 6.5, with Ruby on Rails & JMaki
While writing some RoR code at home (or at least trying to grok the RoR way) I’ve alternating between using Emacs & Netbeans 6.5. Emacs is one true editor to rule them all, but what it’s lacking is...
View ArticleEnable mod_perl on Debian, Ubuntu, & Other Linuxes.
To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to...
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Snow!
Got a tonne of snow about a week ago: It’s still been lying around and slowly thawing and refreezing, and being ground down. Today it snow about 5 inches, and now it’s turned to rain/sleet and it’s a...
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First Baptist Church of Boston
I was looking through my Flickr photostream and realised that I’ve taken a fair number of pics of the tower at Boston’s First Baptist Church. It really is a splendid old building: The doorway: From...
View ArticleGot a T400
I recently got an Lenovo T400 and this thing works great with the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid). To install Ubuntu, you have to make sure you edit the BIOS settings and change the graphics to use...
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