Quadratic approximation in Maple
A few of my students are having trouble using Maple to pull off a quadratic approximation. I wanted to post a little code to help them along. As usual, I strongly encourage my students to use Maple...
View ArticleSleep timer (suspend) script for Linux
I usually go to sleep listening to gnaural or watching old TV shows on the computer beside my bed (which my wife just loves). Rather than have it running all night, I’d rather have my computer sleep...
View ArticleI’m Voting Pro-Internet
Candidates supporting open-Internet by party. Taken from openmedia.ca In this day in age, I can’t believe that there is a politician stupid enough to support metered Internet billing. In case you don’t...
View ArticleConvert CPMD TRAJECTORY for tfreq Autocorrelation and Vibrational Density of...
Recently, I’ve been getting a few of people wanting to use tfreq, autocorrelation and vibrational density of states to analyse data from CPMD. tfreq is written to process output from Quantum-ESPRESSO‘s...
View ArticleReview: Solomon SL-30 Soldering Station
About two months ago I bought a Solomon SL-30 from a1parts.com, the online store for A1 Electronics here in Toronto. I chose that station after a lot of research, despite not being familiar with the...
View ArticleCanadians take a stand against online spying
I won’t stand for it. Will you? Do something about it: www.stopspying.ca or www.openmedia.ca Loading…
View ArticleA Library for Using the Wii Nunchuk In Arduino Sketches
There are several available libraries for communicating with the Wii nunchuk. I somehow found something lacking in all of them, so I wrote wiinunchuk.h for my projects. It is inspired by Tod E. Kurt....
View ArticleBeginning Atmel AVR Development in Linux using AVR-Eclipse, AVR-GCC and AVRDUDE
For a beginning AVR developer with more typical platform programming experience, introductory information can seem scattered and sparse. There are a lot of programming tutorials, but since many people...
View ArticleTeXLive 2012 on Ubuntu 12.04
After years of wrestling with the out-of-date TeXLive packages with Ubuntu and Fedora, I started simply using the official TeXLive packages. It is easy and highly pleasurable to have completely up to...
View ArticleA new dawn for t-square.
I have let my website fall behind. Now that I’m active id academia again, (having just started a PhD in Sep 2012), I want to record my work and ideas once again, so that others can benefit from them....
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