Update:  I am seeing consistent crashes with files containing multiple structures (e.g. multi-xyz or multi-cif files). They open fine in a...

UPDATE: ecce stops monitoring the job after 10-20 seconds. The job continues fine though. Working on fixing the monitoring issue. This messa...

Two issues: * Sun GridEngine (now Oracle GridEngine) is missing from Debian Jessie. I need a queue manager for my cluster. For now the whee...

Three posts showing slightly different ways of building SIESTA on debian may seem a bit excessive, but I figured I'd do a post on a sim...

It's pretty similar to what I described in http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/614-siesta-with-mpi-on-debian-jessie.html , with the ...

NOTE: * I've confirmed that ECCE built like this installs and works perfectly on a Thinkpad SL410 with intel graphics * It also compi...

Here's a more extensive description of how to install Bruker Topspin (student version): Very briefly: $ wget http://bruker.telemaxx....

My blog post productivity has been getting increasingly poor over the past year and a half, with a precipitous dip occurring at the beginnin...

I did a dist-upgrade last night and encountered this on my next boot: During the dist-upgrade I got a message about the nvidia driver ver...

NOTE: * I did this on debian jessie which at the time has gnuradio v 3.7.3-9+b1 and rtl-sdr v 0.5.3-3 * I'm having a lot of trouble ...

Edit: I suspect that there are solutions out there that don't require systemd. It just happened that this was the path of least resistan...

I'm running debian jessie (current testing) on my laptop and after having held off upgrading for a while since I had to take it to a con...

Currently less conflicts with  man-db/yelp/gnome-core/gnome  on debian jessie. There are probably ways of overriding the conflict, but I pr...

Update 12/5/13: less 456 is in the debian repos now so the breakage is resolved: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=less For some...