A new version of nwchem is out now, and this time we're seeing a new solvation model: SMD! Given how long it took to get COSMO right, th...

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 ...

Yet another little usb device from PC sensors (I seem to have been giving them a fair amount of money recently ). This is the device in qu...

This is very easy, but I might as well document it here anyway. This morning another group threw out two functioning monitors and I grabbe...

Note: I'm not going to give a proper fix for this, but rather a work-around -- and one which isn't very good at that. When using g...

Here's a generic way of building Wine 1.7 which is the new testing branch. And yes, it's the instructions for 1.5.28-1.6 recycled, w...

Update 23 May 2013:  The execution times are pretty much the same as for 6.1.1 with a new patch. I've updated the instructions below to ...

Update 23 May 2013: the url for the openblas tarball has been updated and a tab has been removed from the lapack url. Note that the links...

I'd be interested in getting my beowulf cluster nodes to boot a little bit faster -- (re)boots of the nodes very are infrequent, but the...

Truecrypt is nice and all, but the way it's managed is a bit un-linux like. It IS open source though, but because it isn't completel...

There are issues with the official firefox binary since it's a 32 bit build and Wheezy isn't handling multiarch properly yet (plenty...

For some reason I needed to quickly generate a publication quality figure of a protein. Deep View (SWiss PDB viewer) isn't available f...

NOTE: It seems like series 3.8 has issues with intel (i915) graphics -- it occasionally generates kworker threads that causes unresponsiven...

UPDATE 1 Feb 2013: I haven't had any explicit problems with my router since flashing it. Everything is apparently working well and my n...