549. Very briefly: Unexpected comment spam

I get about 2-3 spam comments on my blog per day. Typically they advertise money making schemes, email marketing schemes etc., and look something like this:

This site was... how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have found something that helped me. Kudos! Also visit my web site: minecraft 1.0

Today I got an odd one though and I'll post it here even though it kind of works in their favour:

 Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "341. Upgrading/installing BankID on 64 bit linux":

That was enjoyable to read, thanks for posting it.

My site: Bing (www.bing.com) 

I presume that spammers don't work for free, so someone must be paying them. Is Microsoft hiring less-than-reputable web marketing companies to do their bidding?

548. A lot has been happening with Kingsoft WPS

Seems like they have been making progress.

I wrote my original post about wps (also see this post) for version 8.1.0.3724, and on this site they are currently at 9.1.0.4244 -- Alpha 12, patch 3. Judging from all the bugs that have been fixed it seems that the devs have been quite busy. The short interval between different alpha version also indicates that the development is very active. Good stuff.

Basically, WPS is the only reasonable (subjective) solution for reading .docx files on linux that I've encountered.

Either way,if you have a previous version of wps installed, remove it

sudo apt-get autoremove wps-office:i386

Then get on with it:

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
wget http://wdl.cache.ijinshan.com/wps/download/Linux/unstable/kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Missing fonts. Clicking on the link takes you indirectly to bbs.wpn.cn, which is in Chinese.

To sort out the fonts issue above you can join bbs.wpn.cn as shown in this post, then download the wps_symbol_fonts.zip file from this post. Install the fonts by doing

cp ~/Downloads/wps_symbol_fonts.zip ~/.fonts
cd ~/.fonts
unzip wps_symbol_fonts.zip

And start WPS. The 'symbol' issue should be solved. Either way, the look of WPS has been updated, and now it can handle my test file which even MS offerings are struggling with:

See here for a post where I compare different office suites using that file (older post): http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/313-which-office-for-linux-users.html

To sort out mime types/file associations do

sudo update-desktop-database /usr/local/share/applications/
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/

547. NMR on Debian Jessie: gSim

Note: the gsim deb needs glibc 2.14, while wheezy has version 2.13. See here for how to deal with glibc > 2.14 on wheezy: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/562-pulling-in-glibc-214-from-testing.html

gSim is a free program (doesn't appear to be open source -- I can't find the source anyway) for processing 1D and 2D nmr spectra. I don't have much to say about it other than that it seems to provide all the things I require of an NMR processing program, including line fitting (deconvolution).

One neat extra is that gsim has a terminal-like window at the bottom similar to xwinnmr/topspin so that you can control the processing completely via the keyboard. 

gSim can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsim/

 

installation via gdebi

splash screen

can read bruker files

fid

overview of processing options. I had to select bruker to correct the fid before doing ft

zooming is a bit awkward, but can be done using the mouse

I had some issue with deconvolution

awkwardly it uses ppm for the width too if the x axis is in ppm

you can always switch to hz though

gsim also reads the acqu/s files

It can output the spectrum to eps in case you're too lazy to work in gnuplot