Compiling Osra on Ubuntu Jaunty
This is a brief HOWTO on compiling OSRA, (Optical Structure Recognition) on Ubuntu Jaunty. To quote the OSRA home page, OSRA is … is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical...
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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:...
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Got home
Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was...
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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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Cool new album due out from David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim. Here’s a preview featuring a Santigold song See David Byrne’s site for more details.
View ArticleWp-Supercache & Wp-mobile plugin
Recently I updated the wp-supercache plugin. It’s a plugin for WordPress which is the blogging software that runs this site. Wp-supercache is used to cache pages and is very useful if this blog should...
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Bluetooth Stops working After upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.3
Friday before I left work I kicked off the upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.3 on the MacBook Pro (MBP) I use at work. I’d already upgrade my personal MacBook at home (that I got a deal on at MicroCenter) and I...
View ArticleChemBioDraw/ChemDraw segfault on Mac OS X.
A user at work reported that ChemDraw suddenly started segfault-ing (crashing) on startup on his Mac. He’d opened a support ticket with CambridgeSoft and tried their suggestions, basically deleting...
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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...
View ArticleBuild & 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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Sunset over the Charles River
Taken with my HTC Sensation phone, which is an Android phone: Sunset over the Charles River
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Google doesn’t trust itself?
I thought this warning from Gmail about an e-mail from Google Alerts was funny. Gmail and Google alerts are both Google services. Gmail Warning
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The Nokia 6230!
Nokia 6230i Do you remember when a phone like the Nokia 6230 was the phone to have? I remember trying to get one of these for use in the US after seeing a friend’s phone in Ireland. At the time you...
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My Popular Flickr Pics.
1. Pics of snow!, 2. Ivy Escapes, 3. Duck at sunrise, 4. Boston Twilight, 5. Main Street, Donegal Town. 1930’s, 6. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 7. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 8. Frozen Bog...
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Two arty things seen today. The first was this graffiti on a brick wall on Boston Newbury’s Street. I was caught it from the right angle and thought the text and the tree were prefect juxtaposed: The...
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Need 3D Printing in Boston?
Go visit my friend Sean at Boston 3D Printsmiths: http://www.3dprintsmith.com/ 3D Additive Manufacturing
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Python-LDAP: List the Group Membership of a User
Unless your an LDAP expert it’s not obvious how to find the groups a user is a member of, and that also describes how you need to tackle this problem. This code makes a lot of assumptions and also...
View Article404 Errors On Pagespeed Generated JS & CSS
To improve performance of the SBGrid Web site I’ve been using Google’s Pagespeed Module for Apache. There is a module available for both Apache & NGinx, and it can improve the performance of a Web...
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