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specanpy
AG There are now 2 clones of PySpecKit: sPecAnPy Spectroscopic Toolkit (Astronomy)
SSH
Learned something knew about ssh... keys are stored in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. If a remote key changes, you may be denied access if your saved key is wrong.
Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Stout
Tried this 9.2% bomber last night, and even drinking it over the course of an hour and a half I could feel my nose not feeling afterwards. The pour was probably the most exciting part of this beer. It came out an extremely dark, rich, thick motor-oil looking thing with nearly no head. The flavor, though, is of a very bitter and very dry imperial stout. I didn't get much of the chocolate tone, because I only taste chocolate when it is sweetened - bakers chocolate doesn't taste like chocolate to me. I think this beer would have been better if kept a little bit sweeter, much unlike the other Imperial stouts I've tried lately.
SUCCESS! 64 bit python with 64 bit tcl/tk!!!
After a long, tedious process (see previous posts), I got 64 bit python, 64 bit tcl/tk, and 64 bit tkinter all to work! I can now use the TkAgg backend in matplotlib! Python 64 bit on Mac OS X: Sam Skillman's post Tcl/Tk 64 bit: a post on the tcl/tk forums tkinter 64 bit: python bug report 4017 (last two posts give the solution) and my posted solution
Sync a fork with the original repository on Git
A seemingly simple operation that I just can't seem to get right. This page gives me useless information: $ git checkout -b upstream/master $ git remote add upstream git://github.com/upstream_maintainer/master.git $ git pull upstream remote $ git checkout master $ git merge upstream/master `` If you do that, it frankly doesn't work. Why? "upstream/master" etc. all have special meanings. Here's the real process & explanation (thanks to Erik Tollerud for some help): ``git checkout master # (assuming you have a local branch named master - otherwise, pick whatever branch you want synced)git remote add original git@github.com:thing/thing.git # "upstream" = "original" = "remote" - the place you're trying to sync fromgit fetch original # 'original' being the name YOU gave for the "remote/original" repositorygit merge master original/master # now merge the "original/master" branch (they should have a branch named "master" too, otherwise you have to figure out which branch to get) into your mastergit push # push your now-merged stuff back to github# I was instructed to use these commands. They didn't work.# git reset original # the word "original" here matches the word "original" on the previous line# git reset --hard original # this will overwrite local changes
Testing trackbacks?
I just want to see if "trackbacks" work at all. I recently posted about histograms on google spreadsheets. While I'm at it, might as well throw up a link to my google code site.
usetex failure in latex documents
When I use matplotlib's internal tex (rcParams['text.useTex']=False), the postscript files generated cause errors that look like this when you try to ps2pdf them: ps2pdf h2co_pilot.psError: /rangecheck in --get--Operand stack: --dict:20/25(ro)(L)-- --nostringval-- 71Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- %finish_show --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 9 6 0 --nostringval-- (pdf_text_enum_t) %op_show_continue --nostringval--Dictionary stack: --dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:70/200(L)-- --dict:116/300(L)-- --dict:44/200(L)-- --dict:25/42(L)--Current allocation mode is localLast OS error: 2Current file position is 791626GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1make: *** [h2co_pilot.pdf] Error 1 They will not open in MacOS's Preview.app either. Solution: Make figures with rcParams['text.useTex'] = True
Using AWK to fixed-format print in VIM
24,42!awk '{printf("\%30s\%20f\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%5i\n" , $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10)}'It's important that the %'s must be escaped, otherwise they print the current filename.
wget
wget is very useful for acquiring data from, e.g., IRSA, the NASA Infrared Science Archive. wget -nd -r -l1 -A*g09*_b4_20.fits http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/IGA/images/ The important elements: -nd: don't reproduce the host directory structure -r: recursive. Grab the files referred to by the page, not just the page itself -l#: number of recursion levels -A: "accept" wildcard