This is mainly a note to myself, because I’ve currently got no linux box of my own to play with – but a few readers may be interested! I came across a couple of quite cool implementations of FUSE the other day. SSHFS mounts SSH-accessible remote filesystems, locally on your PC with transparent read-write access. [...]
You’ve installed something from package repositories, and, on invoking, it tells you to actually run a certain script first. The script fails because you’re behind a proxy server, but you don’t know where Aptitude put the script in order to edit it. You know it’s in your $PATH, but that’s a lot of directories… Solution [...]
So, turns out that the downloadable ISO from fluxbuntu.org is broken (MD5 matches, so the problem’s on their end), or else I have three broken CD-burning applications, or two broken CD-burning drives. Occam’s-razorize THAT one. It also turns out that my laptop’s optical drive (or possibly BIOS) is a little iffy – I can’t boot [...]
I’ve just noticed that Fluxbuntu appears to be at a reasonably stable stage now. Methinks it’s time for a reinstall on my laptop… (FYI, I’ve been running a heavily bastardised *buntu-based linux installation on my oldish Dell C640 for some time. I’ve messed around with the packaging way too much to call it Ubuntu or [...]
grep -B 3 average stuart.out | grep -v Turnpoint | sed -e ‘s/cosine/0/g;s/random/1/g;/-/d; s/[[:alpha:][:space:]:]\+/,/g;s/^,8//g; s/,\(([[:digit:]\.]\+)\)//g;s/^,//g’ > clean.csv Yup, I feel that’s quite an impressively long sed argument. It is probably possible to write something more succinct that will have the same effect, but it’d only be even more obfuscated stuart.out is the data collected from [...]