A few months ago whilst writing up my thesis and doing some number crunching with Matlab, my machine died spectacularly, leaving the hard drive but not much else intact. Making good use of the command window in Matlab I wanted to recover this history – so armed with the hard drive and not much else […]
Read more →When writing for publication, you may be offered a .cls file from the journal in question in which to format a TeX document to their specification. Whilst this works great in TeX, usually by copying the class.cls file in your working directory where all your .tex files reside and adding \documentclass{class} in the preamble (before […]
Read more →I keep all my media in a central location on a network store but I want to be able to play it on my iphone when I’m away without network connectivity. Most of the content is avi/divx/xvid which the iphone does not play natively. Handbrake is a really slick transcoder which converts a wide number […]
Read more →A few clients I’ve worked with in the past are Microsoft-centric having Server 2003 based dedicated servers but want to be able to host WordPress blogs. Luckily it’s relatively straightforward to get a WordPress blog up and running on IIS by the following steps. This is written for Server 2003 (running IIS 6.0) and I’m […]
Read more →Made a bit of a boo-boo today… I used the Subclipse plugin regularly within Eclipse to manage my code checkins on my SVN repositories, but I’ve also got TortoiseSVN installed and checked in some modifications to this code using TortoiseSVN, which consequentially upgraded by working copy from Subversion 1.4 to 1.6. When I attempted to […]
Read more →It was so on the cards but it looks like we’ll all be able to get a bit of Windows 7 action tomorrow (9/01), with a public beta for what looks to be the first 2.5 million people! I’ll be checking http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ periodically
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