Nelse
When I was growing up in a suburb just outside of London, my friend Pete and I would dismantle anything mechanical and attempt to build and use the rendered parts for any project that we worked on. Eventually he had a huge suitcase full of these parts of odds and ends, and it was referred to as Nelse.
Here is a gathering of computer related Nelse - research ideas, hacks and odd documents and notes that I have kept on my computer over the years.
- (2011/01/19) Getting the right Bounding Box for LaTeX - Postscript figures generated with PGPLOT work with the usual latex [...]
- (2010/10/19) Mac OSX Terminals are opening slowly - This is has been bugging me for several weeks, but now I stumbled on a [...]
- (2010/04/28) Converting YouTube videos to MP3 audio files - I like the audio tracks on several YouTube videos, so here's a command line [...]
- (2010/04/07) Using bibtex and texmf - I've had several small bibtex files for many years scattered across many directories, and this has led to confusion and madness. To resolve this issue, I've gone and decided to use a single bibtex file for all my references, just as Saint Knuth (probably) intended. [...]
- (2009/09/29) Compiling PGPLOT on a MacBook - How to compile and locally install the PGPLOT routines in OS X on a [...]
- (2009/09/28) Compiling Perl and PDL from Scratch - I want a fresh, clean install of PDL and Perl in a home directory. [...]
- (2009/09/14) Common FLAC Command Line Options - ## script to transfer tags from FLAC to MP3 and convert FLAC [...]
- (2009/08/01) Organising my music collection - I wanted to organise all the random music files that I have [...]
- (2009/07/17) The Simplest Site Imaginable - Separating style from content is something highly encouraged by the W3C [...]
- (2009/07/13) Adding Fonts in Fedora - Locally adding fonts and making Fedora use them. [...]
- (2009/06/10) Years of Ticket Stubs - A bit of Perl code later, and I have an image of all the shows I have [...]
- (2009/04/13) Uploading all my email into GMail - Combining and uploading all mailboxes into GMail requires [...]
- (2008/06/02) LyX, BiBTeX, ADS, astro-ph and hyperref for Astronomers - Keeping a bibtex database and using it to produce dynamic PDF documents [...]
- (2008/05/21) Moving from mailbox format to maildir formats - I store each year's worth of mail in a single large mbox format file. [...]
- (2008/05/02) GPS and gpsbabel - Downloadsing and processing KML GPS data from a Garmin GPS unit. [...]
- (2008/05/01) EEM style page - From Prof. Mamajek, a set of useful links. [...]
- (2008/03/16) Replacing the TiVo drives in the Series 1 TiVo - The HDR 112 Series 1 Philips TiVo we have showed signs of failing, as [...]
- (2007/08/19) Pesto - Pesto recipe from the Moosewood cookbook. [...]
- (2007/07/17) Recording Sound with Linux - This is a record of my first attempts to get the LINE-IN and MIC working [...]
- (2007/07/16) The Shape of Thunder - From an original idea by Johnan L. Codona, the concept is to record the [...]
- (2007/07/04) Sharing my music over the net - First, I teted that I can connect to mmtao.org with a tunnel by checking [...]
- (2007/07/02) Getting TiVo to use a serial line for program lineup downloads - Instead of a phone line, the TiVo can download through a serial line [...]
- (2007/06/17) Setting up iTunes on a Linux box - I'd like to share my tunes with other people, but I have no Mac. So, I'm [...]
- (2007/06/12) Setting up a network printer to use CUPS - I have a Samsung ML-1740 Laser printer connected to a Hawking wireless [...]
- (2007/05/29) PGPLOT and ffmpeg to make animations - I'm making simulations using PDL and PGPLOT, and I want to make a [...]
- (2007/04/11) USENET signature blocks - Back in the 80's there was a tradition of writing short, obfuscated [...]
- (2006/07/11) Fraunhoffer Diffraction of a Circular Aperture - Information on the first 100 Airy rings, such as radii, encircled [...]
- (2004/08/11) Monsoon camera - Stereo image time lapse movies, showing thunderstorms developing during [...]
- (2004/01/21) Chinese Whispers - Be very careful what you wish for.... [...]
- (2004/01/20) XFace - Here is some code for an email header that generates simple black and [...]
Cargo Cult Science - By Richard Feynman.
Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense - From a Scientific American article a few years' ago.
GNU Make manual - In one big HTML page suitable for searching.
Useful Knots - Ten of the most useful knots.
Tomato Soup Recipe - Tomato soup recipe to kill for.
User Manuals for Work and Home - Downloaded PDF files for my electronics
PDL Book - A local copy of the PDL Book from the CVS pages.
PDL for Beginners Book - Not as good as the above book, but more useful for module writing.
PGPLOT Manual - A local copy of the manual for Tim Pearson's excellent PGPLOT routines.
PDL Function List - All PDL functions from 2.4.3 in one HTML page.