The Captain’s Log

Archive for December, 2006

Matlab 2006a - Graphic callback causes Segmentation Fault

I’ve recently had an issue with matlab running on an AMD Athlon 64 system which I thought I might share with you all, I submitted a bug report to the Mathworks site and thought I’d post it here for others who might be experiencing the same thing.
How can we assist you: I’m having a seg […]

Cocaine the energy Drink

Top 10 toys for injuring kids

And surprisingly the post title is actually 100% spot on the actual subject matter of this article. Very funny story over at radar magazine about toys which most likely would never see the light of day in the current culture of litigation and deferred responsibility, but which still totally rocked!!!!
First up are the rockin’ […]

House Photos

Hey all, if I haven’t told you yet (and trust me I’ve been telling everyone I run into) my little sister Becky and I are about to become proud home owners. We’ve agreed on a contract on a house in Coorparoo and are expecting to settle on it around mid-January. Today however I have some […]

FRGC Workaround

Our internet access situation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is based entirely on  keeping a browser pop-up window open on your computer. You log in and your username is associated with that computer (for quota purposes) for as long as that pop-up exists, the problem with this is that when you are running on […]

Add custom color to directory listings

Shamelessly ripped from ubuntu forums.
You ever fire up an xterm and perform an “ls” command? Sure you have! If so, did you ever wish that:

certain files would “stand out” with a custom color, and not the defaults?
you can add other filename extensions to the database with their own custom color […]

Solar Tsunami

The prototype of a new solar patrol telescope in New Mexico recorded a tsunami-like shock wave rolling across the visible face of the Sun following a major flare event on Wednesday, Dec. 6. The shock wave, known as a Moreton wave, also destroyed or compressed two filaments of cool gas at opposite sides of the […]

Comparing binary files under linux

If you’ve been using Linux (or CVS) for any length of time you’ll probably be fairly familiar with the command line function diff. Basically it takes two files as arguments and tells you how they differ from one another. While very good for ascii and text files diff doesn’t really do the job when it […]

Matlab Licensing Issues (lmstat)

Further to my previous post on compilation issues for matlab under Fedora Core 5, I found out that after getting my machine into a state where it was possible to perform the compilation, some bastard had come along and nicked the school’s one and only floating license for the Matlab Compiler… GRRR!!

License Manager Error -4.
Maximum […]