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CSS – Floating Next/Previous Links On Images

Why is this necessary, you ask? Ever since I first used PixelPost and deliciously delicious theme, I had been wanting to do something similar for my own photo gallery. Since PixelPost [nor any other...

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PHP – Computing Total Travel Distance From GPS Tracks

Amongst other things, I like to keep a detailed track of where I have been [especially during hiking in the woods, venturing into areas that I have never been before, etc.]. For this purpose, I have...

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BASH – Wrappers For qstat In NPACI ROCKS 5.2.2

What is ROCKS? Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally called NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing clusters. It was started by NPACI and the SDSC in 2000, and was...

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BASH – vasp2xyz, A Script To Extract Coordinates From VASP

Users of VASP are often familiar with the struggles/hardships to easily visualize the coordinates from the output file [OUTCAR]. To that effect, I wrote the following script [with help at a crucial...

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2009 – The Year That Was

It’s that time of the year again. Although December 31st is just another day and is just as good as any of the other 364/365 days, last day of the year nevertheless serves as a good point in time-line...

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Mystic River – One of National Geographic’s Best Wallpapers In 2009

I wasn’t aware of this until I [rather carefully] going through the Photo of the Month notification email from National Geographic, that my Mystic River was picked as one of the best Wallpapers from...

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BASH – Router’s Public IP Address For Mac

Why This Script? While in its simplest form of usage, this script will only print out the public (& private) IP address along with the SSID to which the machine is connected to, the results...

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BASH – Extracting Subversion Log

Subversion Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and...

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Canal Run 2010 – A Case of Mind Over Body; And By Mind, I Mean…

It was little under a year ago, July 18th, 2009 to be precise, that I saw many a good friends [Brian, Cal, Ian, Laura, Nils and more] effortlessly run past the (34th Annual) Hancock Canal Run finish...

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A Not So Perfect Season But … Mission Accomplished

Grief … most would define it as the feeling of loss – usually something that happens in our mind and body when something we hold ever so close to ourselves is lost. It happened to a bunch of us, one...

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[Another] Perfect Season In Review

It was Thursday, 13th August 2009, the day we, as a team, played just well enough to keep our slates clean and win the Michigan Tech Graduate Softball League Championship. And in festivities that...

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MAC – Syntax Highlighting Code Samples In Keynote Presentations

Ever wondered how cool an Apple Keynote presentation would look if the code samples were automagically syntax highlighted? Ever wondered if there was an automagical way to highlight the syntax? After...

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MAC – Quick Fix For WPA2 Password Prompt Issue @ Michigan Tech

Every once in a while, my Apple MacBook Pro – running Mac OS X [Snow Leopard] 10.6.4 – starts prompting for password before connecting to Michigan Tech‘s (@MichiganTech) WPA2 Enterprise network. While...

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MPI – The Message Passing Interface

MPI, message passing interface, is a language-independent communications protocol used to program parallel computers – supporting both point-to-point and collective communication modes. With high...

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Subversion – Changing Repository Location

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its...

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MPICH2 MPI With GNU Compilers

MPI For my understanding of what MPI is &/or does, please refer to this post. Compiling MPICH2 (v1.3.1) with GNU Compilers (GCC v4.1.2) mkdir $HOME/tmp/ Download MPICH2 from the Argonne National...

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MPI/C – Saying ello!

MPI For my understanding of what MPI is &/or does, please refer to this post. Saying ello! It’s an unwritten [and an auspicious] rule in the programming world to begin learning a new programming...

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MPI/C – Oddly [or Evenly] Saying ello!

MPI For my understanding of what MPI is &/or does, please refer to this post. Saying ello! & Printing Odd/Even Processors For the simplest version of just saying Hello, World!, please refer to...

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MPI/C – A Simple Send & Receive

MPI For my understanding of what MPI is &/or does, please refer to this post. MPI_Send & MPI_Recv More often than not, a sequential/serial program gets parallelized – assuming resources are...

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MPI/C – An Advanced Send & Receive

MPI For my understanding of what MPI is &/or does, please refer to this post. MPI_Send & MPI_Recv Rarely does the MASTER in a parallelized program sends some information to a WORKER solely for...

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