Author Archives: pauljohn

About pauljohn

Paul E. Johnson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. He is an avid Linux User, an adequate system administrator and C programmer, and humility is one of his greatest strengths.

OpenBUGS 3.3.2 Linux Packages

Posted on 2012/07/29 by pauljohn

Greetings, Linux users of OpenBUGS I’ve been contributing Linux packages for OpenBUGS over the last couple of years. Its something I do for fun, not “my job”. As usual, if these don’t work, email me with details, I’ll try to … Continue reading →

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Debian recollection: remember when your laptop could not reboot?

Posted on 2012/05/16 by pauljohn

Remember that “I can’t reboot” problem has hit all of the Dell laptop on which I’ve installed Debian Linux 6. The symptom is that the screen froze after initiating a reboot. You might wait forever and it would not change. … Continue reading →

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Stable Debian, new R

Posted on 2012/05/16 by pauljohn

To get the new R with the Debian stable, here’s what you do. http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/linux/debian/ In your system’s directory for addon repositories, /etc/apt/sources.list.d, you create a file with a name “R.list” (must be “list” on the end” and in there you … Continue reading →

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KU’s digicert SMIME email; my memo

Posted on 2012/05/15 by pauljohn

Here’s the gist of it: You can sign up through KU for a Digicert certificate to secure email within KU. There’s no excuse anymore for sending secure information in email without encryption. Longer explanation For securing email communications, there are … Continue reading →

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iwlwifi head’s up: kernel 3.2 problems

Posted on 2012/03/15 by pauljohn

I run Debian testing and the kernel upgraded to 3.2 a while ago. I’ve had the problem that my dell laptop with Centrino wireless card can’t join wireless networks, Like others, I had mistaken this for a network-manager problem because … Continue reading →

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R … dot-dot-dot arguments

Posted on 2012/02/06 by pauljohn

Working with dot-dot-dot has been a challenge. I would not have understood this post by Gabor Grothenieck in r-help on 2011-10-9, but I do now! And I’m so happy! ” Suppose we wish to call f with the control.list components … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 will drive you insane. Maybe

Posted on 2011/05/03 by pauljohn

FF4 is OK, but they have made some changes I absolutely hate. They hide some menu items, for no particular reason. And they swapped the “New Window” and “New Tab” items in the right click. People respond “install the menu-editor … Continue reading →

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Create RPMs for yourself

Posted on 2011/03/07 by pauljohn

create ~/.rpmmacros: [pauljohn@pols12 ~]$ cat .rpmmacros %_topdir /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat %_signature gpg %_gpg_name Paul Johnson %_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0 2. Make the directory mkdir -p ~/LinuxDownloads/redhat 3. Install rpmbuild program $ yum install rpm-build 4. Download the SRPM file of something you want to … Continue reading →

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Mplus File transfer utility

Posted on 2011/02/03 by pauljohn

Don’t Forget to try: N2Mplus Can convert Excel and SPSS -> Mplus. http://www.danielsoper.com/n2mplus/default.aspx

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Multiple Imputation: SEM & diagnostics