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.

NSF Geoscience Education 2009-12-17

Posted on 2009/12/17 by pauljohn

TO: Principal Investigators, Department Chairs, Deans and Directors FROM: Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies (RGS) RE: NSF Geoscience Education (GeoEd) NSF 10-512 Date Posted: December 17, 2009 Deadline for internal competition: January 19, 2010 … Continue reading →

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LaTeX editing with AucTeX

Posted on 2009/12/09 by pauljohn

I don’t like AucTeX very much yet, but I’m trying. Here are things I’ve “found out”. http://emacsworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/cleaning-up-or-deleting-latex.html AucTeX provides a simple interface to clean the files. Hitting C-c C-c and typing ‘Clean’ or ‘Clean All’ deletes the intermediate files associated … Continue reading →

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Advanced Virus Remover Hassle

Posted on 2009/11/30 by pauljohn

A lady I help called because her Win system said it was infected and she needed to send in 49.95. It said she had a pernicious worm, but when I went and saw it, I was quite impressed by the … Continue reading →

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Cluster Journal

Posted on 2009/11/28 by pauljohn

Entry 1. Trials of Dell BIOS & Firmware upgrades Entry 2. One failed Rocks install https://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/?p=44 Entry 3. Rocks install failed again.

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Cluster Journal Entry 2

Posted on 2009/11/28 by pauljohn

Now I’ll try the Rocks 5.2 install. I decided to go outside the defaults by re-designing the disk partitions. I know what I want, I really do. But after about 1 hour of installation, it failed because something was out … Continue reading →

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Cluster Journal Entry 1

Posted on 2009/11/28 by pauljohn

I inherited 3 Dell Poweredge 2950, 60 Dell Poweredge 1950, 3 Dell Powervault MD3000, some racks, power unigs, several switches and a few boxes of cables and wires. These are 17 months old, but have never been used. There has … Continue reading →

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R: recover commands & track methods

Posted on 2009/09/18 by pauljohn

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/09/12506.html From: Prof Brian Ripley Date: Thu 22 Sep 2005 – 19:10:08 EST The original reply was deliberately (I guess) vague. (I’ve removed the history, as attributions had already been removed, in violation of copyright law. If you cite someone, … Continue reading →

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disk partitioning and copying across machines:

Posted on 2009/07/14 by pauljohn

In the past, I’ve used g4u to copy partitions on network, but the new Dell pcs have some kind of Pentium and ethernet that g4u does not recognize. So this presents a fruitful opportunity to learn. Copy the mbr from … Continue reading →

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mime types, update-desktop-database, and Linux Alternatives

Posted on 2009/05/19 by pauljohn

What to do if an unexpected program tries to open up a file? You want acrobat reader, but get that horrible kghostviewer. Understand this: To find programs, some parts of the desktop framework use the settings given by the “alternatives” … Continue reading →

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deb package tips that are hard to remember:

Posted on 2009/01/31 by pauljohn

On http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=486897, I found this useful tip: # Generate a list of dev package names for packages that are installed # (some of these may already be installed) # (this would probably take a while to run) dpkg -l | … Continue reading →

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