After installing an old Windows 8.1 operating system on an old machine, the X2Go client software suddenly wouldn’t work on the reinstalled operating system. After a windows debugging session,...
My new science fiction novel, The Righteous Dark is now live on Amazon!
Yesterday I was upgrading a 2008 R2 Server to 2012, and everything seemed to go fine. A few hours after the upgrade, one of the users was reporting multiple...
In this post, I’m going to use R to scrape Indeed.com for some jobs, then plot the positions of the top jobs on a map, and save that map...
I was recently forced at gunpoint to estimate the positions of mileposts along the highways in Maricopa County. This was to estimate stops and arrest positions for law enforcement....
I recently needed to process a bunch of addresses that our proprietary geocoding software was having a problem with. I won’t say the name of the geocoder, but it...
An R function I had to write to calculate the true course/bearing between two lat lon positions. Note that the fossil R library has a function called earth.bear to...
Open ~/.vnc/xstartup file $ nano ~/.vnc/xstartup Add the lines in the file. #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey # fix to make xfce work: startxfce4 & Save and exit.
In case you’re using the book in the title, here’s the fix for the Chapter 3 MNIST dataset hang Download by clicking on the view raw dataset from https://github.com/operalib/operalib/blob/master/mnist/mldata/mnist-original.mat Use...
In Part II, we added a queue and a PatrolCar class to our Python simulation to answer call events in our police patrol simulation. In this installment, we’ll add calls...