Category Archives: Diary

General comments of a diary, day-to-day nature

Where did I put that nifty function I wrote?

Posted on 2010-10-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I know everyone probably knows this, but I’m noting this here, more for my benefit than other people’s. Consider the following (addled Alzheimers programmers are familiar I’m sure…) About to write a new script but sure that you’ve done something … Continue reading →

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PD is back!

Posted on 2010-06-14 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After a few days wondering what I was going to do about pure data not being in the lucid repositories, Peter (Vasil) pointed me in the right direction. He told me to look here https://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/ and download the latest build. … Continue reading →

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Total Geek-out

Posted on 2010-06-09 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After a very inspiring meeting with Peter Vasil who along with his colleagues has been working with us on our own GPS tracks and more recently the visualisation for The Monday Walks project we’re making with students from the University … Continue reading →

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Make the windows partition mount at startup in Ubuntu

Posted on 2010-06-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

You just edit your fstab! All you need is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab The reason I wanted to do this is because the documents I synchronise with Sophia, the plan b directory of current project files, is on the windows partition of … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 3 installation on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on 2010-06-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Hmm, my evening slowed down a bit when I downloaded Thunderbird 3, extracted it and didn’t really know what to do with the resulting files! Turns out the answer is don’t be scared, just double click the file that says … Continue reading →

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