Category: Software
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Building libbow and rainbow on Mac OSX
For some research work I’m doing, I would like to do some Bayesian modeling for text categorization. Since I’m not interested in re-inventing wheels when there are plenty of very well constructed wheels available for the taking, I thought I would install Andrew McCallum’s libbow and rainbow packages on my Mac. Of course, I had […]
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Simple Referrer tracking
Just for fun, I’ve added some simple referrer tracking code to this site, and will be playing around with it for a while. The code is from Justinsomnia. Thanks for the code!
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How to use Excel charts in LaTeX documents on Mac OSX
I use LaTeX to write most of my research-related papers. I really like LaTeX. I think it has a high learning curve, but it does give very nice results, makes formatting something you don’t have to think about, and is great with references and citations. I love how you can easily re-organize your paper’s structure, […]
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Ditching SpamAssassin, using GMail as a Spam Filter
So I run my own mailserver that serves http://FuguTabetai.com/, http://MangaTranslation.com/, http://SMUGeeks.com/, and http://JevansCeramics.com/. The problem is, even after adding some extra rules to SpamAssassin, it really hasn’t done a great job catching the spam, and worse it takes up a lot of RAM and CPU time on my virtual private server. The VPS is from […]
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Where in the world are the Evans kids?
My grandmother and mother have a problem. They don’t know where us Evans kids are. We travel around a lot, and don’t stay in one place for long. So I thought it would be a fun project to code up a PHP / MySQL web application that puts us on a Google Map. Of course, […]
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Added simple comment spam protection
I’ve added simple comment spam protection to my bblog. Hopefully it will keep the spam bots from getting comments in that I need to moderate. I’ll put installation instructions below. First, we have to determine if your system supports FreeType fonts in GD or not. Do do that, download http://FuguTabetai.com/phptest.txt and put that on the […]
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Installing mt-daapd to server iTunes music from Fedora Core 4 linux box
So I have a collection of music that I like to play using Amarok on my Fedora Core 4 linux laptop, and since I recently picked up a 15″ PowerBook, I thought it would be fun to install a daap server. I decided on mt-daapd (over daapd, but I can’t really say why.) There are […]
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Adding rules to SpamAssassin and keeping them up-to-date automatically
So I’ve been getting a lot of spam lately, and decided to add more rules to SpamAssassin. I found two nice solutions for automatically (via cron or the like) download new rulesets. I’ve decided to go with Maxime Ritter’s rule-get perl script, which is like apt-get in many ways. It stuck the script in /usr/local/sbin […]
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15″ Aluminum PowerBook hard freezes
So I’ve had a 1.67 Ghz PowerPC 15″ Aluminum PowerBook for about two months now, and am really enjoying it. I’ll have some stuff to stay later about porting Java applications to Mac OSX and some problems I’ve had with that, but for the most part things have been working very well. When I ordered […]
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LogTracker update
Updated LogTracker with a view of URIs that have been recently accessed.