2012

Compiling NEST on OSX 10.8

Trying to install NEST on a OSX 10.8 machine and getting a [code] sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence[/code] error on make install? It seems OSX Lion has some issues with…

Useful bash commands

Add several commands to queue at once [code lang=”bash”] echo “call0;call1;” | at -q b -m now [/code] Delete all queued jobs [code lang=”bash”] atrm $(atq | cut…

Setting up SMB/AFP/CIFS network drive for Time Machine on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

This took a short while to figure out, since most guides out there are written for pre OSX 10.7. I guess this should work for 10.7 and 10.8…

Le Smackoff: ad hoc python wrapping of R/smacof

Since I had to use the R package smacof, yet the rest of my code usually is in python, I thought the fastest thing to do would be…

cProfile data visualization with Gprof2Dot & GraphVis

While looking for a straightforward way to visualize python cProfile profiling data I stumbled over the nice tool Gprof2Dot which uses GraphVis to generate nice graphics. I am just writing…

Workaround for bits build error on MacPorts/OsX 10.7 Lion

Just in case anybody encounters this as well, I just had a build error while trying to build gwPython though MacPorts. It seems the OSX 10.6 SDK is…