tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218496334076873212011-09-29T17:24:52.795+01:00Filipe Teixeirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348172897420617423noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-721849633407687321.post-67283826525807373322010-03-22T17:42:00.001Z2010-03-22T17:43:22.339Z

Listening to Mike Oldfiel's Incantations... so beautiful... :)

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I just started to compile the kernel. In order to avoid some unnecessary trail-and-error steps, I used the output of lsmod from the previous Fedora installation. Unfortunatelly, some modules are missing from gentoo-sources. As always, I decided to built a monolithic kernel with almost no modules.The output from ls in Fedora was:Module Size Used byath9k 202952 0

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Dear readers,Last August, I brought an ASUS EEEPC 1000HE and tried to install Gentto on it. I must say it was successful. Nevertheless, I never managed to configure eduroam and was forced to install fedora 12 on it.Now I plan to re install gentoo on my netbook. At this stage I know some interesting stuf about running linux on these machines:First of all: windows is totally unnecessary, so I'm

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Hello everyone.I'm definitively back from my vacations and work is starting to pile up. I'll restart my posting in the next few days.Bye

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Hello Everyone...Yes, it's true, today is my 27th anniversary. It's summer, it's very hot, and I haven't had the patience to write to this blog. Actually, I haven't had the patience to write anything in the last few days.Darwin, my new netbook, is doing fine with Gentoo. There was one or two little twists I had to make, but I can say that the standard procedure for installing Gentoo produced a

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Hello Everyone!Today (actually, yesterday) I've made it: I've finally installed Gentoo on my new ASUS EEEPC. It wasn't all that hard, and the little machine really surprised me with it's ability to handle processor-intensive tasks like compiling the kernel. Nevertheless, there was some trial-and-error and I hope to give you a more detailed description of the thing I've tried.Just to start with (

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It's been a while since my last post. During these months, I've been doing some tutoring, research and a lot of possible-Phd-scholarship-related paperwork. During this time, I've noticed the lack of a piece of hardware that would allow me to do part of my work wherever I may be.As you know, I'm doing research in computational chemistry, so some of you may think I would enjoy having something

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Good morning!Here is the video clip for (In)Sequence.

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I spent the last two weeks of April preparing my first paper on the stereoselectivity of some aza-Diels-Alder reaction. Because of that, I haven't found the time to update my blog. The article cammed up okay, and it's now submitted. I'll post a link to it when it is approved. ;)So now I'm back to do research and teaching, with some time available for my other projects (music, this blog, etc...).

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I've been following this very interesting discussion about GAMESS, quantum chemistry and software development.Anything that I would have to say about this would be somewhat redundant and dumb when compared to the optinions of these fine gentlemen. Anyhow, this would be a good oportunity to learn something.

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The last two weeks were spent reading articles, watching old 007 movies and trying to put some sense in my personal life. Obviously, most of the time was spent reading and writing stuff for my first article in Computational Chemistry.This is quite an important moment for me. I can get the felling that my research s somewhat useful or important (although is just modeling a Diels-Alder-like

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Last week I was in need of some conversion utilities. I ran some geometry optimizations in GAMESS and wanted to do three things:Use the optimized geometry in a hessian calculation; Create a tables with the final electronic energy for each compound (file); andCreate another table with the total elapsed time for each run.In order to do this I needed to use values that were inside a line with both

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Hello again.Yesterday I spent most of my day making the master tracks for three of my musical projects: (In)sequence, Blue and Music for the Cellphone.Recording Blue was quite easy, and I even had the time to make a shorter version, without some FX. This track combined motifs played on ZynAddSubFX and musical phrases programmed directly in LMMs. All I had to do in the end was exporting the music

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I finished installing Gentoo Linux yesterday. Unfortunately, all "heavy" packages emerged together with their respective dependencies, so it was impossible to measure the time they took to compile with either version of Linux. Nevertheless, I timed the installation of some small packages.For those who aren't acquainted with Gentoo, when we emerge a package, we download the source code and then

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I've been installing gentoo on my computer (both x86 and amd64 versions, with dual boot). Thought this has taken me the whole week, I must ackonedge that installing gentoo is becoming more of a breeze.At this point I've installed almost everything in the amd64 part. I'm only missing some icons and gtk themes. The x86 part of the plan is due to be complete on sunday.As to performance, I haven't

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I'm installing gentoo amd64 on my machine. This came out of curiosity: I wanted to know which is better: to have a single core 64-bit system or a dual core 32 bit one?During the next posts I'll time and report to you several usual task, like:Emerging "heavy packages" like openoffice.ogr and mozila-firefox;Running GAMESSRunning my personal game-of-life (programmed in Python)Loading heavily

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Last weekend I updated my gentoo system. As part of the update, I had to throw away my old TeTeX distribution and install the new TeXlive distribution.This morning I was compiling a document when pdf latex came with an error: ! LaTeX Error: File `utf-8.def' not found.I usually write in Portuguese, and even when I'm writing in plain international standard English, I like to use the utf-8

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It's been a while since I had the chance to do one of mine morning walks in the seaside. Yesterday, I decided that it was time to revisit this habit of mine, so I went for a walk at Porto's seafront, locally known as "foz".Going to the shore at sunset is quite relaxing, as the day seems to simply fade away without rush. There's nothing new about this, but today I woke up quite happy and decided

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It's been a while since the last time I posted in the blog. In these last days I've been working around some projects. This is a kind of synthesis:I've finally decided on a model on which to print my crash course in analytical chemistry. It's based on LaTeX's memoir class, with slight adjustments. One of the most difficult things I have to do was to decide what to do with the margins. I wanted to

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Hello.I've been using audacity to mix and re-mix my musics. Audacity is a great - and I mean GREAT - sound editor. It has a lot of effects, multi tracking capabilities and an easy-to-use interface.Unfortunately, a great sound editor is not what I needed to do music. I mean, it's nice to edit, cut, paste, modify, and mix several recorded sounds. But doing a full featured music with audacity is

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This was the best I could do with Lives and ffmpeg in order to show you my Minimoog patch. This video is available on YouTube, since there are so few videos about Alsa Modular Synth and it's capabilities. I really hope to see more people interested in making music using open source programs.

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Hello! Today is Sunday, and, as I promised, I'm struggling with Lives and ffmpeg in order to deliver to you a demo of the Alsa Modular Synth/Minimoog patch.I have some screenshots of the patch and of the Parameter View window while using different sounds. Lives can open a single image and do a clip (by successive copying and pasting of the image). However, I can't use the multitrack capabilities

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Today it was cleaning day around here. As always, cleaning the room is a change to get to know somethings about ourselves: for example, for a person that doesn't smoke, I do have a lot of lighters. I also found some old scores I made in the late 90's. I would like to give them a new treatment. maybe some parts of them could give a good demo for the Mini Moog simulator I talked about in my last

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When I first started to use Linux, I was quite surprised about how difficult it was to play a MIDI file. There was artsd, then JACK, then kmidiplay, timidity, timidity+, and a dozen other programs. All of them were "essential" to play midi files.In time, I began to understand the basics of how it all worked. To play a MIDI file you need a program -called a sequencer- to actually read the file,

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Today I was visiting the center where I lectured my latest vocational training program. I've spent most of my afternoon doing some billing and paperwork, so there's no much to tell about it.When I came home, I remembered some good experiences made at that program, remembered the lack of materials to teach Analytical Chemistry in a non-academic environment and how I struggled to make a small

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Since I first started to use the web, I've been to some (actually, many) sites that promise to enlarge our "social network". Orkut, Hi5, Netlog, facebook and many other sites are a common meeting place on the internet. Are they?The last time I checked, most friends I have in my hi5 profile are actual real-life friend, with whom I meet every now and then. On the other hand, most people listed as

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This is another attempt of mine to run a blog. This time I don't want to do a monotopic blog. I've found in recent experiments that managing an one-topic blog can be quite incompatible with having a life. Also, it may become very, very boring (both to me, and to you). Therefore, I decided to make a blog on what I do and on what I have been doing during the last months.So, what have I been doing

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