http://hunterdavis.com 3.0! Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:06:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For many a scientist like myself, the pear-shaped waistline which has become synonymous with the unix guru has become all too familiar. While there are a number of mitigating factors, I'm going to chalk it up to the sedentary lifestyle of the typical programmer. A study posted on ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/24 Ok, so here's the deal. I write a lot of C in my line of work, so when I get the chance to write some clever shell script, I relish it. I do a lot of long supercomputer simulations, which tend to be hard to debug (especially when ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/23 Ok, so here's a fun bit of perl code I wrote last night. It's called snesaver, and you can download it here. Here's how it works, 1. You'll need to be running some flavor of *nix (self=ubuntu), with perl installed 2. You'll need to have xscreensaver ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/20 Easy Execute - An extremely easy to use C++ library for spawning processes and executing arbitrary commands. This library is intended for developers who wish to simply execute some command, without worrying about the underlying fork/exec/system calls, string parsing, setting up timers, recording the ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/19 I've uploaded a video to youtube of casey (my pointer hound) doing some tricks. Fun! http://hunterdavis.com/archives/18 This should significantly increase our capture and processing speed. First, install libcv1 in ubuntu, I like to get the documentation and python bindings as well, and these will install libcv1 anyway. sudo aptitdue install python-cv opencv-doc Now we'll start writing some C code. As I have ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/17 Ok, now that we have a working home automation server setup (see article 1), let's plug in a lamp module and have it flash when our gmail arrives. First up, plug in the light module, select your house code ('heyu info' will tell you your house code) and an ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/16 A little tic/toc ery has shown that without an image draw scilab can process 3 fps. So here's a loop unrolled version that delays image rendering till 3 dots have been drawn. //"paint" a scene with a laser pointer in realtime //speed of update depends on speed of camera + ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/15 For some time now I've been into computer vision. However, much of computer vision is done on matlab, a 1000$ piece of software that doesn't jive with my open source philosophy. Luckily, there are a number of open source alternatives. I prefer ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/14 Ok, so i've got this old clamshell ibook. The main weakness of these models was the screen, a paltry 800x600 resolution. The main sweetness of the project: Control your house lights from your phone, any web browser, any ssh client, etc Automate your lights, run complex temperature ... http://hunterdavis.com/archives/13