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Installing MPICH with Intel Fortran on Ubuntu

Here is a useful website:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/mpich2_intel_fortran&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmpich%2Bifort%2Bubuntu%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

Mini-review: Opensolaris 2008.05 x86

I was interested Opensolaris because I had an awkward experience with a sun sparc machine several years ago. Once I logged into a storage server and basically the gui stopped running! I was so scared and ran out of the lab immediately (such a jerk...haha)

So my experience was based on a harddisk installation of opensolaris on my thinkpad T61. Specs are not very important in this case, but it's good to know it is using nvidia quadro 140m card.

Pro:
Hardware:
Opensolaris can be downloaded a live cd. But the most exciting part is that both graphics and wireless worked out of the box! These two things were always needed to be setup on linux, even in ubuntu (until those recent versions). =)

Software:
sunstudio?

Cons:
Opensolaris comes with zfs (some kind of sun's file system) and its own modified version of GRUB. Therefore, on my dual/tri-boot machine, the opensolaris can be only boot through the provided version of GRUB...which doesn't make sense at all!!

Installing Netbeans on Fedora 9

1. install openjdk by using yum or Add/Remove program in the desktop menu
2. download a version of netbeans from netbeans.org
3. set the install script executable, i.e. chmod +x myscript.sh
4. run the script by using root account with the option of javahome (IMPORTANT)

./netbeans-6.1-cpp-linux.sh --javahome /usr/lib/jvm

5. Follow the intruction on the screen
6. Enjoy =)

Sketchcast trial...

Sketchcast.com allows you to draw and publish. Of course, it would be much nicer to have a tablet pc to work on it. Here is a trial:

I could have record sound too, but too lazy to it. Overall experience is not bad, though I found it a little bit laggy to ink. Good work.

Printing to a shared printer on Leopard from Vista

It seems that the network printing method changed on the Leopard OS. Now the most straight-forward way to print from a PC with M$ windows to a shared printer on a Mac is the following:

1. Install Bonjour for Windows from here

2. Select the printing wizard and select the generic printer driver (my canon driver does not work)

That is it.

Books on Shelves

Here are the books in my room now:

1. Modern Quantum Mechanics, Sakurai
2. Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Sakurai
3. Classical Mechanics, Goldstein
4. Classical Dynamics, Marion
   
5. Classical Electrodynamics, Jackson
6. The Physics of Stars, Philips
7. Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetodynamic Stability, Chandrasekhar
8. A First Course in String Theory
9. Cosmology, Cole
10. Introduction to Gravity, Hartle
11. Physics of Astrophysics I : Radiation, Shu
12. Physics of Astrophysics II : Gas Dynamics, Shu
13. Introduction to Electrodynamics, Griffith
14. Introductory Statistical Mechanics, Bowley