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On these sites there exist already introductions to Gnuplot, but I want to do it in a slightly different way that concentrates on the way I’m using Gnuplot.
And this way means, that I will present no introduction to the interactive Gnuplot prompt, but will start directly with writing some text files. These files can then be executed by Gnuplot.

Emacs is a huge beast. It can read email, play tetris, act as a file manager, display google maps, and even edit videos. It has support for many, many programming languages and has many features related to programming. Unfortunately, emacs doesn’t have a full programming environment for python out-of-the-box.

WebloggerMode (weblogger.el) is an Emacs package that allows you to post to one of the following blog sites from emacs:

Blogger
Drupal
LiveJournal?
MetaWeblog?
Moveable Type
WordPress?

This package is primarily written by MarkHershberger. It was developed from BloggerMode (blogger.el).

How was the world created? People have asked this ever since they could ask anything, and answers have come from all sides: from religion, tradition, philosophy, mysticism... and science. While this does not seem like a problem amenable to scientific measurement, it has led scientists to come up with fascinating ideas and observations: the Big Bang, the concept of inflation, the fact that most of the world is made up of dark matter and dark energy which we can not perceive, and more.
Of course scientists cannot claim to know the definitive truth. But we can approach the question from a scientific viewpoint and see what we find out. How do we do that? First, we look to the data. Thanks to modern technology, we have much more information than did people of previous ages who asked the same question. Then we can use scientific methods and techniques to analyze the data, organize them in a coherent way and try and extract an answer. This process and its main findings will be described in the article.

This paper presents a hands-on introduction to the medieval astrolabe, based around a working model which can be constructed from photocopies of the supplied figures. As well as describing how to assemble the model, I also provide a brief explanation of how each of its various parts might be used. The printed version of this paper includes only the parts needed to build a single model prepared for use at latitudes around 52{deg}N, but an accompanying electronic file archive includes equivalent images which can be used to build models prepared for use at any other latitude. The vector graphics scripts used to generate the models are also available for download, allowing customised astrolabes to be made.

Silent PC Review is dedicated to reviews, news and information about silent computers and components, as well as their energy efficiency and thermal performance.

Unix has a huge number of directories and no good way to navigate them. Famous cd command is too simplistic to help when you have over 10K directories in the directory tree. the right way was actually invented in DOS with the advent of NCD and Orthodox managers but Unix is lagging behind and there although both orthodox manager and NCD clones re available they are not widely used.

the opening paragraph of the article Mindless Statistics by Gerd Gigerenzer

It is argued that it is possible to give operational meaning to free will and the process of making a choice without employing metaphysics.

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JAME is an application for creating fractals and other graphics artifacts. JAME is written in Java language, with some native code to accelerate encoding of videos and images. JAME has a real-time, multi-threaded graphics engine with layers, filters, effects, a lot of formulas, and parameters. JAME supports operations such as continuous zoom of Mandelbrot and Julia sets, rotation and color shifting. JAME has also advanced features such as networked computation and scripting. You can take photos of your fractals or record movies from your exploration paths. Photos and movies are stored in a database to be rendered in high resolution and exported to a file. JAME can be extended by plug-ins which provide fractals, formulas, filters, effects and more. JAME is free software licensed under GPL.

When it comes to cable constructions, everything makes a difference. Most (but not all) of these differences are measurable. What is at issue is whether these differences are audible ... or not, when tested properly using a blind A-B test. Sighted tests are at best unreliable, and at worst cause people to believe things that are simply untrue. The vast majority of all cable claims have no basis in reality, and rely on the placebo effect.

PyAST is a collection of modules that allows the facilities of the Starlink AST library to be used within Python (version 2.7 or later) scripts.
The AST library provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching world coordinate systems to astronomical data, for retrieving and interpreting that information and for generating graphical output based on it. AST is written in ANSI C but has wrappers for various other languages, including Fortran, Java, Perl, and now Python.

This is a home-brew python-mode with some excerpts from GNU/Emacs’ python.el.

It aims to provide the stuff you’ll expect from a major mode for python editing while keeping it simple.

Currently it implements:

Syntax highlighting, Indentation, Movement, Shell interaction, Shell completion, Shell virtualenv support, Pdb tracking, Symbol completion, Skeletons, FFAP, Code Check, Eldoc, imenu.

Nach einer Neuinstallation ist es immer ärgerlich das bestimmte Handgriffe immer wieder gemacht werden müssen. Um dies ein wenig zu vereinfachen habe ich ein kleines Shellscript geschrieben. Es installiert die neuesten Updates, bindet das Multimedia Repository Packman ein und installiert alle notwendigen Codecs um auch mp3 und andere Formate abzuspielen. Vor dem Beginn der Installation hat man die Möglichkeit einige Pakete an und abzuwählen.

This is a 4-page reminder of what LaTeX does. It is designed for printing on A4 paper, double-sided, and folding once to A5. (Such an ‘imposed’ version of the document is provided in the distribution, as PDF.)

The Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, founded in 1974, publishes original research papers in all branches of Astronomy, Astrophysics and closely related fields. Two numbers per year are issued and are distributed free of charge to all institutions engaged in the fields covered by the RevMexAA.

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The Habitable Sun - One of Herschel, William's Stranger Ideas

Title:
The Habitable Sun - One of Herschel, William's Stranger Ideas
Authors:
Kawaler, S.; Veverka, J.
Publication:
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 75, P. 46, 1981
Publication Date:
02/1981
Origin:
KNUDSEN
Comment:
A&AA ID. AAA029.004.032
Bibliographic Code:
1981JRASC..75...46K

MOST is a powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?

id3shit is a commandline based id3 editor that sucks a little bit less then the alternatives.

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is fed by galaxy outflows and accretion of intergalactic gas, but its mass, heavy element enrichment, and relation to galaxy properties are poorly constrained by observations. In a survey of the outskirts of 42 galaxies with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we detected ubiquitous, large (150-kiloparsec) halos of ionized oxygen surrounding star-forming galaxies; we found much less ionized oxygen around galaxies with little or no star formation. This ionized CGM contains a substantial mass of heavy elements and gas, perhaps far exceeding the reservoirs of gas in the galaxies themselves. Our data indicate that it is a basic component of nearly all star-forming galaxies that is removed or transformed during the quenching of star formation and the transition to passive evolution.

This page is about commenting parts of code.

Armadillo is an open-source C++ linear algebra library (matrix maths) aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions.

IndividUrls lets you build your own custom news aggregator with content from the sites that you are interested in.

Classilla is bringing back web browser support to your classic Macintosh -- built on WaMCom, a port of Mozilla to classic Macintosh systems, using the same technology underpinning the popular Firefox browser. It's completely free and it's open source, and it's standards-compliant. Use it without cost or restriction; or, if you've got the skills, hack it and make it your own. Classilla brings your wonderful old Power Macintoshes back to life and back online.

Publishing and knowledge production in academia can be significantly improved if aspects of cooperative models developed in software and networking communities are adopted. Open Access movement does that partially, by focusing on the openness of the final result. The most important attributes of the development of the Internet, the Web and their communication-cooperation tools is openness of the entire process of production. The novelty that can take many forms is in the organizational structures, decision making and cooperation. This article argues that journals adopting a form of open-process approach could benefit by increased quality of submissions and publications, faster and more responsive pace of research and by attracting more risk taking and innovative authors. Through clearer structure and visibility of tasks, equally important could be possible internal benefits for journals: recognition of the most important workers and decision making in their hands, easier and improved project management, attracting new volunteers and reducing the impact of counter-productive participants. If these changes were implemented well, such open-process journals would gain readership and reputation. Open-process academic publishing can take procedurally and technologically complex forms. A simple transition model is suggested: how to start with an email list and right cultural safeguards.

To our best knowledge, there are no problem books on cosmology yet, that would include its spectacular recent achievements. We believe there is a strong need for such now, when cosmology is swiftly becoming a strict and vast science, and the book would be extremely useful for the youth pouring in this area of research. Indeed, the only way to rise over the popular level in any science is to master its alphabet, that is, to learn to solve problems.
Of course, most of modern textbooks on cosmology include problems. However, a reader, exhausted by high theory, may often be thwarted by the lack of time and strength to solve them. Might it be worth sometimes to change the tactics and just throw those who wish to learn to swim into the water?
The proposed problems constitute our contribution to this cause. There are over 1000 problems, divided into 14 chapters, covering topics from the dynamics of the expanding Universe and CMB to cosmology beyond the Lambda-CDM model and holography. We intend to publish their solutions in later editions. The reader, however, is encouraged to look for answers independently, even though - or especially so because - the problems range from easy to not quite and from elements of scientific folklore already to those with answers not quite settled.

The IJ Bash Environment is a packaging of part of the way I set up my own bash + xterm environment in Linux. There isn't much code to it, but a little script code can go a long way, and it appears to be sufficiently original to be worth sharing.

MEMORIE della Società Astronomica Italiana is a professional quarterly journal devoted exclusively to the publication of Conference Proceedings and invited review papers. MEMORIE publishes only papers written in English. The journal is distributed to all members of the SAIt and to over one hundred subscribers abroad, including the main astronomical institutions. Since 1986 more than 30 conferences have been published.

Cleans up, regularizes, and reformats the text of Python scripts.

This page explains emacs library system. For example, what's the difference between library, package, features? And what's the difference between {load-file, load, require, autoload}?

Siphon brewers, vacuum coffee makers, or just vac pots, as they are most often called, are very probably the coolest sort of coffee gagdetry you can find. The glass contraptions look intriguing by themselves, but watching them brew is the real fun. It's like chemistry class revisited.

Mandelbulber is an experimental application that helps to make rendering 3D Mandelbrot fractals much more accessible. A few of the supported 3D fractals: Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, BulbBox, JuliaBulb, Menger Sponge, Quaternion, Trigonometric, Hypercomplex, and Iterated Function Systems (IFS). All of these can be combined into infinite variations with the ability to hybridize different formulas together.

Follow the adventures in the life of a Welsh astrophysicist sent into exile to a small island in the middle of the ocean. A blog by a scientist that almost certainly won't be about science, but will be very facetious.

Clint is a module filled with a set of awesome tools for developing commandline applications.

The Art of Penguin Science Fiction

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The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on ships where no doctor is carried and it is necessary for laymen to assess and treat injuries and to diagnose and treat ill health. The Guide can also be recommended for use in other situations where professional medical advice is not readily available, for example on expeditions.

The orDrumbox is a free drum machine software, designed to be as creative as possible with unusual features : auto-composition, polyrythmes, unusual arpeggiator, automatic sounds/track matching , custom softsynths, lowfi rendering... This tools can compose bass line and complete songs using included drum kits with the audio sequencer functions. See detailed features...

KDiff3 is a program that

* compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
* shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
* provides an automatic merge-facility and
* an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
* supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
* supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),

Astro-WISE stands for Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe. Astro-WISE is an environment consisting of hardware and software which is federated over about a dozen institutes all over Europe. It has been developed to scientifically exploit the ever increasing avalanche of data produced by science experiments. We call such an environment an information system. As the name suggests, Astro-WISE started out as a system geared towards astronomy, but is now also being used for projects outside astronomy. Astro-WISE is an all-in-one system: it allows a scientist to archive raw data, calibrate data, perform post-calibration scientific analysis and archive all results in one environment. The system architecture links together all these commonly discrete steps in data analysis.

This new NumPy book provides an easy start to NumPy for those who want to churn numbers in Python programming language, whether you don't have much programming background or you are switching from your favorite language. The author of the book uses quite a friendly tone throughout the book. Most of the important aspects of NumPy is well covered with well explained examples. The examples provided are step by step explained, starting from the basic array/matrix creation to more complex tasks like signal analysis and linear algebra related calculations.
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Natural Earth III is raster map data for creating illustrations and animations of our planet with a plausibly realistic appearance. Using the data requires 3D or mapping software. Legibility is a key feature. Compared to photographs of Earth taken from space, Natural Earth III offers brighter colors, fewer clouds over land areas, distinct environmental zones, 3D mountains, and continuous rivers. Other features include:

•..Interchangeable data files that align precisely with each other.
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•..High resolution: 16,200 x 8,100 pixels (80 arc second).
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KWordQuiz is a general purpose flash card program. It can be used for vocabulary learning and many other subjects.

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Mozilla Firefox with Twitter instantly connects you with what's happening in the world. Search people and topics on Twitter using @ and # from the address bar.

The google-maps Emacs extension allows to display Google Maps directly inside Emacs.

Nyan Mode is an analog indicator of your position in the buffer. The Cat should go from left to right in your mode-line, as you move your point from 0% to 100%.

personal/technical
things related to emacs

Bonsai is a static web site generator, it uses the best tools available for site construction and adheres to best web practices.

Baraka ist ein experimenteller Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 1992 von Ron Fricke. Das Wort „Baraka“ im Titel weist auf Segenskraft hin. Fricke hatte zuvor als Kameramann bei dem Film Koyaanisqatsi, zu dem Parallelen bestehen, mitgewirkt.

In my research, I often generate a sequence of images from either my experiment or from a simulation that I want to put together into a movie. Since I use linux, I wanted to do this using free software in linux, and I wanted to be able to play the movie in linux. This webpage outlines what I've learned about how to do this in linux using mencoder or ffmpeg to create high quality files that are well compressed and the play well under all operating systems.

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In today's world the value of people talking about your product is sometimes higher than the money you would get for it. ‘Pay with a Tweet’ is the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social network.

post-mode is an emacs major mode. If you use emacs as your text editor with the mutt mail client then you should use post-mode to make your life easier.

Nymphs and Satyr (Nymphes et Satires) is a painting, oil on canvas, created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1873.

Das ist die Homepage von Version Control with Subversion, ein freies Buch über Subversion, das neue Versionskontrollsystem, als Nachfolger von CVS entwickelt. Wie Sie vermutlich schon am Layout der Seite erkannt haben, wurde das Buch von O'Reilly Media in englischer Sprache veröffentlicht.

Wikitravel ist ein Projekt mit dem Ziel, einen vollständigen, aktuellen und verlässlichen weltweiten Reiseführer zu erstellen, dessen Inhalte frei verfügbar sind.