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GpxPlot : first glimpse

Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2014 by manik

GpxPlot software is a project to: Display GPS tracks in 3D (from .gpx files) edit them (cutting a link, moving or removing a point,  merge tracks, edit waypoints…) Display a digital elevation model (DEM) for the map Display satellite/aerial images more »

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Sciences en Marche

Posted on Friday August 29th, 2014 by manik

Le mouvement Sciences en marche est parti ! Voici la carte finale pour le trajet en vélo Grenoble-Lyon samedi 4 octobre : Voir en plein écran

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Drobo after power cut : mstatus 98304

Posted on Monday August 25th, 2014 by manik

After an unexpected power cut during the weekend, both Drobo FS at work restarted (21 hours later when the power was restored) but the samba/windows shares could not be accessed. When I tried my droboStatus script, everything was displayed normally, more »

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Coconut MRI

Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2014 by manik

When trying to construct a head model for MRI studies, I did some experiments with coconuts. Here are some images using BrainVisa/Anatomist for display of the acquisitions from a coconut still half full of juice.

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WordPress behind proxy does not detect updates

Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2014 by manik

WordPress is used for a small website in my workplace. The server must use a proxy to connect to the web, and this is necessary for many plugins and for updates. As explained in the documentation, the proxy is declared more »

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Dying hard disk : getting my data back (GNU/Linux)

Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2014 by manik

Five years ago I made backups of my data to three hard drives. When my desktop died, I used a small laptop where I could not copy the 1+Tb of data stored on the backups. Last week, I tried to more »

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Pineapple MRI

Posted on Monday April 28th, 2014 by manik

Around 2010, while developping MRI sequences for brain imaging, we used an pineapple to test the effect of some parameters on the images. Here are some images rendered with Anatomist (from a Philips 3 Tesla scanner). Most are T1-weighted 3D more »

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Ending tactical voting

Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2014 by manik

[To be translated…] Tactical voting Before each election in France, the largest political parties call for “tactical voting” (‘vote utile’, litterally ‘useful vote’) in the first round of our two-round elections to avoid a risk, e.g. the left being removed more »

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Alpha web version of PyVotons!

Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2014 by manik

At last, I put online a web version of PyVotons!. It is alpha software, not easy to run, lacking a lot of features. You should read the Documentation page before trying to install it. You need Python and python-openssl, on more »

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Backup all MySQL databases

Posted on Monday August 26th, 2013 by manik

Goal : Saving MySQL databases to a samba (windows share) server (Ubuntu Linux). Relatively easy thing to do, but I will keep this here if I need to do it again someday… Here is the code of a small bash more »

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