My research group uses Labview 7.1 to write custom data acquisition (DAQ) software. I code everything else in Python, so I need to get data from Labview into Python for processing. Our DAQ program produces Labview binary files, so I had to find a way to read them with Python. Binary files are nice [...]...

The site is back online after a server move.  Actually I can't blame the server move for the downtime, because I went out of town and then had a lot of catching up to do, and as a result I didn't switch the domain to point to the new server. I haven't been blogging much because [...]...

I gave a presentation at BarCamp Orlando on 5 April 2008. Here is a link to my presentation, Data Analysis with Python....

I was surprised how hard it was to find out how to mount a Windows file server as a drive on a Linux box. Fortunately, once I found out how, it was really pretty easy. First of all, you DO NOT need Samba. Most of the information I found on the web [...]...

I use XFCE as my window manager, with Thunar as my file manager.  Thunar has always had this "Create Document -> from template" entry in the File menu, but it didn't come with any templates.  I finally went looking for some templates, and found a good collection at stalefries.  Just unpack the archive in a [...]...