The following recipe should work for any OS. Download and install VirtualBox Download OpenSolaris image Start VM If you want to try an other image than OpenSolaris, you can find many others images (CentOS, FreeBSD, etc) here:
I’m half way through the Part-time parliament on Paxos article by Leslie Lamport. It is an article that describes a three-phase consensus protocol by telling a story of a (fictional) parliement on the greek island of Paxos, complete with fat…
SYSTEM_PROFILER Show a very long list of details about your machine and kernel (verbose output) system_profiler
Found this nice post on good commands to know appart from the obvious top Basically they are top and vm_stat 5
I have a text file containing article references. It looks like this – Miller HJ (2004) Tobler’s First Law and spatial analysis. Ann Assoc Am Geogr 94:284–289. – Onsrud H, ed (2007) Research and Theory in Advanced Spatial Data Infrastructure…
In this installment of How To Stick Anything In CouchDB, I’ll take some bicycle path data released by the municipality of Copenhagen and stick them in CouchDB. As always I’m working in Terminal under Mac OS X. Bicycle paths in…
The following assumes a linux command line to be present (or Mac OS X terminal in my case). I want to wrangle text from the internet, turn it into JSON data, and ultimately stick it in CouchDB. Here I’m trying…
When I want to hear a particular rap song from 1992 on YouTube, the video service shows me this: Yeah yeah, copyright or whatever, but what is the point? Who gains what exactly? By the way, if you can hear…
Today I installed the utility shp2geocouch on Mac OS X 1.6. First I needed to update RubyGems… sudo gem update –system Then I could install shp2geocouch sudo gem install shp2geocouch Next I downloaded OSM data for Copenhagen, Denmark wget …