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Fixing Octave's Plot on the Windows 3.2.4 Release

Out of the box a lot of us Windows users who added all of the Octave-Forge packages are disappointed to find that the plot function produces an invisible window.
Here is the problem and solution:

Realistic solution at this moment, do not install the oct2mat package when you install octave with octave-forge packages if you do not use this package. One one of different solutions is to execute
pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat
at the octave prompt and then restart octave. The operation results in the oct2mat package not to be auto-loaded in startup. When you want to use oct2mat, execute “pkg load oct2mat” command.

(via octave-forge, via octave-bugs)

Specifying custom input directories in MikTex

TEXINPUTS
Extra paths to locate TeX \input and \openin files.

(via docs.miktex.org)

IBA Magazine

Iron Butt Magazine looks neat.

Japanese Kawasaki 1000GTR Club Site

Here.
(via Brock, via COG@micapeak)

Institute for Scientific Computation

Computational science involves the use and analysis of mathematical models on high- performance computers to solve scientific and engineering problems in various disciplines. Such disciplines include nuclear engineering, reservoir modeling, environmental studies, seismology, aeronautics, biology, economics and medical imaging. Scientific computation constitutes a powerful “third arm” to theory and experimentation, and provides an innovative methodology to multidisciplinary problem solving.
ISC serves as a platform for conducting and coordinating multidisciplinary research under the four disciplines of scientific computation: data management, mathematical modeling, numerical solutions and visualization.

Harry’s Concours (C10) Motorcycle Maintenance Excel spreadsheet

Thanks to Harry Martin for putting together this calculator spreadsheet for Concours motorcycle maintenance.
Local copy mirrored here: Harry’s Concours (C10) Motorcycle Maintenance Excel spreadsheet

The Purpose of Interpersonal Relationships

The purpose of an interpersonal relationship is to actively and continually facilitate the personal growth and development of each other as individuals, to enjoy the process together as it unfolds, to maximize ease, and to have fun doing it.

Just Enough Ubuntu

Running Linux in a virtual isn’t a new idea, but from what Patrick said, it is fast and easy.
This might be a nice way to run a Racket web server locally on Linux.

Big Guile Release

Guile adds among other things hygienic-macros and Unicode support. Awesome!
(via guile)

Pending Backrest Cleanup

On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look:

Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either.
I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left remaining is a layer of rust.
Current investigating technical remediation for this that involve sandblasting and powdercoating.