Keith, you plonker, what were you thinking? It’s so easy to question. It’s so easy to say that you should have stuck around. Let me say this: Thank you for hanging in there for as long as you did. I was never a part of your jilted generation but your energy leaked out into my […]
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Flatpack heaven
Friday midday my Ikea delivery arrived, with 15 boxes of flat pack furniture. Some 30 hours later all boxes have their contents built and ready for use, my thumbs and knees are sore, and we have destinations for the contents of more boxes. The unpacking is progressing, all the easy wins have been done, its […]
She said “Don’t go dark on me again”
Some years ago I shared a house with a number of people – it was a large terraced house opposite the Roman Catholic cathedral in Northampton. One of our housemates there returned to her native France where three of us would visit her. Mostly we’d pile into Daves company car and he’d drive us there. […]
All these moments will be lost in time
On my thirtieth birthday, I met with a number of friends in London. I was, then, as now, not very organised and didn’t have a plan. We dithered and tried to find a restaurant in Leicester Square that could seat us all. So we ended up in Wong Kei in China Town. It wasn’t what […]
Resurrecting the octave build
My AWS heavy utilisation instance expired some time ago so I brought down the build server. Now I have a replacement, albeit local network only, running on a Synology NAS. By default these boxes don’t come with a compiler installed (!?) , so I have had to install Entware, which puts everything in /opt/, nice […]
Pattern reconstruction
After something of a hiatus here, I’m going to make a bit of a transition. My time has now become significantly limited, so I can no longer maintain the Octave build system I was working on – it has been archived and I may resurrect it at some point in the future, but for now […]
Adding project of-civil
The civil package does not contain a src/ directory and can be directly installed. This package appears to install correctly but is not found when described – looking in the DESCRIPTION file, the package name is civil-engineering, not civil. Fixed in build #4.
Adding project of-zeromq
The zeromq package has no dependencies. It has a src/ directory containing a bootstrap script. It requires the zeromq library. Fixed in build #4.
Adding project of-netcdf
The netcdf package has no dependencies. The package has a src/ directory containing autogen.sh to create a configure script.
Adding project of-tsa
The tsa package has no dependencies, it contains a src/ directory with a Makefile. It also has a hidden dependency upon NaN, from which it uses a few files: covm_mex.cpp, sumskipnan_mex.cpp and histo_mex.cpp