Google Homepage Background
Last week Google took away the ability to change the background on their homepage. I want it back…
Associate Professor in Space Environment at the University of Birmingham, creating the next generation space weather forecast models. Included on Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Last week Google took away the ability to change the background on their homepage. I want it back…
Chris blew my mind this morning when he showed me what happens if you use negative numbers to index an array in IDL (in versions lower than 8!). I would argue that it gives something that you don’t want, this is how you fix it.
The first two parts (Part 1 & Part 2) of ‘My First Hour with Windows 8’ went through the installation process, and some videos of how you actually use it. This final part will be my review (the good and bad) of Windows 8.
In part 2, we look at some videos of actually using Windows 8.
Last night I did a clean install of Windows 8 on my laptop – lets see what all the fuss is about…
A lot of what I do in IDL involves using paths all over the place, the problem is, I want my code to work in Windows or Linux, but we of course have that old problem of / v \.
I was using a spreadsheet package earlier (hang on, this isn’t the BBC, I was using Microsoft Office Excel, other packages are available) and I wanted to find a specific column number. Not knowing off hand what the 100th letter of the alphabet is (it’s CV), I wanted to change the Excel column labelling from […]
Generating a random number, or an array of random numbers, between 0 and 1, in IDL is easy. Simply call upon RANDOMU. But how do you generate random numbers between two other numbers?
It is possible that you still need to install g77 to compile a Fortran program on your latest version of Ubuntu, but it isn’t the repositories!! Don’t worry, it is easy.
Everyone should have a favourite Wikipedia page, and this is mine…