Sync FitBit with Google Fit
Finally: sync FitBit and Google Fit at high time resolution! I have been trying to figure out a way to sync the intra-day (i.e. high time resolution data) from FitBit to Google Fit (and...
Author: Magnus Persson
Multiple configurations for different external monitor setups in i3wm
General I use i3 window manager (https://i3wm.org/) on my ThinkPad X2xx series Ubuntu Linux work laptop. At work I have a docking bay for the laptop and an external screen connected to it, at...
Installing IRAM GILDAS on Ubuntu
Figure: Screenshot of GILDAS MAPPIN in action viewing an imported FITS spectral cube. Fore information on IRAM GILDAS, see http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/ NOTE: Updated for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and above.Nowadays the readme file on...
Screen brightness using Fn keys in i3wm on Lenovo Thinkpad X260
Screen brightness using Fn keys in i3wm I got a new laptop for work, Lenovo Thinkpad X260. Installed Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus without much problem.There are several Fn-hotkeys for the F1-F12 keys, most of...
Installing SMA MIRIAD on Ubuntu (2014/05)
What is MIRIAD? See http://bima.astro.umd.edu/miriad/ for information. Edit : Tested on the Ubuntu 13.04 Raring RingtailEdit2 : Tested on the Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Edit3 : Tested on the Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr I am not...
TP-Link WN725N v2 WIFI on the Raspberry PI
TP-Link WN725N v2 on Raspberry Pi at N speeds (150 Mbps). So I managed to get the wireless nano-dongle to work on one of my Raspberry Pi’s. It’s a TP-Link WN725N version 2. It...
RATRAN : get RESTFREQ written to FITS file
Current versions of RATRAN (http://www.sron.rug.nl/~vdtak/ratran/) does not put the FITS keyword RESTFREQ and the corresponding value in the output FITS-files by default. Below is a quick fix that I forgot to note down when...
Atmospheric transmission curve for Plateau de Bure Interferometer
I tried to find the atmospheric transmission curve for Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) site the other day. There is no plot/data file showing the atmospheric transmission for the Plateaude Bure Interferometer site! Then...
Querying Splatalogue.net with a Python script
I have written a Python script/module to query the Splatalogue.net spectral line catalog compilation. It does not rely on any SPLAT-VO protocol at all. It queries the database through the normal web interface, which...
Interoperating GILDAS and MIRIAD, attempt 1
EDIT: There is a guide for interoperating GILDAS and MIRIAD here : http://www.iram.fr/~gildas/gildas-miriad/ I am now trying to work with data from the Submillimeter Array (SMA), calibrated in IDL with the MIR package, continuum subtracted in...
