Fuzzy Logic

My boss purchased the Digimesh 2.4 Development Kit. I was hoping to develop with it on Windows 7 x64, but the included drivers didn’t work. I contacted Digimesh and they linked to the support page. Somehow I was unable to find it but oh well.

The specific link to the drivers was located at ftp://ftp1.digi.com/support/driver/ftdi_WindowsVistaDrivers.zip.

I was having some problems running large simulations (500k+ particles) in Geant4. Every once in a while I would get a std::bad_alloc() error. A reboot seemed to fix it but I didn’t understand WHY this would be a problem. Anyhow, I found this post which seems to be onto a possible solution. Simply increasing the memory your shell has access to seems to fix this memory error. We’ll see….

whereas increasing the stack size by using the command
ulimit -s 900000
allowed the program to run apparently without a crash:

EDIT: Nevermind, I had created a bomb. Oops.

I use my Windows Media Player to share media over the server.  One of the problems we have, however, is that our media names are confusing due to weird naming schemes by various groups.  My apartment has established a standard naming scheme (Show Title.SeasonEpisode.Episode Name.ext), but it wasn’t showing up as the new names once we changed them.  It seems that Windows Media Player will see the newly named file, but keeps the old name as the file display name.  What you have to do is delete it from your WMP library and then rescan those folders.  That solved it for me.

As part of my ongoing saga to get my Blackberry to a usable condition with all of my contacts, I’ve been wanting to put all of my contacts into Gmail.  While the Thunderbird plugin Zindus works magic for syncing your contacts, I’m having real trouble getting contacts to work between GMail (which, thanks to Google Mobile Sync, now only holds my phone’s address book) and Thunderbird, which holds all of my emails.  I’ve decided to import all of my Thunderbird contacts to GMail and then edit them from there.  Unfortunately, whenever you import things into GMail from Thunderbird in Thunderbird’s default .CSV file, GMail doesn’t properly parse the contact info.  Luckily, I found this blog post with a solution.  It only works for Linux users, but that’s fine with me.

The only real problem with this solution is that GMail doesn’t offer a ‘merge contacts’ option.  I don’t exactly know why they don’t, seeing as how it doesn’t seem like a hard thing to implement and even Hotmail has it.  Until they implement it, however, I’m stuck with manually editing contacts. This is going to take quite a while…

Adobe announced on December 17th that AIR 1.5 is now available for Linux!  This is a pretty big deal for Linux users because the previous version we were using was a buggy version that didn’t have all of the newest features (and was unreliable at that).  With this new release comes the new version for both x86 and x64 processors!  Read on for the whole explanation!

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