Stefano Costa

This LaTeX plugin for gedit is quite nice. I was using TeXmaker previously, but gedit is more sexy to me. And no, emacs is not really an option, at least now. If you are using GNOME and want to use a good LaTeX editor, you should give it a try. I hope that is gets…

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steko/downloads/freeciv-2.1.0-beta3/manual’ make[2]: Entering directory `/home/steko/downloads/freeciv-2.1.0-beta3′ make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steko/downloads/freeciv-2.1.0-beta3′ make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steko/downloads/freeciv-2.1.0-beta3′ real 0m48.157s user 0m14.821s sys 0m5.228s steko@cycnus:~/downloads/freeciv-2.1.0-beta3$ PS3 sucks.

L’università italiana fa schifo. Su questo possiamo essere d’accordo, senza preoccuparsi troppo di quanto possano dire i vari emissari governativi di entrambe le parti. Il motivo numero 0 ovviamente è la mancanza di fondi. La maggior parte delle università in Italia sono statali e lo Stato non spende abbastanza denaro per garantire la qualità dell’insegnamento…

ESA open-source software supports Germany’s TerraSAR-X: Germany’s next-generation TerraSAR-X uses sophisticated ground infrastructure to deliver Earth observation data to scientists and commercial customers. Open-source software developed at ESA’s Operations Centre is helping to make the mission a success. At least, some of our taxes have been well used. Some other were not. seen on irc://irc.freenode.net/#linux.

Sometimes I just need to show how R is good without scaring too much people, typing commands on the command line. That’s why I installed JGR. Unfortunately, there’s no binary package for it in my distribution, so I used the classic install.packages(). JGR has a bug though, and as far as I know it hasn’t…

After some months of testing, we eventually got this new wiki started. Some content is already available on Quantitative Archaeology Wiki. I got off Wikia and chose to start a new wiki on my webserver using Dokuwiki. Dokuwiki is cool, not only because it runs on text files and doesn’t need MySQL or another database.…

KerGIS est un Système d’Information Géométrique topologique dérivé de la dernière version du logiciel en domaine public G.R.A.S.S.® (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) telle que publiée par U.S. Army C.E.R.L. (Construction Engineering Research Laboratory). I ignored totally the existence of such a piece of software.

Graphical FTP clients available for my operating system actually suck. Let me know if I am wrong. The good ol’ command line ftp is no better, anyway. So with debtags I found out yafc. It’s great. Help pages for single commands are more than one screen long and each command has dozens of options. Everywhere…

RSeek is a new vertical search engine about the R (not-just-statistical) Software. You can add it in your browser’s search bar, and it’s really useful because usually I get crazy with queries like “r graphics” that give me tons of results that have nothing to do with R. By the way, if you don’t know…