Monthly Archives: February 2010

Upgrading bios when running Linux…

Posted on 18.02.10 by Morten

I would like to upgrade the bios of a HP pavillion of mine that PC is running Linux. The download was an exe-file, where the data parts were so well hidden that no decompression program I have was able to … Continue reading →

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Convert vmap0 layers into shapefiles

Posted on 17.02.10 by Morten

The vmap0 dataset is a slightly dated, but anyhow often usable dataset of maps of all of the world in scale 1:1 000 000. It can be downloaded at e.g. mapability.com. The problem shows up as soon as one tries to use … Continue reading →

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Hiding the map= parameter from a map server application

Posted on 11.02.10 by Morten

In the mapserver documentation, one is told to use a cgi-wrapper script to hide the map= parameter. Then there is shown a script to use on ‘any system having a /bin/sh’ I tried to rewrite that as a php-script to … Continue reading →

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How to make a bar graph with a split Y axis in R

Posted on 08.02.10 by Morten

There is a function, gap.barplot for doing that in the plotrix package, but I was not happy with the way the result looked, so I made it my own way using subplot in the TeachingDemos library. data=data.frame(R=c(120,11),U=c(32,1),C=c(12,3),G=c(4,0) ,J=c(6,0),I=c(3,2),N=c(4,0)) # I … Continue reading →

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Hva en direktør tør

Posted on 06.02.10 by Morten

Noen av oss vet at vi ikke kan få alt vi ønsker oss. Noen av oss vet at det er ekstremt patetisk å skylde på andre for feil vi helt klart er skyld i selv. Noen av oss har en … Continue reading →

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