Installing OpenFVM on Darwin (Mac OS X)

Yes. After many, many years I went back to GNU compilers and linkers
Let’s say you want to simulate a fluid, and how it is heated by a hot cylinder.
What do you do? You take a hot cylinder and measure the lost of heat. But if you don’t want to mess around with hot cylinders and […]

Google Friends etc….

With Google Friends, you “add social features to your site”. Whatever that means!
GF is an application based on Opensocial . Opensocial is a standard for having the same application working on different social network sites. The simplest feature, for instance, is that you can log in with your Yahoo/Google/MySpace/LinkedIn (and others) account. You could build […]

Mirror Neurons

In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains - a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing when the monkey did a simple action, like grasping for food. The surprise came when […]

Drupal Installed

Building a community website for an online publication at the International Journalism Master - City University.

Drupal has been installed. As we still have the project of the last year on www.londonproject.co.uk we have installed it at 2007.londonproject.co.uk.

Log:

Blocks. Under administer » blocks one can add and delete blocks (left, right, up, down). When a new module […]

Looking for some hosting

I have to work on the set up of the web sites of three organizations. I decided to use Drupal.
Although I do not know Drupal very well, I’ve seen quite a few communities using it. I tried some demo, looked at the plug-ins. User community is big enough to give support. In case of need, […]

(Google) trends of Mathematics

The Financial Times published a nice comments about James Simons (available here for free). Sixty year old, Mr Simons is a mathematician who is “the most successful hedge fund manager ever.”

His hedge fund group (Renaissance Technology) has a name which already explaines the cultural origin of the “legions of brilliant people” who work there. Not […]

Passaggio dal software proprietario al software libero

L’errore che ho sempre fatto e` stato pensare che il software libero sia migliore di quello proprietario “in se` per se`”. Cosi` come si puo` pensare che un certo tipo di organizzazione della societa` sia migliore in se` per se`. Il socialismo e` meglio del capitalismo? Il liberismo e` meglio dello stato sociale? Aziende […]

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