Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2018 by Michael Metcalf and John Reid is already on the way! I am still waiting for it to arrive. It will be some sort of back to the future ;) The oldest “modern” language with new, fancy, features ;)
Sometimes, you need to go back in time. Recently, I had to develop simple log roller – I wanted to be system independent. Who would have guessed you could find a straightforward solution here ;)
As for the roller itself, you can find it here
I was playing with RStudio recently. And there was this annoying “issue” with plots. I am calling it “issue” as I am not quite sure whether this is a bug or a feature.
The problem was that plots were drawn outside plot area. Axises were missing, title was too high, etc.
I was trying to change plot margins, to squeeze the plot inside plotting area, change the font size, and nothing really worked.
What solved the problem was this tiny line of code
dev.off()
That’s it. All you have to do is to call dev.off(). And then, plot again.
Recently, I was little bit surprised by the output of du command. It turned out that size of a directory can vary, heavily, depending on the filesystem that is used for storing files. I was examining the size of application at different locations and what struck me were the differences in size reports.
# at pfs > du -s -h directory 16G directory # at afs > du -s -h directory 6.3G directory # at tmpfs > du -s -h directory 6.4G directory # how much space does it really take > tar cf - directory | dd of=/dev/null bs=1M ... 6.7 GB copied, 23.1807 s, 291 MB/s
You can find very comprehensive launchd tutorial here: http://www.launchd.info
It looks like you have to be extra careful while working with recent releases of JDK for macOS.
If you want to get JVM’s version (while running application) there is a simple way of doing it.
public class Simple {
public static void main(String [] args) {
System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.version"));
}
}
However, you have to be extra careful in macOS. For JVM 9 and JVM 10 you will get “9” and “10” respectively. This might be an issue, especially when you parse the version String to get major/minor numbers
String version = System.getProperty("java.version");
// this will give you -1 (for JVM 9/10), and that's no good
int dotPos = version.indexOf('.');
The funny thing is, that moving to 10.0.2 will suddenly give you different format (proper one).
In fact, there is a completely new way of getting JVM version since release 9 – Runtime.version(). And this one, will give all the information you need.
public class Simple {
public static void main(String [] args) {
System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.version"));
Runtime.Version jvmversion = Runtime.version();
System.out.println("major: " + jvmversion.major()
+ " minor: " + jvmversion.minor()
+ " security: " + jvmversion.security());
}
}
which will give you
9 major: 9 minor: 0 security: 0
And what is your preferred way of getting Java’s version while running the code?
# Get the sources mkdir -p ~/opt/src cd ~/opt/src curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4.tar.gz tar zxf bash-4.4.tar.gz # prepare place for installation mkdir -p ~/opt/usr # build the stuff cd ~/opt/src/bash-4.4 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr make make install # test the thing $HOME/opt/usr/bin/bash --version
use it
#!/Users/your_user_name/opt/usr/bin/bash echo $BASH_VERSION
Colors can be source of real fight between people. There is even dedicated chapter related to colors in book “Jak przestałem kochać design” by Marcin Wicha. If you want people to kill you, try the list below whenever you want to apply small changes to web page UI ;)
> colors() [1] "white" "aliceblue" "antiquewhite" "antiquewhite1" [5] "antiquewhite2" "antiquewhite3" "antiquewhite4" "aquamarine" [9] "aquamarine1" "aquamarine2" "aquamarine3" "aquamarine4" [13] "azure" "azure1" "azure2" "azure3" [17] "azure4" "beige" "bisque" "bisque1" [21] "bisque2" "bisque3" "bisque4" "black" [25] "blanchedalmond" "blue" "blue1" "blue2" [29] "blue3" "blue4" "blueviolet" "brown" ... ... [625] "thistle" "thistle1" "thistle2" "thistle3" [629] "thistle4" "tomato" "tomato1" "tomato2" [633] "tomato3" "tomato4" "turquoise" "turquoise1" [637] "turquoise2" "turquoise3" "turquoise4" "violet" [641] "violetred" "violetred1" "violetred2" "violetred3" [645] "violetred4" "wheat" "wheat1" "wheat2" [649] "wheat3" "wheat4" "whitesmoke" "yellow" [653] "yellow1" "yellow2" "yellow3" "yellow4" [657] "yellowgreen"
If you are looking for well prepared, well delivered (unfortunately little bit outdated) video training on Unit Testing, make sure to watch this one
In case you still struggle with some old Objective-C based code, this one might be a good choice when you want to move old stuff towards TDD approach.
You can read my review here: Unit Testing iPhone Apps by Dan Pilone and Courtney Nash
Sometimes, you want to look at the command (where is it located), and then, you decide to actually take a look inside the file (e.g. script). Instead of copying and pasting location, do following
which perl vi `!!`
mkdir escapefromreality
mkdir lib
echo 'package escapefromreality;
import java.io.File;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils.Builder;
public class EscapeJavaCode {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
try {
String strJava = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("escapefromreality/EscapeJavaCode.java"));
System.out.println(
StringEscapeUtils.builder(StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_JAVA)
.escape(strJava)
.toString()
);
String strXML = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("sample.xml"));
System.out.println(
StringEscapeUtils.builder(StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_XML11)
.escape(strXML)
.toString()
);
} catch(Exception ex) {
// remember to handle the exception
}
}
}' > escapefromreality/EscapeJavaCode.java
echo '<xml>
<sample attr="Hello"/>
<![CDATA[Some CDATA
section
]]>
</xml>' > sample.xml
curl -O http://ftp.man.poznan.pl/apache//commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.4-bin.tar.gz
tar zxf commons-text-1.4-bin.tar.gz \
--strip-components=1 \
-C lib/ \
commons-text-1.4/commons-text-1.4.jar
curl -O http://ftp.man.poznan.pl/apache//commons/io/binaries/commons-io-2.6-bin.tar.gz
tar zxf commons-io-2.6-bin.tar.gz \
--strip-components=1 \
-C lib/ \
commons-io-2.6/commons-io-2.6.jar
curl -O http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/apache//commons//lang//binaries/commons-lang3-3.7-bin.tar.gz
tar -zxf commons-lang3-3.7-bin.tar.gz \
--strip-components=1 \
-C lib/ \
commons-lang3-3.7/commons-lang3-3.7.jar
javac -cp lib/commons-text-1.4.jar:lib/commons-io-2.6.jar \
escapefromreality/EscapeJavaCode.java
for filename in lib/*.jar; do
CP=${CP}:${filename}
done
java -cp .:${CP} escapefromreality/EscapeJavaCode
I can see people around (on various blogs) saying “- I’ve never used Vim before, and it’s so cool. I really have to learn how to use Vim!”.
Just Don’t.
If you are using IntelliJ, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Eclipse, keep it that way. Don’t put yourself into this illusive thinking that by starting using Vim you will become some sort of expert or something.
The only situation in which learning Vim may be regarded useful is when you plan to work on CLI – a lot. That’s it. There are no other reasons.
So, ask yourself honestly “- Will I spend 3/4th of my day while working on some remote UNIX machine, using CLI all the time?”. If your answer is “- No, I won’t”, stick to the IDE you already know and don’t waste time on Vim. Learn something else.
However! If you really, really want to learn it. Make sure to look here: Mastering Vim and Learning vi and Vim editors also, take a look at Tuvim ;)
Slightly different point of view: Why Vim?
Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Teaching kids is a hard work. By teaching I mean not lecturing, but real, efficient and full of fun explaining how things work. I still remember one of my first computer languages – LOGO. This was Atari time and we have learned principles of programming by learning how turtle works. It was fun, but at the same time, it had lots of limitations.
First of all, if you want to write LOGO code you have to know how to write. You have to type on the keyboard, and you have to pay lots of attention to syntax. And, to be honest, LOGO code isn’t that sexy.
You can “penup”, you can “pendown” and move around. Of course you can do a lot with LOGO, but let’s face it, having fun with LOGO requires lots of work to be done.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
If you want to teach kids computer programming, you should start with something that allows expressing relatively complex ideas using simple language. In my opinion, at the time of writing, Scratch is exactly this kind of language.
Power of Scratch lays in the simplicity of code building mixed with quick reward. You can make objects move on the screen with just few clicks. Let’s play small quiz – just to show a sample.
Quiz time: What can you do, using following elements
Well, you can do pretty much. You can develop simple game and this way let the kids understand basics of programming.
Teaching coding is a hard task. If you want to avoid typical “Hello world” approach while delivering lectures to kids, you should become familiar with Scratch. It pays off.
If you like brain teasers, there is this cool game: TIS-100.
It’s a game, where you are supposed to solve Assembler based problems. You have a reduced set of instructions: moving data, basic arithmetics, few conditional jumps, and only one register – ACC. Well, in fact there are two registers, but other one is only accessible via ACC. In early stages you don’t have neither memory not the stack. Port operations are blocking, so you have to make sure things goes smoothly between modules.
What I have found most funny for me, was that kind of feeling related to missing elements coming from “normal/typical” architectures. I missed all these simple elements like stack, numerous registers, memory. Once you start playing, you need to change typical, assembler based, approach as you work with heavily reduced architecture. Another limitation is that each node (where you can run the code) has 15 lines limit and, sometimes, you have to pass data to other module to make intermediate calculations.
Anyway, this game is a real fun if you like low level coding. Learning architecture and getting used to instructions set will take you approximately 15-30 minutes. And here, Hacker’s Guide, you can find very well prepared cheat sheet for TIS-100.
The game is really worth the money – it’s just 12 PLN this week (during Steam Summer Sale).
#!/bin/bash
SESSIONS_NO=`vncserver -list | grep "^:" | tr '\t' ' ' | cut -f1 -d' ' | wc -l`
if [[ $SESSIONS_NO -ne 0 ]]; then
for no in $(vncserver -list | grep "^:" | tr '\t' ' ' | cut -f1 -d' '); do
vncserver -kill $no
done
else
echo "There are no running VNC sessions for user: $USER"
fi
If you want to start your experience with Pegasus Workflow Management System I strongly advice to use ready to go Virtual Machine available for download. You can get it here.
After downloading it, open VMware Fusion and choose: File -> Import… and choose PegasusTutorialVM-4.7.4.ova (you can find it wherever you have stored it – probably inside Downloads). After choosing the file, you will see something like this
Press Continue. VMware Fusion will complain!
Don’t worry, it will import machine properly, eventually. Simply press Retry. After a while, you will be notified that import was finished.
Fusion may complain about upgrading machine to reflect most recent changes in your release. Feel free to upgrade your machine. Press: Upgrade.
After a while, you will be shown a clock on nice blue background. Just drag it and scroll up. Now, you are ready to log in into machine. Chose user tutorial and type in pegasus as password.
On the left side of screen you will find Terminal application. Double click it. Now, it is the time to start your first task. Go ahead and create your first task.
I was supposed to say
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
— The Doors, The End
after seeing this beautiful picture during startup.
As you may guess, it was gone. Everything was gone. Apart from data: “- Thank you! My dear Backup System, thank you. I owe you! Again!”
Anyway. I was 100% sure it was broken GPU. At least that’s what all the Internet was saying. However, I wanted to check my system once again. Just to be sure. All I had to do was pressing
while starting up. I have performed full test (it lasted for more than few hours) and then … it worked. My system started as usual. Of course I had to recover from data loss, but that’s just a minor issue ;)
If you remember old way of reading/writing streams between JVM and external process, you probably remember how tedious it was in the past (all these Gobblers, Threads, etc.). Today, it’s way more simple. All you have to do, is inheriting JVM’s IO.
Let’s say you want to run simple Python code that reads something from input stream.
value = raw_input("Type the number? ")
print "Your number is: " + value
all you have to do is to call it from ProcessBuilder and inherit the IO.
public class PythonProcess {
public static void main(String [] arg) throws Exception {
ProcessBuilder pb =
new ProcessBuilder("python", "script.py").inheritIO();
Process p = pb.start();
p.waitFor();
}
}
After this is done you can simply run the code
> javac PythonProcess.java > java -cp . PythonProcess Type the number? 44 Your number is: 44
If you want to make sure that your macOS High Sierra is clean (when it comes to malicious software) you can use free tool (free as in beer and free as in speech – at the same time) called ClamAV.
You can get it various ways. You can download it’s commercial version from AppStore – as paid release, you can install it using brew, download binary from some place where you have no idea what’s really inside, You can instal macOS Server (ClamAV comes bundled with it), etc.
However, you can also build it by yourself. Directly from sources. It’s a pain in a neck, I know, but you can be sure of what you are actually running. And, you will learn that zlib’s library author is a really brainy person. Go ahead, look for yourself in Wikipedia.
Anyway. Let’s start. Estimated time to complete (depending on your system configuration) – 1h-2h.
I suggest to create some place, where you can put all sources and binaries. I suggest following approach
mkdir -p $HOME/opt/src mkdir -p $HOME/opt/usr/local
In each step, we will download source codes of given tool into
$HOME/opt/src
and then, use
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/local/$TOOL_NAME
to install them inside $HOME/opt.
1. You need PCRE – Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
cd $HOME/opt/src curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre2-10.30.tar.gz tar zxf pcre2-10.30.tar.gz cd pcre2-10.30 ./configure --prefix=$HOME//opt/usr/local/pcre2 make make install # You can also run `make check` before installing PCRE, but you may need to apply path # source: https://bugs.exim.org/attachment.cgi?id=1031&action=diff # # To apply it, simply put patch content inside file RunGrepTest.fix # # # --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- --- RunGrepTest 2017-07-18 18:47:56.000000000 +0200 +++ RunGrepTest.fix 2018-01-07 20:00:40.000000000 +0100 @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ # works. printf "%c--------------------------- Test N7 ------------------------------\r\n" - >>testtrygrep -if [ `uname` != "SunOS" ] ; then +if [ `uname` != "Darwin" ] ; then printf "abc\0def" >testNinputgrep $valgrind $vjs $pcre2grep -na --newline=nul "^(abc|def)" testNinputgrep | sed 's/\x00/ZERO/' >>testtrygrep echo "" >>testtrygrep # --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- 8< --- # # and run patch tool # patch -b RunGrepTest RunGrepTest.fix
2. You need LibreSSL
(special thanks go to: http://www.gctv.ne.jp/~yokota/clamav/). I was always using OpenSSL, but recently I had more and more issues with it while compiling stuff from sources.
cd $HOME/opt/src curl -O https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-2.6.4.tar.gz tar zxf libressl-2.6.4.tar.gz cd libressl-2.6.4 export CXXFLAGS="-O3" export CFLAGS="-O3" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/local/libressl make make check make install
3. You need zlib
cd $HOME/opt/src curl -O http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.xz tar zxf zlib-1.2.11.tar.xz cd zlib-1.2.11 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/local/zlib make make install
4. Build the stuff
cd $HOME/opt/src git clone git://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel cd clamav-devel git checkout tags/clamav-0.100.0 -b rel/0.100 # you can also get stable version from here: # https://www.clamav.net/downloads export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/opt/usr/local/pcre2/include \ -I$HOME/opt/usr/local/libressl/include \ -I$HOME/opt/usr/local/zlib/include" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/local/clamav --build=x86_64-apple-darwin`uname -r` \ --with-pcre=$HOME/opt/usr/local/pcre2 \ --with-openssl=$HOME/opt/usr/local/libressl \ --with-zlib=$HOME/opt/usr/local/zlib \ --disable-zlib-vcheck \ make make install
5. Make sure to keep your database up to date
$HOME/opt/usr/local/clamav/bin/freshclam
6. Now, you can scan your drive for viruses
cd $HOME $HOME/opt/usr/local/clamav/bin/clamscan --log=$HOME/scan.log -ir $HOME # if you want to scan your whole drive you need to run the thing as root # I also suggest to exclude /Volumes, unless you want to scan your TimeMachine # and all discs attached # -i - report only infected files # -r - recursive # --log=$FILE - store output inside $FILE # --exclude=$DIR - don't scan directory $DIR cd $HOME sudo $HOME/opt/usr/local/clamav/bin/clamscan --log=`pwd`/scan.log --exclude=/Volumes --exclude=/tmp -ir /
To compile ClamAV on macOS High Sierra I have used my old scripts, but many thanks go to: http://www.gctv.ne.jp/~yokota/clamav
$input_1 = array( "Pragmatyzm", "Idealizm", "Sofizm", "Arystotelizm", "Scholastyka", "Egzystencjalizm", "Fenomenologia", "Analityka", "Behawioryzm", "Buddyzm", "Kartezjanizm" ); $input_2 = array( "Kanta", "Arystotelesa", "Platona", "Sokratesa", "Kartezjusza", "Peirce'a", "Dennetta", "Kołakowskiego", "Tatarkiewicza", "Kotarbińskiego", "Kanta", "Locke'a" ); $name = $input_1[rand(0, count($input_1) - 1)] . ' ' . $input_2[rand(0, count($input_2) - 1)]; <input hidden="true" type="text" name="author" id="author" class="text" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($name)?>"/>