September 2013 ~ Techmint Blog

517. Very briefly: Prime95 (GIMPS) on linux

I'm very unhappy about a newly built node which randomly crashes and reboots when running long jobs. More about that later, but here are...

Given these recent posts , a post on how to represent reaction coordinates in latex was inevitable. Note: a much prettier example is found...

I had to move offices at work last Friday (which partly explains my radio silence). One of my nodes, with a Biostar 880G+ motherboard, would...

This is another python script. Say you've done a computation along the lines of this: #P rBP86/GEN 5D Pseudo(Read) Opt=() Freq =() SCF=(...

There are a few reasons to like gaussian, and many reasons not to. Gaussian is fast, and their whitepapers are great resources for learning...

And another update: I can now confirm that using your own z matrix still does not constrain the geometry during a PES scan, which was the o...

Another update: My jobs have run long enough now that I can confirm that using your own z matrix still does not constrain the bond lengths ...

Here's another semi-recycled kernel building post -- the instructions are the same as for (almost) any previous version of the kernel. T...

This is probably fairly obvious to most people. I've got a reverse ssh tunnel set up so that I can access my work computer from home. Ho...

Sometimes my brain and I fall out, and we refuse to communicate. Yesterday was a day like that. Having put my TV computer back together agai...