Matthew M. McCormick (thewtex)

Welcome

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:45:38 GMT

This site contains some of my contributions to the interwebs.

Navigate with the main menu on the top, the close and close others buttons above each entry, and search field and tags on the right.

This site is a TiddlyWiki with a modified Monochrome theme.

Sponsors:

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contact information

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:36:00 GMT

Email: matt _at_mmmccormick _dot_com
Identi.ca: thewtex
Jabber: thewtex@jabber.org

tcd_analyze

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:18:00 GMT

DWL Multidop L2 transcranial doppler viewer.

Purpose

For processing the transcranial doppler data generated on a DWL Multidop L2.

Documentation

Documentation can be found here.
Doxygen code documentation can be found here.

Installation, Usage

See readme.txt in the source or the html version.

Screenshot

Version 2.0.0

Files

source: dwl_multidop-2.0.0.tar.bz2

Old files:
source: tcd_analyze-0.5.0.tar.bz2
source: tcd_analyze-0.5.0.zip
binary: tcd_analyze-0.5.0.win32.exe

Notes

Internally, an option has been added to use either the centisecond delay found in the files or the system clock time for plotting the hit and mark delays. There is considerable discrepancy (up to 15 seconds at times) on the machine I work on. I am not sure if it is due to clock drift or another problem. Currently, it appears the centisecond delay is more accurate, but please let me know if you have information on this.
As of this writing, the program depends on a subversion build of Veusz.

Changelog

2.0.0

Move from Matplotlib gui backend to PyQt4/Veusz. Basic functionality implemented.

0.5

calculate, plot, and save to file the TAP, time-average peak velocity

0.4

plot MARKS
no decimation (level of detail) in the middle plot

software

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:48:00 GMT

Bash scripts

C++

ebuilds

gentoo/funtoo/paludis packages

My repository — will eventually be migrated to the funtoo fork. However, contains the ITK/VTK related ebuilds and others for now.
My funtoo fork — suggestions for running paludis with funtoo are on the wiki.

Latex

Dark white-text-on-black-background beamer color theme

Matlab

Creating Matlab mex files with CMake
Matlab ITK Importer

Python

DWL Multidop L2 transcranial doppler viewer.

papers

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:53:00 GMT

Viewable in browser
Raw bibtex

image2eps

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:53:00 GMT

Convert images to Encapsulated Postscript, EPS

Purpose

Script to convert all the image files in a directory to EPS with the ImageMagik convert program

Usage

./image2eps OPTION [<directory>]

Options:
-h | --help this help message
-d | --delete delete the original image files

Requires

ImageMagik

Files

image2eps

matlab-itk-import

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Matlab ITK Importer

Purpose

Read any image format supported by ITK into Matlab

Usage

see help itkimport
and help slicecount
at Matlab prompt after installed.

Requires

~Matlab

Source

Source can be found here.
For build hints, see matlab-cmake.

Binaries

If you would like pre-compiled binaries, contact me. The cost is $45 per user.

matlab-cmake

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Create Matlab mex files with CMake

Documentation on how to do this can be found here
The example code can be found here

eagle_colortheme

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:39:00 GMT

This is a white text on black background style color theme for latex beamer.

Example

An example of how it looks can be found here.

Installation

Download beamercolorthemeeagle.sty and put it in ~/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/color/eagle/. Then run
texhash

Use

In your preamble, put the following
\usecolortheme{eagle}

Running Adobe Authorware under Linux

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:39:00 GMT

This is a screencast tutorial for running Adobe Authorware under Linux. This demonstration uses only graphical tools. Demonstrated on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Find it here

Running Windows Applications under Linux

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:39:00 GMT

A screencast that explains the different ways for running Microsoft Windows programs under linux. Find it here.

strip_trailing_whitespaces

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:45:00 GMT

#!/bin/bash

# strip trailing whitespaces from filenames sent to stdin or as args
# Matt McCormick (thewtex) <matt@mmmccormick.com>
# created 2008 May 01

MYTEMP=`tempfile`
trap 'rm -f $MYTEMP' SIGINT SIGTERM

stripit() {
  echo "stripping $1"
  sed 's/[ \t]*$//' "$1" > $MYTEMP
  cp $MYTEMP "$1"
}

if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
  while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
    stripit $1
    shift
  done
else
  while read; do
    stripit $REPLY 
  done
fi

rm $MYTEMP

Musica Elegante

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Style

Musica Elegante was an old-school latin big band that made elegant music a reality. Cha chas, mambos, tangos, and beguine. Tight, classy tunes with a distinctive flavor.

Artists

Easily the most talented group I have ever played with— Ken on the set, a couple of other great percussionists, Bill Berlyn, Jim Krofta (RIP) et. al. on trumpet, a good bone, and some hot saxes. All lead by the great mind and ear of Dr. Nicholas Contorno. Not only great players, but great people filled with the umami joy brought by music. If you are in Milwaukee and have need for a jazz/latin/etc band, give Dr. C a call. He will not disappoint.

These recordings were made in the Varsity Theater at Marquette University.

Files

All

Mambo Inn Cha Cha

Brazil Samba

Speak Low Beguine

Carefree Slow Cha Cha

Misirlu Latin Rock

Isle of Capri Cha Cha

Walter Winchell Tango

La Cumparsita Tango

I Love Lucy Mambo

music

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:19:00 GMT

Solo

Bass

Amerika

Latin Big Band

Bass

Musica Elegante

Amerika

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:31:00 GMT

Composer

Original, Samuel A. Ward
Arrangement, Jaco Pastorius

Artist

Matt McCormick

Style

Traditional with Pastorius pazza

Files

mp3
ogg
flac

SiteTitle

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:20:00 GMT

Matthew M. McCormick (thewtex)

hardware

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT

How to fix the Cowon iAudio U3

dlfiles_file

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:59:00 GMT

#!/bin/bash
#
# dlfiles

function usage
{
  echo "download all files with specific extension(s) found in an html or xml file"
  echo
  echo 'usage: dlfiles [OPTIONS] <URL>'
  echo
  echo 'Options:'
  echo '  -h | --help		    this help message'
  echo '  -g | --ogg		    download OGG Vorbis'
  echo '  -m | --mp3		    download MP3s'
  echo '  -p | --pdf		    download PDFs'
  echo '  -o | --output <directory> change the output directory'
  echo '			    defaults to $PWD'
  echo 
  echo 'Created by Matt McCormick (thewtex) <matt@mmmccormick.com>'
  echo 'on 2008 February 7'
  echo 'version 1.0'
}

OUTDIR=$PWD
EXTENSIONS='('
while [ "$1" != "" ] ; do
  case "$1" in
    -h | --help )
      usage
      exit 0
      ;;
    -g | --ogg )
      EXTENSIONS="${EXTENSIONS}\.ogg)|("
      shift
      ;;
    -m | --mp3 )
      EXTENSIONS="${EXTENSIONS}\.mp3)|("
      shift
      ;;
    -p | --pdf )
      EXTENSIONS="${EXTENSIONS}\.pdf)|("
      shift
      ;;
    -o | --output )
      shift
      OUTDIR="$1"
      if [ ! -w $OUTDIR ]; then
	echo "Error: $OUTDIR does not exist or is not writeable"
	exit 1
      fi
      shift
      ;;
    * )
      URL="$1"
      shift
      ;;
    esac
done
if [ $EXTENSIONS == '(' ] ; then
  echo "Error: you must specify one or more file extensions"
  echo
  usage
  exit 1
fi
EXTENSIONS=${EXTENSIONS%|(}


cd $OUTDIR

wget -q -O - "${URL}" | egrep -o "http[^[:space:]]+${EXTENSIONS}" | while read
do
  wget "$REPLY"
done


NUMFILES=`wget -q -O - "${URL}" | egrep -o "http[^[:space:]]+${EXTENSIONS}" | wc -l`
echo
echo "$NUMFILES files were downloaded."

dlfiles

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:58:00 GMT

Purpose

download all files with specific extension(s) found in an html webpage

Usage

Requires

wget, egrep

Files

dlfiles

tethered_authenticate_files

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:18:00 GMT

#!/bin/bash
#
# tethered_authenticate
#
# automatically login to University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Engineering Tethered Software
#
# usage: change the USERNAME and PASSWORD variables, put in your crontab 
#   and run every 12 hours
#
# requirements: curl,awk,egrep
#
# created by Matt McCormick, 23 November 2007

USERNAME="bucky"
PASSWORD="cheese"

TETHERED_URL="https://tethered.cae.wisc.edu/authorize/"
# browser identifier
IDENTIFIER="Opera/9.24 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)"

# get current state of this IP address
function get_state
{
  ACTION=`curl -s -A "$IDENTIFIER" "$TETHERED_URL" | grep 'name="action"' | awk 'BEGIN { FS="\""; ORS=" " } { print $4 }'`
}

# authenticate by 'add'ing this username,password, and ip address
function add 
{
  curl -s -A "$IDENTIFIER" -d "action=add&method=&user=${USERNAME}&passwd=${PASSWORD}" "$TETHERED_URL" > /dev/null
}

# update (renew) this ip address, but really doesn't work and will 
# spit back an add page after 12 hours
function update
{
  MY_IP=`curl -s -A "$IDENTIFIER" "$TETHERED_URL" | grep '(AuthCAE) until' | egrep -o '[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}'`
  curl -s -A "$IDENTIFIER" -d "action=update&key=AuthCAE%3D${USERNAME}%3D${MY_IP}" "$TETHERED_URL" > /dev/null
}


# start main 
get_state

if [ "$ACTION" == "add " ] ; then # if currently not logged in
  add # log in
elif [ "$ACTION" == "del update " ] ; then # else if previously logged in
  update # try to renew login (which doesn't work)
  get_state # see if they ask to log in again
  if [ "$ACTION" == "add " ] ; then
    add
  fi
else
  echo "Output from $TETHERED_URL unrecognized"
  exit 1
fi