Victims of State Repression

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Victims of State Repression

Sanggunian:
1. Ang mga mapa ay mula sa about.com
2. Ang gif animation ay ginawa gamit ang gifsicle.

Countdown ng mga Buhay

Many are killed this days. Journalist, workers, peasants, priests and church people, organizers and almost anybody critical on current administration is becoming a legitimate target of the police, army and other arm of the state. Scanning Bulalat.com will reveal the other side of the news seen in major dailies.



I will be monitoring, ala MTV Hits countdown but it would perhaps be counting up, the victims of state repression. I'll be posting any animations, perhaps like The electoral-vote.



Credits:
1. Ang mga larawan ay mula sa Arkibong Bayan

ARPACK and large eigenvalue problems

We have been working on large scale eigenvalue problems for sometime now. While i have been happy with the results from LAPACK, we wanted to achieve more insights on the problem by increasing the matrix dimension of our problem. However, increasing its dimension would bring us to great resources problem. Like most research group in the Philippines, we never get adequate funding from the government. Specially, since we are dealing with problems not really for commercialization. At least for now.

Dumping the proprietary MATLAB due to its costly license lead me to free and open source solutions. LAPACK is the first scientific package i used. Being new to GNU/Linux made it even harder to use such package. During those time, i have installed mandrake us an email server and a simulation workstation. Buhay pa naman yata ngayon iyon...

I have been using debian for more than three years now. The extent of our research is also growing. Our results are slowly being discussed by other research groups outside the country. We have also published our first Physical review letter article.

The above success lead me again to enhance more our previous results. For a week now, i am struggling to implement ARPACK to our problem. Today, i have successfully reproduce all previous results. ARPACK is a great tool. Its availablity from the apt repositories let me focus more on our solution rather configuring it. Also, i have been using SCILAB for a week now. I should have used long before. My regrets... hehe...

Anyways, i am feeling great relief today. thanks to ARPACK and the many debian developers for maintaining debian...

By the way, as my contribution the Debian GNU/Linux project, i joined its localization team. I am currenty running Debian with Tagalog messages... hehehe ... See below...

Remastering Knoppix

I was remastering knoppix since early this morning.

Thanks to good HowTOs at www.knoppix.net. However, below are just the most needed parts.

1. Download knoppix live-cd from mirrors.

2. Prepare the following:
a. RAM + SWAP >= 1GB
b. Free Partition >= 3GB

3. Boot the Knoppix Live CD.

4. As root, mount the free partition, mount -rw /dev/hdaX /mnt/hdaX) . This will be the working partition. All sources and created iso will be deposited here.

5. Create root, source and master directory.
a. mkdir /mnt/hdaX/knx
b. mkdir /mnt/hdaX/knx/source/KNOPPIX
c. mkdir /mnt/hdaX/knx/master/KNOPPIX

6. Copy Knoppix live cd to source directory, cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hdaX/source/KNOPPIX

7. Change root to the copied sources, chroot /mnt/hdaX/source/KNOPPIX

8. Mount proc to avail the internet connection, mount -t proc /proc proc

9. Use apt-get to modify existing installation. There are many programs installed with knoppix but will not be needed.

10. Populate the master directory, rsync -a --exclude "/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX" /cdrom/ ${master}

11. Modify the background images and index.html on ${master}/KNOPPIX/background.png and ${master}/KNOPPIX/index.html, respectively.

12. Create an image as a cloop. mkisofs -R -U -V "Volume ID seen by Win users" -P "Publisher ID, up to 128 chars" -hide-rr-moved -cache-inodes -no-bak -pad ${source} | nice -5 /usr/bin/create_compressed_fs - 65536 > ${master}/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

13. Update md5sums, cd ${master} ; rm -f KNOPPIX/md5sums ; find -type f -not -name md5sums -not -name boot.cat -exec md5sum {} \; >> KNOPPIX/md5sums

14. Burn the image finally. mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "Volume ID seen by Win users" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o knoppix.iso ${master}

15. Good Luck! we just hope it works. hehehe


refs:
1. knoppixRM.html