I'm half the man I used to be http://www.gekitsuu.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:29:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Making Minecraft use 64-bit Java on the Mac http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/11/making-minecraft-use-64-bit-java-on-the-mac/ http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/11/making-minecraft-use-64-bit-java-on-the-mac/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:49:52 +0000 Gekitsuu http://www.gekitsuu.org/?p=234504085 Continue reading →]]> In the default install of Minecraft on the Mac you are using 32 bit java and the game warns that you can improve things by switching to 64-bit Java. I found a minecraft forum article that explains how to change things up to 64-bit here. The instructions also state that you’ll have to redo this every time you update minecraft and being lazy I decided to write out a script to make the changes for me. This is that script! All you need to do to use it is open Terminal.app (or your favorite terminal program, mine is iTerm2) and edit a new file, name it something like 64bitminecraft.sh. Then paste the script below into that file and run it by executing ‘bash ./64bitminecraft.sh’. If you’re new to shell scripting in unix here is a good introduction to shell scripting

#!/bin/bash

# Perform Backup of all the files

if [[ ! -d ~/Minecraft_Backups/ ]];then
echo "Creating backup directory ~/Minecraft_Backups/"
mkdir -p ~/Minecraft_Backups/
fi
tar -czf ~/Minecraft_Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`-backup.tgz /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app

#Modify the Info.plist file for the new version of Java
if [[ -a /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app/Contents/Info.plist ]];then
sed -i -e 's/1\.5\+/1.6+/' /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i -e '/I386/ c\
X86_64<\/string>\
I386<\/string>\
' /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app/Contents/Info.plist
else
echo "Info.plist not found in /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app/Contents/"
fi

cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub /Applications/Minecraft/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/</code>

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]]> http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/06/fractal-of-the-day-96/feed/ 0 Kaprekar Numbers http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/06/kaprekar-numbers/ http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/06/kaprekar-numbers/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:09:30 +0000 Gekitsuu http://www.gekitsuu.org/?p=234504059 Continue reading →]]> I wrote this small python script to find Kaprekar numbers

 

#!/usr/bin/python

def next_num(primer):
    number = primer
    while True:
        number += 1
        yield number

def solve_kap(num):
    sqrdnum = str(num ** 2)
    count = 1
    for i in range(1, len(sqrdnum)):
        first, second = int(sqrdnum[:i]), int(sqrdnum[i:])
        if (first + second) == num:
            print num, sqrdnum, "(%s, %s)" % (first, second)

for x in next_num(1):
   solve_kap(x)
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]]> http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/fractal-of-the-day-29/feed/ 0 USGS Kids Section http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/usgs-kids-section/ http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/usgs-kids-section/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:46:58 +0000 Gekitsuu http://www.gekitsuu.org/?p=234503785 Continue reading →]]> While I was doing some personal education on the science of earthquakes I came across this page at the USGS for kids and I felt a little disappointed for 2 reasons. First under the section “Can scientists predict earthquakes?” they respond with

No, and it is unlikely they will ever be able to predict them. Scientists have tried many different ways of predicting earthquakes, but none have been successful. On any particular fault, scientists know there will be another earthquake sometime in the future, but they have no way of telling when it will happen.

This feels too absolute to me, I challenge that statement and I believe that it’s only a matter of time before we can, not if we can. It is a very complicated topic, we as a species will some day come to understand it well enough to predict it. That may be several generations from now but to say it’s unlikely we ever will, seems unrealistic to me.

The second disappointment came when I was going to write them about the wording on the page and saw that they just copied the article from another publication. The article was well written and good material for kids but I feel a bit gipped that the USGS didn’t write their own material. This is probably common practice but it still feels like diet coke.

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]]> http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/fractal-of-the-day-20/feed/ 0 Luminaria 2011 http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/luminaria-2011/ http://www.gekitsuu.org/2011/03/luminaria-2011/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:33:51 +0000 Gekitsuu http://www.gekitsuu.org/?p=234503812 Continue reading →]]> Last night I went to the Luminaria event in Hemisfair park in downtown San Antonio and it was a ton of fun. The event started with some very positive speeches by the folks who organized the event and the Mayor discussed his vision for San Antonio and ultimately what all our hopes are for the up coming years. The rackers had been planning a flashmob for a few weeks and it was really cool to see the crowd’s reaction when they started dancing up in front of the stage.

We arrived a bit early with our friends Heather and Wiz so we could make sure we found parking and a spot to see the opening ceremonies. We had plenty of time when we arrived so we got some food and drinks and headed over to the stage. Our Artists from our sister city in Taiwan came over and created the awesome gateway you see to the right. The whole night had a great feeling of energy and inspiration and we all had a blast.

We decided to end the night with the 3d building display. My father sent me a link a couple weeks back of one that had been done in Portugal. I decided to capture a video of the performance and it was pretty cool to see.

 

 

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