A Risk Analysis Bowtie Diagram in Latex
Sunday, June 24, 2018 in Blog
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Bowtie Diagram in LaTeX For folks who have to conduct risk analysis, there are very limited choices for the creation of “bowtie diagrams”. Searching the web for examples in LaTeX comes up pretty empty. So when googling comes up empty, its …
TRAPPIST-1 is probably not alive
Friday, February 24, 2017 in Blog
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UPDATE July 23 2022: The JWST has taken spectrographic readings of the TRAPPIST system. We will update this blog entry with any key findings when they are released. It will be of great interest if JWST detects atmosphere and water on any of the …
Putting a Space Station Over Philly With Final Cut Pro
Monday, February 20, 2017 in Blog
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Quick overview If interested in creating special effects for film projects. Uses Final Cut Pro X and CoreMelt’s TrackX Plugin’s Simple Tracker. In about thirty minutes you can create a passable video that portrays the Star War’s …
DevOps 101: Chef Cookbook with Testing
Saturday, January 28, 2017 in Blog
11 minute read
Introduction Yet another chef tutorial You can of course skip this step if you are familiar with Chef to a great enough degree, but in the spirit of making this a self-contained walkthrough, we will start from the ground up. Getting started …
Python Uses Operational Chaining for Boolean Comparisons
Friday, January 20, 2017 in Blog
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A Python feature? A colleague noticed this behavior: >>> 'a' in 'b' == 0 False >>> ('a' in 'b') == 0 True >>> 'a' in ('b' == 0) TypeError: argument of type 'bool' is …
Abstracting Networking with Docker Containers
Thursday, March 03, 2016 in Blog
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Goal: Network Namespace is a Linux tool that allows for the easy virtualization of network models. While it has plenty of practical uses directly on the hardware, this will be a quick introduction to how it can be used to create more complex Docker …