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Re: Run Comsol Simulations from Matlab

Deepakghanta — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:11:44 -0000

excellent...helped a lot at the right time...thank you very much...

-deepak

Re: Kelvin the lap dog

Cedarbear — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:10:30 -0000

who needs a blanket?

Re: Caramelized onion-butternut roast

Andreakorey — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:24:48 -0000

I made this last night. I too was exhausted by how much work it was to make it. And in the end, I had mixed feelings about it. Although I thought all the favors worked well together, and I looked the crumbs on top, I felt disappointed when I scooped it into my plate and it looked like it was filling for something without the something. I'm trying to figure out another way this could be served because it did taste good, it just felt like it was missing a component that would have given it more structure.

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

jcdoll — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:49:44 -0000

MJ -
Your first issue is installing mencoder which I can't help you with. I haven't used OS X in a few years so don't recall the installation procedure. You can google "mencoder install macosx" to find instructions. After that if you run into issues just try using The Google, it'll be much faster and more reliable than me. :)

- joey

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Majaffer — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:04:02 -0000

Hi Joey,
I am a level zero noob when it comes to all these things. I have a macbook pro and desperately want to download videos off SCPD before they take then down. I tried following the instructions above but to no avail. Can you please help me by sending me ‘instructions for dummies’ to download these videos? When I type in “mencoder mms://URL.wmv -ovc copy -oac copy -o Output.avi” in the terminal window in the macbookpro, it displays the message “mencoder: command not found”. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be changing some directory thing somewhere?
Thanks a bunch man,
MJ

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Bigdoce — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:44:21 -0000

Joey,
Thanks again!

Cheers

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

jcdoll — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:42:36 -0000

So subprocess can't run. You should try googling "python subprocess child_exception" and see what you can find. One thing you can do is to try adding the shell=True parameter at the end of Popen. I was just working a separate project using subprocesses and needed to include that for everything to work.

If all else fails, it works great in Ubuntu and you could just boot off of a flash drive to get the videos you need. Better hurry though because the quarter is almost over and all of this quarter's classes will turn into pumpkins. Good luck!

- joey

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Bigdoce — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:13:19 -0000

Would you have an idea why I am seeing the error below?

cd '/Fall2011/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw' '/Fall2011/getSCPD.py' && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
dn5213er:~ BigMizAC$ cd '/Fall2011/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw' '/Fall2011/getSCPD.py' && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
mms://cobb.stanford.edu/course...
mencoder mms://cobb.stanford.edu/course... -ovc copy -oac copy -o 111130-msande293-znPJvX1nNNUYpTeQAp1a-500.wm.avi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Fall2011/getSCPD.py", line 21, in <module>
    downloadClass('Fall2011/mse293')
File "/Fall2011/getSCPD.py", line 18, in downloadClass
    strip(url)
File "/Fall2011/getSCPD.py", line 11, in strip
    p1 = subprocess.call(["mencoder", newurl, "-ovc","copy","-oac","copy","-o", ("%s.avi" % (vidname,))])
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 444, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1106, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
</module>

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Bigdoce — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:24:20 -0000

It does; many thanks.
I will give it a try and I hope you won't mind another question if I were to run into problems.

Thanks again.

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

jcdoll — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:45:34 -0000

"ee212" is a text file that contains the URLs. So when you call downloadClass('fall2010/ee212'), the script is opening that text file and interpreting each line of the file as a URL. The videos themselves are downloaded to the same folder that getSCPD.py lives in.

Make sense?

- joey

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Bigdoce — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:35:21 -0000

Hi Joey,
Thank you for the timely reply. Much appreciated it. I still don't get it fully. In your example above, is ./fall2010/ee212 the path to the folder your downloading the ee212 lectures to? Also, in the getSCPD.py: Do you have the path of the file that contains the URLs in f= open(' ', 'r')?

Thanks again.

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

jcdoll — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:48:35 -0000

I use relative paths, here's an example...

In getSCPD.py:
downloadClass('fall2010/ee212')

In ./fall2010/ee212 (relative to the getSCPD.py location):
http://lang.stanford.edu/cours...
http://lang.stanford.edu/cours...
http://lang.stanford.edu/cours...
...

Hope this helps.

- joey

Re: Downloading Stanford Lectures

Bigdoce — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:16:30 -0000

Hi Joey,
Can you please indicate how can your link the file that contains the URLs (extracted using the Greasemonkey script) to the Python scrip? I tried putting the file's full path (/Users/.....), but I received an error indicating that the / before Users is invalid syntax. Your help will be appreciated.

p.s.
I am a Mac user. Snow Leopard.

Re: Run Comsol Simulations from Matlab

jcdoll — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:54:44 -0000

Hi Ali -
See the reply I just posted to Rupeshrpkoirala. But note, I haven't used Comsol/Femlab for its Matlab integration since 2004. So while I'm keeping this page up for posterity, I'd wager that there are better ways to do it now.

- joey

Re: Run Comsol Simulations from Matlab

jcdoll — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:53:18 -0000

See the tail end of the script on this page. most importantly...

fem.sol=femlin(...);
eii_struct = posteval(fem,'normE_wh',...);

You use posteval in order to pull data out of the results structure. At least, this was how it worked back in 2004. Beyond that I can't provide any advice.

Cheers,
Joey

Re: Run Comsol Simulations from Matlab

ali — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:34:44 -0000

Hi, I have saved a comsol simulation as a mfile. I can run this mfile in MATLAB. I do not know how to access the results. Is it possible to have comsol results in MATLAb workspace?
Thank you

Re: Chocolate-chocolate-chip-walnut cookies

Andreakorey — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:16:35 -0000

These were so good. I made them twice. The second time, I added toasted coconut, used coconut, milk, and did almond extract instead of vanilla. I couldn't stop eating them.

Re: Spicy peanut and eggplant soup

Andreakorey — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:11:25 -0000

Really? OMG! I just made this and everyone loved it! Did you salt the eggplant and give it a good rinse after 30 minutes? That takes out the bitterness. And cook it longer than it says.

Re: Caesar salad

Andreakorey — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:39:32 -0000

You know, I made this just last night and your right, the dressing needed a little something. But after adding a bit more celtic sea salt, and more lemon juice and a bit more olive oil, I think it went pretty well and yes I think you'd like it better with the capers and brine. Give it another chance but yeah it needed more acidicness to me.

Re: Importing Playlists from iTunes to Banshee

jcdoll — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:34:30 -0000

Usage instructions are in the script header:

./itunes-to-banshee.pl iTunesLibrary.xml banshee.db

Beyond that, you're on your own. If you aren't familiar with the command line, you're going to have some difficulty with this.

Re: Importing Playlists from iTunes to Banshee

Mrjjsanders — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:26:48 -0000

what do i do with the script?

Re: Pineapple-cashew-quinoa stir-fry

Babette — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:54:45 -0000

I tried this last week and really loved it... this is the kind of dish I'd order anytime at the restaurant.

Re: The Kittens have Arrived!

Mrs. Salvi — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:34:49 -0000

give my ameet a bath in your sink the next time you see him, he smells like poo.

Re: The Kittens have Arrived!

Joey Doll — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:29:46 -0000

gossip girl

Re: The Kittens have Arrived!

mama — Sat, 21 May 2011 23:22:28 -0000

What a sweetheart.
xoxo