Both hotels in which I stayed during my Korea trip had UNIX hair dryers.

Good to know you could just run vi and set temperature and fan speed in /etc/dryer.conf !

I also came across some interesting signs, see [1],[2],[3]

I set up a Doodle poll and put the yet undefined place as TBD. Doodle provides a link to Google maps for the location, with quite a few choice (I guess I take the on in Queensland, Australia):

Make sure to drink only indirectly!

Was tut man nicht alles, um den Euro zu retten:

EmEditor (German version): File / Save

I’m loving it!

The departure screen at Munich airport.

I was afraid it would start swapping passengers to the street.

I’ve used the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox under Win32, compiled in the Cygwin environment, as described in the documentation. However, for processing a large data set, I needed a 64bit build. As there is currently no 64bit version of Cygwin, I followed the approach described here, using MinGW-w64.

The current version of Cygwin includes MinGW-w64, as well as an appropriate build of pthreads (if needed: compile pthreads as described here).

To configure, pass the MinGW-w64 to the script:

--cc=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --cflags=-m64
--cxx=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --cxxflags=-m64

Note: the path needs to be included due to a bug in MinGW-w64, as described on the MinGW-w64 site:

The mingw-w64 toolchain has been officially added to Cygwin mirrors, you can find the basic C toolchain as mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core. The languages enabled are C, Ada, C++, Fortran, Object C and Objective C++. There is a known caveat where calling the compiler directly as “/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc” will fail, use “/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc” instead and make sure that your PATH variable has “/usr/bin” before “/bin”.

In addition, we add the following libraries to the linker:

-lstdc++ -lmsvcrt -lpthread

As MinGW-w64 has WIN32 defined (in contrast to GCC under Cygwin), there are a number of issues in the Shogun code that need to be fixed (see patch).

Currently, the following issues in the code are still unresolved:

• only command line static interface is supported
• MemoryMappedFile is not implemented (needs reimplementation based on Win API

After the Shogun library is built, ranlib needs to be run before building the command line interface:

/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib shogun/libshogun.a

The resulting command line application needs the MinGW DLLs in the path. It also has the following limitations:

• some strange characters in console (instead of colors)
• issues with locale setting in when serialising/parsing files
• applications exists on exceptions from SG_ERROR

Had some issues with non-existing defines in the MinGW environment, and came across the following auto-translation.

Original posting:

Clarification: Where “most platforms” refers to platforms with a C99-compliant fscanf/scanf that can handle the hh prefix for char, not just the h prefix for short.

Translation to German:

Erklärung: Wo „die meisten Plattformen“ auf Plattformen mit einem C99-compliant fscanf/scanf sich bezieht, das das hh Präfix für Holzkohle behandeln kann, nicht gerade setzen das h kurz vor.

No doubt, char means Holzkohle, although it could mean Saibling as well (but that’s fishy …).