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Installing Fuxi on Mac OS X 10.7.3

By carlotorniai on May 18, 2012

I have been trying to install Fuxi on my Mac (run-on Mac OS X 10.7.3. and Python 2.7.2 as default). I've tried unsuccessfully to run the simple script:


wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
python2.5 ez_setup.py
easy_install-2.5 fuxi

But no luck. So I had to build everything form scratch. Below the steps to get Fuxi work. Note that everything should be bind to Python 2.5 ( i've made few changes from the script in this post).

 *This script requires that ez_setup, mercurial (hg)and subversion (svn) are installed.
*Sources will be installed in the working directory.sudo easy_install-2.5 pyparsing
svn export http://python-dlp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/layercake-python  # create local copy of layercakecd layercake-python
sudo python2.5 setup.py build
sudo python2.5 setup.py install
cd ..
hg clone https://fuxi.googlecode.com/hg/ fuxi   # clone FuXi from repository using Mercurialcd fuxi
sudo python2.5 setup.py build
sudo python2.5 setup.py install

Then of course I had to force your dev environment (EasyEclipse in my case) to use the 2.5 Interpreter. Things now are working fine.

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Lion and pycurl

By carlotorniai on February 6, 2012

Just for future memory: When upgrading to Lion (the following works for 10.7.2 and 10.7.3) make sure: 1) Re-install Dev tools 2) Make sure you have a latest version of Python (you can download dmg form python.org) 3) If you are running 10.3.2 :Fix the compiler! Make sure you are linking to the proper gcc. A quick and dirty fix below: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 (See this post) The previous step isn't necessary anymore if using Xcode 4.2 and Lion 10.7.3 you need to MANUALLY install the command line tools. In order to do that open Xcode, go to preferences and Download (see pic before) and click install on Command line tools (see pic below) xtools

4) Running the following (note I made sure to use the easy_install version /usr/bin): sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" /usr/bin/easy_install setuptools pycurl==7.19.0

Posted in Personal, Technology | Tagged Dev tools, easy_install, gcc, Lion, Lion 10.7.2, Lion 10.7.3, Mac OSX, MacOS, pycurl, Xcode, Xcode 4.2 | Leave a response

Best Albums of 2011

By carlotorniai on December 8, 2011

I took me more than usual to write the traditional post about the best albums of the year. My memory fails me ... it's a sign of age i guess :-) Anyway it took me a while to pick number 3 to 5 and also to go through all the concerts I've seen to choose the best performances. Anyway here they are.... Best Albums of 2011 1. The Roots - Radical Face (read my review) 2. Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls 3. Belong - The Pain of Being Pure at Heart 4. Lupercalia - Patrick Wolf 5. Last Night on Earth - Noah and the Whale Honorable Mention - The People's Key - Bright Eyes Best Album from the past Astro Coast - Surfer Blood Best Live performance 1) The Cure: Reflections 2) Bon Iver 3) Bright Eyes I've seen many shows this year (at least on this I did better than last here.. you can see some on my youtube channel here)

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Ben Cooper: A journey of runaways and returns

By carlotorniai on October 28, 2011

My review of the Roots from Radical face has been published. Read it here. Italian version coming soon.

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The Ides of March: the betrayal of a life without forgiveness

By carlotorniai on October 8, 2011

The movie - directed by George Clooney and based on a Beau Willimon's Broadway play Farragut North - tells the story of Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) who works, under Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), as junior campaign manager for the Democrat presidential candidate Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney).

Steve, while starting a relationship with a camping intern, is offered to switch side and go to work for the rival Campaign Manager Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), This will trigger a chain of events that will change the lives of the characters forever.

You may think that this is yet another political movie with the usual cliché but you ‘d be terribly wrong: politics is the magnifying lens through which a bigger drama then presidential elections is depicted.

In fact what makes you uneasy and almost hurts you physically, while you are caught in the plot and the climax of the movie, aren't the terrible mistakes and betrayals, or the striking contrast between the ideal and the impossibility to live up to it, but it's rather the impossibility of forgiveness, the absolute absence of a merciful sight.

Each character is profoundly alone with his secrets, errors, betrayals and the weight of them. There is no escape from this deadly condition where only T.S. Elliot's "usury, power and lust" seem to prevail. Even ideals or religion are empty words (the constitution as religion in the opening scene of the movie) or reverent formalism (the desperate speech of a "catholic" father facing the death of his child) they cannot touch or change life.

And the solution isn't telling the truth (so much so that the movie won’t tell if Steve will reveal it), the way out is not to condemn or unveil mistakes and secrets, trying to make things right. This won't fill the void of what is missing nor make you happy: when Steve seems to have obtained - at an incredible high price - what it wants, he stands sad among the crowd while listening to the speech that declares his success.

There is a need of something else that is missing. This absence and its terrible consequences are so well depicted in the movie that makes it - though painful - absolutely worth watching.

This great movie is not about the dirty rules and cynicism of politics, it's about something bigger than that: it's about the despair of a life where forgiveness and mercy are impossible.

A life that often, with the complicity of the powers that be, we condemn ourselves to live, but that, fortunately, is not the only possible one.

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Php, curl and SPARQL: turning shell scripts into (simple) dynamic web pages

By carlotorniai on May 19, 2011

We have SPARQL endpoints requiring http authentication and for my own needs I usually write shell scripts using curl to execute SPARQL queries and to save results in files to be handed to the team responsible for data QA.

I wanted to provide some simple tool for data QA folks (which have no technical knowledge of RDF, OWL or SPARQL whatsoever) to allow them to select and run a set of precompiled SPARQL queries without my intervention.

Since most of my script are using cURL I just decided to develop php pages using cURL to access the SPARQL service.

The process was pretty straightforward: I just had to enable curl form the php.ini and experiment a little :-)

The only issue I encountered was related to the encoding of double quotes included in some SPARQL queries posted from an HTML form on my godaddy server. It took me a while to realize that that was the issue since on my local Apache (working on MAX OS) everything worked fine. I've solved the issue with magic quotes and using the &quote; in the form field.

Below the php code that gets the parameters posted form an html form (username, password, institution, query_value) to access the proper SPARQL service.

<?php

// test for  double quotes
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
function stripslashes_gpc(&$value)
{
$value = stripslashes($value);
}
array_walk_recursive($_GET, 'stripslashes_gpc');
array_walk_recursive($_POST, 'stripslashes_gpc');
array_walk_recursive($_COOKIE, 'stripslashes_gpc');
array_walk_recursive($_REQUEST, 'stripslashes_gpc');
}

//extract data from the post
extract($_POST);

//get parameters values
$institution = $_GET['institution'];
$url = 'https://'.$institution.'sparql.service.url;
$view_value='user';http://eagle-i.net/repository/sparql
$format_value='text/html';
$query_value=$_GET['query_value'];
$user=$_GET['user'];
$password=$_GET['password'];
$auth = $user.':'.$password;

$fields = array(
'view'=>urlencode($view_value),
'query'=>urlencode($query_value),
'format'=>urlencode($format_value)
);

//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string,'&');

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $auth);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);
?>

A side note: I went trough this awesome tutorial for enabling SAPRQL queries from Drupal using ARC2 and a bunch of Drupal modules. I made it work but that was way harder then the php scripting ;-) Few more notes about this sometimes soon.

Posted in Semantic Web, Technology, Web dev | Tagged ARC2, cURL, Drupal, OWL, php, RDF, SPARQL | 1 Response

Kindle and the hope for a NoteSlate device

By carlotorniai on May 18, 2011

I've got a Kindle (it was actually intended for my mom but I'm going to use it). I think I like it. Providing that I have to carry with me my iphone and MacbookPro at all times and not needing a tablet like iPad the Kindle is a neat tool for e-reading Still I would like to add some more clever annotation mechanism. In particular I really would love to take notes with a pencil-like tool on my pdfs/books/notes displayed on the beautiful e-ink screen Unfortunately NoteSlate turned out to be just vaporware. I hope somebody will turn the (brilliant) idea in to a product soon.

Posted in Personal | Tagged iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Note Salte, Tablet | 3 Responses

Best Albums of 2010

By carlotorniai on January 10, 2011

Here we go again. I know my last post was last year.... Anyway I couldn't miss to write down my list :-)

Best Album of 2010

1) The age of ADZ + All delighted People EP - Sufjan Stevens [X]

2) Sigh no more - Mumford & Sons

3) Together - New Pornographers [X]

4) Joanna Newsom - Have one on me [X]

5) Write about love - Belle and Sebastian

[X] Artist I've seen live in 2010

Honorable mention

1) The National - High Violet

2) Girl Talk - All day

3) Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

4) expo 86 - Wolf Parade

Best Albums from the past

1) Darkness on the edge of Town - The promise edition.

2) So Red the Rose - Arcadia

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By carlotorniai on December 30, 2009

Ok this year is moist diffiult than ever...as one of my latest status updates made it clear few days ago:

"You realize you're getting old when you discover that you've listen just 1/5 of the top 50 album of the year published by pitchfork.com" Buy imitrex from trusted pharmacy, .

So this year is the worst ever: I haven listen to very few records this year (for my standards at least)

Anyway things are how they are so ., buy imitrex no prescription. Cod online imitrex, no worries..

So I've tried to spend 1o minutes thinking about without looking at my iTunes or iPhone.., fast shipping imitrex. Delivered overnight imitrex, and that's my pick:

Best Album of 2009

1) Decemberists: Hazards of Love [X]

2) Andrew Bird: Noble Beasts [X]

3) Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer

4) Handsome Furs: Face control

5) Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Lime [X]

[X] Artist I've seen live in 2009

But I think that in the end the best albums are the one you've listen the most .. and here's the iTunes on the rescue:

Most Played Albums of 2009:

1) All New Adventures of Us: Best Loved Goodnight Tales (album technically of 2008 so if it was 2009 it would have been my number 1)

2) Andrew Bird: Noble Beasts (2009)

3) The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love (2009)

4) Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Lime [X] (2009)

5) Shout out Louds: OUr ill Wills (2007)

Best Compilation of the Year:

- Dark was the Night

Honorable mention for:

- Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor

- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (this album contains few masterpieces one above all: "While you wait for the others.)

- Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Pains of Being Pure at Heart

- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Best Albums from the past (I actually bought them again from iTunes)

1) Black Crows : Greatest hits 1990-1999

2) Church: Starfish

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