2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 250,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see … Continue reading 2015 in review

Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Scenario: When using Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.3LTS) Gephi 0.82 initializes but gets stuck on "Loading Cached Objects" Solution: The default Gephi startup bash script does not correctly initialize the JAVA path (it uses $jdkhome) The solution is simply to add the following to the beginning of the startup script (~/gephi/bin/gephi) export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java jdkhome=$JAVA_HOME The full script is … Continue reading Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up