When Brains Fly

Using remote desktop, you can access one computer from another computer through the internet or a local area network. Here, I’ll outline how to remote desktop into Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) from Windows, which is something I had to do today.
On the Mac, go to System Preferences > Sharing and check “Remote Login,” if [...]

Now that I finally have a working, styled blog, I can write about what I’m going to write about!
I’ll be primarily writing about two things here on When Brains Fly:
1) my main interest, which is research and technology at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, in fields such as computational neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence, [...]

I have used 10.73 MB of bandwidth over the last three days based on my web access log. That feels like a lot. I think most of it is due to the large sizes of the WordPress admin php pages. Under NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), I am paying based on how much bandwidth I use, which is [...]

My webhost, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN) made this pretty easy.
First, I made sure that my access log was enabled. Then, I made a cgi script in /home/public called awstats.cgi which had the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
exec nfsn-awstats

(Don’t forget the line break on the second line.)
Next, I set the file’s permissions to 755, opened up a browser to [...]

After using Movable Type for an hour or so and trying to customize it, I found it to be irritatingly slow. I tried installing the Open Source version, but it was not much faster. It would take around 30 seconds to publish and 20 seconds to go to a different admin page, which got really [...]

Installing Movable Type is pretty simple. Unfortunately, I still messed it up, multiple times. So, for my reference and for yours, here are the steps to installing Movable Type on my web server.
This site is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), which is an awesome, pay-for-what-you-use hoster. It already has the right PHP and Perl things installed [...]

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