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Tue Nov 30 11:03:44 2021 |
Yehonathan | Metaphysics | General | Toilet tank broken | a plumber came in yesterday and fixed the
issue.
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91
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Sun Nov 11 21:05:55 2007 |
rana | HowTo | SUS | MC Touching or not | I wrote a script: [I]SUS/freeswing-mc.csh[/I],
which gives the MC mirrors the appropriate
kicks
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92
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Sun Nov 11 21:21:04 2007 |
rana | HowTo | Computers | New DV | To use the new ligoDV (previously GEO DV)
to look at 40m data, open up a matlab, set
up for mDV as usual,
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107
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Thu Nov 15 18:23:55 2007 |
John | HowTo | Computers | Swap CAPS and CTRL on a Windows 2000/XP machine | I've swapped ctrl and caps on the four control
room Windows machines. Right ctrl is unchanged.
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120
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Tue Nov 20 18:35:20 2007 |
John | HowTo | Computers | MatLab in Emacs | If you can't get MatLab to run in emacs try
adding the following to the .emacs file
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142
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Thu Nov 29 18:10:13 2007 |
Alberto | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | GPIB Scripts | I've spent a lot of time trying to configurate
the GPIB-USB interface for the HP4195. After
installing 1) the Agilent libraries, 2) the |
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143
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Thu Nov 29 19:35:14 2007 |
rana | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | GPIB Scripts | [quote]I've spent a lot of time trying to
configurate the GPIB-USB interface for the
HP4195. After installing 1) the Agilent libraries, |
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158
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Mon Dec 3 16:24:47 2007 |
tobin | HowTo | Computers | GNU screen | [url=http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html]GNU
screen[/url] is a utility that can be quite
handy for managing long-running psuedo-interactive |
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159
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Mon Dec 3 17:55:39 2007 |
tobin | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | linemon | Matlab's Signal Processing toolbox has a [url=http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/signal/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/signal/spectrum.html]set
of algorithms for identifying sinusoids in
data[/url]. Some of them (e.g., [url=http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/signal/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/signal/rootmusic.html&http://www.mathworks.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/search/]rootmusic[/url]) |
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164
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Wed Dec 5 10:57:08 2007 |
alberto | HowTo | Computers | Connecting the GPIBto USB interface to the Dell laptop | The interface works only on one of the USB
ports of the laptop (the one on the right,
looking at the computer from the back). |
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166
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Wed Dec 5 16:57:36 2007 |
tobin | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | SR785 data converter on linux | I was pleased to find that the SR785 Data
Viewer (including the command line conversion
utility) installs and works in linux using |
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175
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Thu Dec 6 18:11:15 2007 |
rob | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | Making DMF monitors |
I was able to use the matlab compiler to
compile a version of the [B]linetracker[/B] |
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184
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Mon Dec 10 13:54:26 2007 |
rob | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | Don't blame the Matlab compiler |
For human error. We should be careful to
only run the compiler outside the mDV directory |
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206
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Thu Dec 20 19:05:34 2007 |
waldman | HowTo | OMC | HOWTO build front ends | For instance, to build the TPT front end
code.
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274
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Sat Jan 26 18:12:45 2008 |
rana | HowTo | Computers | extra processes and crashes | There were a load of extra processes on op440m;
they were all related to rogue DV processes
(frameMemRead, framer4, xmgrace, etc.)
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280
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Mon Jan 28 15:11:38 2008 |
rob | HowTo | DMF | running compiled matlab DMF tools |
I compiled Rana's seisBLRMS monitor, and
it's now running on mafalda. To start your |
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349
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Sun Mar 2 23:43:45 2008 |
rana | HowTo | LSC | PD6 response | John's PD plotting script is superior to all
of the ones we had before; lets make him
post the script so we can all use it.
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395
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Sun Mar 23 00:43:08 2008 |
mevans | HowTo | General | Online Adaptive Filtering | I wrote a short document about the OAF running
on the ASS. Since there is no BURT setup,
I put a script in /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts |
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404
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Wed Mar 26 13:41:53 2008 |
Andrey | HowTo | SUS | Modification of ''C1DRIFT_MONITOR'' | I learned how to modify the drift-monitor
in MEDM so that values on it change colors
from green to yellow to red depending how |
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478
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Thu May 15 10:40:21 2008 |
steve | HowTo | General | Lisa Goggin, PhD | Lisa Goggin successfully defended her thesis
on May, 13 2008
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536
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Tue Jun 17 22:00:53 2008 |
John | HowTo | PSL | Problems turning MZ servo on/off | We were unable to toggle the MZ servo on/off
(Blank/Normal) from MEDM. Pushing on the
Xycom board and cables changed the fault |
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551
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Sun Jun 22 21:38:49 2008 |
rob | HowTo | General | IFO CONFIGURE |
Now that we're getting back into locking,
it's nice to have a stable alignment of the |
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615
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Tue Jul 1 14:24:58 2008 |
rob | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | conlog time machine |
I've written a perl script (now in the $SCRIPTS/general
directory) which implements a "conlog restore" |
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617
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Tue Jul 1 21:27:27 2008 |
rob | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | slider twiddling after reboot |
Sometimes after we reboot the front-end machines,
some of the hardware gets stuck in an unknown |
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636
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Sun Jul 6 16:17:40 2008 |
tobin | HowTo | Computers | SVN | I was able to check out the 40m SVN here in
Livingston using this command:
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639
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Mon Jul 7 13:49:27 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | PSL | MZ offset, gain tips | John, Yoichi
This morning John found that MZ servo is |
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654
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Thu Jul 10 13:47:12 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | svn access via https | Now you can access to the svn repository on
nodus by https.
To perform a checkout, you can use the following |
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788
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Mon Aug 4 00:56:07 2008 |
Koji | HowTo | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Auto freq scanner with GPIB | [B]Work log on August 3rd - Part1[/B]
o Yesterday I was too much tired of changing |
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833
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Thu Aug 14 10:26:45 2008 |
steve | HowTo | SUS | sus cable pin cheater for out of vac damping | The 40m D25 vacuum feed troughs give you a
mirror image pin count.
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867
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Thu Aug 21 17:55:14 2008 |
rana | HowTo | IOO | MC WFS DC Offsets | I ran the McWFS_dc_offsets script to trim
out the DC offsets on the MC WFS DC signals.
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875
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Mon Aug 25 10:23:53 2008 |
steve | HowTo | General | cable killer | Rack 1Y7 double violation:
BNC cables left to be jammed by door
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882
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Mon Aug 25 17:45:34 2008 |
rana, josephb, rob | HowTo | PEM | Accelerometer range | Joe shows us by jumping up ~15" in the control
rom that the accelerometers are set with
not enough gain.
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889
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Tue Aug 26 19:07:37 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Reading data from Agilent 4395A analyzer through GPIB from *Linux* machine | I succeeded in reading data from Agilent 4395A
analyzer, who's floppy is crappy, through
GPIB from a Linux machine using
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890
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Wed Aug 27 10:55:35 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Annoying behavior of the touch pads of the lab. laptops is fixed | I was sick of the stupid touch pad behavior
of the lab. laptops, i.e. firefox goes back
and forth in the history when the cursor |
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904
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Fri Aug 29 18:24:48 2008 |
rana | HowTo | PSL | PMC: PZT Calibration | I calibrated the PMC PZT at DC by using 'trianglewave'
to drive the DC offset slider
and reading back PMC_PZT and PMC_TRANSPD_F |
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966
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Thu Sep 18 18:38:14 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | How to compile an SNL code for VxWorks | Dave Barker guided me through how to compile
an SNL code into a Motorola 162 CPU object.
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977
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Mon Sep 22 16:51:27 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Network GPIB | I was able to make the wireless connected
GPIB interface work with SR785.
Now you can download data from SR785 through |
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983
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Tue Sep 23 00:47:24 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Network GPIB | [quote]
I wrote a new script called "netgpibdata.py"
which works similarly as "getgpibdata.py".
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1125
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Mon Nov 10 11:06:09 2008 |
rob | HowTo | IOO | mode cleaner locked |
I found the mode cleaner unlocked, with (at
least) MC1 badly mis-aligned. After checking |
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1132
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Thu Nov 13 11:33:25 2008 |
Alberto | HowTo | Treasure | Making (good) Matlab figures | Just a little summary of some useful ways
to change plot settings in Matlab that I
wanted to share and remember for the future:
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1139
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Mon Nov 17 11:01:15 2008 |
Alberto | HowTo | Electronics | Calibrating the Frequency Standard of the Marconi | I locked the [COLOR=purple][I]SRS Rubidium
Frequency Standard FS275[/I][/COLOR] to the
the 1pps from the GPS. The specs from the |
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1150
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Fri Nov 21 16:03:50 2008 |
rana | HowTo | General | Recharging Batteries | I found some black & red "Ninja" alkaline
AA batteries in the battery charger. [COLOR=red]This
is dangerous.[/COLOR] Please
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1181
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Fri Dec 5 20:40:38 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Elog multi-keyword search | The current Elog search allows you to look
for only one keyword in the text.
You cannot search for two keywords by simply |
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1226
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Wed Jan 14 09:22:43 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | N2 supply pressure lowered for vac valves | [quote]I've been replacing the N2 bottles
recently.
I noticed that the consumption is too high. |
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1238
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Mon Jan 19 15:10:37 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | loadLIGOData a GUI for mDV | I installed loadLIGOData, a product of my
weekend project, in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/loadLIGOData.
This is a Matlab GUI for getting data from |
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1247
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Thu Jan 22 23:36:50 2009 |
pete | HowTo | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | calibrated the y-arm oplevs. the procedure
is contained in a matlab script. the whereabouts
of this script will be revealed in a future |
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1342
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Thu Feb 26 20:09:32 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | SR785 python scripts now produce plots | I updated the python scripts to remotely perform
measurements with an SR785.
Now these scripts can plot the results immediately |
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1464
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Thu Apr 9 20:56:12 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | General | Restore the alignment. Write elog entries. | I often find that the mirrors are left mis-aligned
(like in X-arm mode) when I come in for the
locking, including tonight.
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1496
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Sun Apr 19 11:34:33 2009 |
josephb | HowTo | Cameras | USB Frame Grabber - How to | To use the Sensoray 2250 USB frame grabber:
Ensure you have the following packages
installed: build-essential, libusb-dev |
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Fri Apr 24 16:02:31 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | cryo pump interlock rule | I tested the cryopump interlock today.
It is touchy. I do not have full confidence
in it. |
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