Alex Voznyy

Seeking the purpose of life and its consequences

Alex — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:32:04 +0000

Why? Knowing the purpose of life is the only(?) way to achieve it. Achieving it will require from you to set up the correct priorities, optimize your work toward this achievement, since we know that our lifetime is limited (at least something definite in this quest for unknown). This means that you’ll have to (and [...]

Working in computational physics from under Windows?

Alex — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:14:46 +0000

I do. I still log on to the computational cluster via SSH, but so do people from under Linux. However, most of the programs I use, have more capabilities or are more convenient than their Unix analogues. So the need for Linux on my desktop is eliminated. Here I would discuss some tricks/adjustments/settings that make my [...]

Notepad++ language style for SIESTA FDF files

Alex — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:30:19 +0000

Dell Inspiron Mini 12 netbook review

Alex — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:44:34 +0000

I won’t post technical specifications here - there are tons of reviews about Dell Mini 12 already. I want to share the details that you will not find anywhere else, especially given that you can hardly find it in the shops to try it yourself but can buy it only online. Particularly, the size and [...]

Getting references fast

Alex — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:21:59 +0000

Firefox smart keyword bookmarks with multiple search fields help retrieve the journal references faster Imagine that you could write in your address bar something like prl 52 10356 and get directly to a paper in Phys Rev Lett, Vol.52, page 10356. This doesn’t save too much time when you do it once a week and within one [...]

Bader analysis with SIESTA

Alex — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:39:43 +0000

Update (Dec 19, 2011): The recommended procedure now is: If you do not have hydrogens in your system, use the TOCH file to have the core+valence charges TOCH file appeared to be not suitable for Bader analysis (please, read the rest of this blog post). Then produce the CUBE file using the /Utils/Grid/grid2cube Use the most recent version [...]