About Lev Lafayette
Lev Lafayette is a doctoral candidate at the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory and a seminary student at the New York New Seminary for Interfaith Studies. He has an MBA (Technology Management) from the Chifley Business School and an honours degree from Murdoch University in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology which is commented upon by the Vice-Chancellor of the time. With a interdisciplinary approach, Lev's interests include the political implementation of universal pragmatics, the relationship between communications technology and society and comparative economic systems.
Professionally however, Lev is an experienced ICT generalist, specialising in the Linux operating system and networking technologies. Previous employment and clients include several years working as a computer systems trainer and database management for the Parliamentary Labor Party in Victoria. Following this he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Timor Leste (East Timor) managing their computer network and providing training and technical expertise to that Ministry in their first year of self-governance. Dr. Ramos-Horta provided the following comments on his work.
Lev works for the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing as a systems administrator for Linux clusters. As per that organisation, this site is mostly dedicated to issues concerning High Performance Computing, Scientific Computing and Supercomputing. Lev is involved in Linux Users of Victoria, currently as President, but previously as Public Officer, Vice-President, Treasurer and Committee Member.

The crocodile logo was designed by Victoria Jankowski. It was first used on the cover of Neon-komputadór, the first IT training manual for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in East Timor which was printed and translated by the United Nations Development Programme. The crocodile represents the Timorese people and is the emblem of their land. The integrated circuit represents their independent connectivity to the wider world.
That's enough of me talking about myself in the third person like Cerebus The Aardvark. For the rest of this site it will be in first person. After all, I wrote this content.
Search box (etc) Positioning in Drupal7
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 04:21It is not uncommon for front-end designers (the polite phrase to use when people say what a website should look like and don't doing any coding themselves) ask for a search box or similar elements to be located outside the standard blocks in Drupal. Without some background knowledge, this can be somewhat frustrating.
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Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra (ATLAS) Installation
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 00:23Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.
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VASP 5.2 With Intel Compilers on 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster CentOS Linux
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 00:24VASP With Intel Compilers on 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster CentOS Linux
Whilst the Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package is a popular scientific application among those who like to engage in such things previous comments relating to licensing and installation still largely apply. A new version of VASP has been released resulting in great rejoicing.
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Append to Drupal Node Body From Specific Content Types
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 05:12Imagine you have a situation where you want to append Body content to a number of Drupal pages, according to content type.
e.g., to all "Stories" content add "Please contact Mr. Blah on 0400 123 123" at the end of the Body.
You don't want this as block either - it's the sort of thing that (for example) must be printed. It has to be appended in the 'Body' section of the node.
If this is a couple of pages perhaps you could just copy and paste. But for larger numbers this is not recommended. Imagine if you had to modify twenty nodes, or two thousand.
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En Masse Conversion of Documents to PDF
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 01:58Clients from Hell is a favourite place for web designers and developers to visit for laughter, or a relief from blood-curdling rage through affirmation. But every so often there is a comment from a supposedly frustrated designer or developer that makes one think that the comment is not so stupid.
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LUV President's Report to the Annual General Meeting, September 2011
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 00:53The role of President from September 2010 to September 2011 period was initially one of accident; in my role as Public Officer I attended the Annual General Meeting and left the evening as President of the association. Thrown into this somewhat unexpected role I set as a priority ensuring that we had speakers for our LUV-main and LUV-beginners events, which was achieved quite quickly. Previous experience on the committee indicated that there is nothing worse than a last-minute panic to find speaker.
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Installing the GNU Debugger
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 22:48The GNU Debugger (GDB) is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, FreeBASIC, FreePascal and Fortran.
Installation is trivial, but slightly interesting for illustrative purposes. First download and unpack:
cd /usr/local/src/GDB
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.3.tar.gz
tar xvf gdb-7.3.tar.gz
cd gdb-7.3
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Installing the R Project for Statistical Computing
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 02:12The R Project is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
To install R download the tarball to an appropriate place and extract e.g.,
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MFIX (Multiphase Flow With Interphase Exchanges) with Intel compilers on a 64-bit Opteron Linux System
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 01:56MFIX (Multiphase Flow With Interphase Exchanges) has been developed by the U.S. National Energy Technology Laborartory, providing transient data on the three-dimensional distribution of pressure, velocity, temperature, and species mass fractions.
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