Tag: Linux
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Running NX with Ubuntu 12.04+
Newer versions of Ubuntu use the Unity interface – a shell for GNOME. Unity doesn’t play nicely with NX, which is a remote desktop solution for Linux. By default, it doesn’t work at all – and when you do get NX to work with Unity, you get some serious glitches when switching windows. I couldn’t…
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Plexon Matlab API now available for Linux
Regular readers of the blog will remember my previous struggles reading .plx files on platforms other than Windows. I got contacted by none other than Plexon boss Harvey Wiggins about this. I’m happy to report that they’ve posted an updated Matlab offline SDK which compiles on 32- and 64-bit Linux. It may be possible to…
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Reading .plx files in Mac/Linux: a Python script
Update (12/10/2011): Huang Xin has written better Python script based on ctypes, part of RealTimeElectrophy. I posted a few days ago on solutions for reading .plx files on Mac/Linux, and was kind of bummed out that in spite of doing a thorough background search I couldn’t find a really satisfying solution to the problem. So…
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Reading Plexon files in Linux or Mac
Updates (12/10 /2011): Plexon now offers a mex extension for Matlab which compiles on Linux and Mac. I have a Python .plx file reader available, and Huang Xin has a better one based on ctypes, part of RealTimeElectrophy. Plexon hardware is meant to interface with Windows-only tools (including recording software). I think that for such…