Breaking news Today, Swiss undercover journalist T. Sonny disclosed top secret FBI files regarding various illegal activity at the beforementioned Openair Festival in Hohen Rätien. The highly explosive content is now made public on this blog exclusively. Read at your own risk. You have been warned.

For the full report, click here (make sure you are over 18)

Some samples are shown below

This seems to be my hiking year... Another beautiful tour, this time in the Swiss Alps, in the Wallis county. Many thanks to Thomas for the great organization and to his parents for the superb breakfast! A gallery of images is ready here and on Flickr (soon).

Enjoy!

The Openair Hohen Rätien festival is a class of its own - and is still getting better every year! Big kudos to the organizers for making this event possible!

The pictures can be found here and in the usual place (flickr).

I was given the great chance to take part of one of the famous Les Houches (France) summer schools. Fantastic atmosphere, top lectures and lecturers, and great people! Let me focus here on the leisure time we had. Check out some pics below and some more on flickr and on my personal gallery (coming soon).

Apple's Xcode is a very nice source code editor, in fact, I think it's editing and navigation capabilities are better than all other tools I've seen so far.

Unfortunately, the SVN support is not so terribly good. There are some small catches you should consider. It took me days to figure them all out and you should save your time to reinvent the wheel. So there we go:

Make sure you use the latest XCode

You should at least have version 3.1.x where SVN support was improved considerably. Also notice that Apple's public XCode/SVN documentation is for an older version, but apart from the screenshots should be correct.

Move or ignore the build ...

Just returned from a great but short trip to Sweden and don't want to withhold the pictures, as usual on my flickr page. And some previews for the impatient:

This is a short post describing how to install libmesh and the whole dependencies behind it from scratch on Mac OSX (Intel). With Libmesh we will install the following packages: OpenMPI (needed since the OSX built-in MPI does not have Fortran support), PETSc and Trilinos.

Install g77

OS X does not natively come with a Fortran compiler. I would just install the one provided on http://hpc.sourceforge.net/, which is a binary that can be extracted right into /usr/.

UPDATE: For Snow Leopard, the provided g77 does not work (it is only compiled for Leopard at the time of this writing). I had success, however, by simply using the provided gfortran Snow Leopard binary on the same website. gfortran ...