FrankBaris.com

I know I promised to update this blog more often… instead I created another site to ignore…j/k

The new site is all about my poker life. If I’m truly going to take a real shot at this, I need to have a website. Plus, most players who make it big usually get known for their online poker screen names, so I figured I better snatch up my domain before someone else does when I hit it big. haha

So, stop by, have a read, and bookmark it.
http://www.phrankerCO.com

I went to the Commerce Casino in Las Angeles last weekend. It was amazing! Biggest poker rooms ever!!
I saw James Woods & KG from Tenacious D and also went out to eat in Beverly Hills, 9021…1. Close enough?!?!

Here’s just one of the rooms.

Well… I’m going to start using this blog again. I’ll talk about my poker life and anything else I see fit.
Come back often – I promise I won’t neglect this site anymore.

Ok… this is the second time this issue has come up in the last 3 months. The new Dell E520 come with SATA2 drives. In the BIOS config, they have RAID turned on by default. There is an option in the BIOS under ‘Drives > SATA Operation’ for ‘RAID/ATA’ or ‘RAID On’. You need to change the setting to ‘RAID/ATA’ as to remove the BSOD from the install procedure.
Nowhere on the internet is this to be found. I searched for hours the first time this came up. The BSOD error is ” STOP: 0×0000007B “.
Sometimes I wonder who makes the decisions for what defaults are on or off???

Well… I guess I can now say I’m just as cool as everyone else. I got a MySpace page!!
http://www.myspace.com/phranker
I mean… ya gotta have a Myspace page!!!??

My friends Jeff & Marcus opened a retail store in Fort Collins called The Mineral Cache. I created the company website, MineralCache.com, and installed a digital security system that I built. I hope to have a marketable system after this project. Same thing happened with my Phone Log/SMDR system.

Well… I’m registered and working on the Netflix Prize. If you haven’t heard, Netflix is running a contest for all us geeks in the amount of $1MIL!! Yeah, a million. All you have to do is beat their recommendation system ‘CineMatch’ by 10%… sounds easy, right?? Well, all you get is 200 million old ratings(1-5), given to a set of movies, from a set of customers. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to “predict” what a customer will rate a movie in the future, based on the given data. Sounds easy enough. :-p
All I know is… if I win this contest… no more Quantum.

I thought this might come in handy while working with large sets of data as I do. It’s a simple shell script that takes a text file as an argument and returns each unique ‘word’ and the total occurences of that word(‘frequency’) on individual lines.
Remember to chmod +x or it won’t run.


[pound][bang][slash]bin[slash]bash
# wf: Crude word frequency analysis on a text file.
# Check for input file on command line.
ARGS=1
E_BADARGS=65
E_NOFILE=66
if [ $# -ne "$ARGS" ]
# Correct number of arguments passed to script?
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` filename"
exit $E_BADARGS
fi
if [ ! -f "$1" ] # Check if file exists.
then
echo "File \"$1\" does not exist."
exit $E_NOFILE
fi
cat "$1" | xargs -n1 | \
# List the file, one word per line.
tr A-Z a-z | \
# Shift characters to lowercase.
sed -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/\,//g' -e 's/ /\
/g' | \
# Filter out periods and commas, and
#+ change space between words to linefeed,
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
# Finally prefix occurrence count and sort numerically.
exit 0


Watch this clip and decide if the runner(me) is out or safe. I was called out, but I’m positive I was safe. Just thought I’d get some outside feedback, so tell me what you think.
Thanks.

Here is a VBA macro that will remove all the newline characters from an Excel file. They look like little squares [] or they add an Enter to a cell. I suggest saving this macro in your PERSONAL.xls file so it is available in all your Excel files. Then just run the macro and it will fix your file. This often happens when transfering data from Unix based systems to Windows based systems. The newline character is sometimes refered by ‘\n‘ or ‘\r‘ or even ‘\n\r‘. The trick is Excel refers to it by ‘vbNewLine‘, thats why your Find & Replace doesn’t work.

Sub RemoveNL()
'
' RemoveNL Macro shared by FrankBaris.com
'
s = vbNewLine
r = " "
Cells.Replace What:=s, Replacement:=r
'
End Sub

Hope this comes in handy!