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Well, the lab computer has placated me. . . for now.
Actually, the lab computer hasn't placated me. I did an end-run around the problem.
Then I ran into ANOTHER problem. This time it was a problem with the data analysis software, which could open my images, but was displaying them as monotonal (all-grey - very bad). I spent about 3 hours trying all sorts of different things, trying to figure out what the problem might be. Dave the computing guy had to go to a seminar and he was also mulling the problem over.
About 5:45 rolls around, he comes back, I'm fed up, exhausted. I'm writing an e-mail to Denmark to the author describing the problem, hoping for a suggestion. Dave has an idea. He goes into the code and inactivates a line. . . Bingo! There's my picture!
We run the script. . . Bingo! There are my max value, my min values, I enter a threshold. . . and it works. I enter a different threshold, it works again.
We don't know why it's working, we don't know if altering the code is going to fark up my results, but it seems to be working.
I wrote to Denmark anyway, told the author what I did. I hope he's still at work and I hope he writes back before going home for his herring :-)
Another day lost.
Anyway, I'm about to leave my lovely little laptop with the beautiful monitor to go stare at the horrible monitor with the pain-inducing refresh rate.
Wish me luck?
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And btw. . . if you're going to say something with venom and verve and someone calls you to the carpet for it, either stand up for yourself and defend what you've said or apologise and admit you were wrong. Don't censor people and hide.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Don't worry about it.
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Climb a wall . . . there's another wall. So I ran the scripts and set my thresholds. Then I started the COMSTAT program, set the parameters, chose the settings. . . and the thing went BOINK!
crap.
So the little moody penguin there at the bottom of the post? He's gonna stay aggravated for a while longer.
Actually, the lab computer hasn't placated me. I did an end-run around the problem.
Then I ran into ANOTHER problem. This time it was a problem with the data analysis software, which could open my images, but was displaying them as monotonal (all-grey - very bad). I spent about 3 hours trying all sorts of different things, trying to figure out what the problem might be. Dave the computing guy had to go to a seminar and he was also mulling the problem over.
About 5:45 rolls around, he comes back, I'm fed up, exhausted. I'm writing an e-mail to Denmark to the author describing the problem, hoping for a suggestion. Dave has an idea. He goes into the code and inactivates a line. . . Bingo! There's my picture!
We run the script. . . Bingo! There are my max value, my min values, I enter a threshold. . . and it works. I enter a different threshold, it works again.
We don't know why it's working, we don't know if altering the code is going to fark up my results, but it seems to be working.
I wrote to Denmark anyway, told the author what I did. I hope he's still at work and I hope he writes back before going home for his herring :-)
Another day lost.
Anyway, I'm about to leave my lovely little laptop with the beautiful monitor to go stare at the horrible monitor with the pain-inducing refresh rate.
Wish me luck?
------------
And btw. . . if you're going to say something with venom and verve and someone calls you to the carpet for it, either stand up for yourself and defend what you've said or apologise and admit you were wrong. Don't censor people and hide.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Don't worry about it.
----------
Climb a wall . . . there's another wall. So I ran the scripts and set my thresholds. Then I started the COMSTAT program, set the parameters, chose the settings. . . and the thing went BOINK!
crap.
So the little moody penguin there at the bottom of the post? He's gonna stay aggravated for a while longer.
