Where in space-time may you be? Is this a singularity, for which the laws are unknown yet? More importantly, is there an amplitude for you to return home? Were you dragged to the adventure of your life? Sorry, not today —it's just my wacky® home on WWW, where i call eigenhome. It's just a single html page today, we'll see what time will bring (or take away).

The Road Map

• My Stuff
  • Computer related stuff
    • Chibi GMPed Linear Algebra Library
    • Wacky PSIV Save-State Hacking Tool
    • XFS File Rescue Tool
    • CGView
    • AGTH Companion
    • Console development related stuff?
  • Physics related stuff
    • Lagrange Mekaniğine Temel Bir Giriş (A Basic Introduction to Lagrangian Mechanics)
    • Eşsüreli (The Tautochrone)
    • Görelilik İlkesi (The Principle of Relativity)
  • Other stuff
• Never Asked Questions
• Random Notes

My stuff

Computer related stuff

Chibi GMPed Linear Algebra Library

Okay, there exists comprehensive libraries such as LAPACK, BLAS (public-domain sources). So why did i bother? The story is, i once needed astronomical precision for matrix operations -majorly multiplication and finding eigenvalues-. My requirement was much beyond native FPU types, so i reluctantly switched to GMP, which decreased the computation speed drastically, but well, it's much better than nothing! So i fixed the problem about arithmetics operations, but the problem persisted, becauase i was still using some external libraries (BLAS and GSL) and none of them was using GMP. So i gathered a small library which uses GMP float type, unfortunately in C++, i fell for the damned siren —hey, don't blame me, GMP data class operators were so tempting! Besides, the code is very C (c99), if you don't worry about what actually happens when you write a '+' between two numbers, however (and of course, new-delete couple). In fact, it was converted from c99 code with minimal modification. You need to link it with libgmp and libgmp++, and other standard stuff libc, libm and libstdc++ (only for new and delete). It's released under GPL and not LGPL. The name is chibi, because she gets on ねえーちゃん BLAS's nerves (like Chibi-Usa), by doing something ねえーちゃん can't do despite her tiny dimensions, for it's beyond the limits.

So, what can it do? Matrix operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose, computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric matrices (which uses von Neumann's algorithm). It can also convert lower triangle format (which i hear to be popular at CERN) matrices to raw matrices, vice and versa. What are you looking at? That's it guys, for now. I may add determinants, matrix inversion, and some combo functions such as "multiply the first matrix by a constant, add it to second, and store the result in third", etc. in the future. Expect soon. RSN :)

You can grab the latest sources here:

libchibi-0.0.1-r1.tar.gz

Wacky PSIV Save-State Hacking Tool

psiv-hack-0.2.0.tgz

XFS File Rescue Tool

  XFS Filesystem Structure

xfsr-20091207.tgz

 http://jengelh.medozas.de/projects/hxtools/

CGView

http://freeconsole.org/anime/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:cgview

There're other projects hosted under GNU/Anime as well, see the full list here.

AGTH Companion

AGTHC is a unified frontend for various Japanese translators, transliterators, dictionaries and part-of-speech taggers. Since AGTH has no problems running under GNU/Linux with Wine, this script is a free alternative to ATLAS. You don't really need AGTH to use this program, though. See the project page for details:

http://freeconsole.org/anime/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:agthc

Console development related stuff?

Physics related stuff

Too sad, there's not much content in this department for now. I've decided to put some of my homework-presentation stuff i wrote for school, that may be use of someone (beware, they're in Turkish. Albeit they're not worth to it, i might translate some them into English someday, who knows.).

Lagrange Mekaniğine Temel Bir Giriş (A Basic Introduction to Lagrangian Mechanics)

Just as the title says. If you want a real treatment however, go read Edwin Taylor's introduction, or better yet, chapter 19 from Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II and Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals of Feynman and Hibbs instead.

lagrangian-tr.pdf
  (latex sources)

Eşsüreli (The Tautochrone)

This was for a introductory course on integral equations. It outlines the Laplace convolution theorem, followed by a brief discussion on it's applications to Volterra integral equations with kernels obeying the relation K(x,t) = K(x-t), and finally gets down to the subject: tautochrone.

tautochrone-tr.pdf
  (latex sources)

Görelilik İlkesi (The Principle of Relativity)

This was actually homework of the Turkish course; teacher wanted students to read a book and write a summary —but i didn't want to read "story book", so I decided to summarize Einstein's Relativity: The Special and General Theory (which i had already read when i was at high school). I suppose the genre teacher imagined was slightly different, nevertheless, it all went smoothly. But then, it's a popular science book, and i had this idea: summarizing a physical book is equivalent to summarize the physical ideas presented in the book, so why don't i forget about the book and write what i like about relativity? Keeping in mind that this ought to be a literature-genre material, i tried to avoid maths, and here's the result:

srel-tr.pdf (texinfo sources)

Other stuff

Aside from these, i have a blog —however, the update frequency can be compared to the average line-up frequency of nine planets :P

Aaaand, keeping up with the latest fashion, here's a screenshot of my desktop. Yup, unfortunately it's intel :/

Never Asked Questions

• Q: How often is the page updated?
  A: Totally random. You can, of course, work out statistics and try to predict the probability of an update for next month, if you have nothing else to do :)
  
  
• Q: Does the background image have a meaning?
  A: If you don't know already, then you don't need to know either. Whatever it means, some part of it used to be my GRUB splash image (a grayscale, 14-color version, of course). You can get it here. (and others)
  
  
• Q: Is there a license to contents of your wacky home?
  A: Hmm... Yes, unless otherwise stated, it's GFDL. (I have no idea about copyrights of images around, so this excludes them.)
  
  
• Q: Is there a particular reason for choosing that icon, Kakashi reading a book?
  A: I just love reading ;P
  
  
• Q: Did you know the difference between vim and vi is only second order?
  A: That's probaby because vi itself is a first order quantity. Once you let it go, it approaches to zero, mwahaha!

Random Notes

• Due to the (now historical) patent problems involved with LZW algorithm, plus the fact gif sucks compared to png, i don't use gifs. If you're having problems with png transparency, i have bad news for you: time to get a real OS. Until then, you can give Mozilla Firefox or Chromium a try.
  
  
• In case you're seeing weird characters, page encoding is utf-8.
  
  
• Only free software has been used in creation of this singularity.
  
  
• Vi sucks. What? Vi sucks. Before getting trampled by a thousand gnus, go away. It's okay, go now buddy, go, shoo. Drop it! Well... Emacs の術!

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E-mail: Send your comments, suggestions, questions, love letters to salviati@freeconsole.org (salviati@users.sf.net and fdarkangel@freeconsole.org are just forwards to it) By the way, if you don't like peepers reading your mails, here's my public key.