more stupid matlab tricks

I’ve been setting up long-ish runs on my MATLAB instance lately, which is nice because I can wanter off to do something else. The trouble is that I occasionally forget to come back or refocus on work again.

I’ve come up with two solutions to this:

• The first is to use growlnotify to pop up a persistant growl message. This works well enough as long as I’m at the computer:

system('growlnotify -s -m "somefile is done"')

• For more extended aways or if I’m going to take a nap while it runs, I might do something more like:

system('echo "matlab: uflX_aw_constr_log_5_15 done" | msmtp -a traviscj (mycell)@txt.att.net')

You need some setup before this works: I did a brew install msmtp and set up a .msmtprc file. After that, it should work goldenly, at least for AT&T customers. Others might need to look up their email/sms gateway number.

Edit 2013/06/25: I found a much better way to do the emailing from MATLAB; I detailed it in the post better matlab email notifications