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Hey Steve,

Sorry for being a bit clueless, but how do I download those? I'm just
getting htm files??

Thanks, Clare

On 4/13/07, Clare Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> That's great, thanks a million Steve,
> Will let you know how I get on,
>
> Cheers, Clare
>
> On 4/13/07, Steve Smith < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Aha - the current MacosX-Intel FSL download is only 32-bit, it's
> > about time we released a 64-bit one too - we'll try to sort that next
> > week. That will almost certainly solve your problem.
> >
> > In the meantime, you could try placing the following in $FSLDIR/bin
> > (and make sure its executable):
> > http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve/ftp/film_gls<http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/%7Esteve/ftp/film_gls>
> > http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve/ftp/contrast_mgr
> > <http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/%7Esteve/ftp/contrast_mgr>
> >
> > Cheers, Steve.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12 Apr 2007, at 19:23, Clare Kelly wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to run analyse a fairly large (816 timepoints) dataset.
> > > I have 20 EVS, plus temporal derivatives, corresponding to several
> > > classes of event regressors, two error regressors and three block
> > > regressors (no temp. derivative included). I'm using 3 column
> > > format EVs with the double-gamma HRF convolution. I'm also
> > > orthogonalizing WRT motion.
> > >
> > > The processor is a Mac 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, with 8GB
> > > RAM (and oodles of free space). OS X Server 10.4.9
> > >
> > > It crashes as follows:
> > >
> > > /Users/Shared/fsl/bin/contrast_mgr -f design.fts stats design.con
> > > contrast_mgr(2884) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=2654208000) failed
> > > (error code=3)
> > > contrast_mgr(2884) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> > > contrast_mgr(2884) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to
> > > debug
> > > Uncaught exception!
> > > Rendering using zmin=2.3 zmax=8
> > >
> > > I tried it without the prewhitening step, I've also tried removing
> > > some regressors (errors) but can't really drop any more. Neither of
> > > these options worked. Because of the nature of the experiment, I
> > > can't analyse the data separately for each block then combine in a
> > > fixed effects analysis.
> > >
> > > I do have a large number of contrasts (40) - does this contribute
> > > to the memory problem (i.e. could be solved if I ran half the
> > > contrasts in one feat and the other half in another)? Or is it
> > > purely a result of the large number of timepoints and large number
> > > of EVs? Perhaps I should just drop the temporal derivatives? I come
> > > across this memory problem frequently with FEAT and would really
> > > like to know how other people come to a solution.
> > >
> > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Clare
> >
> >
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