Archive for March, 2005
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Following my personal computer triumph over the weekend, I have now declared victory over the file system troubles I've been having with our lab's cluster. Everyone in our lab (plus a couple of people not in our lab) share a 21-node Linux cluster for running our simulations, and the file ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
It started pouring rain today (yet again), but it makes me happy that Ariele and I were able to drive up to the top of Mount Wilson on Sunday when it was nice and sunny outside. The sky was reasonably clear when we left, but by the time we got ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
The most recent adventure with my personal computer is now complete, and I am reasonably satisfied with the result. About a month ago, I had noticed that the X Window Server (the graphical user interface for my Linux installation) would freeze up after forty-five minutes or so of use. I ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
My only final this term was due on Wednesday afternoon, and after I turned it in, I tried to arrange some plans for the evening (Ariele was grading finals for the chemistry class she is TA'ing). I sent Mike, Greg, and Paul an email to see what they were up ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Sam, one of the guys in my lab and the TA for my CFD class, recently ordered a new monitor for his lab computer. He ordered this sweet 19" LCD from Dell, and it arrived this past Friday. It took a little while to get it set up for Linux, ...
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
I recently found about the allmusic website while reading a review for a Linux audio player, and I must say I'm pleased to have found it. I mostly use Amazon.com for music searches, as I'm generally looking for song titles or release dates. allmusic seems to have what Amazon ...
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