Archive for the ‘GNU/Linux’ Category
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
I believe I found the quote of the day.
You can't do control-alt-delete on a pacemaker.
The quote is from Ken Klein, CEO of Wind River Systems, and he is talking about the opportunity for Microsoft to enter the "device software" market. I had not heard of Wind River Systems before, but ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
Now that the file server for our lab's cluster has been repaired and is running smoothly again, I have undertaken the task of building two new file servers for our lab's use. The file servers should be designed to be identical (or nearly so), mirror each other (as far as ...
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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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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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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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Saturday, March 12th, 2005
What a coincidence. I was over in the server room today messing both with the (currently down) file server and the head node for another, older cluster. While I was waiting for the file system check to complete on the older cluster, I logged onto the head node of the ...
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