Thursday, March 17, 2005

Monday, March 14, 2005

a new high tech cell phone
i guess the plug goes in your ear

Saturday, March 12, 2005

batch processing on Lisa

It uses Torque as the scheduling framework and Maui as the scheduler.
working with sara>_

Grid Information

Rocks Clusters

cfengine - Configuration engine

OpenPBS - The old and "reliable" PBS.

Torque - A newer queueing system

Grid Howto for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN in Switzerland.

Friday, March 11, 2005



What an intriguing concept, dining in the dark.


steven ness in bizzaro world.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?
software organizes email by task. Yes, but is there an emacs mode for it?

lonely voyager
A neat new software oscilloscope
A very nice GIF animation showing the viewing conditions in the US for the upcoming April 8, 2005 eclipse over the Pacific. Nice use of animation to show the concept.

etruscan sunrise
The Unix Philosophy explained. Now, if we could only get more scientist programmers to read this. Simple and powerful techniques, and if you apply them rigorously, you will occasionally save yourself (or some other poor sod who has to read your code) months of work.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Where I will be this afternoon







This is neat, a new card/chip to offload physics computations. Would be neat for games, but might be excellent for molecular dynamics and simulations. I should check it out.

A couple links about it, first:

A short press release from Yahoo. Also, a interview with the developers.


spring is coming!


ned khan is an installation artist who installs like kinda sciency art installations.
hmm

Monday, March 07, 2005

To remove all HTML/XML tags from a document in Xemacs

M-x query-replace-regexp

and replace:

<[a-zA-Z0-9"/= ]*>

with:

[RET]

Saturday, March 05, 2005