rsync: failed to connect to myserver.psych.northwestern.edu: Connection refused rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)
I was getting a lot of errors like these from my workstations when they ran their nightly cron jobs to rsync changes to software from the server. Seems like 8 x 6 rsync calls in short succession was […]
Ian Bicking, one of those bearded programmer types (never trust a programmer without a beard) has a great blog entry yesterday about optimization in Python. I have to admit that my skills in this area are lacking. I’ve futzed around with C Extensions to Python, and I’ve used the profile module more than […]
Here’s something nice you can do for other people, if you have Mac OSX.
Download the HTML Python documentation from Python.org. Unpack it in /Library/Webserver/PythonDocs. Edit your /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and insert the following, just after the bit about the online manual.
Alias /python/ "/Library/WebServer/PythonDocs/"
<Directory “/Library/WebServer/PythonDocs”> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews […]
The Register has an article on neuroscience today. I can’t say it’s particularly relevant to the work I see on a day to day basis, but I guess it’s worth pointing out. The author, Bill Sofky, works at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, which was founded by one of the co-founders of Palm, the […]
We’re getting ready to replace our server. I’m going to start calling it the “master node” because it sounds cooler. Anyway, it’s three years old and the warranty is up, and it’s a 730 MHz Pentium III, so it needs to be replaced. When the cluster is fully active, we see load […]