explanatory gap

Mark exhaustively catalogues what is wrong with Windows XP, purely from an installation standpoint. I fear that he would not last long in my job. Thank goodness he’s much too talented for it.

The sysadmin for the server is a nice guy, and I can’t really blame him for not wanting to make changes to the way the whole system processes mail, as there is bound to be someone in the department who would find a problem with any change. Anyway, it’s not so hard to install spamassassin, if you’ve got a reasonably up-to-date perl installed.

Man, what the heck is going on around here?

1. I’ve been thinking about the code we use to parallelize brute jobs across our cluster of workstations. At root, it’s a select() wrapped around a bunch of popen()s. Sexing it all up with a bunch of classes and objects and whatnot is the […]

Sorry for the couple days of radio slience. The lab was in an uproar, as remodeling came to a head and every computer and printer had to be moved, temporarily or permanently. Things are back to semi-normal now, though.

Today, I’m using proper parts to build a new signal cable for the amps. […]

I want to make a SAMBA box act as a Primary Domain Controller and get all its user info from LDAP. How is this possible? Check the HOWTO: http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/ldap-smb-2_2-howto.html.

Now, can I do it? One of the grad students in Ken’s lab wants a “new” machine to sit on his desk. I’m […]