Some bugs I've run into so far:
mvn install in the svn root directory
should do it.To keep the test suite easy to maintain, I build it on the fly using nose generators, which are awesome :).
More details to come...
]]>$ apt-get install bzr
$ bzr branch http://whatever/remote/repo local_repo
$ cd local_repo
$ be new "The demuxulizer is broken"
Created bug with ID 48f
$ be comment 48f
<Describe bug>
$ bzr send --mail-to "whatever-dev@fancyprojects.com"
mostly just raises eyebrows among non-devs ;). My interface replaces it with
$ cat | mail -s "[be-bug] new" "whatever-dev@fancyprojects.com"
The demuxulizer is broken
<describe bug>
^D
Which will hopefully be more user friendly. Of course, most non-devs I know (and some devs) avoid the command line like the plague, so we will still want a web-frontend. Luckily, web frontends seem popular with other devs, so I don't have to bother with that ;).
Curious parties can branch my public repo:
$ bzr branch http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/bzr/be-email be.email
As a nice side effect of this little project, my
send_pgp_mime is now much more
elegant.
Vancouver was wonderful, as always ;). Flaky wind gave the advantage of maneuverability to the canoe navy, but the sunfish's mass held it in good stead. Despite much sniping and tactical maneuvering, we all ended up in the ocean anyway… several times… that's either a win or a draw, but either way it was a good time :).
Over the weekend I bought a pair of Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks
(046d:08dd) so I could video-skype with my fiancée while we're apart
for a bit. Like a
bunch of
other
people, I
didn't realize that this version of “Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks”
was not particularly well supported on Linux, since the earlier
version of “Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks” is. Since then I've been
running around on my not-to-easy-to-get-source-for
EeePC, wring to compile and install
Michel Xhaard's gspca drivers.
<rant>
Which is not difficult once you've removed the unionfs junk the EeePC comes with, cleared out a bunch of space, installed the necessary build tools, and generally manhandled your EeePC into something resembling a sane distributions basic installation. Oh, and you'll need a nice external drive, since it's hard to compile a 400 MB kernel in the 150 MB of headroom I had left on my 2 GB Surf after I'd installed those, and emacs, and a few other fun toys :p.
And after I had installed the drivers and had xawtv working fine
with the camera, the problems weren't over, since skype pretty much
pegs my CPU, which often causes the video to lock… Sigh…
</rant>
Upon my return to work, Marisa expressed interest in the
GROMACS Molecular Dynamics simulation
software, so we installed in on our cluster and spent Monday learning
the ropes. Things seem to be going smoothly so far, although we're
not sure if our nominally MPI-enabled mdrun is actually using more
than one node, since I haven't found anyone using GROMACS over PBS via
our mpiexec (see (Kristina Wanous'
note on
debianclusters).
We'll run some scaling benchmarks soon to convince ourselves that
GROMACS is indeed using MPI.
We also ran into some difficulty running the default Debian-packaged
RasMol through a SSH tunneled X server. No
problem, says I, we'll use Lionel Cons'
mxconns, which I had run across earlier
while trying to set up a cluster-wide X port for running MPE.
However, rasmol somehow manages to lock up so hard that it freezes
the whole X server, right through mxconns and the SSH tunnel! I
didn't even think that was possible. The current workaround is to run
rasmol on your own machine ;).
While discussing the cluster, Marisa pointed out the usefulness of
iptables or some sort of firewall on the cluster. I had just
assumed it was already behind a conservative router. Stupid
assumption. I spent most of Tuesday jumping between the Rasmol X-lock
and figuring out how iptables works, and locking out my ssh connection
a few times. After an embarassing number of trips down to the cluster
room to clear my bad rules, I believe I have things straightened out
now. Mostly following the Linux Administration
Handbook.
Today I finally got back to work on testing my simulation, and broke down and installed org-mode for emacs. I think I'm in love ;). See, for example, John Wiegley's 's blog on using org-mode as a day planner.
]]>The cinematic highlight was a 2-day 1-night hike in Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park. I stayed in Hayden Gorge, and this was my first explicit-bushwhacking trip. It's maybe 8 miles in from Bear Lake, which took me around 11 hours, and 3 miles out to Trail Ridge Road which took about 10 hours :p. Take a look at this deceptivly non-topographic map. The hike up to Trail Ridge from the bottom of Forest Canyon is up a mile in a mile, and it's about a third each of pushing through dense forest, bouldering, and open hiking. Took me about 7 hours, and I ripped the sleeve off my shirt :p. Had a good time though :). I've zipped up the other pictures if you're interested.
Besides hiking, I cooked with Mom, talked about people's views on homosexuality with my sister, defended my stuff from my niece, hung out with my Aunt and the dogs, and learned a lot of family history :). Good times.
]]>I turned it up while searching PubMed for the bibtex citation for Szabo's 1980 mean first passage time article, since I don't really understand what the MFPT fuss is all about. No luck with the citation though, so I'll just have to use J. Chem. Phys.'s website directly :p.
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