Lustre

Lustre is the premier HPC parallel file system. It was originally an open source project which Sun Microsystems bought and when the Oracle aquisition occurred it seems that Oracle failed to run with it. This was written in 2011; I looked it in 2018 when one of the links failed. Frankly I wondered if it was…

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My 1st Apple Mac

I bought a Mac Book Pro last week. 10th August 2009. I wrote up some notes about how to get it to do a job of work. This page is deprecated. The first set of notes were about an HTML editor. …

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Municipal WiFi

In Jan 2012, the Telegraph ran a story on how Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea boroughs have agreed with O2 to build the world’s biggest free wifi network, this is mirrored at this thread at South East Central. Municipal Urban WiFi at Wikipedia, includes a list of Cities with fee Citywide WiFi, in the UK,…

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Python

I returned to Python in Oct 2010. I have two problems to solve, converting my bliki to wordpress, (I never used Python for this) scripting for KDB & Hadoop This article contains notes started in 2011, I did not make this an omnibus entry and it is very sketchy, covering file I/O, date & time,…

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Socket Programming

It has to be Python Don’t ask. http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html, the official python documentation site http://www.kellbot.com/2010/02/tutorial-writing-a-tcp-server-in-python/, a rather wonderful tutorial http://doc.astro-wise.org/socket.html, more but harder to understand, for me at least and http://www.evolt.org/node/60276 which has slightly different flow control,

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controlshift.org

Introduction This was the web platform for Vanessa Garlick and Liz Gorman’s final year undergraduate project. WordPress WordPress gives us most of what we need, most importantly identity and authentication functionality. The one thing we are obviously missing is a voting solution. I have found two, Post Voting, this is their web site, it is…

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