Monthly Archives: April 2006
SWIG and C++ on Solaris
Here at WeSC we have a potentially very useful piece of kit from Cybula which is essentially a set of neural-net based pattern matching algorithms blown into some FPGAs. Now I have to advise some researchers about how easy it … Continue reading
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Everyone Loves Zombies
Any song containing the lyric ‘We’re not unreasonable, I mean no-one’s gonna eat your eyes’ is a winner in my book. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/03/24/thing-a-week-26-re-your-brains/ Also this following link has been around for a while but it’s suitably amusing to post here. How … Continue reading
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Aftermath
Happily I can report that my two Sun V880 servers are now running again. I discovered early this morning that the reason I couldn’t boot from DVD is that the Toshiba DVD drives on these servers have a firmware bug … Continue reading
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Mr Murphy, I see you’ve brought your SledgeHammer
Came into work to find that about half my machine were down. Mostly just switched off, but some in indeterminate stages of “not working right”. Powered-on all the machines that were obviously down and re-booted the others (I wouldn’t normally … Continue reading
Random Updates
After some gentle ribbing from friends about the lack of updates to this blog I’ve realised that it is indeed time to get back in the saddle. I apologise in advance for the disconnected nature of this post. So work … Continue reading