Category Archives: Tech
FFMPEG Tips for Screencasting
Having just got a particularly complicated parallel debugger correctly installed yesterday it came time to write the documentation for the tedious point and click setup procedure. Rather than write 10 pages of screenshot-heavy web pages ( a horrifying process in … Continue reading
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Resolutions
Or should that be vague plans? Attend FOSDEM. I’ve been incredibly lazy the last few years and haven’t attended. Try to prevent the PET Centre from eating my life. This is probably more of a vain hope than a resolution. … Continue reading
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My Friends Electric
I saw a slightly unusual delivery vehicle on my way to a meeting today. Yes, that does say “Zero Emission Electric Vehicle” on the back. I’m pleasantly surprised to see things like this out and about.
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Pretty Pictures
Our supercomputer Merlin is in the news again. A couple of weeks ago a gaggle of American journalists turned up, apparently on some sort of tour of South Wales (no really). I got pressed into service to help give the … Continue reading
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A Lack of Organisation on Your Part Does Not Constitute an Emergency on Mine
When we discuss a piece of monitoring software that you would like writing and I tell you that we can collect any data that you want, but you have to tell me what you want reports on up-front so that … Continue reading
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The Wait for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Poster from the WETI institute. Hilarious, yet educational. Musings on the .Astronomy conference will follow later.
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Cal Henderson Keynote: DjangoCon 2008
Hilarious and informative talk about what needs to be done to Django to make it scale. Presented by Cal Henderson of Flickr. Why I Hate Django
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Learning Programming Languages
I’m a sucker for a good meme. So here is a list of programming languages in the order that I learned them. Basic Python Shell Perl C Tcl Java Of those I’ve written production code in all of them apart … Continue reading
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Ranger
http://blogs.sun.com/jonasdias/entry/tacc_ranger_tour A nice video of the new Ranger cluster at Texas ACC. Uses the same APC cooling system as the new Cardiff machine. Hopefully in the not too distant future I’ll be able to post some pretty pics of our … Continue reading
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Peapod 0.7
A long weekend is always a good time for a new release. So without further ado I give you Peapod 0.7 Notable bug-fixes include improved syncing with ipods and some clean-up of the verbose output so that it makes more … Continue reading
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