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Entry 1. Trials of Dell BIOS & Firmware upgrades Entry 2. One failed Rocks install https://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/?p=44 Entry 3. Rocks install failed again.

Now I’ll try the Rocks 5.2 install. I decided to go outside the defaults by re-designing the disk partitions. I know what I want, I really do. But after about 1 hour of installation, it failed because something was out … Continue reading →

Mike C posted this in fedora list 2008-05-13 There is a good way to do it without burning any disks at all… Download the DVD iso to your machine and place it somewhere NOT in the partition that you want … Continue reading →

1960s style definitions. Difference between “concept” and “measurement” Validity (meaning), Reliability (stability), Precision (fineness) Level of measurement question. Are the numbers meaningful? How compare across time/countries? First Generation measures: Sample survey tools Focus on Transparency International’s CPI What is the … Continue reading →

/var/lib/dpkg/info # ls -rt shows list of packages in order of update/installation

October 5, 2007 Science. Researchers have demonstrated chimpanzees are more nakedly self interested than humans. I’d say “chimps are more like the textbook selfish rational actors than human players.” UPI report says “Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary … Continue reading →

In fedora-list, Ashley M Kirchner wrote Oct 6 2007 You can use rsync with any of the mirrors to keep a local copy. I have a shell script that I run every so often: ~:> cat rsync.sh echo “Getting Fedora … Continue reading →

Wondered how WordPy cauld do

Looking for clients

WordPress administration. What a pain in the ass!  It is really hard to remember all of the user names, passwords, MySQL settings, and the address of the php files.  The clients for remote editing are awful too. Don’t worry. Its … Continue reading →