I have been a Palm OS user since the original Palm Pilot (1000), having also owned/used a Palm Professional, Palm V, Palm Vx, Treo 600, and Treo 650. I’ve also used a couple of Windows CE/Mobile devices, and hated them.
Palm OS has always been very usable. The simple interface combined with a touch screen was [...]

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Today has been a good day for my connectivity in various ways:

I upgraded to the Total Internet package from T-mobile. For an additional $16/month, I get T-Mobile HotSpot access on WiFi and unrestricted access on (and through) my phone. I also hacked on my modem script for my phone a bit. It turns out my [...]

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I’ve been totally absent from most of my life the last week as a result of some problems we had with our code on the cluster. My jobs kept dying, taking down compute nodes in the process, for no apparent reason. After a while I narrowed it down to the time when restart files (from [...]

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I just (inadvertently) discovered that Mac OS X Leopard has OpenMPI built in! That’ll save a lot of time and effort.

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I am currently the system administrator for our cluster, but we’re looking for someone to tend it and other machines full time.
The job is posted on the JHU jobs site here. Key information is excerpted below:

General Description: Position will provide systems administration to the Institute for Computational Medicine. The Institute’s mission is to understand [...]

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