I’ve been using Con Kolivas’ linux-ck patch set for a few years now. If you’ve ever asked yourself “It’s 2013, why does my music playback skip when I do too many things on my computer?!” then you probably need to look if your distro has a ck-patched kernel. A large part of the ck patch […]
I bought an album on Google Play Music today. Upon inspecting the ID3 tags I noticed a few ugly PRIV tags, but I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of them; none of the ID3 tag editors (puddletag, eyeD3, easytag, etc) or MP3 players (Quod Libet, Ex Falso, Rhythmbox, etc) would even display them. […]
I recently re-worked our SLURM configuration to extrapolate the number of logical CPUs based on Sockets, Cores, and Threads. Therefore, a machine with four eight-core Xeons and HyperThreading would have 64 logical CPUs available to SLURM; 4 * 8 * 2 = 64. I thought I was being clever, but it turned out to bite […]
If you’ve got more than two or three CentOS machines on your network, it’s really a waste of time and bandwidth for each machine to download the same updates as the previous/next machine. Or, sometimes you tell your users “I just need 5 minutes to run some updates and reboot” and it ends up being […]