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 […]
So I just got Wi-Fi working on CyanogenMod 9 on Huawei U8185: I’m using the Atheros AR6kSDK kernel driver and wpa_supplicant 0_6_X, so it’s kinda ghetto… 😉 Right now Wi-Fi scanning, WPA2, and DHCP work, but for some reason DNS isn’t working so, while you can reach hosts outside your network, you can’t actually browse […]
We’ve been using DSpace as an outputs repository at ILRI since 2009, and since then we’ve gone through six major versions of DSpace. Starting with version 1.7 we switched our repository to the newer XML-based user interface (XMLUI), which was much easier to customize than the previous JSPUI and allowed us to have different themes […]