Ed's Big PlansArchive for August, 2009
Going on Honeymoon, back on 29th.
Brief: Cara and I are going on our honeymoon for a week. Thanks for all the warm wishes!
New Diagram for MSc-X3 (math paper)
Brief: I’m particularly happy with this diagram… I had something along these lines in my head for a while, but I never could figure out how to draw it correctly. I never thought that simplifying it to three easy steps was the smarter thing to do.
Conference Paper Accepted!
Brief: The paper I codenamed MSc-X2 / MSc-IEEE was just accepted… Final version due on Sept. 1st? Conference in November? But I’m going on vacation! I’ll patch what I can and figure out what else needs to be done with Stefan!
Sun Virtualbox VM * Ubuntu: Good for us.
Brief: Sun Virtualbox VM with Ubuntu (or really, any agreed-upon free Linux) is an excellent way to create a consistent environment between collaborators. Everyone knows the headaches of transitioning code from Windows and Mac– let’s just transition out of the transitional mindset altogether… Anyway, I mention these two products because it helped Chris and me a lot.
Sun Virtualbox VM (a free version exists! … as in beer.)
Ubuntu (still free, as in a bird– and as in beer.)
I use the same thing for running my network simulations now inside of ubuntu (I got too lazy to do a dual boot setup and just run the vm inside windows now) I definitely <3 the sun virtual box. Its also good for testing hobby OS stuff inside of without rebooting the computer each time if you are interested at all in that type of thing.
Ya… As great as it is– I managed to keep finding defects– none of them are life ruining.
The most annoying of which only happens on a Mac– in a few of the dialogue windows where one adjusts settings, configurations etc., the software always draws the window so that the title bar is above the vertical limits of the screen making some of the controls unreachable — I finally figured out that I could grab onto a few empty pixels and drag the thing down, but those empty pixels aren’t supposed to work that way either.
ANYWAY– If this happened in Windows, I’d probably use alt+space and navigate down to “move window” with my arrow keys which is actually an elegant solution (to a problem that should not exist). In Mac, the philosophy of having a single shared application menubar rendered as an OS visual element means that there’s no logical way to give each window its own menu item that has a “move window” command. Oops!
So I gather– the most meaningful conclusion is that such a flaw shouldn’t exist in any software for any OS… I figure they’ll fix it eventually.
iGem Server is a Fussy Baby.
Brief: Going into the UWiGEM office today to meet with Andre at 10:30. Apparently, an attempt at installing a new hard drive wiped out the raid array. Andre’s already restored a lot of the system and files– obnoxiously large files notwithstanding, … and obnoxiously oddly-licensed software notwithstanding I’m thinking…
I, Moldy.
Andre showed me this cute little mold a while ago… I just stumbled on a video I shot of it along with some photos…
Apparently, rediscovering flasks full of unidentified growth where once only delicious media sat occurs every now and again in even the cleanest of labs. I’ll be sure to snap anything else that pops up.
