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Remember me bragging about my really big volume? Now I’m running a really big fsck. Who woulda’ thought? Before it would even start, fsck demanded at least 28GB of swap space. So I made a 32GB swap file on the root disk, and now I have a process that’s running at 19.2GB of virtual RAM. . . . → Read More: fsck I will, apparently, be at Supercomputing in Austin this November. Rock. Judith Warner has a nice piece in the NY Times today about the frustration of waiting for some kind of justice with the Wall Street crisis. Not so much social justice in a grand scheme, but the mere satisfaction of seeing those guys who chose to go make money and money alone, who have been . . . → Read More: Wall Street
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I don’t post much about my life these days. It’s not that it’s boring, in fact there’s too much going on to even bother post-haste typing. I’ve been pondering saying something snitty about the whole Sarah Palin thing, but have resisted the urge. After all, I claim that I don’t care about any of that stuff. That said, I do appreciate a good snark … and there’s so much to snark about with this one. Fortunately, it’s been said – with . . . → Read More: Liberal rant … Also, we’re screwed. In the past few days, the researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through “methane chimneys” rising from the sea floor. They believe that the sub-sea layer of permafrost, which has acted like a “lid” to prevent the gas from escaping, has melted away to allow methane . . . → Read More: Screwed Went to grappling night at Judo this evening. We set an interval timer for four minute rounds with 30 second breaks, and everybody wrestles until they decide to quit. I lasted from 7:30 to 8:45 with two or three breaks … which is not bad in my book. I’m not as bad as I . . . → Read More: Rolling When something and its nonexistence Both are absent from before the mind No other option does the latter have: It comes to perfect rest, from concepts free. I’m trying hard to maintain my optimism. Obama is the first politician I’ve ever outright *supported*, and he’s running in a year when it ought to be a total landslide for whoever the democrats run. The Republican administration has screwed the pooch so royally and completely over the past 8 years that the best they . . . → Read More: Election |
