I recently decided to start doing my homework in LaTeX, for a couple of reasons. Perhaps foremost among these LaTeX is a useful thing to know, being (according to the website) “the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents”, and I had no prior experience using it. Another is that it [...]
Archive for January, 2006
25 Jan
The eBayowulf Cluster: continued
I’ve been meaning to migrate my page about “The eBayowulf Cluster” from my old blog for a while now, and I finally got around to doing it today. There’s not really much new material there – pretty much direct plagiarism from the old page – but then there really hasn’t been much progress of late. [...]
25 Jan
Monitors: I'm torn
This week, I’ve been looking at Dell wide format LCD monitors. The Sweetest of the Sweet at this point is the 30″ 3007WFP Ultrasharp (pictured at rightleft). Despite it’s 2560×1600 native resolution, this hulking behemoth of monitorhood comes with a $2,199 price tag – or 1862.66 sq. px. per dollar – which makes it entirely [...]
24 Jan
The Two Immutable Laws of Blogging
I happened across this little beauty on gapingvoid this morning. Every blogger should have to know these two laws…
23 Jan
Betsy met the Dalai Who?
Every now and again, I Google old friends’ names to see what they’re up to – i.e., whether or not they’ve done anything that would make them visible enough to put them in the top 10 Google search results on their respective names. I don’t search for everyone I knew, reserving my precious time spent [...]
20 Jan
The Optimus Keyboard
I know that this is kind of “old news” as far as all the gadget blogs and nerd rags are concerned, but the Optimus Keyboard will apparently be launching on February 1. For those not familiar with the Optimus, each key is an OLED display that will show what the given key is used for [...]
20 Jan
The UltraSparc T1
Jim Dinan gave a presentation at last night’s Open Source Club meeting on the UltraSPARC T1 processor. With 32 simultaneous threads (8 cores, 4 threads/core), this CMT monster sports a 134GB/sec crossbar and four on-chip MMUs for a total memory bandwidth of 25.6GB/sec. Also impressive: it does all of this with a peak power consumption [...]
18 Jan
Moving…again
Okay…it looks like I’ll be moving again, but this time (hopefully) will be the last. “What’s the new URL?” you ask avidly, drooling over the thought of more nerd tech stuff. Well, I’ve dropped the Simplicitas title and decided upon CliftonSnyder.net. Original, no? Look there for future posts, because this bird has flown the coop! [...]
18 Jan
The move is complete
The last couple of things that I had to do – namely, transferring the CliftonSnyder.net domain name to my other registrar and posting the final “I’m Moving” post on my old blog – have been done. Welcome, new visitors to CliftonSnyder.net!
13 Jan
Teeny tiny power supply
So, what do you need when you have an itty-bitty box? Well, an itty-bitty power supply, of course!
