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Upgrade the power grid

Hearing that people are still without power has become a regular thing on the news. If not from these occasional severe storms, then from the yearly snow storms and hurricanes. How many times do the...

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Lustre: LVM Metadata Snafu

It was supposed to be a simple memory upgrade for our lustre nodes, but of course they had something else in mind. I’ve got my suspicions as to how it happened, but the issue was one of the OSTs wasn’t...

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Microsoft caught with boobs in Linux kernel

Microsoft caught with boobs in Linux kernel Oh silly nerds

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Sally Ride, First Female Astronaut, Passed Today

Sally Ride, First Female Astronaut, Passed Today This really is a sad day. What is to become of our future in space?

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Algebra is Necessary

Algebra is Necessary When I first read that article, I sure was mad, but thankfully better minds have written what I would liked to have said. Yes math is necessary, not just as a good skill to learn,...

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Math Guide to the Olympics

Math Guide to the Olympics Some creative math for the Olympics. Enjoy

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Slashdot: Twitter Starts Withholding Rather Than Deleting...

Slashdot: Twitter Starts Withholding Rather Than Deleting Copyright-Infringing Tweets Such a simple idea and don’t know why they didn’t do this to begin with. Though I would much rather see something...

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Moving from DKMS Nvidia to latest driver

The dkms version of the Nvidia driver is a great convenience, yet it usually means you wont have the latest version and when the kernel updates, that can be a problem. Like Today. Running CentOS 6 on...

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CentOS 6.4: NSS, MD5 Certificates, and Authentication Problems

CentOS just released 6.4, so I decided to update the office server and as it was the end of the day, left it at that. Bad form on my end as I come in the next day to find I’m unable to connect to the...

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CentOS 6.4: NSS, MD5 Certificates, and Authentication Problems: UPDATE

In tinkering with setting up a kickstart script to get a basic workstation installed just like I want I decided to revisit the authentication issue related to certificates with an MD5 signature....

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