An acquaintance of mine has a neighbor that just gives him surplus equipment from his work [Unnamed State University]. He has maxed out his need for rackmounted servers, so he gave me an old HP Proliant DL380 G5. Dual quad-core Xeons, and most notably to me an 8-bay hot swappable hdd array. The G5 has a P400 Smart Array controller for the drives ( Read more... )

I built a simple power relay controller and then wired some buttons in it to turn on different extension cords. The buttons hit input GPIO pins to set and then the relay is controlled with GPIO pins set up for output. The simplistic thing to do is roll and poll, but the Internet is smart and says, "Use interrupts!" So I did.
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... that 1NT should be 12-14?

Here's half an hour of my life that I will hopefully get back because I won't have to cull through three hundred spreadsheets and five hundred requirements. It compiles but I haven't actually tested it.
( Automating little jobs with python instead of VBA )

Deep Learning with COTS HPC Systems

There is a job that needs this ( Read more... )

saying, "Was that an earthquake?" "I don't know. What do you think?" "I don't know. What do you think?"

Budget category breakdown with a cute UI via whitehouse.gov

You don't have to allocate an EBS volume on which to save images. EC2 will make them for you.

NFS is a strange strange beast.

new website [not me]! Now I have to figure out how to mention in a tweet.