October 5th, 2009 eric
I keep getting
nq pickcmd | qsub -l arch=lx24-amd64 -l h_vmem=4G -P long
Unable to run job: job rejected: 0 is an invalid task id.
Exiting.
Haven’t figured out what it is yet.. my jobscript is only one line containing
pick_otus.py -o otus -s 0.97 -i tiers012seqs.fna -M 3500
I’ll try just running the job with qsub next.
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July 14th, 2009 eric
To make a shortcut on the desktop to your file share, connect to the share you’re wanting to create the shortcut for. I normally use Command-K in Finder and connect using smb://username@fileserver/share but use whatever is comfortable to you.
You then need to open a Finder window and click Go – Computer. This will show your mounted drives in Finder. Now hold down the Option and Command keys while dragging the share icon to your desktop. This creates an alias to that share and will persist after the share has been disconnected. to reconnect, simply double-click your new icon and enter your password.
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July 11th, 2009 eric
I don’t get the TV Guide and I really despise watching the TV Guide Channel. That thing scrolls sooo freaking slow across the screen. Also, if I have to watch any more American Idol failures hosting TV Guide Channel programming, I’ll flip. That’s where the What’s On app comes into play.
Once setup for your location and TV service, you’re presented with a nice listing of all of your channels. Movies show up purple, news channels are orange, and sports are a green color. This segregates everything nicely.



Clicking on a show brings up a brief description of the show, the MPAA rating system information, and the ability to “Add to Favorites” which is a very nice feature.
Once you’ve selected all of your favorite shows, you can access the “Favorites” at the bottom. This gives you a listing of all the shows you’ve selected in the order they air next.
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June 30th, 2009 eric
The Gmail transition has been going well, I’ve setup my .forward file on the mail server to just send everything over to my gmail account. Since I don’t really want to use folder/labels to sort “everything” that comes through, I’ve decided on just using the label “WUSTL”. Does the period go inside or outside the quote? I’m not sure.
Shortly after getting work email pointing at Gmail, I remembered Google Labs had a feature called “Tasks” which I decided to investigate. It’s not a terribly involved plugin, it can however, create new tasks out of emails. I think I’m going to love this feature. I’m a clean inbox junkie and have been using it as my daily task list anyways. This lets me clean up my inbox even further by moving the email over to a task. I think this is going to work pretty well once I get some muscle memory going and quit opening my Evolution/Thunderbird setups.
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June 28th, 2009 eric
I’ve decided to take the plunge and finally use one inbox to rule them all. I’ll be importing all of my old work email and forward all new into Gmail. I’m currently using a nice piece of free software called gExodus available here:
http://blog.codefront.net/2004/06/23/gexodus-02-some-new-features-for-gmail-mbox-import-tool/
It’s going to be a slow arduous process, but I’m taking the time to label everything and clean out some of the cruft I’ve acquired. Once everything’s imported and forwarded, I’ll have to figure out how to manage two incoming email streams, but I believe Gmail Labs has something called “Multiple Inboxes” that I’ll have to check out.
More about this after I get further along.
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