Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Bad OpenCV Weekend

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Late last week, I took the plunge and upgraded my work desktop–which, to the Irony Gods’ great delight, is also a production server–from Ubuntu 11.10 to the Precise 12.04 known as Pangolin. Cue every IT professional ever: With two tiny … Continue reading →

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

7:35am: Wake-up. Blerrrrrgh. 7:40am: Restart the Mahout job that met a premature demise when my desktop locked up. I want to see if I can get results out of this. 7:55am: The Lady picks me up. We’re off to the nearby Frick Park … Continue reading →

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Hadoop [actually, Ubuntu] Headache

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

My desktop, Ronon, is a beast (yes, its namesake is exactly what you think it is): twin Radeon 4890 video cards, terabytes of hard drive space (will eventually be adding an SSD to the mix; that’s the next major upgrade), 18GB of … Continue reading →

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The triumph of our time

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

To be able to use a MacBook… …and run Ubuntu on it… …and use it to connect to a remote Windows XP virtual machine… …that is truly remarkable. I’ll be back soon, just have to finish my truckload of final … Continue reading →

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In the name of Science

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Shannon Quinn

As a bit of a primer, let me just say that the phrase “fork bomb” is one of the most awesomest (yes, most awesomest) phrases (syntactically, grammatically, phonetically…ecumenically) that I have ever heard.  It just sounds badass. Fork bomb.  Give … Continue reading →

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