It is possible to use MATLAB with Xgrid. Until recently, every time I tried this, MATLAB either failed to start or would immediately die with a “bus error” after starting. However, I discovered through trial and error that Matlab simply requires that the HOME environment variable exists.
Why didn’t this make it here sooner?
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If you’re using an older DOS-based Drive Image Pro with Windows XP images, you may get an error #1527 on restore. Symantec used to have the following message about the error posted on its site:
This error is currently under investigation and appears to be related to the use of the /IDE=ON switch when restoring and resizing Windows XP NTFS image files. This error has been seen with both ImageCenter and PQIDeploy, and may occur with other PowerQuest imaging products as well.
It appears if you simply restore the image without having it automatically resize to fit the available space, you can successfully restore the image and resize the partition after the fact.
Ubuntu 4.1 on the GX270/80 has working network, maximum display (on-board video) and sound out of the box.
Installation of Matlab for laptops running Mac OS X remains buggy. If you do an install while connected to a network and you happen to have a dynamically assigned hostname, the license manager will not be able to start should your machine change hostnames. There was a fix for this that I documented earlier, but with Matlab 7.0 you can simply disable all your network devices and do the install, re-enabling them when you’re done. This way the license manager will use the local hostname by default, and resolve properly no matter where you roam.
Here’s what I gleamed from the recent presentation on the newly reincarnated web services held at the EQUAD yesterday.
Reed Meister from the communications office brought over his Powerbook to show us the new Princeton site in Firefox and explain how it is managed. He explained that the Communications Office is taking over management of the site and web-related services (no techies allowed). Right now there are 2 people in their web group, they expect to hire 2 more.
They went through a process looking for a Content Management System and
went through some 15 top companies narrowed down against a 180 individual feature list. Roxon (based in Sweden) and Extrafin (based in Princeton) were the top contenders; they went with Roxon for the backend interface (i.e. the page editing tools etc) and Extrafin for the templates.
The communications office wants to offer services to departments in the near future, whether its hosting websites or helping refine and convey messages on a given webpage. They wish to house all support on OIT servers using their newly acquired product. Reed was unclear as to what license governs the Roxon code, but he did state that there are unlimited licenses for users of the software at the university and that the communications office would consider distributing the code. There was no word on how they would charge for these services.
Reed also mentioned that the communications office was open to helping departments integrate their own sites with the new Princeton site, be it look or content. A flyer was distributed listing all of the engineering related websites and their current states, emphasizing the different paths each have took.
I tried to install mysql on a fedora core 1 box but I ended up running into this problem when I tried to start the daemon:
mysqld dead but subsys locked
I searched the news groups looking for an answer but none of them did the trick.
I came up with my own:
remove /var/lock/subsys/mysqld
uninstall mysqld
reinstall mysqld
and restart the daemon
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