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And remember... I only do it because I can.
Had to re-rip some CD's 'cause their MP3s seemed to be a bit skewed. Sometimes they cut off right in the middle of a song or something like that. I attribute this to when I was ripping CDs on my laptop, which has limited disk space. Turns out that when grip runs out of disk space, it just merrily stops the current song and goes on to the next with no indication of warning. Hence, I believe that some percentage of my MP3s are flawed, so I think I'll have to re-rip some of them over the next few months.
I finally finished a first copy of the manager/worker paper yesterday. There really are some delicious complications in the whole aspect of Things that make it fun. I even wrote the whole paper without writing a single line of code -- it's 100% pure design. There's a good chance that I'll use that paper as a guideline to write a parallel vorbis encoder. Gotta practice what I preach, after all. And it can only make the paper better.
I missed an MPI talk at ND yesterday. Bonk. It sounded like it would have been interesting. :-(
Tracy and I won't be going up to the Purdue game this weekend; her travel schedule was too much this week. Oh well. :-\ Hopefully, the boys will rally with the loss of Arnaz and Irons and the Irish will still prevail.
I'm noticing that my bandwidth between my desktop and my router is really crappy -- I'm just copying over the MP3s that I ripped on my desktop and only getting anywhere between 47 and 69 kB/s. Ick. I see the collision light coming on on my hub a lot; seems like this may be causing too much binary backoff. Might be time to invest $50 in a switch...
Spent some time on LAM yesterday. I noticed an annoying security issue yesterday, and spent some time hacking around in the lamd and the rest of the user-level LAM libraries ensuring that all internal files that LAM uses are opened with "other" and "group" permissions zeroed out. And then it turns out that Solaris doesn't like to abide by the umask when it opens named sockets. Ugh. So I had to go the ssh route and move all the LAM sockets and temporary internal files into their own directory (which does abide by the umask) to guarantee security. Ugh.
That's all for now; more news from Washington as our reporters check in.