We effectively stomped on Rutgers yesterday. Woo hoo!!
We looked a bit sloppy at times; their quarterback was quite good, actually, although he was a bit too hasty and kept taking high-risk passes. So we kept intercepting them. :-) Aside from a few nervous points, it was a fun game to watch. Go Irish!
Spend some of yesterday playing with modules in LSC's AFS space. I preliminarily made up modules for PBS, LAM, MPICH, Workshop, and Forte6. We will probably make up modules for all the GNU stuff (although they'll be broken up into several modules -- the compilers and auto* and libtool, Gnome, and the rest of the GNU stuff, or somesuchlikethat). Lummy wants to go a bit hog wild and have our own copies of latex, X, etc. We'll see -- we've been trying to have a higher bandwidth discussion about this for a few days and keep missing each other.
This all precipitated because I'm genuinely worried about having all the GNU file utilities first in our path rather than the Solaris ones. If I want to work in Linux, I'll work in Linux. If I want to work in Solaris, I want to work in Solaris -- not Linux. I've been burned a couple of times by having the GNU stuff first in my path (ar, ranlib, make, etc.) rather than the Solaris stuff, and I don't want that to be. It just scares me, 'cause we'll end up coding for GNU-specificisms without even knowing it. And that will suck (that's one of my pet peeves: people who code for GNU-specific extensions and say, "just use gcc" everywhere. They don't understand what they are saying. Although I have personally discussed this with many people, I'll put it here in my journal to get it on the record: take the Alpha processor, for example. When you switch from Tru64 to Linux, you lose at least 10% of the performance [there are hard numbers to prove this]. And when you switch from custom compilers to gcc you lose at least another 10% of performance [I'm speaking of high-performance applications, of course]. gcc just doesn't have the punch on all platforms. Portability is only half the story).
Anyhoo, we're going to split it up somehow. The exact mechanism remains to be seen. Modules are pretty nice, actually, and surprisingly easy to setup and maintain. Although we've been meaning to do this for quite a long time, we really should have done this a while ago.
Saw the movie "Bounce" with Ben Affleck and Gweneth Paltrow (sp?) last night with Janna and Tracy. Yes, it was a concession to the ladies (who wanted to see it). I'll give it a sympathy, but that doesn't really rate the quality of the movie because it's just not my kind of movie. So if you want an honest rating, go see it yourself.
Today will be spent putting together a real skeleton for my dissertation. I've started this a few times, but really need to carry through and actually put all the .tex into one place and start shaping it up to be a real dissertation.
Off to write... whoo hoo!