Monthly Archives: December 2017

After setting up the new home linux box on Xmas eve, I’ve been gradually building it up to be a test bed for things I do at work. The apt package manager makes this pretty easy so far, compared to what I’ve done in the past. emacs Sorry vim folks, I prefer emacs for shell […]

Thanks to the USPS for delivering on a Sunday. The new T30 arrived today at around 10AM. As I suspected, the contents are just the main box and a power cord. I went to Best Buy and picked up the cheapest USB2 keyboard and mouse I could find (there were probably some of these lying […]

One option to do my self-designed Linux education would be to do everything in VMWare. But while I’ve done that in the past, it hasn’t taught me what’s going on when we’ve had problems with our existing boxes where the IT people tell me that they had to do something with the kernel, or when […]

My group started into bioinformatics thanks to former students Hai Zhu and Leonardo Marino-Ramirez, who set up the first LAMP webserver in the lab, a box they made that we called tofu.tamu.edu. Being Mac users, we thought that the Unix roots of OSX would be useful in the transition to doing informatics and web-based resources, […]