New kernel

[code]lb@hardin:~$ uname -a Linux hardin 2.6.17-emission7 [/code] (the rest of the output was truncated) Thanks to some folks over at the Ubuntu Web Forums I’ve been working into rolling in my own kernel trying to solve the fact that when I’m shutting down I always get drives in an unclean state (actually only the root partition), giving rise to several errors. I wasn’t content with a vanilla kernel so I decided to use the emission patchset.

August 30, 2006

S.T.E.A.L. snapshot released

As promised, I put up a new snapshot of S.T.E.A.L. (available [here]({{ site.url }}/steal/steal.pdf)) Highlights include: Interpolated drawings. This should reduce the pixelation effect, but it will make them more blurry. I can’t fix this until Too sends me the actual art; Revisions throughout the text, to remove some parts where Yumiko acted out of character; A new part in New York, preparing the background for the more action-oriented parts that will follow;

August 29, 2006

I'm back

I’m finally back from holidays and since there’s almost no one in the office here I thought I’d write a little mixed entry, while quant is busy compiling a patched 2.6.17 kernel (but quant as an odd overheating problem that I will describe in another entry, so I have to compile it by steps). Work is somewhat slow, as the people I need to contact are still on holiday. In the mean time, I’m reading an interesting paper on some GPLed software for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism analysis, written in Perl and R.

August 4, 2006

Holidays

That’s right, I’m going on holiday from today until August 28th. As I don’t have a proper internet connection there, my entries will be few and far in between (not that I’ve been very active recently, I’ve been busy putting the house in order). I’ll be staying in Loano, in Liguria, for about 17 days, and I’ll spend the rest traveling around central Italy (Arezzo, Perugia, Assisi, Todi, Gubbio, Siena).

August 2, 2006

Departure

Two days ago, my younger brother left for The Netherlands, where he’ll stay for two years working for the European Space Agency (ESA). I hope I’ll be able to keep in touch with him. I don’t like emotion-filled entries so I’ll just stop here.

July 29, 2006

Computational Biology... biology?

In the past few months I’ve been wondering about the state of bioinformatics and computational biology in general. When I attended the school in Bertinoro (as [I wrote about previously]({{ site.url }}/2006/03/19/bertinoro-arrival-day-1/)). The development in this field can be regarded as quite astounding, just a look at journals like BMC Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics or others can give an insight of that. However, and talks at Bertinoro seemed to confirm this impression, it looks like that many in the computational field forget that we’re talking about biology.

July 28, 2006

Perspectives

Our paper’s completion has probably been delayed till September or so pending some (in my opinion puzzling) organizational issues within a group that works with us. My research work is also pending due to the fact that I’m waiting for someone to prepare a “data matrix” for me, and the person doesn’t seem to know that leaving other people hanging is somewhat impolite. So, I decided that as a person that works in bioinformatics I could learn something new.

July 27, 2006

I'm still alive

Yes, I’m still alive somewhat. I have a lot to write, but my stupid wrists don’t let me save a few minutes per day. I’ll probably try to wrap things up this weekend with a series of multiple entries.

July 24, 2006

Clarification

It was just tendinitis on both hands, thanks to a stupid table that I will have to fix soon. The good news is that I can get back on track soon, using some medicines and the so-called laser therapy to get rid of the inflammation. Also, I will post soon about the next S.T.E.A.L. snapshot and the upcoming FFXI update (scheduled today).

July 21, 2006

RSI

I’ve got RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) on both my wrists. This means I won’t update in a while, as I’m trying to put my hands to rest. I’ll still try to write some S.T.E.A.L., though.