Since last fall, I have seen tons of articles around the web comparing Mozilla's Firefox to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Some of the articles even mention Apple's Safari or the Opera web browser. I honestly had to sit down and ask myself, "Why do I care about a web browser? Is this just overkill, reading article after article about Firefox moving from a 4% market share to a 6% market share?" I

Lent is over (today being Easter Sunday), and I successfully completed my six and a half weeks of meatless dieting. I did eat seafood, however, and I would guess I did so about twice a week. Ariele and I were able to find a handful of vegeterian recipes that really turned out great, though. Specifically, we made vegeterian curry, garden chili, home-made pizza, tofu kabobs, and black bean burritos

Now that the file server for our lab's cluster has been repaired and is running smoothly again, I have undertaken the task of building two new file servers for our lab's use. The file servers should be designed to be identical (or nearly so), mirror each other (as far as the data storage is concerned), and have RAID-5 arrangements. Kristjan, Ariele, and I took off to Fry's yesterday to see what we

Following my personal computer triumph over the weekend, I have now declared victory over the file system troubles I've been having with our lab's cluster. Everyone in our lab (plus a couple of people not in our lab) share a 21-node Linux cluster for running our simulations, and the file server (with a 2 TB capacity, as in 2000 GB) went down just under a month ago after an abrupt power loss.

It started pouring rain today (yet again), but it makes me happy that Ariele and I were able to drive up to the top of Mount Wilson on Sunday when it was nice and sunny outside. The sky was reasonably clear when we left, but by the time we got to the top, it was a little cloudier than I would have hoped. Regardless, we each shot a handful of pictures, not to mention a "beaut" taken by me of the

The most recent adventure with my personal computer is now complete, and I am reasonably satisfied with the result. About a month ago, I had noticed that the X Window Server (the graphical user interface for my Linux installation) would freeze up after forty-five minutes or so of use. I was using a generic video driver, so I decided to go to NVidia's website and download their native Linux driver.

My only final this term was due on Wednesday afternoon, and after I turned it in, I tried to arrange some plans for the evening (Ariele was grading finals for the chemistry class she is TA'ing). I sent Mike, Greg, and Paul an email to see what they were up to, and they invited me over for some pizza. On my way, I stopped by Beverages and More to take advantage of the sweet 12 bottles of Guiness