Fri Mar 28 21:13:02 EDT 2008

What I learned this week, 1

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This  might  seem  like  a  ridiculous thing, but I've decided to
start a self indulgant series of posts called,  "what  I  learned
this  day/week/month/etc".   It  is no catalog of what I know be-
cause there will surely be things that I will forget, but I think
it  is  a good exercise nonetheless.  It is also a good reason to
post regularly. Ideally, it will be something I do at the end  of
each  week  unless  I  get  inspired  one fine day or feel like I
learned nothing in a week's time.  So, with out further ado, here
is my list:


what a planar graph is and why I should care
how to set up CGI::IRC under apache2
that CPAN traffic being served from my mirror can be mistaken for my server launching buffer overflow attacks
how to use 'split' and 'cat' to safely break up a file in order to transfer it piece-meal using a thumbdrive of limited size
a little bit about Lisp and functional programming, but not nearly enough to do anything useful
that the hardware store sells nifty plugs that let you seal a pipe with no threads
how to run a hybrid openmp/mpi application on an IBM p5 575 cluster
that I am not as good in Perl as I thought
how to propagate "cast iron" plants
how to set the auto-notify option for project issues at googlecode
that I don't know much at all


There  are  things  that  I learn from everyone I meet.  Not just
some, but everyone.  And it is not just limited to one thing -  I
often  learn new things every day from people I see every day.  I
hope to never forget these things, so this is  another  reason  I
want to catalog them.


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