Recent content by richarddmorey

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    recovering LVM data

    I have a linux box running FC6. The machine has 4 harddrives, all of which I have integrated into one volume using LVM. One of the disks appears to have failed, and now the system won't boot. I don't know what was on that particular drive, but I hope nothing important. Anyway, is the data on...
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    Mac vs. PC in scientific computing

    You win the prize! I asked on the R help forum as well, and it turns out that the Windows Linear Algebra routines DLL does not use both cores. The MacOS one, however, does. I got a version of the DLL built for it, and it works like a charm :) Thanks!
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    Mac vs. PC in scientific computing

    I didn't compile it, both were downloaded as binaries form the site. I'm not sure what compiler they used. I think what I may do is install linux on a partition and compile it there with the intel compiler (I think we have a copy of it for linux that we use in the lab). That may improve...
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    Mac vs. PC in scientific computing

    My adviser has a Mac notebook that he bought 6 months ago, and I have a PC notebook I bought a month ago. Here are the respective specs, as far as I know them: His: Mac OSX 1 GB DDR2 RAM Intel Core Duo, 2 GHz (2MB cache per core) Unknown HD Mine Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit 2 GB...
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    New Dell Outrageous Dekstop Deals 2/23

    Where are the rebates? I didn't see them on the Dell site.