Frederik's Blog

Introduction A few weeks ago the hard drive in my Apple Powerbook G4 which I was using at work, had died. As this machine was already a few years old, it was already planned to be replaced soon. The hard drive crash only accelerated things a bit. I wanted a not too heavy laptop with [...]

At work, I’m currently helping out with a report. In our department, there is a mix of different OSes en office suites, mainly Mac OS X (MS Office 2008), Windows (Office 2003) and Linux (OpenOffice.org 2.4 and 3.0). Because of this, I very often get involved in the office file format mess these days. Mac [...]

A few weeks ago, a researcher at work received a new HP 6910p laptop. As he’s a Kubuntu Linux user, we decided to try the new Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 remix to get an idea of all the new features in KDE 4. The first impression was not very good. Already quickly after the installation, [...]

Last week, I installed a new 2.6.25.4 kernel on CoMO’s HPC cluster. The cluster consists of 9 IBM System x3550 machines with each 2 quad core Xeon E5320 CPUs (1.8 Ghz) and 8 GB RAM connected by a gigabit ethernet switch. According to the PDU, under full load, the power consumption is about 12.1 A [...]