Comments on: Switch! Part 2 http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2004/10/31/switch-part-2/ The Official Tienshiao Ma Fan Club Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tienshiao http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2004/10/31/switch-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Tienshiao Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:19:27 +0000 http://www.tienshiao.org/wordpress/?p=90#comment-61 Matlab: I've never used it. I have used Mathematica but on barely scratched the sruface there. I understand they're both capable programming environments with a focus on math, so I imagine its capabilities for modeling and reporting to be relatively limitless. Backups: For my laptop, I don't really have anything set up yet, nor do I have any data of value yet. For my development machine (which I often SSH to from my laptop), I have a nightly cron job that backs up my home directory to my fileserver. It archives and maintains 3 days worth of data, so I can go back if I accidentally delete something. A lot of my work is also checked into CVS (the repository is also on the fileserver). So I have complete revision information for my work. The fileserver's main data volume is running in RAID 1 (mirrored), so I have redundancy in that area. Right now, I need to focus on backing that data up. I'll probably archive to DVD from that point. I don't have anything set up for that right now, as part of the issue is that a DVD doesn't have sufficient capacity to backup all of the data. So someone needs to sit there and baby sit it, and swap discs. Matlab: I’ve never used it. I have used Mathematica but on barely scratched the sruface there. I understand they’re both capable programming environments with a focus on math, so I imagine its capabilities for modeling and reporting to be relatively limitless.

Backups: For my laptop, I don’t really have anything set up yet, nor do I have any data of value yet. For my development machine (which I often SSH to from my laptop), I have a nightly cron job that backs up my home directory to my fileserver. It archives and maintains 3 days worth of data, so I can go back if I accidentally delete something.

A lot of my work is also checked into CVS (the repository is also on the fileserver). So I have complete revision information for my work.

The fileserver’s main data volume is running in RAID 1 (mirrored), so I have redundancy in that area. Right now, I need to focus on backing that data up. I’ll probably archive to DVD from that point. I don’t have anything set up for that right now, as part of the issue is that a DVD doesn’t have sufficient capacity to backup all of the data. So someone needs to sit there and baby sit it, and swap discs.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2004/10/31/switch-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Anonymous Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:59:28 +0000 http://www.tienshiao.org/wordpress/?p=90#comment-60 Awesome! I'm really glad to see that you've switched. Now you can be the guinea pig...I mean, forerunner! It seems like OS X is all that it purports to be. I am still considering an iBook when I can afford to get a laptop. Sha, I was going to ask you something, and upon reading your Switch! 2 entry I got so excited I forgot. So I'll ask you another question in the meantime: Have you used Matlab and if so, then what's your opinion on it? Dr. Hoffman over at UCI was pimping it saying that all Psychology students need to learn to program for their projects and that Matlab is a good language to learn. Right, now I remember! Do you have an effective backup solution? Backups are one of those things ever good computer user knows should be done. And one that I know no one who does it. I've been burned a few times. Awesome! I’m really glad to see that you’ve switched. Now you can be the guinea pig…I mean, forerunner! It seems like OS X is all that it purports to be. I am still considering an iBook when I can afford to get a laptop.

Sha, I was going to ask you something, and upon reading your Switch! 2 entry I got so excited I forgot. So I’ll ask you another question in the meantime:

Have you used Matlab and if so, then what’s your opinion on it? Dr. Hoffman over at UCI was pimping it saying that all Psychology students need to learn to program for their projects and that Matlab is a good language to learn.

Right, now I remember! Do you have an effective backup solution? Backups are one of those things ever good computer user knows should be done. And one that I know no one who does it. I’ve been burned a few times.

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