That is going to be my philosophy this date onwards.

In the year 2000...
2012...

I will

1. Work all year in pomodoros and squash as many tomatoes as I can.

1. Publish. Publish. Publish

1. Master R and Perl.

1. Learn how to manipulate and code in Bioconductor

1. Analyze and publish on least one public dataset in genetics.

1. Transition into more genetics and bioinformatics.

1. Write more science. Make future-oriented useful notes.

1. Be more in contact with my family.

1. Be less confused, Be more mentally organized

1. Set priorities and stick with them regardless of what comes in between.

1. Reach a better place and work on feeling less guilty

For Paul, Matt and Terry. :-)



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NB: (e:matthew), check out the illustrations here:

My new deadline is December 31. I am dead serious about this and want to finish it once and for all. Even if lake Erie burst into flames right now and it was a grand public spectacle, I wouldn't want to go see it more than I want to finish my dissertation writing.

So I am taking off the internets and (e:strip) till the next year.

All of you, happy holidays and behave yourselves.

cheerio,
TP

rpm -qa *\nvidia\*  *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Hmmm.. that doesn't look so good

rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.5-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.7-1.fc16.x86_64
texlive-l3kernel-2011-4.SVN_2966.svn24657.fc16.noarch
3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
nouveau 754554 0
ttm 61533 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 30277 2 i915,nouveau
drm 213647 7 i915,nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5572 2 i915,nouveau
i2c_core 28203 7 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
mxm_wmi 1743 1 nouveau
video 12388 2 i915,nouveau
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

PS: I would like a decent lighter background code box for christmas.
With

• Inconsolata monospace font
• line-wrapping
• syntax highlighting (even without syntax highlighting is fine really)
• for perl and bash.

Thanks! :)

Thankfully, I waited for a complete 5 minutes (took (e:metalpeter)'s advice and went to get tea) instead of jumping on the power button. It recovered after taking its own sweet time.

Dec 17 20:20:26 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:27 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: Launching FprintObject
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: entering main loop
Dec 17 20:20:29 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:30 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:31 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]

This is the tail of the /var/log/messages. With all those mentions of killings and daemons, it totally looks like notes from a homicidal maniac with a medieval tilt.

Farther back the log has these entries:

Dec 17 16:17:19 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762948] CPU6: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762965] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762969] CPU4: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762972] CPU7: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU5: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773971] CPU5: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773975] CPU2: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773982] CPU4: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773984] CPU6: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773988] CPU3: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773992] CPU7: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773997] CPU1: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773999] CPU0: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:48 why kernel: [65700.686031] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 2 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dc9110
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 2 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 4 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 1
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 1 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dcb633
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 2 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.

It killed something in cold blood and is now gloating over it?

Apparently it is some bios issue as described here:

According to the followup to that post, it's a kernel issue that sprang up after 2.6.38.7 The kernel is not able to balance loads on the CPU/GPU well in processors with a sandy bridge and gives rise to these errors. Updating the bios does not solve the issue.

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Why does it ALL have to happen in my machine?! Seriously, this is not even my super-sucky original machine. It's a machine from my bro. Does the linux universe hate me or what?!