“danah boyd is finishing her dissertation, then going on vacation for a month. While, she’s gone, she’s not accepting email. At all. Got that?
No apology. No “vacation message” to pretend she’ll read it later. And no implied promise that the stuff people send to her will magically be tended to by an invisble army of interns and elves. While she’s away, every message she receives is simply discarded with a friendly response as to why. danah writes:
…I believe that email eradicates any benefits gained from taking a vacation by collecting mold and spitting it back out at you the moment you return. As such, I’ve trained my beloved INBOX to reject all email during vacation. I give it a little help in the form of a .procmail file that sends everything directly to /dev/null. The effect is very simple. You cannot put anything in my queue while I’m away (however lovingly you intend it) and I come home to a clean INBOX. Don’t worry… if you forget, you’ll get a nice note from my INBOX telling you to shove off, respect danah’s deeply needed vacation time, and try again after January 19.
If you roll your eyes at such fancy, uppity, big-city behavior, consider the alternatives most of us suffer in order to pretend we’re listening. Even when we know we’re not.”
For all you music enthusiasts out there, next Wednesday the 3rd of December the Phantom 105.2 music quiz is taking place in The Sugar Club at 8pm in aid of Concern.
While strolling through Dublin, I noticed this in the window of an off licence. Real Duff Beer!
I had to go in and buy some! €12.99 for a six pack… It tastes a bit like Stella Artois, and the packaging is very like the Duff beer from the Simpsons. Now where’s my Fudd? Read all about it on Duff’s wikipedia entry
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Ok, if you want to create your own large hadron collider and then compute the 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data using grid computing this is the OS for you…
The LHC Computing Grid (LCG) consists of 40,000 worldwide distributed CPUs that process the data. The participating MACs and PCs will run the CERN-adapted Scientific Linux CERN. The LCG wiki page includes instructions in how to set up the required systems and which applications grid participants need.
Scientific Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
