I have been trying to install the CUDA SDK and related components under Ubuntu 10.10 following the examples on the nVidia website in the following PDF http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_2_prod/docs/Getting_Started_Linux.pdf

So this was a major pain in the ass, having to wait 10+ seconds every time I press “ . “ for the content assist window to popup and then another load of time upon typing set,get or anything else.

Since I needed to whip up a quick scatter plot, I decided to install my old friend R (http://cran.r-project.org/)

If you find that users are having difficulty uploading large files to your AIX box but when you run ulimit -a as root you see that everything is set to unlimited you have to remember to check this for the users account as well.

Recently I have been working on an existing database that was migrated from one server to another, for the most part things were going on at a very uneventful pace. Up until the point where i wanted to add another table to the database.