Mambo group released 4.5.2 today and my site has been upgraded as well. Two great features that I have noticed are:
Demo and test sites are upgraded to Mambo 4.5.2.
"Web Engine" component
Some of the application Alan needs are not available for OSX and they
need to run it on a linux machine (X440). As a result, this machine is
expected to be available for the cluster and so for the /nfs2 file
system. Last year, I had a LSF copy installed on X440 and run it as a
standalone cluster system. Now the major work is to re-configure the
two cluster and merge them together.
This is a command line trick.
On a linux machine, if NFS mounting hangs for a busy NFS server, try mount with "nolock" option.
According to Mambo offical site,
the winners of the Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo(R) in Boston have been announced!
Best Open Source Solution
was awarded to Mambo: Mambo 4.5.1a. Not only that, the "Best of Show"
award, which recognizes the best total industry solution, was also
award to Mambo as well.
It is a simple command but comes out handy to me.
man -t command_name | lprman -t command_name > manual.ps
Start working with parallel sync component
The XML files from PISE are for EMBOSS 2.8 while the new version is
already 2.9 since July 2004. EMBOSS has its own interface definition
format (*.acd), which could be converted to PISE-compatible XML files.
It is not documented in PISE web site and here is what I have done for
EMBOSS 2.9.
昨夜有梦。
吾化一白鸭，积蛋于阁楼，曰：“不予楼下鸡也”。
蛋杂，有蛇卵混于其中。
又梦一蛇，匿与角落。
欲出头近炉，被擒。
去皮而灼于火上，蛇皮遍地，食者曰：“好味”。
A pipeline is a seriez of applications running one after the other. Any
two connected applications are related either by files or database.
Currently we support only file-based connection. The pipeline jobs may
fail if any step inside the pipeline fails, or the files that should
connect two applications are not generated correctly, due to pipeline
misconfiguration.
For example, in the phylip tree protocol, where six steps (Clustalw
-> SeqBoot -> ProtDist -> Neighbor -> Consense ->
DrawTree) are generally involved, the failure of "seqboot" will stop
the entire pipeline. Or, "consense" should generate a phylip-tree
format file for drawtree, but in fact the expected file is not found
because pipeline designer chose the wrong configuration for "consense".
In this case, there is no failed job inside pipeline, but the pipeline
itself hangs and there will be no further jobs to be initialized.