Rewrite xservemoniotr component for G5

Mar 17-25, 2005
"Xserve Monitor" component:

  • Complete rewrite from procedure tradition to OO
  • Keep G4 style compatible
  • Keep empty function for G5 compatible

The temperature, fan, power section in previous xservemonitor component
versions does not work with G5 machine. G5 has more than 30 sensors and
controls for G5 and they have different XML schema for that.
Challenging work.

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4 Node Xserve G5 Installation Notes

Leon lent us four Xserve G5 for testing purpose. The agreement is TLL
offers racks, power, networking and maintaning resources for these
Xserve G5, in exchange to use them for free. Besides of that, we are
also going to use this as a testbed for bioinformatics solution in
Apple’s platform.

The four machines came with some problems. There is no graphic card
even for the head node. Although it is able to install all these Xserve
headless, but all our CDroms can not boot the new Xserve G5 (bug?) and
have to use orignal operating system on harddisk. This caused quite a
lot configuration problems as we are not sure of the original
configuration that comes from hard disk.

Anyway, here is my notes on how to make it finally works. ;)

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Dev Log 2005-03-13

"Web Engine" component

  • Fixed a bug in installing XML, where external reference in saved
    contents are substituted. In fact substitution is needed at evaluation
    time.
  • Decide to workout the webpage for 1024×768 best view. 3 columns!
  • Fixed bugs in GDD protocol design, XML problems
  • Alan’s protocol finally runs without error, the results are the same as allison’s run. Perfect!

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Dev Log 2005-03-(10-12)

"Web Engine" componet

  • Now support multiple connection between two steps
  • Fixed a bug in tool installation, when the header info in
    external reference is not correctly included.
    ($dom->substituteEntities = true)
  • Fixed a bug in tool installation, where the previous category is not removed
  • Wrote XML definition file for njboot, protree
  • Fixed a bug of pipeline submission, where one form is included in another.
  • Once a relation is updated, the in-piped step must be re-saved
  • Ver 0.9.11

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子女教育与父母

父母对孩子的教育方式其实就是自己理想的模版,不同时代的父母对于孩子的期待导致其驾驭子女的方向不同。象我们这一代人的父母由于文革的影响,耽误了学
业,所以对于孩子的期望往往是读书成绩好,或者掌握一门手艺,而忽略了其他非技能能力和个性的培养。看看我同龄的朋友家庭,往往都是这个现象。

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