153 miles in January

Someone asked how many miles I ran last month, so I looked it up - 153!!! I think that was the most I've ever run in a month. I feel great! This weekend is my long run before taper starts - aiming for 23 miles, need to be on my feet longer than 3 hours. It will be a big mental challenge - staying on pace.

Oh - 10 miles swimming last month too! :-)

Enjoy the miles!

Rocks cluster works!

Got Rocks cluster working - yeah! 4 computers (each with 2 CPU's [6 core] and 48GB RAM), Infiniband, 22TB storage (combined 2 x 11 TB RAIDs with GlusterFS). Running gene alignment program that works with make -- and qmake (part of Sun Grid Engine). Took a couple of months stumbling along to configure it and kick it into submission. So cool to see it loaded, running 70 processes.

Started reading up on make and trying to figure out how to get it to distribute jobs to nodes based on geographic coordinates or dates (instead of C code to compile).

22 miles today

Great run today! Great mental boost - 22 miles in 3:00. Thinking I may just have figured out how to build up the strength to run a marathon well - 3:30 or better. Been building up long runs and building up my intervals. Last interval run was 4 x 2miles on 18min.

I think I can, I think I can ...

Hurricane Tracker map

Check this out: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

Great interactive hurricane tracker. Click the button to load the aerial map. What's next? add terrain, then could show potential flooding. Could add evacuation routes, mouse over for the state's emergency management sites ... this is where the web is going

be careful with those USB devices

Story from ComputerWorld about prevalence of USB devices used to infect computers;

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/352998/USB_Devices_Guilty_in_Many_Malware_Attacks

Fake AV infections

Found and cleaned 3 infections in the last week of fake antivirus malware off windows machines. The last one I finally checked out what it was named: Rogue Security Suite. I was able to boot off a Linux CD to access the boot disk and remove the malware. It drops itself in Docs & Settings \ username \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ "something strange". The "something strange" is 8 to 10 characters that are meaningless. On one of the machines the hosts file was messed up, not sure if the malware did that, but I've been checking that on every machine (windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

After doing a Google search, apparently it also sets up a proxy connection for IE - need to go back and check that on the machines I cleaned.

Firefox plugin check

Mozilla has a page to check your FireFox plugins for Java / Shockwave Flash / QuickTime and more. It's a real easy way to do a quick checkup on those pieces that are not so obvious to find version numbers or find a manual update button.