Archive for October, 2009

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SSH Tunnels For Beginners

A basic introduction to ssh tunnels: As a first puzzle, assume that a friendly administrator gave me an ssh account on her web server. However, her organization’s security scheme only allows me to get to port 22. I can ssh in, but I can’t really debug some problem with the web browser because port 80 is still blocked. Assume as well that we’ve already called up the network administrator, who offered to think about it – laughed maniacally – and hung up on us.

30Oct2009 | cdwan | 2 comments | Continued
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Binding Apple’s Open Directory from the Command Line

Here is a trick I use a couple of times a month to get finicky compute nodes in a Apple compute clusters to correctly bind to their LDAP / Open Directory master. This started working as of OS X 10.4, and to my knowledge it still works as of OS X 10.6.1.
Bioteam uses a [...]

29Oct2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Trends and Observations, October 2009

Slides from an invited talk to a group of Pharmaceutical IT folks. The topic was very broad, “trends and changes in what I’ve seen.” We used these as a jumping off point for a couple of hours of conversation.
Direct link to the slides: Click Here (or on the picture below).

26Oct2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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2009 PRISM Forum Presentation

Talk slides from the 2009 PRISM Forum SIG meeting on “Biomarker Discovery” have been posted here. The talk was a short one and pretty non-technical – aimed at listing out some of the key problems and focus areas in environments where the scientific protocols and technology changes faster than the underlying research IT infrastructure.

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19Oct2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Maximizing Utility on the Cloud

For the 2009 BioIT World Conference in Europe I was invited with short notice to give a 60 minute talk centering on practical Cloud approaches for life science organizations. The talk was not really technical in nature and had to hit a huge number of topic areas as well. Overall feedback was positive and a [...]

16Oct2009 | chrisdag | 1 comment | Continued
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Storage for Next-Gen Sequencing

Presenter slides from the 2009 Storage for Next-Generation Sequencing Workshop(s)

16Oct2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued