Working Remotely

Welcome to my semi-professional Fulbright blog, where I discuss topics relating to research!

Today I'm setting myself up to work remotely. I've long been a Windows user, but because the Mac terminal is functionally equivalent to the Linux terminal, I recently purchased a refurbished MacBook pro to run my simulations remotely. Anywhere I have internet access, I can simply ssh onto a University of Colorado Boulder server, give myself permission via my phone, and run all my jobs from my MacBook. 

Since my simulations generally produce large files (20GB per simulation), I have an external hard drive where I store my results, from which I can generate plots and such. I recently ran into an issue with my external hard drive: since it was formatted on Windows, it has an NTFS file system. I recently opened the drive on my Mac and found I only had 'read' access! Luckily, I found Paragon, a software package that allows one to use NTFS on a Mac! So now I can use my external hard drive with both my Mac and PC laptops! Woohoo!

If you are a Windows and a Mac user, I would highly recommend it: 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Winter is Coming - Deforestation in the Chilean Patagonia

As the Fulbright project begins to take shape, I've been doing as much listening, observing, and learning as possible to understand what types of environmental problems exist in the Chilean Patagonia, so that our modeling can provide some useful or impactful information. (Maybe not a great way to do 'science' but I can't seem to separate myself from the emotional attachment to nature).  The most obvious issue in Coyhaique, Chile is air pollution , as the World Health Organization has identified .  As I speak to more Chileans, I have come to realize that this is not an isolated problem. The poor air quality is a symptom of a much larger political/economic dynamic: in neoliberal Chile, energy from diesel, gas, and electricity is 4, 5, and 6 times as expensive as energy from wood, respectively (Schueftan & Gonzalez, 2013), whereas in generally leftist Argentina, heavy subsidies make natural gas 10–20, 5-10, and 10-20 times cheaper than diesel, firewood, and electri...
Read more