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Shit. I wouldn't have settled for less than a whole synchrotron!

The Velocity measurement was to help narrow down the mass to fill in the blanks on the flavor switching. Oprea was intended to look at neutrino oscillation which was supposed to be impossible because we assumed it has no Mass. The mass is the important part of the entire project.

Mandrake Linux could save the installation choices in a file that could be used to auto install Mandrake Linux on other computers. This website describes that process for Mandrake. And SUSE Linux could perform the same task.

Surely there is something like this for Ubuntu?

Instead coming to get me, wget http://www.desy.de/gna/html/cc/Tutorial/tutorial.html and http://www.asiaing.com/animal-farm-by-george-orwell.html I'm no legal expert (I gave up on trying to understand the law), but these novels are impiratable since their copyright has expired (well, I think they have anyway). Even if they weren't if Amazon and publishers will do things like this, then they deserve all the piracy they wget!

They are hard at work for the XFEL there, digging a 3.4 kilometer tunnel through Hamburg and a surrounding canton which used to be a picturesque area before dumpster trucks started driving day and night to remove the soil. http://xfel.desy.de/

There's a script wrapper for this, it's called escrow... We've used it for a while and it's really quite handy.

In 1989 ObjC was a much better OO language than C++ but the world has moved on since C++ was simply an Object Oriented Language.

Personally I think C++ in 1989 was far less defensible than it is now. Compare the NIH Class library of 1990 or so with the 1998 ISO C++ Library, in particular the STL, or far more interestingly the BOOST libraries.

The statement "The biggest collider" is not correct, a simmilar installation, but by ways larger is the CERN in Genf (Switzerland). The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) measures about 7 Kilometers, or 4.34 Miles in Circumference. According to the CERN Website, a new gigantic collider is planned, that will measure incomprehensable 49 Kilometers in circumference. Another new hadron collider is the TESLA Installation in Hamburg (Germany). It will be a Tandem linear Collider, with it's origin in the DESY complex, wich is a pretty large Research installation itself, check their Website.

The statement "The biggest collider" is not correct, a simmilar installation, but by ways larger is the CERN in Genf (Switzerland). The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) measures about 7 Kilometers, or 4.34 Miles in Circumference. According to the CERN Website, a new gigantic collider is planned, that will measure incomprehensable 49 Kilometers in circumference. Another new hadron collider is the TESLA Installation in Hamburg (Germany). It will be a Tandem linear Collider, with it's origin in the DESY complex, wich is a pretty large Research installation itself, check their Website.

abberjaw writes, "Physicsweb is reporting that Germany's DESY lab has been chosen as the host of the International Linear Collider."

physicsweb writes, "Particle physicists have chosen to base the proposed International Linear Collider on superconducting technology developed by an international collaboration centred on the DESY lab in Germany. The superconducting approach was chosen by an international panel ahead of a rival technology developed at Stanford in the US and the KEK lab in Japan."

Looks like abberjaw only read the title but not the first sentence of the article. In fact, site selection has not been made. abberjaw may confirm that this is so by looking at the second sentence of DESY's related press release; hopefully abberjaw can muster the patience to read that far this time. DESY would like to host the ILC and certainly this helps their chances.

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Check your hardware.

Fortran is still alive and well in the high energy physics (HEP) community... though it is fading away slowly (not as slowly as some people would like though). Up until very recently, FORTRAN was *THE* language for data analysis but is slowly being replaced by C++ in newer experiments such as BaBar at SLAC and is replacing FORTRAN for data analysis at a few older experiments such as H1 at DESY. The reason why FORTRAN is fading away so slowly is mainly because of CERNLIB which is a FORTRAN library that contains many useful functions (random numbers, matrix manipulation, data fitting etc...) As most particle physicists "grew up" using CERNLIB, it will be a while yet before FORTRAN well and truly disappears (in the HEP community anyway). Also of note, CERNLIB has now been released under the GPL, so anyone can use it. Nice.

Apple and proprietary developers have generally gotten along well with the BSD and gcc people as far as license issues go.

What?

Recently, maybe, but take a look at this link to a copy of the 1993 g++ FAQ:

Because the legal policies of Apple threaten the long-term goals of FSF, as well as the concept of free software, no support will be lent to efforts to port GNU software to Macintosh or other Apple hardware.

The FSF didn't end the boycott of Apple until 1995, and even then, they pretty much said that unless supporting MacOS was ridiculously easy, they wouldn't bother accepting patches because that might impact their effort to produce the "GNU operating system".

If you want a quick summary of the boycott, the reasons, and how the FSF eventually "forgave" Apple the same way he "forgave" KDE, you can check out this link. Frankly, I'm surprised that the FSF and Apple are managing to get along as well as they are; it speaks volumes about Apple's commitment, and about the way the FSF has matured over the years, as well.

Just have a look at this image from the construction of the Superkamiokande Neutrino Detector. The photomultiplier tubes ("mushrooms") used there are very much similar to those used for the AMANDA detector. You can see two of the AMANDA sensors here, together with the glass pressure globes they're put in before deployment.

I know this - have been working for the AMANDA group once, when we were calibrating the first PMT's for AMANDA back in 1995. It's done at Desy Zeuthen near Berlin. And we were using Linux boxes in the lab for data aquisition purposes ;-)

The nifty thing about AMANDA aren't the PMT tubes but the pressure globes they are put in (1500m of solid ice do exert some force ...). I've got one of the predecessors (used for the BAIKAL experiment) at home, it's cool telling people at a party that the salad bowl has once been at 1500m depth in Lake Baikal.

By the way, did someone notice that the AMANDA logo is a Penguin ?

Just have a look at this image from the construction of the Superkamiokande Neutrino Detector. The photomultiplier tubes ("mushrooms") used there are very much similar to those used for the AMANDA detector. You can see two of the AMANDA sensors here, together with the glass pressure globes they're put in before deployment.

I know this - have been working for the AMANDA group once, when we were calibrating the first PMT's for AMANDA back in 1995. It's done at Desy Zeuthen near Berlin. And we were using Linux boxes in the lab for data aquisition purposes ;-)

The nifty thing about AMANDA aren't the PMT tubes but the pressure globes they are put in (1500m of solid ice do exert some force ...). I've got one of the predecessors (used for the BAIKAL experiment) at home, it's cool telling people at a party that the salad bowl has once been at 1500m depth in Lake Baikal.

By the way, did someone notice that the AMANDA logo is a Penguin ?

I just came across this, and it seems to address the topic quite frankly. It is, however, wuite simplistic and provides little technical detail. Perhaps someone more familiar with the field could comment...

SLab is an excellent multitrack recorder/mixer. It is not up to snuff with ProTools yet (though no program is on any platform).

Other Linux audio related links include (sorry if some links are bad, I haven't updated this list in awhile):

Multitrack audio recording/mixing:
Ardour
Slab
Snd

Midi Sequencing:
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Brahms (I THINK this is a sequencer)

Sound editing / effects processing:
MixViews
ecasound

Audio creation (synth emulators):
Ultramaster RS-101 and Juno6 CSound
Cecilia (requires Csound)

Notation:
Lilypond
Rosegarden
Mup

Awesome pages with links to everything you wanted to know about Linux audio:
Applications for Open Sound System
Sound and MIDI software for Linux

There is in fact no less than two promising (in my opinion) systems for cubase-like midi-editing for linux.

Jazz - a non-open source, non-free project with most of the functionality I look for (I have only worked with cubase earlier) and even some nice sampler-like qualities (editing and playing samples in various ways)

kooBase(Brahms) - an open-source, free cubase-like sequencer that has reached some maturity (0.97). I haven't tried the latest versions, but it looked promising (and I am willing to forgive a lot if the software is os).

Linux.com happens to be running this article on music creation software under Linux. It mentions projects such as gAlan, a project to create an application for electronic music generation, FreeBirth, an attempt at a ReBirth clone, SoundTracker, Brahms, a MIDI sequencer, and aRts, a analog synthesizer application.
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As the old name suggests, it is a MIDI sequencer in the style of Cubase.

It is looking very promising, but at the time I last used it (a few months ago - so I may be out of date) it wasn't ready to replace Cubase.

So, a quick look on Altavista lead me to this page, where I found out the (this is low-level.. only because I have no real idea what OOP really means) jist of OOP is that the objects have control over starting and killing themselves, and they communicate with each other. So, say, would that mean that a new device would load its driver only when you called on that device.. and kill it after a period of inaction? (instead of, say, the kernel loading the module at the user's/root's command?)

If so, and that's the "only" advantage to HURD/the idea that HURD is OO programmed... how is that better? Is it a more efficient way of using processor time/system resources/memory?

Or.. what's the dealio?

(Other than that, though, I'd have to say I agree with you when you say:


"This is one of the most incredibly content-free, flame-inviting statements I've seen in the main body of an article on /. for a long time.")

Visit these sites, and try those progams out (at least view some screenshots). You'll probably be surprized. These programs may not all be as complete as the windows/dos 'original', but they are all free and under development, which means: better to come soon, and all remaining free.

www.soundtracker.org SoundTracker is a music tracking tool for Unix / X11 with a design similar to the DOS program FastTracker and the Amiga legend ProTracker.

Brahms/KooBase Brahms intends to be for Linux, what CuBase is for MacOS/Windows.

WaveForge WaveForge is a free Sound Editor. It is aimed to be a free Sound Forge Clone for Linux. All the capabilitied of the Sound forge will be (hopefully) implemented in this version.

(how did I find them? Freshmeat)

What keyboard shortcuts does windows have to lower or raise a window besided the painfully slow alt-tab? Both Windowmaker and Enlightenment have Alt-arrowdown and Alt-arrowup.

What keyboard shortcuts does windows have to move around on virtual desktops? Oh wait. windows doesn't even have that most basic GUI feature

Do you really have to click on the titlebar to move a window or aim for the four-pixel wide window borders to resize? Both WindowMaker and Enlightenment have alt-mousedrag and alt-mousedrag-leftkey to do that without needing the surgeon's aim.

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This page is a good place for music/sound software for Linux.