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This does not seem to have been mentioned before:
Niflheim at Danish University of Technology

Or the office IT guy can install this...

Dr. L0gic

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Unless, of course, you require top numerical performance from your CPU.

Compile software like an open source ab initio package, CAMPOS, with GCC and you get decent run-time performance. Compile it on P4 with Intel's compiler and math libraries and you get 2 - 2.5 times better performance.

>> In the split second before the disco ball
>> melts down to nothing, anyone in the vicinity
>> would be made very, very unhappy.
>
>Aren't people in the vicinity of disco balls very unhappy all >the time? That and people in the general vicinity of Abba >tribute bands. They're unhappy, too.

One of the first demos I saw on a C64 was playing an ABBA tune. That and the belching number 5 is alive demo. Those funny swedes.
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Sidplayer2

I'm surprised you didn't mention Verilog -- it's an HDL that is (outside of military contracting) much more popular than VHDL.
[SNIP]
The reason for mentioning VHDL as opposed to Verlog is probably that he's a european HW designer. European designers use VHDL and everyone else uses Verilog.

BTW: I'm studying electrical engineering at Technical University of Denmark and I've never written a single line of Verilog - none of the professors teach it since it would be hard to get a job in europe.

heh, reminds me of this:

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit.
As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 98 on my PC and that I am very happy with this
operating system. I also showed him the Windows 98 CD, to my surprise he threw it
into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset,
because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.'
After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close
look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier
than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the
central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen
before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of
a great depth:

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C 20 4F6E65204F5320746 F2066696E64207468656D2CDA4F6E65204F5320746F2062726 96E67207468656D20 616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062 696E64207468656D

'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.
'No,' he said 'but I can. The letters
are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not
utter here. But in common English this is what it says:

One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

I put up a mirror here (fast connection, hit it as hard as you can...)

And now I got killed off by the lameness filter, what's up with that, anyways?

Bo

Haploid Genome Sizes (collected from various sources):

Arabidopsis thaliana: 1.17 x 10^8 bp, ~25,000 genes.

Well, these guys claim they can switch a single hydrogen atom between two silicon atoms.

Check out the press release

And the slashdot discussion about it

It's not just for GUI, you know :)

For a web-server you can have either:

• mod_dtcl in your Apache
• install NeoWebScript, which is an Apache with TCL and tons of TCL extensions
• use AOLServer -- don't let the name scare you, it is a highly-optimized multi-threaded web server. Its main features include database connection-pooling and a powerful Tcl API for application development
• install tclhttpd -- a web-server written entirely in TCL (with SSL support available), which works quite well for me

Your database may be MySQL or PostgreSQL (my preference).

PostgreSQL can be built with TCL support (a client library loadable into a TCL interpreter) and a server-side extension allowing you to write server-side procedures in TCL (not anemic at all, IMHO). Postgres can be built to support SSL connections and comes with pgaccess -- a fairly powerfull database browsing and management GUI-tool (written in TCL/TK).

For MySQL there are also at least two TCL-extensions that provide for TCL access to its client API:

• mysqltcl
• TCL-mySQL

For distributed objects, etc. you could use TCL-DP. Don't let the word beta scare you -- it does wonders. The remote ends can even talk over e-mail!

And there is nothing to beat TCL/TK for a cross-platform front-end application! That's a given...

-mi

P.S. It sucks that paragraph-tags can not have attributes in /. comments. IMHO <p align="justify"> is perfectly valid and quite desirable for a paragraph with over 120 characters...

All right, I don't know very much about authentication under linux, but:

At my university we have a shitload of Sunray2's terminals. The have a smartcard reader, which is, as the person asks, used for authentication. This is the way it works: instead of logging in and out, you just throw in your smartcard. This is not the cool part, the cool part is, that, when you insert your card, your desktop comes up exactly like you left it. Programs and files open, window positions, the works.

So, getting the authentication part should be possible, but getting the "desktop popping up the ay you left it" is the tricky part, at least if you ask me.



or else I'm just drunk and babbling about stuff I don't get...?

FreeCiv, NiL, Pingus, XPilot, NetHack, Crystal Space, GFingerPoken, Koules, Liquid War, XConq, WorldForge, SpellCast. To name the tip of the iceberg; I don't have time to do this all day :)

Or, in other words: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Cheers,
Daniel

Does anyone have links to similar contests?

Genomic (and anti-genomics) Links [To Top]

Mapping the Icelandic Genome. "An Anthropology of the scientific, political, economic, religious, and ethical issues surrounding the deCode Project and its global implications." Contains useful pointers.

Indigenous people's coalition against biopiracy.

The Human Genome Diversity Project as explained by Stanford Professor and posted on the U.N. website.

Various UN reports on the Genome question.

An Outline : Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) Background.

Cultural Survival has issue 20.2 (sum 1996) dedicated to 'Genes, People, and Property' issues.

The archive for discover magazine. Nov. 1994 issue has a few articles about genome and diversity.

The gene letter. The Nov. 96 issue has an HGDP article.

High school lesson plan for teaching students about the HGDP.

"The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome." An excellent book review with bibliography and online resources.

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has a Bibliography Page about the HGP.

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of the HGP.

The Human Genome Diversity Project: Scientific, Social and Ethical Issues .

A list of articles from Native-L mailing list, listing all articles related to HGDP posted to the list.

Six papers given at various genome-related conferences. Topics include:

*"Why Human Genetics is a Social Science"
* "Racism, Eugenics, and the Burdens of History"
* "Scientific and Folk Idea About Heredity"
* "The Spectrum of Human Variation"
* "The Human Germ-Plasm Project: Eugenics in the 1920s and the 1990s."

Native net letter to HGDP scientists.

Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity Project - Special Competition.

Molecular Anthropology Symposium at Stanford.

Seeds of Destruction. A must read for anyone who eats french fries or is concerned with genetically modified crops.

Also see Patents and Jumpstations.

Comics [To Top]

Angels of Health/Medicine Cartoon by Quino. Here is another one of a dis-orderly girl.

Patent$ and Thing$ [To Top]

An Upside article discussing patents and its history. Very informative.

Gene Patents and Bioethics.

6,000 human gene patents sought in BBC News and also the Washington Post.

American Society of Human Genetics Position Paper on Patenting of Expressed Sequence Tags.

of course the list is continually updated, ... hope this helps, bobbaqATyouknowHOO

They are _extremely_ dumb, not even X terminals. Instead you have a terminalserver, that runs one X server for each SunRay terminal. Then the bitmapped graphics is transfered over the network, in some compressed format, all the terminal does is send the keyboard and mouse events the other way, and put the graphics in the framebuffer. Exactly like VNC and Citrix, not something that sounds very intelligent.

I have only used them briefly, but they actually seem very fast. Ofcourse I don't know how they stack up under heavy load. Don't expect fullscreen MPEG on them though

Tech details: 1280x1024 @ 76 Hz

24-bit colors

10/100 Mbit Ethernet connection

Composite video input

Stereo audio out/Mono microphone in

4 USB port

ISSO approved smart card reader

The setup is 100 terminals, with 50 each on a Sun250 Terminalserver (Dual USparcII, 2G ram)

These only do the graphics, 50 X servers on each there is a HPC6500 for the CPU power with a couple of E10K to come.

I don't know if the page describing the new setup is available from the outside but try:

Databar update

Morten Olsen (not AC)

You can also check out Octave which may have somethings. This is a language similar to MATLAB. There is a toolbox that will work under MATLAB (and maybe Octave) from the Technical University of Denmark located here. By the structure of MATLAB and Octave, the source code is usually "open" (read: you can look at it) and it is in this case as well.

I have made the i386 RPM available here (for a short time).
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