Another problem they never mention are artifacts from the chemical protocol; just the other day we found a very unusual anomaly that indicated the first 1/3 of all our reads was absolutely crap (usually only the last few bases are unreliable); turned out our slight modification of the Illumina protocol to tailor it to studying epigenomic effects had quite large effects of the sequencing reactions later on.
Do you have any more details about this? I'm working on solexa sequencing of ChIP DNA with (modified) histone and transcription factor targets. These runs are expensive so it would be nice to avoid problems that someone else has already gone through.
Government support is unlikely, according to this excerpt from the FAQ: ----- 6. Why can't I e-file with this program?
Because of the lack of cooperation of the IRS and the API. When I wrote to the IRS regarding this, I received the following reply:
Thank you for your inquiry.
The government believes that private industry, given its established expertise and experience in the field of electronic tax preparation, has a proven track record in providing the best technology and services available. In addition, the government believes a partnership with private industry will: provide taxpayers with higher quality services by using the existing expertise of the private sector; maximize consumer choice; promote competition within the marketplace; and meet objectives in the least costly manner to taxpayers.
We hope the above information will prove helpful to you.
Sincerely, The IRS Website Support Team
I suspect that there will either need to be an outcry, or we will need to present this project as a corporation of sorts for cooperation from the IRS. For more info, see the previous FAQ entry. -----
KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram
I disagree. Just a couple of weeks ago, I installed slackware-current on a laptop hard drive fitted inside an i-opener upgraded to an AMD cpu running at 200MHz and 128mb RAM. KDE 3.4 was usable enough with the 2.6 kernel running. This is just an anecdote, but still...
The article is somewhat light on facts. From what I recall, during drowning or suffocation, brain damage occurs in humans quite soon (10 minutes?). How is it that this process negates the lack of oxygen to the brain, allowing no damage to occur? Is it the temperature of the liquid used for replacing the blood?
Also, the article has "Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved." followed immediately by "Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery." So, which is it?
I suppose we'll have to wait for a real scientific journal to publish this before we find out much more.
I suspected that as well, but I have a stick of Corsair installed, and I tested the hell out of it with memtest86, with no issues found. Like another poster said, I think it's the Promise IDE controller.
Wondering what the patent was all about, I did a search. Here is the Abstract:
An FM transmitter and power supply/charging assembly electrically coupleable with an MP3 player. The assembly includes a modular docking unit having a main body portion with a docking cavity therein, wherein the main body portion contains the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, with coupling means in the docking cavity for connecting the MP3 player with the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, to accommodate FM transmission by the FM transmitter of audio content when played by the MP3 player in the docking cavity of the modular docking unit, and adapted for transmitting electrical power through the modular docking unit and the power/charging circuitry therein, for charging of a battery of the MP3 player and/or powering of the MP3 player.
How about some patent reform? I thought these things need to be non-obvious...
This is a bit off-topic, but I want to share my most recent experience with linux-raid
A few months ago, I decided I'd put together a RAID5 system in a dedicated box, to be used as network storage. I put together a Duron 1.6 on an ECS (I know!) K7VTA3, 512mb RAM, a Promise IDE controller, and 4 200GB drives. I figured the kernel-based software raid would be fine for my purposes.
I installed linux to a normal partition, then set up the RAID array. Everything seemed fine. I set up samba/nfs shares and ftp. Files seemed to transfer just fine. But for some reason, if I transfered a large file over the network directly to the RAID, the md5sum would have changed, no matter how I transfered it. To make things even more strange, if I transferred to a non-RAID partition, then directly used mv or cp to place it on the RAID partition, it worked great. Strange.
I never quite figured it out what was wrong, and I scrapped the project, with the intention to try again with some more decent hardware. Any ideas as to what happened?
I personally don't find the taskbar functionality lacking at all (and the "plugin" comes packaged with gaim). Almost every feature you need is included, or comes as an easy to use plugin. My blurb about gtk2 was intended to show that yes, you can do "skinning" with gaim, and as a bonus, in a way that can interoperate with other applications (which happens to be mostly irrelevant in win32). Your inability to select an appealing theme for your tastes is most certainly not the fault of gtk2 or gaim.
Your complaints make it sound like you have tried gaim in a long time. It has come a long way recently, and you should try it again, in my opinion, before blasting it so much.
And finally, Trillian may be "free", but it is not "Free", as I had posted. For some people, the ability to make changes to the source actually has some usefulness. Plus, you can redistribute it basically however you wish.
Gaim, my own preferred IM client, is available as a free downloadable win32 exe. It supports just about every protocol (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, jabber, IRC, etc), has tabbed messaging, and also lacks ads.
Since it's gtk2 based, you can apply whatever themes you want to it (and it will also integrate into your desktop that way if you happen to run it under linux). And the free gaim-encryption plugin allows secure messaging as well, in an easy to setup/use interface. In addition to all these features, it's Free, unlike Trillian.
You know it lets you choose the install path right?
Well, if you recall, I converted the rpm to a tgz slackware package. Thus, I couldn't choose the path, and it also wasn't really an executable installer. Rather, slackware pkg-tools just stuck the files into the proper places, and made a record of the files elsewhere for future removal.
I've been using this for several days under slackware, and I must say I'm impressed. It loads quickly enough (though not as fast as xpdf), but it fits right into my desktop as far as widgets go, and the rendering looks great! The printing support also work fine with the KDE system (you just tell it to print to "kprinter"), and so far I haven't experienced the weird orientation issues I sometimes get with landscape-oriented documents printing improperly.
As far as installation goes, I just used rpm2tgz to convert the downloaded rpm into a slackpack then used installpkg. I had to create a symlink to the executable, which was/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread.
My biggest gripe so far is the annoying, but thankfully small, banner add in the top right corner advertising random Adobe services, but it's not *too* intrusive. Here is a screenshot.
I'm waiting for their long-awaited IM program to come out. It would be very nice to have a Mozilla-based IM program.
IIRC, versions 6/7 of netscape included a built in AOL client (at least for the linux version). Of course, it was fairly unusable when compared to something such as gaim, but it was there. I'm unaware as to whether the new firefox-based version of netscape includes it, though.
If you want to block the javascript popups, just use the Adblock extension. Not only can it block images, but also scripts and flash and just about everything else. Combined with wildcards, you can block out everything from most major web advertising places, including most of those nasty js popup scripts.
What I'd like is a slackware package builder that does it all for me so I can then install the package and distribute it for others. Oh, and a money tree wouldn't go a miss, along with a frictionless enviro-friendly engine... thanks!!
Try checkinstall. You run it as the final step instead of "make install", and it will automagically generate and install a package for you. It runs perfectly for me under slackware 10/10.1. I think a tgz is available in the slackware extras/ directory, even.
However, I have heard complaints from people who don't like how it arranges the directory structure (putting stuff into/usr/local, etc). They may be correct, but the packages *do* work just fine on other systems.
While I won't argue with you about general sloppiness (I've never tried out that distro), I think it's necessary to understand that only a certain level of "clueless user friendly things" can be allowed.
The dialog you mentioned (link) labels the eth0 interface as "ethernet adapter". How much more abstraction can you expect? Should it be labeled "thingy that lets your magic number-adding box 'talk' to other magic number-adding boxes through a metal wire which fits into a rectangular-like hole in the back of both boxes"?
At some point, you have to expect the user to know what they're doing, or expect them to learn something. There is no way around that, short of having someone knowledgable literally hand-hold them through every step.
If you're curious as to the output of this, it is a raytracer, where you have to catch the output into a ppm file. Here is a jpg of the results, if you don't want to compile and run it yourself.
Bleh, I messed up, even after previewing. The second quote should be: Sites on the list have 30 days to stop transmitting unwanted e-mail messages, unless the recipient has given permission to receive the message.
The article is rather unclear. The main paragraph is:
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday published a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers.
So, this would make it illegal for people to spam phonenumber@cingular.com (or whatever), it appears, which makes a lot of sense, as many cellular providers are on that list of domains.
Then it goes on to say "The Federal Communications Commission on Monday published a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers.", which implies that cingular.com (as well as all the other listed sites are the ones doing the spamming. So, which is it?
Regarding the license issues of the unofficial Good Book, it is still possible for the individual writers to contribute their own portions to this new project, isn't it?
There is already an ongoing project updating the official slackware book at http://slackbook.lizella.net/. For the most part, this work provides most information about daily admin tasks that anyone would need. Why is there this new project, then?
H! He's just talking about upgrades and patches? That's accountability??? Show me a major Linux distribution that doesn't provide upgrades and patches... next show me one that is slower than Microsoft at doing it.
The only one I can think of might be Slackware, but I'm not even sure about that.
FYI, slackware is very good at patching software. It seems Pat is usually on top of things as soon as necessary. Even with his recent health problems, he designated a specific, trusted source for security patches until he resumed his duty (which he has since done). And IMHO, the slackware method of updates easily beats out any other distro (especially when paired with a tool like swaret, but that's just my own preference.
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Another problem they never mention are artifacts from the chemical protocol; just the other day we found a very unusual anomaly that indicated the first 1/3 of all our reads was absolutely crap (usually only the last few bases are unreliable); turned out our slight modification of the Illumina protocol to tailor it to studying epigenomic effects had quite large effects of the sequencing reactions later on.
Do you have any more details about this? I'm working on solexa sequencing of ChIP DNA with (modified) histone and transcription factor targets. These runs are expensive so it would be nice to avoid problems that someone else has already gone through.
Try this link: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run
How about a direct link to the page where you can pre-order the album (in either form)? http://www.inrainbows.com/
Government support is unlikely, according to this excerpt from the FAQ:
-----
6. Why can't I e-file with this program?
Because of the lack of cooperation of the IRS and the API. When I wrote to the IRS regarding this, I received the following reply:
Thank you for your inquiry.
The government believes that private industry, given its established expertise and experience in the field of electronic tax preparation, has a proven track record in providing the best technology and services available. In addition, the government believes a partnership with private industry will: provide taxpayers with higher quality services by using the existing expertise of the private sector; maximize consumer choice; promote competition within the marketplace; and meet objectives in the least costly manner to taxpayers.
We hope the above information will prove helpful to you.
Sincerely,
The IRS Website Support Team
I suspect that there will either need to be an outcry, or we will need to present this project as a corporation of sorts for cooperation from the IRS. For more info, see the previous FAQ entry.
-----
KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram
I disagree. Just a couple of weeks ago, I installed slackware-current on a laptop hard drive fitted inside an i-opener upgraded to an AMD cpu running at 200MHz and 128mb RAM. KDE 3.4 was usable enough with the 2.6 kernel running. This is just an anecdote, but still...
The article is somewhat light on facts. From what I recall, during drowning or suffocation, brain damage occurs in humans quite soon (10 minutes?). How is it that this process negates the lack of oxygen to the brain, allowing no damage to occur? Is it the temperature of the liquid used for replacing the blood?
Also, the article has "Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved." followed immediately by "Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery." So, which is it?
I suppose we'll have to wait for a real scientific journal to publish this before we find out much more.
Also, another attempt at hibernation, this time in mice, using a different method involving hydrogen sulfide gas.
I suspected that as well, but I have a stick of Corsair installed, and I tested the hell out of it with memtest86, with no issues found. Like another poster said, I think it's the Promise IDE controller.
Wondering what the patent was all about, I did a search. Here is the Abstract:
An FM transmitter and power supply/charging assembly electrically coupleable with an MP3 player. The assembly includes a modular docking unit having a main body portion with a docking cavity therein, wherein the main body portion contains the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, with coupling means in the docking cavity for connecting the MP3 player with the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, to accommodate FM transmission by the FM transmitter of audio content when played by the MP3 player in the docking cavity of the modular docking unit, and adapted for transmitting electrical power through the modular docking unit and the power/charging circuitry therein, for charging of a battery of the MP3 player and/or powering of the MP3 player.
How about some patent reform? I thought these things need to be non-obvious...
The full patent text is here: Patent #6,591,085
.This is a bit off-topic, but I want to share my most recent experience with linux-raid
A few months ago, I decided I'd put together a RAID5 system in a dedicated box, to be used as network storage. I put together a Duron 1.6 on an ECS (I know!) K7VTA3, 512mb RAM, a Promise IDE controller, and 4 200GB drives. I figured the kernel-based software raid would be fine for my purposes.
I installed linux to a normal partition, then set up the RAID array. Everything seemed fine. I set up samba/nfs shares and ftp. Files seemed to transfer just fine. But for some reason, if I transfered a large file over the network directly to the RAID, the md5sum would have changed, no matter how I transfered it. To make things even more strange, if I transferred to a non-RAID partition, then directly used mv or cp to place it on the RAID partition, it worked great. Strange.
I never quite figured it out what was wrong, and I scrapped the project, with the intention to try again with some more decent hardware. Any ideas as to what happened?
I personally don't find the taskbar functionality lacking at all (and the "plugin" comes packaged with gaim). Almost every feature you need is included, or comes as an easy to use plugin. My blurb about gtk2 was intended to show that yes, you can do "skinning" with gaim, and as a bonus, in a way that can interoperate with other applications (which happens to be mostly irrelevant in win32). Your inability to select an appealing theme for your tastes is most certainly not the fault of gtk2 or gaim.
Your complaints make it sound like you have tried gaim in a long time. It has come a long way recently, and you should try it again, in my opinion, before blasting it so much.
And finally, Trillian may be "free", but it is not "Free", as I had posted. For some people, the ability to make changes to the source actually has some usefulness. Plus, you can redistribute it basically however you wish.
Gaim, my own preferred IM client, is available as a free downloadable win32 exe. It supports just about every protocol (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, jabber, IRC, etc), has tabbed messaging, and also lacks ads.
Since it's gtk2 based, you can apply whatever themes you want to it (and it will also integrate into your desktop that way if you happen to run it under linux). And the free gaim-encryption plugin allows secure messaging as well, in an easy to setup/use interface. In addition to all these features, it's Free, unlike Trillian.
You know it lets you choose the install path right?
Well, if you recall, I converted the rpm to a tgz slackware package. Thus, I couldn't choose the path, and it also wasn't really an executable installer. Rather, slackware pkg-tools just stuck the files into the proper places, and made a record of the files elsewhere for future removal.
I've been using this for several days under slackware, and I must say I'm impressed. It loads quickly enough (though not as fast as xpdf), but it fits right into my desktop as far as widgets go, and the rendering looks great! The printing support also work fine with the KDE system (you just tell it to print to "kprinter"), and so far I haven't experienced the weird orientation issues I sometimes get with landscape-oriented documents printing improperly.
As far as installation goes, I just used rpm2tgz to convert the downloaded rpm into a slackpack then used installpkg. I had to create a symlink to the executable, which was /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread.
My biggest gripe so far is the annoying, but thankfully small, banner add in the top right corner advertising random Adobe services, but it's not *too* intrusive. Here is a screenshot.
I'm waiting for their long-awaited IM program to come out. It would be very nice to have a Mozilla-based IM program.
IIRC, versions 6/7 of netscape included a built in AOL client (at least for the linux version). Of course, it was fairly unusable when compared to something such as gaim, but it was there. I'm unaware as to whether the new firefox-based version of netscape includes it, though.
If you want to block the javascript popups, just use the Adblock extension. Not only can it block images, but also scripts and flash and just about everything else. Combined with wildcards, you can block out everything from most major web advertising places, including most of those nasty js popup scripts.
Instead of making the blog title "So Sue Me", he should have gone with "Sosumi", no? It makes sense in the context of the whole issue...
What I'd like is a slackware package builder that does it all for me so I can then install the package and distribute it for others. Oh, and a money tree wouldn't go a miss, along with a frictionless enviro-friendly engine ... thanks!!
Try checkinstall. You run it as the final step instead of "make install", and it will automagically generate and install a package for you. It runs perfectly for me under slackware 10/10.1. I think a tgz is available in the slackware extras/ directory, even.
However, I have heard complaints from people who don't like how it arranges the directory structure (putting stuff into /usr/local, etc). They may be correct, but the packages *do* work just fine on other systems.
While I won't argue with you about general sloppiness (I've never tried out that distro), I think it's necessary to understand that only a certain level of "clueless user friendly things" can be allowed.
The dialog you mentioned (link) labels the eth0 interface as "ethernet adapter". How much more abstraction can you expect? Should it be labeled "thingy that lets your magic number-adding box 'talk' to other magic number-adding boxes through a metal wire which fits into a rectangular-like hole in the back of both boxes"?
At some point, you have to expect the user to know what they're doing, or expect them to learn something. There is no way around that, short of having someone knowledgable literally hand-hold them through every step.
I fully support George Lucas in his endeavors to make the Star Wars films fit his original vision.
If you're curious as to the output of this, it is a raytracer, where you have to catch the output into a ppm file. Here is a jpg of the results, if you don't want to compile and run it yourself.
Bleh, I messed up, even after previewing. The second quote should be: Sites on the list have 30 days to stop transmitting unwanted e-mail messages, unless the recipient has given permission to receive the message.
The article is rather unclear. The main paragraph is:
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday published a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers.
So, this would make it illegal for people to spam phonenumber@cingular.com (or whatever), it appears, which makes a lot of sense, as many cellular providers are on that list of domains.
Then it goes on to say "The Federal Communications Commission on Monday published a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers.", which implies that cingular.com (as well as all the other listed sites are the ones doing the spamming. So, which is it?
Regarding the license issues of the unofficial Good Book, it is still possible for the individual writers to contribute their own portions to this new project, isn't it?
There is already an ongoing project updating the official slackware book at http://slackbook.lizella.net/. For the most part, this work provides most information about daily admin tasks that anyone would need. Why is there this new project, then?
H! He's just talking about upgrades and patches? That's accountability??? Show me a major Linux distribution that doesn't provide upgrades and patches... next show me one that is slower than Microsoft at doing it.
The only one I can think of might be Slackware, but I'm not even sure about that.
FYI, slackware is very good at patching software. It seems Pat is usually on top of things as soon as necessary. Even with his recent health problems, he designated a specific, trusted source for security patches until he resumed his duty (which he has since done). And IMHO, the slackware method of updates easily beats out any other distro (especially when paired with a tool like swaret, but that's just my own preference.