At our group at our university, we use a lot of diverse programs for several bioinformatics projects.
Some students might like the idea of having a linux system at home, just like what they work on with great pleasure at the university. This while not having to fear their windows to be destroyed somehow.
One of the first things at work will be to check out this knoppix edition and see how useful it can get.
The only thing I seem to get out of it is a dialog box with the very cryptic message "Error launching browser window: no XBL binding for browser". Looking for it in google, it seemed to be a problem with browser uptime or firebird 0.7 for Mac, but it should have been solved in 0.7.1 for Mac. Why is this bug troubling me in 0.8? I have it for both GTK and GTK2+XFT releases.
There. That needed to be said. Maybe somebody managed to download the file before the/. crowd came in. It could be appreciated by a couple of people in here.
I haven't seen new updates on the JPL web site for over a day. What's wrong with it? Or has it started some secret stuff they don't want us to see? Or am I paranoia?
... do they really want to keep the bionicle products? Maybe they're doing a good thing by involving more girls into building toys by keeping the clikits. Boys need bricks and stuff that allows them to be creative. They don't need 200 bionicle sets that still doesn't allow them to build a house. Where are the good old days that lego was selling boxes that had about 5 designs, and enough pieces that allowed you to plenty more designs of your own. I'm amazed that the bionicle products are profitable. After I bought one, I promised never to buy one ever again, as it didn't give me a better collection of bricks that allowed me to do more fun projects. (Note that the mindstorms set was great as there are over 700 regular technic building pieces in that one)
"Maglev in depth" in parent is a fake link that goes to a picture of a rocket just taking off of its pad. Too bad, as I was looking for a real Maglev in depth article:(
Isn't Lego being a bit harsh on itself after a down year in sales? They were still profitable in 2002. I can't find the profit and loss numbers of the previous years, although statements have been made that 1998 was Lego's first loss year.
I have a mindstorms set, I really like the technic boxes, and I'm amazed Lego's sole interest for the future would be in 0-7 year olds. All of the young boys (7-10 year olds) in my neighborhood and family still seem to be getting huge piles of Lego blocks...
A similar thjought came to my mind. I already envision grave diggers pulling out bodies in order for them to steal the tags. Or eyeballs for retina scans. Or hands for palm scans.
You could probably get equally good results with plain hill-climbing.
This problem is complex enough (the combinations you need for good optimization of your code are fragile when other chunks of options are taken out) for the hillclimber to get easily stuck in a local minimum. It's probably a good idea to use something different than the local search, and maybe add some annealing, tabus, or populations, and I think the choice of a GA is very suitable for the problem.
If this guy had demonstrated that a GA did better than a plain hill-climber, he'd have an interesting result. But he hasn't demonstrated that.
Whether this guy's algorithm is better than yours is up to you to show, not to him. The author of the article provided a very clear presentation of the problem, and the genetic algorithm can easily bring him a well performing result. The conclusions give insights that were not documented or explored before. At least, that is what I call a result.
Parent poster obviously did not look at the link in the article, which actually links to citeseer. So I can only say two things about this: RTFA and mod down parent.
Debian makes installing almost entirely painless - you just type "apt-get install packagename"
"up2date packagename" is probably to hard to figure out? It does just that. And the list of possible packages is not limited anyway by redhat network or the likes, as up2date is using apt-get in the background in fedora.
As some people might experience/. problems on mail-archive:
What happens when I assign patches in the "Cygwin Xserver" project to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Does an email go out to everyone with CVS commit access? Is there a single person that receives this email? Should I be assigning patches to a specific person to ensure timely commits?
I realize that a feature freeze is in place now... this is a general questions for "normal" times so that I know how to assign my bugs to when I want them to get committed.
I've been using firebird for a long time now, and I'm pretty happy with it. I want to start 0.7 now, but none of the mirros is carrying it yet, and ftp.mozilla.org is currently being slashdotted (of course). Anyone know of a mirror carrying firebird 0.7 yet?
Maybe mozilla should start offering bittorrents too during the periods they expect flash crowds.
Your parent gave a very good answer to my question (its parent) on what DNS wildcarding actually is, in contrast with the cryptographic descriptions I discovered while googling. So I personalle don't think there's a reason for modding down.
People in the threads of this article have written scripts that can write in scrmable English in under 5 minutes. Reversing the process in order to still recognize the letters of the words "penis" is just a little bit trickier, but can be done in under 10. So I think it's pretty easy to fit spam filters with this newborn feature.
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Too bad they have provided only a limited list of syntax files. As an example, there is no syntax highlighting file for C++ programs yet.
What abbreviation will this project get? KDE-Qt?
At our group at our university, we use a lot of diverse programs for several bioinformatics projects.
Some students might like the idea of having a linux system at home, just like what they work on with great pleasure at the university. This while not having to fear their windows to be destroyed somehow.
One of the first things at work will be to check out this knoppix edition and see how useful it can get.
The only thing I seem to get out of it is a dialog box with the very cryptic message "Error launching browser window: no XBL binding for browser". Looking for it in google, it seemed to be a problem with browser uptime or firebird 0.7 for Mac, but it should have been solved in 0.7.1 for Mac. Why is this bug troubling me in 0.8? I have it for both GTK and GTK2+XFT releases.
There. That needed to be said. Maybe somebody managed to download the file before the /. crowd came in. It could be appreciated by a couple of people in here.
I haven't seen new updates on the JPL web site for over a day. What's wrong with it? Or has it started some secret stuff they don't want us to see? Or am I paranoia?
... do they really want to keep the bionicle products? Maybe they're doing a good thing by involving more girls into building toys by keeping the clikits. Boys need bricks and stuff that allows them to be creative. They don't need 200 bionicle sets that still doesn't allow them to build a house. Where are the good old days that lego was selling boxes that had about 5 designs, and enough pieces that allowed you to plenty more designs of your own. I'm amazed that the bionicle products are profitable. After I bought one, I promised never to buy one ever again, as it didn't give me a better collection of bricks that allowed me to do more fun projects. (Note that the mindstorms set was great as there are over 700 regular technic building pieces in that one)
"Maglev in depth" in parent is a fake link that goes to a picture of a rocket just taking off of its pad. Too bad, as I was looking for a real Maglev in depth article :(
Isn't Lego being a bit harsh on itself after a down year in sales? They were still profitable in 2002. I can't find the profit and loss numbers of the previous years, although statements have been made that 1998 was Lego's first loss year.
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I have a mindstorms set, I really like the technic boxes, and I'm amazed Lego's sole interest for the future would be in 0-7 year olds. All of the young boys (7-10 year olds) in my neighborhood and family still seem to be getting huge piles of Lego blocks
Did you know that "nu" in dutch means "now"? A lot of dutch websites have thus used this TLD as some think it's cool.
A similar thjought came to my mind. I already envision grave diggers pulling out bodies in order for them to steal the tags. Or eyeballs for retina scans. Or hands for palm scans.
I second that.
You could probably get equally good results with plain hill-climbing.
This problem is complex enough (the combinations you need for good optimization of your code are fragile when other chunks of options are taken out) for the hillclimber to get easily stuck in a local minimum. It's probably a good idea to use something different than the local search, and maybe add some annealing, tabus, or populations, and I think the choice of a GA is very suitable for the problem.
If this guy had demonstrated that a GA did better than a plain hill-climber, he'd have an interesting result. But he hasn't demonstrated that.
Whether this guy's algorithm is better than yours is up to you to show, not to him. The author of the article provided a very clear presentation of the problem, and the genetic algorithm can easily bring him a well performing result. The conclusions give insights that were not documented or explored before. At least, that is what I call a result.
Parent poster obviously did not look at the link in the article, which actually links to citeseer. So I can only say two things about this: RTFA and mod down parent.
Debian makes installing almost entirely painless - you just type "apt-get install packagename"
"up2date packagename" is probably to hard to figure out? It does just that. And the list of possible packages is not limited anyway by redhat network or the likes, as up2date is using apt-get in the background in fedora.
Could somebody please cache this, and maybe put it online, if needed at a European site. This is just too freaky. Thank you /. for reporting.
As some people might experience /. problems on mail-archive:
What happens when I assign patches in the "Cygwin Xserver" project to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Does an email go out to everyone with CVS commit access? Is there a single person that receives this email? Should I be assigning patches to a specific person to ensure timely commits?
I realize that a feature freeze is in place now... this is a general questions for "normal" times so that I know how to assign my bugs to when I want them to get committed.
Harold
You make an excellent point.
If ever a project was in need of a fork, and if ever some project developers were in need of an attitude readjustment - this is it.
And open source minded as we are, I bet they want your help. Or maybe, no, ehrm, they don't.
Let's enter the numbers
USA: 9,629,091 sq km (ranked 3rd largest after russia and canada)
Australia: 7,686,850 sq km (ranked 6th largest after china and brazil)
I've been using firebird for a long time now, and I'm pretty happy with it. I want to start 0.7 now, but none of the mirros is carrying it yet, and ftp.mozilla.org is currently being slashdotted (of course). Anyone know of a mirror carrying firebird 0.7 yet?
Maybe mozilla should start offering bittorrents too during the periods they expect flash crowds.
I wonder what they believe will protect their business from poaching of these ideas?
It's called "creating prior art" without patenting the stuff. That's good. It's not evil. It's the google folks.
Your parent gave a very good answer to my question (its parent) on what DNS wildcarding actually is, in contrast with the cryptographic descriptions I discovered while googling. So I personalle don't think there's a reason for modding down.
Could somebody be kind enough to explain what "wildcarding DNS" is?
People in the threads of this article have written scripts that can write in scrmable English in under 5 minutes. Reversing the process in order to still recognize the letters of the words "penis" is just a little bit trickier, but can be done in under 10. So I think it's pretty easy to fit spam filters with this newborn feature.
I am utterly amazed that I can read all of that without a single problem, even as a non-native speaker of English.