Six years ago, when I was an undergrad B.Sc. chemistry major in the Midwest, I took a tour of the area police crime lab. At the time the police had a "cutting edge" SGI system which allowed them to exchange via a network close-up photographs of bullets for comparison in a database. The idea was that the imaging system helped them to match up bullets being fired from the same gun (rifling leaves a signature) in an effort to catch trigger-happy interstate criminals. I have no doubt that this system could use improvements and integration with open source image analysis tools at this point. Good luck with your ambition. Forensics is one of the broadest areas, because it is at the interface between law and medicine/science/technology - anything that can be used in a courtroom, really.
For interested non-Mac Slashdot readers, David Pogue was an early champion of Hotline (Mac warez tool of choice) and MP3 before it hit the bigtime. He wrote humorous and interesting stuff for the inside back cover of MacWorld before Andy Inahtko did and some time after John Dvorak. Now he has Pogue press (affiliated with O'Reily Books) and writes for the NYTimes. check www.pogueman.com for his web site.
Am I the only one to notice that the Mac postings on Slashdot are getting hardly any comments? Well, here's my contribution to the cause of getting the apple.slashdot.org site off the ground. Good luck with it.
That's right, not a yagi but a yogi antenna. It is similar to a yagi (classic unidirectional antenna) but has logarithmic descending elements. In a traditional yagi antenna, all elements in the array are the same size/shape.
I hooked one up to my TiBook via a hacked-together pigtail and lucent/orinoco connector to avoid the weak internal TiBook antenna, and got about 12 dBi out of it, this with no external power. For some yogi antenna info, see: www.ve3gk.com/stacked.htm
If you work on or with proteins (structural biology, biophysics, etc.) you will find this book to be largely a waste of time. An earlier slashdotter said it: there is more to biology than genomics. O'Reilly should stick to unix, leave the science for the peer-reviewed journals. Amen.
P.S. If you want an intro to some field in biology, read up on TIBS (Trends in Biological Science for the uninitiated.)
Its about the document format. Microsoft controls the future of what is called.doc file and what isn't. Same with.xls spreadsheets. Any desktop will need robust interaction and access to the future of those file formats.
The weak link in Microsoft accomplishing an Office on Linux or Free/Net/OpenBSD, unfortunately, is XFree86. Apple gets around this with Aqua/Quartz and video-card integration (nVidia and ATI).
Supermount that's distributed with Mandrake 7.0 "Air" is excellent. It removes the "mount/mnt/cdrom" and "umount/mnt/cdrom" from casual use. Very nice - should be standard on all distros as far as I'm concerned.
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I strongly suspect that people at Slashdot are deleting messages relevent to its IPO today. Sounds like good news in general, though since it closed above $60 per share. I wonder whether the hosting of comments by readers regarding the Andover.net falls under SEC quiet period scrutiny. How closely is this "open forum" being moderated? I suppose if you're reading this message, they were honest enough to let some of them through.;)
What are the chances that a ton of Andover.net investors will flip their shares for VA Linux tomorrow? That has GOT to be on Malda's mind tonight. Speaking of whom, congratulations on the 143k shares there Malda. Remember me when you come into your own...
It has become an open-source and Linux developer custom to post screenshots of your software so people can get a taste of it before they commit to a nice chunky download.
Why don't we kindly suggest to Lotus that they consider following this custom.
Right after the news broke, CNBC announcers were arguing that Microsoft will shortly no longer be in a monopoly position anyway. [uh huh]
They argued that PC sales were flat, mostly replacement, no real innovation happening, and that the real growing markets are in handhelds. If that's the case, then why does anyone expect Windows 2000 to make more money than any other operating system to date?
Look at all the "capitalists" get in a tizzy over this decision. Well, in their world, the stock price is the end-all-be-all and, look, oh my! their shares are WAY down in after-hours trading.
Let the arraignment begin.
P.S. Does anyone have a link to an online version of the document they can post?
I _might_ forgive Governor-dot-head-Celucci if he'd see that the Big-dot-Dig got done. But seriously, any road construction project which needs a web site to explain its delinguency and delays is overdue for a reprioritization. If you don't believe me, see: http://www.bigdig.com/ I live here folks, mv.commonwealth/mass*/dev/null/ If you're enjoying life as a tech worker in Southern California, load the.commonwealth web site, back slowly away from your browser and do not come here. It's a great place for biotech, but biotech is old news and any Harvard or MIT technology investor worth his nuts will tell you that.
Your comments are dead on. Traditional academia is about being a highly specialized expert in a very particular field. The internet is not about specialism. It's about putting the cumulative power of those specialists into the hands of the world. You are right now where you want to be: having the time to read this comment and retaining the ability to direct your own course of action. Dedicating your life to scientific discovery or some highly technical computer feat is not only exhausting, but expensive, and in many ways not the reward people idealize it to be. But academia demands this for years on end. Its a little disillusioning when you get to grad. school or your post-doc and find out that "the experts" are scrabbling Wall Street players like the rest of the world. If the universities are merely intent upon changing the world, know that you can do that more efficiently without them.
I'm not affiliated with BNL, but merely someone who has been to Brookhaven National Lab with the past few months and seen some of the open source apps they have on the synchrotron floor. I highly recommend attendance of this one. Can't wait for Oct. 2. The macromolecularguys and many others at the NSLS have Linux boxes all over the place, folks, doing anything you can imagine. Can't wait to see an organized display of the OSOS stuff being worked on.
Gotta get front-row tickets for this event. Any scientists from the Boston area want to carpool down to BNL via the Long Island Ferry? It's on a Saturday but I can't think of a better reason to play hookie, personally. email me at: ubiquitin@crystallography.net
Would be cool to have a radio transmitter in Rasterman's car so all his admiring fans can track him across the country.
But seriously, if I was in his path and not in Boston I'd offer to take him out to dinner when he passed through my town. Surely there are others who can offer appropriate hospitality to a road-weary hacker.
Note to Malda: the meat pie comment is just so 'leet. Stick to the news, pal. Just keep doing that thing you do.
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Six years ago, when I was an undergrad B.Sc. chemistry major in the Midwest, I took a tour of the area police crime lab. At the time the police had a "cutting edge" SGI system which allowed them to exchange via a network close-up photographs of bullets for comparison in a database. The idea was that the imaging system helped them to match up bullets being fired from the same gun (rifling leaves a signature) in an effort to catch trigger-happy interstate criminals. I have no doubt that this system could use improvements and integration with open source image analysis tools at this point. Good luck with your ambition. Forensics is one of the broadest areas, because it is at the interface between law and medicine/science/technology - anything that can be used in a courtroom, really.
For interested non-Mac Slashdot readers, David Pogue was an early champion of Hotline (Mac warez tool of choice) and MP3 before it hit the bigtime. He wrote humorous and interesting stuff for the inside back cover of MacWorld before Andy Inahtko did and some time after John Dvorak. Now he has Pogue press (affiliated with O'Reily Books) and writes for the NYTimes. check www.pogueman.com for his web site.
Am I the only one to notice that the Mac postings on Slashdot are getting hardly any comments? Well, here's my contribution to the cause of getting the apple.slashdot.org site off the ground. Good luck with it.
I see apple.slashdot.org is running on a linux server. Further evidence that OS X is really a client-side unix build.
I'd expect a dual gigahertz Mac would handle the traffic, why not give it a go?
That's right, not a yagi but a yogi antenna. It is similar to a yagi (classic unidirectional antenna) but has logarithmic descending elements. In a traditional yagi antenna, all elements in the array are the same size/shape.
I hooked one up to my TiBook via a hacked-together pigtail and lucent/orinoco connector to avoid the weak internal TiBook antenna, and got about 12 dBi out of it, this with no external power. For some yogi antenna info, see: www.ve3gk.com/stacked.htm
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/tibs or find it at your library.
If you work on or with proteins (structural biology, biophysics, etc.) you will find this book to be largely a waste of time. An earlier slashdotter said it: there is more to biology than genomics. O'Reilly should stick to unix, leave the science for the peer-reviewed journals. Amen.
P.S. If you want an intro to some field in biology, read up on TIBS (Trends in Biological Science for the uninitiated.)
Its about the document format. Microsoft controls the future of what is called .doc file and what isn't. Same with .xls spreadsheets. Any desktop will need robust interaction and access to the future of those file formats.
The weak link in Microsoft accomplishing an Office on Linux or Free/Net/OpenBSD, unfortunately, is XFree86. Apple gets around this with Aqua/Quartz and video-card integration (nVidia and ATI).
See this link http://www.macgimp.org/source/
It is worth checking out Peertal.com, a news site for the P2P sector.
So where's this new puppy located?
Mac developers face many of the same issues. Similar suggestions appreciated.
Supermount that's distributed with Mandrake 7.0 "Air" is excellent. It removes the "mount /mnt/cdrom" and "umount /mnt/cdrom" from casual use. Very nice - should be standard on all distros as far as I'm concerned.
I strongly suspect that people at Slashdot are deleting messages relevent to its IPO today. Sounds like good news in general, though since it closed above $60 per share. I wonder whether the hosting of comments by readers regarding the Andover.net falls under SEC quiet period scrutiny. How closely is this "open forum" being moderated? I suppose if you're reading this message, they were honest enough to let some of them through. ;)
What are the chances that a ton of Andover.net investors will flip their shares for VA Linux tomorrow? That has GOT to be on Malda's mind tonight. Speaking of whom, congratulations on the 143k shares there Malda. Remember me when you come into your own...
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It has become an open-source and Linux developer custom to post screenshots of your software so people can get a taste of it before they commit to a nice chunky download.
Why don't we kindly suggest to Lotus that they consider following this custom.
Right after the news broke, CNBC announcers were arguing that Microsoft will shortly no longer be in a monopoly position anyway. [uh huh]
They argued that PC sales were flat, mostly replacement, no real innovation happening, and that the real growing markets are in handhelds. If that's the case, then why does anyone expect Windows 2000 to make more money than any other operating system to date?
Look at all the "capitalists" get in a tizzy over this decision. Well, in their world, the stock price is the end-all-be-all and, look, oh my! their shares are WAY down in after-hours trading.
Let the arraignment begin.
P.S. Does anyone have a link to an online version of the document they can post?
I _might_ forgive Governor-dot-head-Celucci if he'd see that the Big-dot-Dig got done. But seriously, any road construction project which needs a web site to explain its delinguency and delays is overdue for a reprioritization. If you don't believe me, see: http://www.bigdig.com/ I live here folks, mv .commonwealth/mass* /dev/null/ If you're enjoying life as a tech worker in Southern California, load the .commonwealth web site, back slowly away from your browser and do not come here. It's a great place for biotech, but biotech is old news and any Harvard or MIT technology investor worth his nuts will tell you that.
Your comments are dead on. Traditional academia is about being a highly specialized expert in a very particular field. The internet is not about specialism. It's about putting the cumulative power of those specialists into the hands of the world. You are right now where you want to be: having the time to read this comment and retaining the ability to direct your own course of action. Dedicating your life to scientific discovery or some highly technical computer feat is not only exhausting, but expensive, and in many ways not the reward people idealize it to be. But academia demands this for years on end. Its a little disillusioning when you get to grad. school or your post-doc and find out that "the experts" are scrabbling Wall Street players like the rest of the world. If the universities are merely intent upon changing the world, know that you can do that more efficiently without them.
I'm not affiliated with BNL, but merely someone who has been to Brookhaven National Lab with the past few months and seen some of the open source apps they have on the synchrotron floor. I highly recommend attendance of this one. Can't wait for Oct. 2. The macromolecular guys and many others at the NSLS have Linux boxes all over the place, folks, doing anything you can imagine. Can't wait to see an organized display of the OSOS stuff being worked on.
Gotta get front-row tickets for this event. Any scientists from the Boston area want to carpool down to BNL via the Long Island Ferry? It's on a Saturday but I can't think of a better reason to play hookie, personally. email me at: ubiquitin@crystallography.net
Would be cool to have a radio transmitter in Rasterman's car so all his admiring fans can track him across the country.
But seriously, if I was in his path and not in Boston I'd offer to take him out to dinner when he passed through my town. Surely there are others who can offer appropriate hospitality to a road-weary hacker.
Note to Malda: the meat pie comment is just so 'leet. Stick to the news, pal. Just keep doing that thing you do.