Check out the Watson School. There are a number of bioinformatic groups there, and I hear they are pretty good.
However, I'd recommend going to a school with a very strong CS curriculum. There are lots of people interested in bioinformatics right now, but unfortunately most think some perl or python will serve all their computing needs. It won't. The bioinformatics community needs more people with both biology knowledge _and_ a strong grounding in algorithms.
I'd say MIT certainly has the computing knowledge, and I know several CS profs at Wash U who were heavily into the genome when I was there. So one of those would be good. You'll be much better able to advance the woeful state of bioinformatics if you can help come up with better ways to store and search things, than if you spend your time writing slow and crappy cgi scripts.
Ethernet is a shared medium. In other words, all those ports go to the same place, and share the same aggregate bandwidth.
Now, if you're on switches (probably) and you were downloading from different places on different ports, you could probably get an improvement. However, I don't think it would improve things using all ports to download from the same port on the hub, because they still have to share the bandwidth incoming. This would depend on what the switch is using for uplink.
So, while it might be possible, I don't think it would do any good.
The character mode client was included in the server editions of WP7/Unix and WP8/Unix. It was essentially WP5.1/Unix, updated to read files and try to do stuff with them. It might still be available, as Corel never did WP9 for anything but Linux. However, don't expect any support on it... the company who did the work on those versions is no longer working on it.
The reason there's a W3C recommendation for MathML, and not a non-proprietary vector graphics format, is because this has been a thorn in the sides of many mathematicians and scientists for years, and they've been working hard at fixing it.
I am not aware of the history on any of the vector attempts, but I do not believe that there have been as many people working on it for as long. After all, many people have their vector needs served adequately by any of the many proprietary plugins, since all they need is for people to be able to view the output; but those needing math to communicate have a much longer history of open information sharing, and need a common language.
The specs for the A21p list a 4hr battery life. The specs for my A20p listed the same, and I definately get 4 hours out of it. And with the Ultrabay 2k battery, you could probably get a lot more.
In any case, I have no problem playing DVDs off battery for 2.5 hours (might be able to do longer, but I ran out of DVD).
You are correct that it is huge and expensive... but its battery life is among the best I've seen.
If it's like mine (a security torx screw for the pivot) it's fairly easy to find a hex bit for them. I have a hex bit for a smaller security torx screw used at an old job.
There are tons of Linux distributions, and each one has a different reason for being. Most distributions seem geared to one major point: learning how to make a distro, supporting a specific niche like small routers, being easier for Linux novices.
What's your vision for MentalUNIX? Why do you feel that you need to make your own distribution, and what specifically will your distribution do to make it fulfill that need better than existing offerings.
(The website seems to lack a clear description of the overall goal, though it has some mentions of new setup tools.)
WPO2k and Graphics for Linux have not been well recieved because they're both extremely buggy and there has been little Corel commitment to fixing them. WINE isn't the biggest problem the suites have... if they worked well, people would probably forgive wine.
Lucas's statements has been that he wants to release a good DVD, with lots of extras and such. There's no effort involved in VHS rereleases, since they're mostly just shoving the movie onto tape.
Actually, most of my spam is from Asian top-levels (mostly cn) and in some CJK encoding. (Not being able to read it, I don't know if it's _really_ US spam in a foreign language, but....)
Furthermore, much of that spam comes through the same set of systems which never seem to do anything about it.
There are a lot of _other_ ~$200 DVD players out there. The only differences between them and the PS2 is that they have wireless remotes and you can actually buy one at the moment.
Sure, they won't play games, but perceiving the PS2 as providing DVD players to the "great unwashed" is incorrect. The great unwashed can already buy cheap DVD players a whole lot easier than the PS2. (I know, because I have one.)
Inspiration isn't the only reason to have a guest speaker. Small groups have the problem that they tend to become homogenous and do things the same way. A guest speaker brings other perspectives, other experiences, new ways of doing things.
There's currently code in the kernel to handle Speedstep changes. Normally, CPU speed changes won't affect anything, as users of older laptops will know. However, as the kernel uses timing loops for some things, if the speed of your CPU changes you might experience problems when changing CPU speed, since the timing loops won't be the right duration.
That's why the speedstep changes are in there, to recalibrate the loops when the CPU changes speed. If the new CPUs use a different method to notify speed changes (or whatever, I'm not precisely sure how it works), another case will probably have to be added but it should be minimal. And running Linux before such changes are made will probably be pretty safe, you'll just have a potential for problems.
(I think the speedstep changes are in all recent 2.2 kernels, but I don't think they're user-visible in any way.)
It has gotten better. It will wait for you to enter the whole thing and hit return before telling if you got it right or wrong (TP A20p).
If you set the administrator password, and lose it, IBM will tell you the only way to fix it is to replace the mainboard. Period. Convince them you're the rightful owner, etc. and you're still screwed.
There's a company on Usenet that claims to be able to recover the admin password, but there have been no reports whether it actually works.
Ah, yes, preventing people from running their own Linux machine will keep sniffers from your network.
Well, except for your Win 9x clients. Oh, and any machine with a floppy (which can boot a DOS floppy). Oh, or laptops. But except for those, you're perfectly safe.
The LGPL differs from the GPL in that programs can link to the library without themselves being covered under the GPL.
It doesn't make any sense to LGPL an app. If it's an app, you won't be linking to it, and it's the same as if it were licensed under the GPL. You still need to distribute source, you still can call the app (as a whole) from non-free programs, etc.
The Win95 47 day bug was funny because the bug had been there a long time, and nobody had found it... implying that nobody had been able to keep a Win95 box up for 47 days.
RHL 7 has been out for two weeks. It's not even in _stores_ around here yet, but the bug has been found. It's been fixed.
Redhat 7.0 will cause more problems for newbies who want to use compiled binaries from somewhere else (fairly common) or who want to make binaries for others (fairly uncommon among newbies).
This isn't new. Every RHL *.0 release breaks binary compatibility with the previous version. That's why they upped the major version.
And, among the problems that newbies will be likely to see, there are some big ones and some small ones:
Big: Corel WPO2k and Photopaint won't install without serious work. This isn't a binary compatibility problem, actually, it's caused by the change in locations of init files and Corel's method of packaging the RPMs.
Less big, but still matters to some: Libc 5 compatibility libraries aren't there. This will affect WP8 and other older apps (someone mentioned matlab).
Maybe big, depending on your needs: C++, it's changed. Things compiled with gcc 2.96 won't link vs. C++ compiled with egcs. This will be significant for some people, but all I can think of that would affect newbies is KDE, and KDE1 on RHL7 was compiled with egcs, so it should run with any binary downloads for KDE. (I don't know how happy it will be if you try to compile vs. it, though.)
These are all pretty similar to the problems with 6.0 (Remember Star Office and realplayer headaches?) and are to be expected when you have a distribution using software released after commercial software. But even still, the vast majority of software I've used (including old binaries hanging around) have worked fine. I don't compile things on my RHL7 box and expect to run it on older boxes, but then... I never did.
I've had one job which made hiring contingent on a background check, but never an interview. I can't imagine a company which would do a background check on everyone who filled out an app. But I'm sure I wouldn't want to work there.
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Check out the Watson School. There are a number of bioinformatic groups there, and I hear they are pretty good.
However, I'd recommend going to a school with a very strong CS curriculum. There are lots of people interested in bioinformatics right now, but unfortunately most think some perl or python will serve all their computing needs. It won't. The bioinformatics community needs more people with both biology knowledge _and_ a strong grounding in algorithms.
I'd say MIT certainly has the computing knowledge, and I know several CS profs at Wash U who were heavily into the genome when I was there. So one of those would be good. You'll be much better able to advance the woeful state of bioinformatics if you can help come up with better ways to store and search things, than if you spend your time writing slow and crappy cgi scripts.
Since the point of most RPGs is to work together.
(Unfortunately, the RPG industry does seem to be a zero-sum game....)
Ethernet is a shared medium. In other words, all those ports go to the same place, and share the same aggregate bandwidth.
Now, if you're on switches (probably) and you were downloading from different places on different ports, you could probably get an improvement. However, I don't think it would improve things using all ports to download from the same port on the hub, because they still have to share the bandwidth incoming. This would depend on what the switch is using for uplink.
So, while it might be possible, I don't think it would do any good.
The character mode client was included in the server editions of WP7/Unix and WP8/Unix. It was essentially WP5.1/Unix, updated to read files and try to do stuff with them. It might still be available, as Corel never did WP9 for anything but Linux. However, don't expect any support on it... the company who did the work on those versions is no longer working on it.
It clearly said that Pac Bell wasn't blocking port 25, but that Earthlink was blocking Pac Bell's DSL users.
The reason there's a W3C recommendation for MathML, and not a non-proprietary vector graphics format, is because this has been a thorn in the sides of many mathematicians and scientists for years, and they've been working hard at fixing it.
I am not aware of the history on any of the vector attempts, but I do not believe that there have been as many people working on it for as long. After all, many people have their vector needs served adequately by any of the many proprietary plugins, since all they need is for people to be able to view the output; but those needing math to communicate have a much longer history of open information sharing, and need a common language.
The specs for the A21p list a 4hr battery life. The specs for my A20p listed the same, and I definately get 4 hours out of it. And with the Ultrabay 2k battery, you could probably get a lot more.
In any case, I have no problem playing DVDs off battery for 2.5 hours (might be able to do longer, but I ran out of DVD).
You are correct that it is huge and expensive... but its battery life is among the best I've seen.
If it's like mine (a security torx screw for the pivot) it's fairly easy to find a hex bit for them. I have a hex bit for a smaller security torx screw used at an old job.
There are tons of Linux distributions, and each one has a different reason for being. Most distributions seem geared to one major point: learning how to make a distro, supporting a specific niche like small routers, being easier for Linux novices.
What's your vision for MentalUNIX? Why do you feel that you need to make your own distribution, and what specifically will your distribution do to make it fulfill that need better than existing offerings.
(The website seems to lack a clear description of the overall goal, though it has some mentions of new setup tools.)
WPO2k and Graphics for Linux have not been well recieved because they're both extremely buggy and there has been little Corel commitment to fixing them. WINE isn't the biggest problem the suites have... if they worked well, people would probably forgive wine.
Lucas's statements has been that he wants to release a good DVD, with lots of extras and such. There's no effort involved in VHS rereleases, since they're mostly just shoving the movie onto tape.
Actually, most of my spam is from Asian top-levels (mostly cn) and in some CJK encoding. (Not being able to read it, I don't know if it's _really_ US spam in a foreign language, but....)
Furthermore, much of that spam comes through the same set of systems which never seem to do anything about it.
There are a lot of _other_ ~$200 DVD players out there. The only differences between them and the PS2 is that they have wireless remotes and you can actually buy one at the moment.
Sure, they won't play games, but perceiving the PS2 as providing DVD players to the "great unwashed" is incorrect. The great unwashed can already buy cheap DVD players a whole lot easier than the PS2. (I know, because I have one.)
Inspiration isn't the only reason to have a guest speaker. Small groups have the problem that they tend to become homogenous and do things the same way. A guest speaker brings other perspectives, other experiences, new ways of doing things.
There's currently code in the kernel to handle Speedstep changes. Normally, CPU speed changes won't affect anything, as users of older laptops will know. However, as the kernel uses timing loops for some things, if the speed of your CPU changes you might experience problems when changing CPU speed, since the timing loops won't be the right duration.
That's why the speedstep changes are in there, to recalibrate the loops when the CPU changes speed. If the new CPUs use a different method to notify speed changes (or whatever, I'm not precisely sure how it works), another case will probably have to be added but it should be minimal. And running Linux before such changes are made will probably be pretty safe, you'll just have a potential for problems.
(I think the speedstep changes are in all recent 2.2 kernels, but I don't think they're user-visible in any way.)
It has gotten better. It will wait for you to enter the whole thing and hit return before telling if you got it right or wrong (TP A20p).
If you set the administrator password, and lose it, IBM will tell you the only way to fix it is to replace the mainboard. Period. Convince them you're the rightful owner, etc. and you're still screwed.
There's a company on Usenet that claims to be able to recover the admin password, but there have been no reports whether it actually works.
Ah, yes, preventing people from running their own Linux machine will keep sniffers from your network.
Well, except for your Win 9x clients. Oh, and any machine with a floppy (which can boot a DOS floppy). Oh, or laptops. But except for those, you're perfectly safe.
The LGPL differs from the GPL in that programs can link to the library without themselves being covered under the GPL.
It doesn't make any sense to LGPL an app. If it's an app, you won't be linking to it, and it's the same as if it were licensed under the GPL. You still need to distribute source, you still can call the app (as a whole) from non-free programs, etc.
Am I missing something here?
First, peer-to-peer _is_ a LAN. Local area network, right?
But if you want it to talk to the rest of the network, look at a good article at NullDevice. Just add a wireless card to your existing Linux router....
LaTeX can use the envlab.sty package which knows a lot about avery labels already, and you can easily tell it dimensions of different labels.
Business cards might be a bit more difficult, but the bizcard package claims to do it. Never tried it.
Both are available on CTAN.
The Win95 47 day bug was funny because the bug had been there a long time, and nobody had found it... implying that nobody had been able to keep a Win95 box up for 47 days.
RHL 7 has been out for two weeks. It's not even in _stores_ around here yet, but the bug has been found. It's been fixed.
That's why it's not a big deal.
This isn't new. Every RHL *.0 release breaks binary compatibility with the previous version. That's why they upped the major version.
And, among the problems that newbies will be likely to see, there are some big ones and some small ones:
These are all pretty similar to the problems with 6.0 (Remember Star Office and realplayer headaches?) and are to be expected when you have a distribution using software released after commercial software. But even still, the vast majority of software I've used (including old binaries hanging around) have worked fine. I don't compile things on my RHL7 box and expect to run it on older boxes, but then... I never did.
I've had one job which made hiring contingent on a background check, but never an interview. I can't imagine a company which would do a background check on everyone who filled out an app. But I'm sure I wouldn't want to work there.
Sorry for the confusion. Iirc, xinetd won't install on a workstation install, either.
(And the sysv init has been around forever, it's not new to redhat 7.)
On a normal workstation install, RH7 will not install any services. Iirc, even inetd isn't installed by default.
However, if you install a service, it defaults to on. RH's rationale is that you should not install services unless you plan on using them.