Used to have one of these. It had exactly the same problem with my standard 15" Planar LCD. I didn't think it was a driver problem, just a shitty integrated graphics (i845G ?). I was trying to put a "real" gfx card inside, but the mobo (made by LiteOn, model NR135 I believe) in my d220 did not have AGP slot soldered in... Seems they needed to save $0.50 in manufacturing costs.
If you want to buy a Linux license from SCO, you'll be $99.99 short... No, wait - it's for the 120GB iPod and the Half-Life 2 + Duke Nukem Forever bundle, isn't it ?
I shouldn't reply to your post, cause you are obviously a troll AC, but nevertheless...
Nobody here is shooting the messenger, and if you'd bother to look at the links in the parent post you'd see that two years ago this "security company" have been saying very the same thing about MS Windows that they are saying now about Linux. In both cases it appears to be a hoax, and the numbers are taken out of thin air.
Dubious methodology, no verification, no anything that would make this utter *BS* a reliable report. That's what happens when car salesmen gets into a "computer security" business...
The idiot who wrote that "thing" you linked is of course my favorite Rob Enderle. He didn't have a clue before, and he has even less of it now. Move on, nothing to see there...
Sorry, but IMO what you quoted does not indicate any foulplay or faking by Mendel. Fisher merely says that Mendel's findings well not researched sufficiently enough and/or understood well enough by the others. He also says that some researchers were, to some extend, too "subjective" when they interpreted the meaning of Mendel's work. This is really nothing new (at least in the field I am working in).
Anyway, nowadays scientific papers undergo peer review before they are published, and if reviewers would do their job as they should, bad articles, bad data, and wrong conclusions would be rejected. Since this clearly does not take place, perhaps the entire system of scientific publishing needs to be re-evaluated. I also believe that this shortening of methods section mentioned before is actually a sign of our times - check out how "Materials and Methods" of biological papers look like in so-called "leading" scientific journals, like "Nature" or "Science". It's a f[*] joke ! In addition, in some papers a lot of important claims is based on "unpublished results", which makes them impossible to evaluate, because the experiment's methodology is not available at all. A perfect ground for faking results.
Did anyone notice string reference "Apache 1.3.26" inside of this thing ? (U have to edit PE header and decompress it with UPX to actually see that) Also, is there any reliable analysis of this virus, other than the usual crap found on the AV software websites?
How about "Boot and Mouse" virus then ? I've noticed some blisters on the HDD's boot sector and on my mouse recently. Is it transmissible to/from humans ?
Above is the only post worth reading so far. I am really surprised how bad the
knowledge of biology/biotech is among Slashdot readers (kinda feel my karma
going down). The amount of people wanting to clone Spice Girl(s) and such is
shocking too.
Anyway, skipping the part of proposal about so-called "DNA computing", which is
garbage and there are tons of such software around, the other section (Bio-Spice)
sounds interesting, although it's not written in very precise manner. I'd guess it's about
simulating metabolism and one does not really need Michaelis-Menten crap for that.
They should have check the research going on in their own country, specifically:
http://gcrg.ucsd.edu/
It's all about stoichiometry and linear programming and the __good__part__ is that,
although it can't really be used for cloning Spice Girls:-), it interfaces with genomic
data very nicely.
Regards,
kovi
But frankly, nothing there about crashing gtk or something. It is however pointed out that it crashes some (Helix?)GNOME applets. Which is true, as far as I can tell, but only for "freshly out of box" 7.2 sold commercially. And without any patches, of course. It's beyond the scope of review to patch the product before using it:-)
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Although I agree M$ era is not over, and probably won't be any time soon, let me reply to your comment this way:
If Micro$oft has a true enemy, it is neither Open Source community nor GPL license - it's self-delusion and self-aggrandizement
This is more and more true nowadays then it has ever been.
Regards,
kovi
> I particularly don't like them when what is being patented is a process that a living organism has
> been doing for free since time immemorial.
I couldn't agree more. There is however one class of patents I can "kind of tolerate". I think research done for tax-payers money (ie. at the (state?) universities and gov. organizations) should be protected from the greed of corporations (pharmaceutical and bio|agro-tech in particular).
Regards,
kovi
Not even a chemist I'd guess...
(Sorry, couldn't resist:-))
ATGC are not aminoacids, they are (a bit misleadingly) called "bases". Life as we know it is actually build with about 20 aminoacids. They are components of proteins, not nucleic acids.
Regards,
kovi
>I currently have 1356 fonts -- and about 80% of them are high-quality Bitstream or Adobe fonts.
>How many of your 433 are professional fonts?
Can be all of them, can be none. Ttf font is ttf font, does not matter what OS you use. It's just to install darn crap. Which BTW can be fully automatic operation, just like on your favorite platform. Currently the only M$ product I have in my office machine is Tahoma ttf font (I like it very much:-).
On the side note, how long it takes for WinDos OS/WinDos apps to start up when you have over 1300 ttf fonts?
Yeah, and get something even less compliant then NS6.
I am very happy with the nightly builds of Mozilla, so I am not going to. I've been using build 2000102708 for about a week, not a single crash (I don't have a Java plug-in installed though:-), some small mem leaks, but not very destructive ones. And I can tell you, it's _way_ more compliant with the standards then IE5 on Mac, (at least in terms of HTML 4 and CSS). Don't have Windo$ anywhere near to compare it with decent/recent IE5.5/IE6beta but I'd really like to.
Regards,
kovi
>If this seems needlessly arrogant Nope, it's just that I didn't consider closures as a "basic programming notion" for perl. Neither did documentation from the links you provided...
>forum where some are mathematicians and some are high-school students,
/. isn't such forum and discussions are open to anybody... So is perl or Python, anybody can use them... Therefore the arogance is not that you bashed me for not reading docs, the arogance is that you were lazy enough not to _explain_ your point. This situation is exactly in parallel to the infamous 'Me too...' "discussions" form Usenet. Specificly, you message reads "I also think Python has problems and lacks certain features considered as basic in the other languages" Because of that, some people think your comment is void. In contrast to the message from dejanews you found...
>Python does not support a basic programming notion that Perl does, >What more should I have said?
Well, you could be a little more specific and explain this to the rest of us, mere humans... I'd really love to know WTF is a basic programming notion. Regards, kovi
> the patents that are requested for crops are > unique genetic combinations developed by the > company that is requesting the patent.
Maybe in some cases... But from what I've seen, these plants are usually transformed with the genes existing in the nature, sometimes even in the same "wild_type" plant (but their expression, or substrate specifity of the enzymes they encode is changed). So, if I'll put herbicide resistance gene isolated from plant A into plant B, isn't that "prior art" ? For me, it is just a derived work from God's (or whoever created plant A) source code... Regards, kovi
>"The Dark Heart of Uukrul." (Does anyone else remeber it)
Sure thing. It is not that old, after all:-) and I am still playing it from time to time under XDOS, I've never managed to finish... probably never will. Regards, kovi
Hi, Well, to put it in simple way, mapping is finding a chromosomal location for given gene relatively to so-called markers. There are different kinds of markers, they can be genes, sequences, restriction sites or whatever. When you are done with mapping, you can tell that gene A is somewhere between marker B and marker C on chromosome nr. [your favorite number here].
First, I don't give a damn how dated interface is as long as my e-mail client has all the features I need... Second, I use sometimes _free_ version of Eudora for Mac. Boy, how dated this interface is... Third, XFMail is evolving:-) into Archimedes and that one is about one-two weeks from beenig released. Regards, kovi
I'd rather spend rainy day on my couch reading on-line books then in LoC reading them form the dead trees:-), even if it is "community thing" and I wouldn't feel "lonely and arrogant" there:-) Besides, have you actually seen any books recently? Well, at least these I'd like to read are usually thicker then half an inch... Regards, kovi
I have Dell Latitude CPx H500 - these don't really have build-in modems. As a matter of fact they don't have build-in just about anyhing:-) but crappy Maestro sound card and, even crappier ATI Rage Mobility M1 (8 MB). Dell Insp(whatever) 7500 models I've seen seem to have Lucent chipset based winmodems. There is a (binary-only) kernel module for these... Check http://linmodems.org Regards, kovi PS. Linux support is so atractive for Dell, that on CPx H software download page there are as much as 3 (three) files: X desktop wallpaper, X configuration file and something else I forgot or didn't bother to check. Given that "stock" distros available around (except Mandrake) don't really support Mobility, one can put this X config file somewhere where sun don't shine (in the Win98/2000 Recycle bin for example)
No pro, here is one: Early 90s, first ESTs. Some sq's from maize EST lib. was patented by X from BigCountry (will not mention company name here, don't have money for lawyes), even though EST stuff is usually not full lenght sequence. In some other country, friend of mine has worked his way through getting N-terminal sequcences of some glucosyl O-transferase (UDPGlu dependent, working on phenols). After some boring work (degen. primers & PCR) he managed to get full lenght clone. I've done expression system in yeast and some enzymology. Then we had a poster on some meeting, regular paper was on the way. Unfortunately on that meeting someone from company X seen our poster. They told us gene was picked up on EST and is patented and company works on some applications of it. Then we receive note from company lawyers, then our lawyers responded. Then we were asked to postpone publishing our results for some time. In science, "some time" usually means never, so paper never appeared in any scientific journal. I still have a copy of it, if you'd like to read about phenols metabolism in plants. X produced some herbicide-resistant lines of tobacco few years later.
Regards, kovi (now working on Arabidopsis and poplar - smaller genome and less importance for agriculture)
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Used to have one of these.
It had exactly the same problem with my standard 15" Planar LCD. I didn't think it was a driver problem, just a shitty integrated graphics (i845G ?). I was trying to put a "real" gfx card inside, but the mobo (made by LiteOn, model NR135 I believe) in my d220 did not have AGP slot soldered in... Seems they needed to save $0.50 in manufacturing costs.
If you want to buy a Linux license from SCO, you'll be $99.99 short... No, wait - it's for the 120GB iPod and the Half-Life 2 + Duke Nukem Forever bundle, isn't it ?
I shouldn't reply to your post, cause you are obviously a troll AC, but nevertheless...
Nobody here is shooting the messenger, and if you'd bother to look at the links in the parent post you'd see that two years ago this "security company" have been saying very the same thing about MS Windows that they are saying now about Linux. In both cases it appears to be a hoax, and the numbers are taken out of thin air.
Dubious methodology, no verification, no anything that would make this utter *BS* a reliable report. That's what happens when car salesmen gets into a "computer security" business...
> "Enderle Group"...that's a bit pretentious for a group of one
/. plan:
In fact, that's almost as bad as "conspiracy of one". So, here's the mandatory
1. Form a group (of one).
2. Announce the death of some technology you have no idea about.
3. ???
4. Profit !
The idiot who wrote that "thing" you linked is of course my favorite Rob Enderle. He didn't have a clue before, and he has even less of it now.
Move on, nothing to see there...
> G. Mendel may have faked his data..
Sorry, but IMO what you quoted does not indicate any foulplay or faking by Mendel. Fisher merely says that Mendel's findings well not researched sufficiently enough and/or understood well enough by the others. He also says that some researchers were, to some extend, too "subjective" when they interpreted the meaning of Mendel's work. This is really nothing new (at least in the field I am working in).
Anyway, nowadays scientific papers undergo peer review before they are published, and if reviewers would do their job as they should, bad articles, bad data, and wrong conclusions would be rejected. Since this clearly does not take place, perhaps the entire system of scientific publishing needs to be re-evaluated.
I also believe that this shortening of methods section mentioned before is actually a sign of our times - check out how "Materials and Methods" of biological papers look like in so-called "leading" scientific journals, like "Nature" or "Science". It's a f[*] joke ! In addition, in some papers a lot of important claims is based on "unpublished results", which makes them impossible to evaluate, because the experiment's methodology is not available at all. A perfect ground for faking results.
Regards,
kovi
other than interesting reading material (that is if you only know letters A,C,G and T)
Did anyone notice string reference "Apache 1.3.26" inside of this thing ? (U have to edit PE header and decompress it with UPX to actually see that)
Also, is there any reliable analysis of this virus, other than the usual crap found on the AV software websites?
How about "Boot and Mouse" virus then ? I've noticed some blisters on the HDD's boot sector and on my mouse recently. Is it transmissible to/from humans ?
Above is the only post worth reading so far. I am really surprised how bad the
:-), it interfaces with genomic
knowledge of biology/biotech is among Slashdot readers (kinda feel my karma
going down). The amount of people wanting to clone Spice Girl(s) and such is
shocking too.
Anyway, skipping the part of proposal about so-called "DNA computing", which is
garbage and there are tons of such software around, the other section (Bio-Spice)
sounds interesting, although it's not written in very precise manner. I'd guess it's about
simulating metabolism and one does not really need Michaelis-Menten crap for that.
They should have check the research going on in their own country, specifically:
http://gcrg.ucsd.edu/
It's all about stoichiometry and linear programming and the __good__part__ is that,
although it can't really be used for cloning Spice Girls
data very nicely.
Regards,
kovi
Now, moderate me down.
Here is a link for these who have an access to so-called "Interactive" version.
J 83 /4487.html
:-)
http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/Magazines/L
But frankly, nothing there about crashing gtk or something. It is however pointed out that it crashes some (Helix?)GNOME applets. Which is true, as far as I can tell, but only for "freshly out of box" 7.2 sold commercially. And without any patches, of course. It's beyond the scope of review to patch the product before using it
Although I agree M$ era is not over, and probably won't be any time soon, let me reply to your comment this way:
If Micro$oft has a true enemy, it is neither Open Source community nor GPL license - it's self-delusion and self-aggrandizement
This is more and more true nowadays then it has ever been.
Regards,
kovi
Hi,
> I particularly don't like them when what is being patented is a process that a living organism has
> been doing for free since time immemorial.
I couldn't agree more. There is however one class of patents I can "kind of tolerate". I think research done for tax-payers money (ie. at the (state?) universities and gov. organizations) should be protected from the greed of corporations (pharmaceutical and bio|agro-tech in particular).
Regards,
kovi
>I am **NOT** a molecular biologist.
:-))
Not even a chemist I'd guess...
(Sorry, couldn't resist
ATGC are not aminoacids, they are (a bit misleadingly) called "bases". Life as we know it is actually build with about 20 aminoacids. They are components of proteins, not nucleic acids.
Regards,
kovi
>I currently have 1356 fonts -- and about 80% of them are high-quality Bitstream or Adobe fonts.
:-).
>How many of your 433 are professional fonts?
Can be all of them, can be none. Ttf font is ttf font, does not matter what OS you use. It's just to install darn crap. Which BTW can be fully automatic operation, just like on your favorite platform. Currently the only M$ product I have in my office machine is Tahoma ttf font (I like it very much
On the side note, how long it takes for WinDos OS/WinDos apps to start up when you have over 1300 ttf fonts?
Regards,
kovi
> Time to grab KDE2/Konquerer I think...
:-), some small mem leaks, but not very destructive ones. And I can tell you, it's _way_ more compliant with the standards then IE5 on Mac, (at least in terms of HTML 4 and CSS). Don't have Windo$ anywhere near to compare it with decent/recent IE5.5/IE6beta but I'd really like to.
Yeah, and get something even less compliant then NS6.
I am very happy with the nightly builds of Mozilla, so I am not going to. I've been using build 2000102708 for about a week, not a single crash (I don't have a Java plug-in installed though
Regards,
kovi
>If this seems needlessly arrogant
Nope, it's just that I didn't consider closures as a "basic programming notion" for perl. Neither did documentation from the links you provided...
>forum where some are mathematicians and some are high-school students,
/. isn't such forum and discussions are open to anybody... So is perl or Python, anybody can use them...
Therefore the arogance is not that you bashed me for not reading docs, the arogance is that you were lazy enough not to _explain_ your point. This situation is exactly in parallel to the infamous 'Me too...' "discussions" form Usenet. Specificly, you message reads "I also think Python has problems and lacks certain features considered as basic in the other languages"
Because of that, some people think your comment is void. In contrast to the message from dejanews you found...
>Python does not support a basic programming notion that Perl does,
>What more should I have said?
Well, you could be a little more specific and explain this to the rest of us, mere humans...
I'd really love to know WTF is a basic programming notion.
Regards,
kovi
> the patents that are requested for crops are
> unique genetic combinations developed by the
> company that is requesting the patent.
Maybe in some cases... But from what I've seen, these plants are usually transformed with the genes existing in the nature, sometimes even in the same "wild_type" plant (but their expression, or substrate specifity of the enzymes they encode is changed). So, if I'll put herbicide resistance gene isolated from plant A into plant B, isn't that "prior art" ? For me, it is just a derived work from God's (or whoever created plant A) source code...
Regards,
kovi
>"The Dark Heart of Uukrul." (Does anyone else remeber it)
:-) and I am still playing it from time to time under XDOS, I've never managed to finish... probably never will.
Sure thing. It is not that old, after all
Regards,
kovi
Hi,
Well, to put it in simple way, mapping is finding a chromosomal location for given gene relatively to so-called markers. There are different kinds of markers, they can be genes, sequences, restriction sites or whatever. When you are done with mapping, you can tell that gene A is somewhere between marker B and marker C on chromosome nr. [your favorite number here].
First, I don't give a damn how dated interface is as long as my e-mail client has all the features I need... :-) into Archimedes and that one is about one-two weeks from beenig released.
Second, I use sometimes _free_ version of Eudora for Mac. Boy, how dated this interface is...
Third, XFMail is evolving
Regards, kovi
I'd rather spend rainy day on my couch reading on-line books then in LoC reading them form the dead trees :-), even if it is "community thing" and I wouldn't feel "lonely and arrogant" there :-) Besides, have you actually seen any books recently? Well, at least these I'd like to read are usually thicker then half an inch...
Regards,
kovi
I have Dell Latitude CPx H500 - these don't really have build-in modems. As a matter of fact they don't have build-in just about anyhing :-) but crappy Maestro sound card and, even crappier ATI Rage Mobility M1 (8 MB). Dell Insp(whatever) 7500 models I've seen seem to have Lucent chipset based winmodems.
There is a (binary-only) kernel module for these... Check http://linmodems.org
Regards,
kovi
PS. Linux support is so atractive for Dell, that on CPx H software download page there are as much as 3 (three) files: X desktop wallpaper, X configuration file and something else I forgot or didn't bother to check. Given that "stock" distros available around (except Mandrake) don't really support Mobility, one can put this X config file somewhere where sun don't shine (in the Win98/2000 Recycle bin for example)
No pro, here is one:
Early 90s, first ESTs. Some sq's from maize EST lib. was patented by X from BigCountry (will not mention company name here, don't have money for lawyes), even though EST stuff is usually not full lenght sequence. In some other country, friend of mine has worked his way through getting N-terminal sequcences of some glucosyl O-transferase (UDPGlu dependent, working on phenols). After some boring work (degen. primers & PCR) he managed to get full lenght clone. I've done expression system in yeast and some enzymology. Then we had a poster on some meeting, regular paper was on the way. Unfortunately on that meeting someone from company X seen our poster. They told us gene was picked up on EST and is patented and company works on some applications of it. Then we receive note from company lawyers, then our lawyers responded. Then we were asked to postpone publishing our results for some time.
In science, "some time" usually means never, so paper never appeared in any scientific journal. I still have a copy of it, if you'd like to read about phenols metabolism in plants.
X produced some herbicide-resistant lines of tobacco few years later.
Regards,
kovi
(now working on Arabidopsis and poplar - smaller genome and less importance for agriculture)