I tried subversion, and moved to bazaar because it handles renames easily (automv plugin), and it supports pushing a commit to a server (push-and-update plugin). It's also well suited for diffing binary files (as it git).
I am, however, interested in seeing your scripts. I've setup some automated scripts to do this work for me, but I suspect they're not optimal for this. thanks,
This does seem like a very viable option. For those not aware, it's cloud server that you upload from/download to. For
It appears to be a very clean system, but I would be concerned about having open/unencrypted files on an uncontrolled server. Dropbox would be great if you could manage your own server, which doesn't appear to be the case.
I never understood the motivation in spending more for the speed of an SSD drive when a bunch of RAID drives can perform at multiples faster than a single drive. Plus you get the added disk space and redundancy built in.
have four magnetic drives running on software RAID 10 -- not the 1+0 variety. I get 3x a single drive's read (200MB/s) and about 1.5-2X write. Plus I have a full backup and 2TB of space. The sw kernel module uses less than 5-10% of one cpu on a quad system
At this time, why not buy many magnetic drives in RAID with the extra $$? Unless you would want to support a burgeoning technology.
My undergrad labs had stringent safety policies too. We're not talking about educations labs here -- we're talking about research labs. If you drift from your chem 110 lab to the teaching professor's lab, you'll see a big difference. I've seen this consistently in five 'top ten' chemistry schools. I'm an NIH post-doc, and despite the yearly safety training, I see it here too.
There is common sense in lab safety, but there's diligence as well. Not everyone intuitively knows the dangers and hazards of t-butyl lithium. You have to look up the MSDS (which are produced and maintained by the industry, not the government).
I'm a kindle 2 owner. I looked at the touch-screen on a Sony device, and I didn't like it. The screen had more glare, and I didn't find it to be a suitable replacement for the keyboard. I suspect this device will have the same shortcomings.
The "article," scant on details, suggests that this device is more "portable." Since it lacks wireless, which makes it infinitely less portable than the kindle, I can only assume that it weighs less. At 10 ounces or so, weight isn't much of an issue, in my mind. That said, I think competition is good. But it would have to include many new, important features to offset the lack of wireless and keyboard. Calendar, notes and contact features are nice, but after having used an e-reader for two months, the slow refresh rate on these would make them a poor replacement for a PDA. I think Samsung has to do better than this to enter the market.
The fear is the mortality rate. Sure, the "regular" flu kills 35000 a year, but that's a mortality rate of 0.1%. This flu, if it's like the 1918 H1N1, which we already know it is *not*, could be much higher. Even if it's a 1% mortality rate, this is alarmingly high. (Infect 100 million Americans, 1 million die.)
It's interesting that you should bring that up. I went to a talk that studied this curve and the 1918 virus (from exhumed bodies) carefully. The U-curve makes sense because the youngest and oldest are less equiped to fight an infection. The unusual bump -- in the healthiest of people -- coincides with the ages of soldiers. He suggested that this was in part a problem of diagnosis, considering that it was during the end of a World War. i.e. the central numbers might be inflated.
that a site advising the use of p2p to prevent the meltdown of servers has itself been slashdotted.
On a side note : web data and pages themselves could be p2p distributed too, no? Say a peer gets a webpage's hash (containing html and images) and the date/time of expiry for a webpage from a server. If other peers have that page (html+images), and it's up to date, you could download their copy. Otherwise, the server sends a fresh copy to you, and you seed it for others. Not being in computer science, I'm sure this has been proposed before and that there are glaring shortcomings I have missed.
I'm suspicious too. I learned about quorum sensing, and its possible pharmaceutical appeal, in college ten years ago. And these ideas have been around for much longer than that.
I've never heard of TED, as an active medical researcher (NIH). I've never seen a standing ovation, including four lectures from Nobel laureats (one of which was charismatic).
This strikes me as an insidious and tawdry advertisement. The fact this was posted by 'TEDChris' is confirmation. At least admit that it is so.
We bother to read slashdot -- shouldn't the editors? Many (most?) of us take more care in posting comments than the editors do in reviewing summaries. Presumably, these are paid positions. Is it really that hard to find motivated and competent editors? College freshmen will do.
As a scientist, I don't own the notebooks, datasets, reports and publications I produce with grant funding. The only reason publishers take claim of these articles is because of a copyright transfer agreement article writers must sign when submitting papers to reputable journals. As academics (slowly) move to open format journals, which sustain themselves editorially and through the publications they receive, this will become less of a concern.
The media available for boxee is quite diverse; I very much like the idea of watching Netflix videos without having to resort to a VirtualBox/WinXP operating system. But I haven't been able to get a 64-bit binary for it, and I can't seem to compile it in 64-bit too. Running it in a 32-bit chroot was unsuccessful as well -- has anyone had success with boxee for 64-bit platforms?
I use all of the tools listed by other commentators. But one of the most useful tools not yet listed is GRACE (or xmgrace). It produces publication quality figures, includes many useful features like linear and non-linear regression, statistical analysis, convolutions, interpolations, Fourier transforms and it supports complicated multi-graph overlays well.
I just upgraded on kubuntu 8.10, and I'm very happy with it. It's considerably more polished than 4.1. The dialogs look more polished, the eye candy is faster and smoother, the new taskbar looks great -- and you can now have other applications cover the taskbar.
I was thinking of switching to XFCE this week (after about 8 years on KDE), but I think I'll hold off.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried subversion, and moved to bazaar because it handles renames easily (automv plugin), and it supports pushing a commit to a server (push-and-update plugin). It's also well suited for diffing binary files (as it git).
I am, however, interested in seeing your scripts. I've setup some automated scripts to do this work for me, but I suspect they're not optimal for this. thanks,
This does seem like a very viable option. For those not aware, it's cloud server that you upload from /download to. For
It appears to be a very clean system, but I would be concerned about having open/unencrypted files on an uncontrolled server. Dropbox would be great if you could manage your own server, which doesn't appear to be the case.
thanks for the link.
I never understood the motivation in spending more for the speed of an SSD drive when a bunch of RAID drives can perform at multiples faster than a single drive. Plus you get the added disk space and redundancy built in.
have four magnetic drives running on software RAID 10 -- not the 1+0 variety. I get 3x a single drive's read (200MB/s) and about 1.5-2X write. Plus I have a full backup and 2TB of space. The sw kernel module uses less than 5-10% of one cpu on a quad system
At this time, why not buy many magnetic drives in RAID with the extra $$? Unless you would want to support a burgeoning technology.
you want Excel.
My undergrad labs had stringent safety policies too. We're not talking about educations labs here -- we're talking about research labs. If you drift from your chem 110 lab to the teaching professor's lab, you'll see a big difference. I've seen this consistently in five 'top ten' chemistry schools. I'm an NIH post-doc, and despite the yearly safety training, I see it here too.
There is common sense in lab safety, but there's diligence as well. Not everyone intuitively knows the dangers and hazards of t-butyl lithium. You have to look up the MSDS (which are produced and maintained by the industry, not the government).
"persuade the eBay seller [you] did buy it from to add [you] as an authorized user of his Alienware account."
I'm a kindle 2 owner. I looked at the touch-screen on a Sony device, and I didn't like it. The screen had more glare, and I didn't find it to be a suitable replacement for the keyboard. I suspect this device will have the same shortcomings.
The "article," scant on details, suggests that this device is more "portable." Since it lacks wireless, which makes it infinitely less portable than the kindle, I can only assume that it weighs less. At 10 ounces or so, weight isn't much of an issue, in my mind. That said, I think competition is good. But it would have to include many new, important features to offset the lack of wireless and keyboard. Calendar, notes and contact features are nice, but after having used an e-reader for two months, the slow refresh rate on these would make them a poor replacement for a PDA. I think Samsung has to do better than this to enter the market.
They're already slipping. I try to avoid Elsevier when I publish my articles. Look at this journal, for instance :
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623042/description#description
The fear is the mortality rate. Sure, the "regular" flu kills 35000 a year, but that's a mortality rate of 0.1%. This flu, if it's like the 1918 H1N1, which we already know it is *not*, could be much higher. Even if it's a 1% mortality rate, this is alarmingly high. (Infect 100 million Americans, 1 million die.)
It's interesting that you should bring that up. I went to a talk that studied this curve and the 1918 virus (from exhumed bodies) carefully. The U-curve makes sense because the youngest and oldest are less equiped to fight an infection. The unusual bump -- in the healthiest of people -- coincides with the ages of soldiers. He suggested that this was in part a problem of diagnosis, considering that it was during the end of a World War. i.e. the central numbers might be inflated.
[That would be] ironic... don't you think? (in the Alanis sense)
It would appear that Karpinski is a heavy facebook user.
that a site advising the use of p2p to prevent the meltdown of servers has itself been slashdotted.
On a side note : web data and pages themselves could be p2p distributed too, no? Say a peer gets a webpage's hash (containing html and images) and the date/time of expiry for a webpage from a server. If other peers have that page (html+images), and it's up to date, you could download their copy. Otherwise, the server sends a fresh copy to you, and you seed it for others. Not being in computer science, I'm sure this has been proposed before and that there are glaring shortcomings I have missed.
I'm suspicious too. I learned about quorum sensing, and its possible pharmaceutical appeal, in college ten years ago. And these ideas have been around for much longer than that.
I've never heard of TED, as an active medical researcher (NIH). I've never seen a standing ovation, including four lectures from Nobel laureats (one of which was charismatic).
This strikes me as an insidious and tawdry advertisement. The fact this was posted by 'TEDChris' is confirmation. At least admit that it is so.
We bother to read slashdot -- shouldn't the editors? Many (most?) of us take more care in posting comments than the editors do in reviewing summaries. Presumably, these are paid positions. Is it really that hard to find motivated and competent editors? College freshmen will do.
I'm sorry. I need my April fools achievement.
Not to mention that he missed the true story. A laptop was working for Office Depot, let alone the fact that it's sentient in the first place!
Let's not forget that the kindle 2 now handles 16 shades of gray, and the size of foldouts is virtually limitless with Next/Prev page functionality.
As a scientist, I don't own the notebooks, datasets, reports and publications I produce with grant funding. The only reason publishers take claim of these articles is because of a copyright transfer agreement article writers must sign when submitting papers to reputable journals. As academics (slowly) move to open format journals, which sustain themselves editorially and through the publications they receive, this will become less of a concern.
Bullshit!
I'm sorry, I didn't know what came over me. I just blurted it out! I won't do it again -- I swear.
I watch it in VirtualBox/WinXP. Yes, I know that this defeats the purpose of moving over to Linux. But the holes are closing in quickly.
The media available for boxee is quite diverse; I very much like the idea of watching Netflix videos without having to resort to a VirtualBox/WinXP operating system. But I haven't been able to get a 64-bit binary for it, and I can't seem to compile it in 64-bit too. Running it in a 32-bit chroot was unsuccessful as well -- has anyone had success with boxee for 64-bit platforms?
I use all of the tools listed by other commentators. But one of the most useful tools not yet listed is GRACE (or xmgrace). It produces publication quality figures, includes many useful features like linear and non-linear regression, statistical analysis, convolutions, interpolations, Fourier transforms and it supports complicated multi-graph overlays well.
I just upgraded on kubuntu 8.10, and I'm very happy with it. It's considerably more polished than 4.1. The dialogs look more polished, the eye candy is faster and smoother, the new taskbar looks great -- and you can now have other applications cover the taskbar.
I was thinking of switching to XFCE this week (after about 8 years on KDE), but I think I'll hold off.
good job devs!
If I've learned anything from school, it's that two imaginaries are definitely negative. Four on the other hand...