Zimbra also features modules that sync with zimbra servers for outlook and Apple desktop as well as Evolution syncing. Full compatibility with these would of course be necessary for any "Exchange killer."
As a few have already stated, this is a good idea for a single user, but it may be tricky for collaborative scheduling.
Another opensource solution that has piqued my interest is zimbra, which includes collaborative e-mail, scheduling and many other groupware functions. All the functions work through a web interface as well, but they're now developing zdesktop to allow on- and off-line sync/viewing of e-mail, scheduling as so on. It's in alpha, however. There are also programs to use on your mobile devices.
I haven't used this system myself, but I'd be interested in any thoughts from sys admins that have successfully (or unsuccessfully) implemented this.
I haven't read the detailed paper, but it seems to me that there could be problems in finding similarity when there are random insertions. This is analogous to protein sequence matching (peripherally my field of research) when there are random insertions in the primary sequence. So if you have two identical 16k files, eight 2k chunks will be identical to each other. However, if you insert 512 bytes at the start of one file, eight 2k chunks will be different.
This is silly. Homework is an important requirement in learning. The clear solution is 30 mg of Prozac a day. This has the added bonus of promoting abstinence. Win-Win.
This complements the genome project. DNA codes are used ultimately to make proteins, enzymes (and other things). Proteins and enzymes are used for metabolic processes in the cell (and other things). In fact, having knowledge of the metabolome is more useful for pharmaceutical and health sciences research than knowledge of the genome.
Moreover, these networks are quite complicated and contain many redundancies and inter-relationships, and compiling it in a database makes it easier to see these relationships. The human metabolome is most directly useful in developing pharmaceuticals, but the metabolome databases for other organisms would be very useful as well -- such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) and Escherichia coli. For example, in my lab we grow 13C/15N-isotope labeled protein molecules with cloned genes in E. coli, and being able to search a metabolism network database would help us identify small molecules to feed bacteria to get specific labeling patterns.
The metabolome hasn't been mapped like the genome has been mapped. i.e. it's not a complete list of metabolic reactions, enzymes and small molecules in a human cell.. it's a database (currently with 2100 metabolites) for the classic biochemical charts that show metabolism networks (like how the citric cycle is connected to amino-acid production). Nonetheless, it's a great idea, and as a BSc graduate from the dept, I'm quite proud.
I was curious about the claim (and standard deviations) and pulled up the paper. The mean for monolinguals is 71.4 +/- 9.6 and the mean for bilinguals is 75.5 +/- 8.5. Now those std deviations are 1*sigma (68.3%) leaving a lot of overlap between the two distributions. However, they claim that these two distributions are statistically different by an F-test (if I'm not mistaken, which assumes that both distributions are normal). I'm not a clinical statician and I'm used to working with numbers closer to Avogadro's; how statistically significant are these results? Can you make binary statements like this with such a small pool and such close distributions?
In the case of an unmanageable fire, you're completely right. However, there is nothing irresponsible about extinguishing a manageable fire (or clearing an exit path) with an extinguisher. Ahead of time, everyone should mentally locate all extinguishers, always think about possible sources of fire, how big a fire has to be before it is unmanageable (with about 10 seconds for a CO2 extinguisher) and exit paths.
at least store your passwords in an encrypted file. I have a passwords file that gets synced between a few systems. I read the file using gjots2, which encrypts using ccrypt (with a very strong password) and it never writes the unencrypted version to disk -- only memory. I have 40-50 strong passwords this way.
I'm a chemist, and I do think that selling chemicals can be irresponsible. Sure, you can kill people with a stick, but (1) it's pretty easy to figure out how to kill (or not kill) someone with a stick whereas you can easily inadvertently kill with chemicals, and (2) acutely toxic chemicals can have significant environmental impacts -- suppose someone were to drain an acutely toxic chemical.
That said, a quick skim of their website doesn't reveal anything acutely toxic and dangerous in the quantities sold (to me).
I work in NMR, and the largest routine fields we work with are 21.1 Tesla (1H:900MHz),and the Florida State U National High Field lab has a working 45 Tesla NMR, which to my knowledge has the highest field.
According to this article, the peak fields for this magnet are 3.9T; Is this the world's largest magnetic field, or just the largest magnet physically?
This new feature sounds like a useful security measure. However, is this really a part of the Digital Rights Management system? I'm not sure that this is not a conflation of issues.
Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data... and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work.
This new feature doesn't sound like it falls under this description to me -- although it might to others. The reason a conflation concerns me on this issue is because Microsoft could justifiably say that DRM is improving Windows security, and lay people might find DRM desirable. So why exactly is this DRM?
It's a great distro for both the non-technical and technical -- geek and non-geek. I had used Debian unstable for 4 years before switching to Ubuntu (64- and 32-bit versions) 6 months ago. All of the lovely configurability and software tools (like aptitude, apt-build and so on) from Debian are available.
The reasons I made the switch were because (1) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and (2) I wanted a more frequent "stable" release cycle for my desktop system. However, I continue to use Debian stable for any servers and simulation clusters that I manage.
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Zimbra also features modules that sync with zimbra servers for outlook and Apple desktop as well as Evolution syncing. Full compatibility with these would of course be necessary for any "Exchange killer."
As a few have already stated, this is a good idea for a single user, but it may be tricky for collaborative scheduling.
Another opensource solution that has piqued my interest is zimbra, which includes collaborative e-mail, scheduling and many other groupware functions. All the functions work through a web interface as well, but they're now developing zdesktop to allow on- and off-line sync/viewing of e-mail, scheduling as so on. It's in alpha, however. There are also programs to use on your mobile devices.
I haven't used this system myself, but I'd be interested in any thoughts from sys admins that have successfully (or unsuccessfully) implemented this.
What they won't tell you is that it was really developed as a deterent to public urination in the streets.
I haven't read the detailed paper, but it seems to me that there could be problems in finding similarity when there are random insertions. This is analogous to protein sequence matching (peripherally my field of research) when there are random insertions in the primary sequence. So if you have two identical 16k files, eight 2k chunks will be identical to each other. However, if you insert 512 bytes at the start of one file, eight 2k chunks will be different.
You'll still be special.. but in a whole different way.
This is silly. Homework is an important requirement in learning. The clear solution is 30 mg of Prozac a day. This has the added bonus of promoting abstinence. Win-Win.
This complements the genome project. DNA codes are used ultimately to make proteins, enzymes (and other things). Proteins and enzymes are used for metabolic processes in the cell (and other things). In fact, having knowledge of the metabolome is more useful for pharmaceutical and health sciences research than knowledge of the genome. Moreover, these networks are quite complicated and contain many redundancies and inter-relationships, and compiling it in a database makes it easier to see these relationships. The human metabolome is most directly useful in developing pharmaceuticals, but the metabolome databases for other organisms would be very useful as well -- such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) and Escherichia coli. For example, in my lab we grow 13C/15N-isotope labeled protein molecules with cloned genes in E. coli, and being able to search a metabolism network database would help us identify small molecules to feed bacteria to get specific labeling patterns.
The metabolome hasn't been mapped like the genome has been mapped. i.e. it's not a complete list of metabolic reactions, enzymes and small molecules in a human cell.. it's a database (currently with 2100 metabolites) for the classic biochemical charts that show metabolism networks (like how the citric cycle is connected to amino-acid production). Nonetheless, it's a great idea, and as a BSc graduate from the dept, I'm quite proud.
They should have specified that submissions cannot use words with numbers for the windows crowd. ;p
I was curious about the claim (and standard deviations) and pulled up the paper. The mean for monolinguals is 71.4 +/- 9.6 and the mean for bilinguals is 75.5 +/- 8.5. Now those std deviations are 1*sigma (68.3%) leaving a lot of overlap between the two distributions. However, they claim that these two distributions are statistically different by an F-test (if I'm not mistaken, which assumes that both distributions are normal). I'm not a clinical statician and I'm used to working with numbers closer to Avogadro's; how statistically significant are these results? Can you make binary statements like this with such a small pool and such close distributions?
Read/write optical media with X-rays -- much higher density.
(kidding, obviously)
In the case of an unmanageable fire, you're completely right. However, there is nothing irresponsible about extinguishing a manageable fire (or clearing an exit path) with an extinguisher. Ahead of time, everyone should mentally locate all extinguishers, always think about possible sources of fire, how big a fire has to be before it is unmanageable (with about 10 seconds for a CO2 extinguisher) and exit paths.
at least store your passwords in an encrypted file. I have a passwords file that gets synced between a few systems. I read the file using gjots2, which encrypts using ccrypt (with a very strong password) and it never writes the unencrypted version to disk -- only memory. I have 40-50 strong passwords this way.
Best of all worlds.
link. Just in another article.
I'm a chemist, and I do think that selling chemicals can be irresponsible. Sure, you can kill people with a stick, but (1) it's pretty easy to figure out how to kill (or not kill) someone with a stick whereas you can easily inadvertently kill with chemicals, and (2) acutely toxic chemicals can have significant environmental impacts -- suppose someone were to drain an acutely toxic chemical.
That said, a quick skim of their website doesn't reveal anything acutely toxic and dangerous in the quantities sold (to me).
I work in NMR, and the largest routine fields we work with are 21.1 Tesla (1H:900MHz),and the Florida State U National High Field lab has a working 45 Tesla NMR, which to my knowledge has the highest field.
According to this article, the peak fields for this magnet are 3.9T; Is this the world's largest magnetic field, or just the largest magnet physically?
Although the addition of Sybian maybe be a good idea, I can't help but wonder if the added functionality will impede the use of the phone. [NSFW]
This is the original article for the dupe posted earlier today.
The next release will be the Fellatious Ferret.
I did my part and downloaded it 20 times.
A more interesting progression is in the increase in pr0n quality on computers. You can't beat the classics .
From wikipedia drm article
This new feature doesn't sound like it falls under this description to me -- although it might to others. The reason a conflation concerns me on this issue is because Microsoft could justifiably say that DRM is improving Windows security, and lay people might find DRM desirable. So why exactly is this DRM?
It's a great distro for both the non-technical and technical -- geek and non-geek. I had used Debian unstable for 4 years before switching to Ubuntu (64- and 32-bit versions) 6 months ago. All of the lovely configurability and software tools (like aptitude, apt-build and so on) from Debian are available.
The reasons I made the switch were because (1) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and (2) I wanted a more frequent "stable" release cycle for my desktop system. However, I continue to use Debian stable for any servers and simulation clusters that I manage.