[News] OpenGL 3.3 & OpenGL 4.0 Are Out, Looking Good

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Khronos Unleashes Cutting-Edge, Cross-Platform Graphics Acceleration with OpenGL 4.0 ,----[ Quote ] | The Khronos Group announced the release of the | OpenGL® 4.0 specification. This is a | significant update to the most widely adopted | 2D and 3D graphics API, and includes the GLSL | 4.00 update to the OpenGL Shading language | allowing developers to access the latest | generation of GPU acceleration. `---- http://www.opengl.org/news/permalink/khronos-unleashes-cutting-edge-cross-platform-graphics-acceleration-with-op/ K

[News] UK's Laws for Hollywood Come Under Heavier Fire

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 UK Liberal Democrats rise against Net blocking ,----[ Quote ] | Members of the UK Liberal Democrat party are | angry that one of their own put through an | onerous web blocking amendment to the | Digital Economy Bill. This dangerous | amendment provides for web blocking by | courts, in addition to 3-strikes | provisions. It could usher in a bi- | directional blocking of the UK Internet. `---- http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=482&Itemid=9 BT's boss comes out fighting ,----[ Quot

[News] ACTA Faces Resistance in More Countries

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why Jordanians Should Be Against ACTA ,----[ Quote ] | Back in 2007, the USA, EU, Switzerland and | Japan started the negotiations to create an | international agreement on intellectual | property rights, the claimed goal was to | reduce the trade of counterfeit goods and | pirated copyright protected works through a | legislative framework. The agreement is now | known as Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement | or ACTA. `---- http://jordanopensource.org/blog/why-jordanians-should-be-against-acta What's up with the An

[News] Openness and Sharing in Science Defended

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Where indeed? ,----[ Quote ] | Having taken a job in biotech, I feel a bit | cut off from any such community -- industry | is notoriously protective of IP and fond of | secrecy besides. I feel a bit of a fraud, | for instance, taking part in discussions of | Open Science issues on FriendFeed (such as | the conversation kicked off by Alan's blog | post), knowing that I can't talk openly | about my own work. It doesn't keep me from | shooting off my yap, of course, but it's a | nagging icky feeling -- and I keep getting

[News] Millions of Dollars Made in Business Built Around the GPL

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Building an open source business ,----[ Quote ] | In 2002 I was working for Oculan, a company | that founded an open source network | management application platform called | OpenNMS. Oculan used this platform as the | basis for a network management appliance, | but my job was to create a services and | support business around the platform itself. | | In May, just after the release of OpenNMS | version 1.0, Oculan got new investors, who | decided to focus on the appliance and to | stop working on OpenNMS. | | I knew

How to condense multiple observations

Hi, Suppose I have a file like this: Brand ReporterID SALE1998Q3 SALE1998Q4 SALE1999Q1 SALE1999Q2=20 Ford 2 200 300 400 = =20 Ford 1 200 = 500 Ford 3 300 Toyota 3 200 340 = 700 Toyota 2 100 250 How do I condense multiple brand information from different reporter = sources into one observatio

[News] Open Source For America Denounces MAFIAA After Smears

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OSFA joins OSI in refuting IIPA's attack on open source ,----[ Quote ] | Open Source For America (OSFA), an organisation | created to promote the use of open source in | government, has denounced the IIPA's "Special | 301" call saying it is irresponsible and | misleading. The International Intellectual | Property Association (IIPA) had called for the | US Trade Representative to place countries such | as Indonesia, Brazil and India, on a "Special | 301" watch list, normally reserved for | dictatorships or repressive regime

[News] Inventor of the Cell Phone Goes for Linux

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Inventor of the Cell Phone Joins the Android Community. ,----[ Quote ] | Martin gave his iPhone to his grandson in | favor of a Motorola Droid. Good move Martin! | What better of an endorsement to the Android | Community than the inventor of the cell | phone picking up an Android phone. I wonder | if Martin’s phone is rooted? Could he be | running the latest 2.1 custom ROM all | theme’d out? `---- http://www.androidspin.com/2010/03/10/inventor-of-the-cell-phone-joins-the-android-community/ HootSuite Buys Android Develop

[ANN] posix_mq 0.4.0

POSIX message queues allow local processes to exchange data in the form of messages. This API is distinct from that provided by System V message queues, but provides similar functionality. * http://bogomips.org/ruby_posix_mq/ * ruby.posix.mq@librelist.com * git://git.bogomips.org/ruby_posix_mq.git Changes: Small bugfixes and small API changes to avoid potential issues/misuse are the focus of this release. For non-blocking operation, the GVL is no longer bounced. This reduces synchronization/scheduling overhead when used in non-blocking applications. Small cleanups and d

Matlab logical operators

Z = [1 2 5 7 8 3 0 4] How can I obtain Z1 = [1 2 0 0 0 3 0 4] from Z using the Matlab logical operators?

[News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux Increasingly Embraced, Now Funded by Google

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adding Ubuntu to a list of distros I use, in addition to Fedora & RHEL… ,----[ Quote ] | I have recently fed up with the broken | dependencies and potential boot problems after | ever every update and decided to give Ubuntu a | try – an action that was long awaiting on my to | do list. `---- http://blog.batoo.org/?p=167 Ubuntu as project in Google Summer of Code 2010 ,----[ Quote ] | I’m very excited to announce that Ubuntu has | applied as participating organisation in the | Google Summer of Code 2010! | | We subm

[News] Kernel Summit (Linux) Planned, Includes MeeGo

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linux summit dissects MeeGo ,----[ Quote ] | The Linux Foundation has announced sessions | for its Collaboration Summit, scheduled for | Apr. 14-16 at the Hotel Kabuki in San | Francisco. This year's event features a | full-day workgroup on MeeGo, as well as | discussions of Linux topics including | toolchain, cloud computing, printing, | filesystems, ISV porting, and open source | compliance. `---- http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/2010-Linux-Foundation-Collaboration-Summit-announces-speakers/ Linux Foundation

[News] More Games Ported to GNU/Linux, Including Phones

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Involving and Challenging Casual Games of all Genres - Now Compatible with Linux! ,----[ Quote ] | Kristanix Games announces the release of Linux | versions of its most popular games. The Linux | Games project now includes such high quality | casual games as Sudoku Epic, Solitaire Epic, | Mahjong Epic, Jewel Twist, Fantastic Farm, | Crossword Twist and many more. The clear | interface, rich graphics and variety of genres | (time management, puzzles, cards, match3, math | games, etc.) guarantee hours of entertainment! | Fre

[News] Nettops and Netbooks with GNU/Linux Sold for Low Price

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nettop taps Ion 2 GPU ,----[ Quote ] | Shuttle announced a Barebone XS35 nettop | equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom D510, and | Nvidia Ion 2 graphics. Meanwhile NewEgg is | selling a Linux-equipped Eee Box B202 nettop | for only $189, and the Eee PC-oriented Eeebuntu | distro is moving from Ubuntu to Debian with EB | 4.0. `---- http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9678092920.html Dell offers new Mini 10 netbook with Linux in Japan ,----[ Quote ] | Dell Japan is selling the Linux version of the | new Inspiron Mini 1

[News] MSI Helps Build a GNU/Linux-powered Orchestra

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MSI Donates Computers to Help Virginia Tech Students Form the First Ever Linux Laptop Orchestra ,----[ Quote ] | MSI Computer, recently donated a number of MSI | Wind U100 Netbooks to the Virginia Tech Music | Department to help create the first ever Linux- | based laptop orchestra. The diverse group is | made up of theater arts, political science, | engineering, biology and math majors and called | the L2Ork, in honor of the open source software | used by the group. `---- http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22865

CTAN update: pstricks-add

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please put > the files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a... > > pstricks-add ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > 3.39 2010-03-12 - fixed bug with algebraic option in \psplotTangent Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/h

Troll-Free COLA Stats: Saturday the 13th of March, 2010.

ngstats.pl version 1.31 Written by Roy Culley. Contributions from Mark Kent. Modifications by Homer, 2007 - 2009. This report covers 1657 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy [1] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos Poster Msgs Bytes Quoted 1. Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> 681 2073750 4% 2. Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> 187 189718 58% 3. Rick <none@mail.invalid> 6

Problem in executing multithreaded program

Hi all, I have a java program with 3 thread, thread1 , thread2 , thread3. When I call thread1.run() , thread2.run() and thread3.run() .. the execution of thread1 and thread2 start but thread3 does not run. Thread1 contains linked list handling , Thread2 contains execution of "tcpdump" command and Thread3 contains execution of "ping" command. Can anybody tell me why my thread3 is not running ??

How to generate Gaussian white process noise

How can we generate gaussian white process noise in matlab?

Is MySQL index a B+ tree ?

Assume I have 930 milliom records. Doing a binary search takes 30 disk-reads, which I think, are too slow. 1. Is MySQL index a B-tree ? 2. Can I create an auxilliary index table (ie index of index) to speed up the search ? Thanks for advice.

imnoise on derivatives of an image

Hi, I have the following situation: - read an image (0..255 range); cast it to double precision; - compute its gradient (dIdx and dIdy, which obviously will contain both positive and negative entries) - try to add noise to the derivatives using imnoise function; The result of imnoise is scaled from 0 to 1. My question is how can I cast it back to its original range, which should contain both negative, and positive entries, without losing any information? Should imnoise only be used on images with positive intensity values? In this case, how do I scale the derivatives (shift, mayb

matlab jomework help...

This assignment is based on the optical communication example in Lecture 14 notes. If the laser is on, the detector output is a Poisson random variable with an expected value of 1,300. Otherwise, if the laser is off, the detector output is a Poisson random variable with an expected value of 800 photons. The receiver decides that the laser is on if the number of photons counted is larger a threshold Simulate this scenario in MATLAB or other suitable software. You will need to write a function to generate binomial random variable (for generating 0's and 1's to indicate laser to be off or on)

How to determine integer?

Is there any to determine whether a string is a integer or not? For example, read s if [ ... ]; then do something else do another fi -- cogito ergo sum!

Parsing "for" clause

According to formal shell grammar http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html the "for" clause is defined by following productions: for_clause : For name linebreak do_group | For name linebreak in sequential_sep do_group | For name linebreak in wordlist sequential_sep do_group As can be seen from them, if there is no "in" reserved word, there can be no sequential_sep before do_group. However, all available to me shells (ksh, bash, dash, posh) accept both forms: for i do echo $i; done for i; do echo $i

In your opinion, what method is the most efficient for looping the data...

i'm always trying to optimize my code even if the one in place works ok... I've read, a long time ago, that to make it more efficient when looping the data from MySQL, the fastest you open the connection and close the connection to the database, the better it is. So, i was wondering, what is better: Open the database, put all data in an array, close the database and use the array to process data OR open the database, process the data and close the database. Any ideas what method is better? Maybe both are equally more efficient... ---------------- //open database and execut

how can i increase no of i/o ports of blocks using in simulink

how can i increase no of i/o ports of blocks using in simulink. when iam practicing the simulink models some models contains blocks which r having more no.of i/o ports than present in the libraray block... ex. how can i able to make a scope with two i/o ports..and xy-graph with four ports...

inserting images into mysql database using matlab

hai, I would like to know how to insert images into mysql database and how to retrieve and display the inserted images. How to display the image that is converted into binary format? How to set the password field in matlab? Thanks in advance for your help.

new CPAN modules on Sat Mar 13 2010

The following modules have recently been added to or updated in the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). You can install them using the instructions in the 'perlmodinstall' page included with your Perl distribution. Acme-CPANAuthors-Austrian-1.100710 http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Acme-CPANAuthors-Austrian-1.100710/ We are Austrian CPAN authors ---- AnyEvent-5.25 http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent-5.25/ the DBI of event loop programming ---- AnyEvent-5.251 http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent-5.251/ the DBI of event loop programming ---- App-cpanoutdated

how to use variable value as variable in the same dataset

proc format; value parm 74='var1' 75='var2' 76='var3'; data test; var1=1; var2=2; var3=3; x=74; y=put(x,parm.); z=Y; run; i want z=1 that means y is var1 but how can i assign the value of y as a variable in the same dataset to another variable Thanks in advance

iPads sell out after Apple sells 20k per hour

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978100136 Meanwhile the world continues to ignore linux.

Rapid Typing Tutor 3.0

Enhance your typing speed and accuracy with the newest typing tutor! With Rapid Typing Tutor you will learn using your keyboard more efficiently in just a few easy courses for absolutely free. Kids can learn by playing a typing game, while adults can take pre-configured courses or create their own training lessons. Rapid Typing Tutor is perfect for adults and kids, students and teachers, and has comprehensive reporting and progress tracking for every student. Powerful statistics include 15 different parameters, including words- per-minute, characters-per-minute and accuracy reports.

Nyquist diagram for MATLAB GUI

I need a right code to show the nyquist diagram in the GUI given that the numerator and denominator of a transfer function is given The code I made % --- Executes on button press in pushbutton11. function pushbutton11_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles) % hObject handle to pushbutton11 (see GCBO) % eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB % handles structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA) num=get(handles.edit1,'string'); den=get(handles.edit2,'string'); num=str2num(num); den=str2num(den); w=0:1:10000; [numCL,denCL]=cloop(num,den); s

Optimization with a variable of very huge dimension.

Hi all, In my class project, I need to develop a classifier based on Logistic Regression to classify ham and spam emails. The request is that I use conjugate gradient algorithm to estimate a parameter vector theta (that is the weights of words in emails). The problem is that dimension of the vector theta is equal the number of words in the training set that is a huge number (150,000). I am wondering if it is possible to use MATLAB optimization tool box for problems with variable of 150,000 dimensions. If it is impossible, is there any free optimization tool that I can use fo

cannot run matlab in my computer

i am using laptop with windows 7 operating system. and the matlab versions that i am using is matlab 7.1. then i installed it and then when i want to run it after the installation, it just tell me there is an error starting the desktop regarding some 'javax' error. so, what should i do??

newbie to cell

Hi I have a file 'filename.dat' containing like A A.1 A.2 A.3 B B.1 B.2 C C.1 C.2 C.3 C.4 Those A,B and C are filenames but having different numbers of extensions. I use A=importdata('filename.dat' ); A{1} denotes the first row. But I don't know how to separate every filename, like A.1-A.3, or C.1-C.4. I'd like to have a function to return them. Mike

Pi approximation function optimization

I came across the "brain teaser" of finding the best approximation of pi by dividing one 9-digit number by another 9-digit number. Both numbers contain 1 through 9 once. I found a very close approximation by hand (728691345 / 231948765 = 3.141604763) but I want to know if there are any better ones. I've tried a couple different methods of writing a program to find a better approximation, but all I can come up with is a massive number of loops that would take way too long for my computer to process. I'll paste my current program below. If you can think of a better way to write this,

Split memory error

Hi! I've a MCA based Olivetti P500/L ... I installed 16 MB (the max for a 386SX) and I get "Split memory error" Does it mean that, since 16 MB is the max, some memory (e.g. the roms space) can't be relocated and I lost it ?

Python eCommerce, small webshop

Hello everybody! I have to set up a small webshop for used books, CDs, DVD, and stuff and did't find anything realy usefull on google. I'm pretty skilled with Python and would strongly prefer a Python based Shop but all I've found are in early stage, unmaintained or too limited. I've looked around and found many PHP based shops (currently I'm playing with OpenCart but their code is so messy, I don't think this is going to work) and some Ruby based ones (I don't know Ruby at all) I there really no decent, up-to-date, activily maintained and post beta stage Python websh

Reports, very slow to open

I had an existing report but very slow to open. This is a payroll program. Here's what I did. On this report will display all the employees by branch. Then on each employees, I made two sub reports contains their earnings on the left side and deductions on the right side. It runs without problem but very slow. And I found out that the two sub reports was the problem. But I don't know to do in order for me to display the earnings and deductions on the details of each employees. Can some help me on this?

C++0x question: Range-based loop and auto

With the next standard it will become possible to write eg. for(int& value: someContainer) { someFunc(value); } However, would this be valid as well: for(auto& value: someContainer) { someFunc(value); } ? That would be useful if the element type is complicated or unknown. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---

POS Tagging

I just started working on POS tagging with these codes: import nltk text = nltk.word_tokenize("And now for something completely different") #print text print nltk.pos_tag(text) Python prompted me to download a resource with these codes: Resource 'taggers/maxent_treebank_pos_tagger/english.pickle' not found. Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource: I download the resources available using nltk.download(). But I couldn't run POS tagger. Python gave my the following message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python25/tag practices.py", line 5, in

MATLAB GUI nyquist and Parabola HELP

Hi I'm a student and I'm creating a GUI program which incorporate teh 5 input responses plots in Control system, first the input is the numerator and the denominator of a transfer function. I'm having trouble with the Parabola response and also the nyquist diagram becuase the plot are not showing in the axes and the program stands still This is the code for the parabola response % --- Executes on button press in pushbutton13. function pushbutton13_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles) % hObject handle to pushbutton13 (see GCBO) % eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future ver

Apple sells 25,000 iPads in first hour

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/12/apple-sells-50000- ipads-in-two-hours/

Safari is so Irritating

I note that it won't let me connect to WellsFargo.com. Again. I'm not sure whether this is because it's a new version or WellsFargo needs to update it's build-list or what. I tried three times, accessed it easily with Firefox. Quit, tried Safari again, and nothing. Oh well. -- Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.

Dir.glob problem

In the program Im making I need to read some wma files into a variable and I did like this: songs = Dir.glob("C:\\Users\\Public\\Music\\Sample Music\\*.wma") Note that this is NOT the wrong directory, I've copy pasted it from the map itself and also the files are wma and nothing else. My programming teacher has no idea why this dosnt work and the other ppl I've talked with dosnt know either. Most said something like "aside from a simple mistake like wrong directory/extension, I don't know what could be going wrong." So now this forum is my last resort, why on earth dosnt this work

Picture

Hi NG Access2003 I have a database, which include displayed an image in a form ... The pictures are too large (mb) ... I want them in new sizes, and compressed ... Have a proposal for how images are processed and stored in a folder ... Regards Bjarne "Every day new surprises"

Converting CHAR_MAX+1 to char?

What happens in this case? char c = CHAR_MAX + 1; Not sure what happens. The spec only defines behavior for signed and unsigned integral types it seems. Is the behavior undefined?

[ANN] The Compleat Rubyist / June 18-19 2010 (corrected)

[apologies for the double post -- had an incomplete paragraph] Still suck at Ruby and want to get better? =A0Can you be in the Chicago area on June 18-19? =A0 Then we can help! http://thecompleatrubyist.com/ =3D=3D The Event The Compleat Rubyist is a unique 2 day training event ran by David A. Black, Gregory Brown, and Jeremy McAnally. =A0If you attend, you'll be part of a great mix of presentations, workshops, and panel discussion on four topics that every Ruby user should be well versed in: * Ruby Versions and Implementations * The Testing Landscape * Meta-programming *

How Hardcore Are You? Gamer's IQ (Indoors Quotient) Test

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/069/4/6/Hardcore_Gamer__s_IQ_Test_by_shadow502t.jpg 1- Can you name the 375 games and more than 425 characters from gaming's past, present and future? 2- What 2 games never came out? 3- Which character stars in the most games? 4- Which games are represented solely by an enemy character, rather than the hero? 5- Which 5 games are represented by just an object? 6- Which characters were their consoles mascots? 7- Which is the oldest game? 8- Which characters are hunting or watching each other? 9- Which characters are already dead? 10- Where's t

[tao-users] ImplRepo_Service hates me

TAO VERSION: 1.7.5 ACE VERSION: 5.7.5 HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM: Linux RH4 TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, if different from HOST: COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL): gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11) THE $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h FILE : ace/config-linux.h THE $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU FILE :platform_linux.GNU BUILD METHOD USED: traditional AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED: ImplRepo_Service DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT: COMPILATION? no LINKING? no