Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Gapminder
I came across an incredibly interesting piece of software today. It is called TrendAnalyzer from Gapminder. It is statistical visualization software with so much promise that it was bought by Google. I love the goal of the Gapminder project, which is “to promote a fact-based worldview by bringing statistical story-telling to new […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by lee
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Setting Up a Headless Print Server Under Ubuntu 5.04 using CUPS and Samba
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I setup a machine running Ubuntu 5.04 server edition as
a print server for my heterogeneous LAN. This setup was especially tricky
because the server edition is command-line only — i.e., there is no
X-windows and Gnome interface. I ran into a number of problems during
this setup. So, I’m posting the steps as both a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Ubuntu, Networking, Printing by lee
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Open Research
An interesting article about open research:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6404429.stm
I could provide a discussion, but I will instead be lazy, and let the slashdot.org discussions do the talking. (The slashdot discussions are actually pretty good for a change. Read them.)
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/03/02/0158208.shtml
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/1643204


