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Rich T the Science Guy
Well, love learning new things and there is nothing like learning about genes and things: * “GLP Tox”:google. This is short form for “Good Laboratory Practice”:http://www.fda.gov/ora/compliance_ref/bimo/glp/qna.htm that the FDA has where you basically study if sometime is toxic iin animal models * “Signal Peptide”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_peptide is a short sequence that moves a protein into the right…
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Hawaii Power
Amazing fact, even with all the sun out in Hawaii: Hawaii Plans Big Solar Power Arrays at Airports, Harbors The island state is 92 percent dependent on fossil fuel, all of it imported.
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MacBook Pro disk speed comparison
So an interesting test with “XBench”:http://www.xbench.com/ on disk speed. Since I’m using an older MacBook circa early 2007 for video processing, its interesting to compare the drives all of these are with 4KB blocks | | Score | Sequential Write | Sequential Read | Random Write | Random Read | | Internal 5400rpm Fujitsu MHW2160BHPL…
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Windows XP Product Activation Key
Ok, I’m trapped away from my Windows XP CD, what do I do? # If you want to know the current Product Activation Key, you can download the Magical Bean Key Finder (current version 2.01). As “Mike Devlin”:http://www.mike-devlin.com/windows/key.htm points out there are a couple of key viewers pre-SP2 and post SP2. # If you want…
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MacBook Air and Belkin 4-port Travel USB Hub
Well, the MacBook Air has a single USB port and I thought this wouldn’t be too much of a problem because I’d just buy a 4-port travel hub. Little did I realize how often the MacBook Air requires that you plug in directly otherwise things don’t work. So beware, here are the things I’ve found…
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Syslogd runaway
On my Macbook, suddenly syslogd is running away. Seems like http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030233438149 suggests that this is because of Tie Machine, even though I have it switched off. You can go and kill it with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and hopefully the new instance won’t go crazy. In my case, I did this and the new syslogd is still…
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Rewriting the Anagram program
As Calvin pointed out, its a pain to do the string length and other calculations, so I went back and rewrote the anagram calculation using the prime number trick. That is, assign a prime to each letter from ‘a’ to ‘z’, then you can easily tell if two words are anagrams by multiplying all the…