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Continue reading →: Seattle Best Restaurants
Every since the Seattle Weekly stopped doing their best restaurants and just has an unsorted “listing”:ttp://www.seattleweekly.com/listings/dining/, the new “Seattle Magazine”:http://seattlemag.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=3E1DA341B2834604B64A1EB3BA74CCFB&tier=4&id=8F2C7CC3E6DA41C6BE7DD9FB6EAC669B has been filling the void. Main issue is that they don’t publish everything on the web. Really sad since they don’t get web advertising yet obviously in the 21st century!…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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 |…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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