Larry’s Things .net

Clone Manager :  http://www.scied.com/pr_cmpro.htm

Sequencher :  http://www.genecodes.com/

ApE (A Plasmid Editor) : http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/

The default settings on RealVNC do not work with connecting to a mac remotely, make sure to change these 2 settings in “options” before connecting:

Colour level –> Full

“Render cursor locally” –> set off  (no checkmark)

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart

Rumours floating around that the makers of the umpc OQO, might be going bankrupt.    Not verified, but they’re also not giving out RMA’s and also returning repair requests.   Oh well, better start hoarding spare parts then.

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We also will not be receiving any new OQO inventory.  Any remaining inventory has been discounted and posted in our Open Box/Clearance section on our website. 

If there are any questions, please email us at info@buildyourumpc.com. 

Regards,

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www.BuildYourUMPC.com

Wimba

http://www.wimba.com/

Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X 10.3+ , Internet Explorer, and Safari.

140 lumens per watt!  (compared to 70 lumens per watt for LED)

http://www.3-form.com/index.php

http://www.legacyvintage.com/

http://www.nabusu.com/home.aspx

http://www.canopyplastics.com/

http://www.envirocurb.com

Inniskillin - reserve series - 2006 - red wine

 ”Meritage” - VQA

In vintage section.

 http://www.inniskillin.com/contentmanager/ViewObject.aspx?sys-Portal=55&sys-Class=Wine&sys-ID=267

Either I’m getting old or the Lincoln MKZ/MKS is starting to look cool to me…   It’s probably the last two commercials they’ve made to promote this product - wonder who’s the ad firm responsible for the commercials.

First one is the one using David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” - sung by Cat Powers. Love the camera shake as the car launches into the “sky”.

Who sings the second commercial using Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom (Coming Home)” - it’s by Shiney Toy Guns  - sounds really cool! 

Lyrics:

Standing there alone/ the ship is waiting/ all systems are go
are you sure
control is not convinced
but their computer has the evidence
no need to abort
the countdown starts
Watching in a trance
crew is certain
nothing left to chance
all is working
trying to relax
up in a capsule
“Send me up a drink”
jokes Major Tom
the count goes on
4-3-2-1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling home
Second stage is cut
we’re now in orbit
stabilizers up
running perfect
starting to collect
requesting data
what will it effect
when all is done
thinks Major Tom
back at ground control
there is a problem
go to rockets full
not responding
“Hello Major Tom”
are you receiving
turn the thrusters on
We’re standing by”
there’s no reply-
I’m coming home

- I suspect that the clamav connection problem was due to an incorrect DNS setting in both /etc/resolv.conf and in assp.cfg .

Interesting development toolkit:   Qooxdoo

http://qooxdoo.org/

I can’t put my finger on what exactly it is that makes his paintings stand out above the rest.   From a naive standpoint, maybe it’s his use of blue…

http://www.datalockerdrive.com/

Looks cool.   Has a digital keypad and built-in 128bit/256bit hardware encryption.   Also has a self destruct panic button option.

 Also interesting is the Lenovo Crypto drive - has numeric keypad:

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/44062/review/usb_20_portable_hard_drive.html

Corrections Corporation of America  - nyse: cxw

More pam_mount craziness - using pam_mount v 0.18 on Fedora 7

Situation:  Everything is ok in joining with the ADS, and authenticating with ADS works perfectly.    However, I have it so that depending on the user, it will mount to a different physical server, so my pam_mount.conf file looks something like this:

volume @groupa cifs serverdata8.ad.servergroup.com groupa /home/&/serverdata8 uid=& - -
volume @groupb cifs serverdata4.ad.servergroup.com groupb /home/&/serverdata4 uid=& - -
volume @groupc cifs serverdata1.ad.servergroup.com groupc /home/&/serverdata1 uid=& - -

So a user logging in and belonging to groupb will skip the first line , execute the second, and skip the third line.

This worked fine on my other linux machines of the same configuration.  However, on this one, I can log on fine, but it never matches the user to the correct groupX and ends up skipping everything.  Checking and double checking, recompiling pam_mount, was to no avail.   Removing the @groupa to a * so that it looks like this:

volume * cifs serverdata8.ad.servergroup.com groupa /home/&/serverdata8 uid=& - -

Works fine.

Finally, the solution was that the user I had already existed in /etc/passwd …  so when you log in to an ADS account that also matches exactly with an account in /etc/passwd , it will end up skipping any conditionals you defined for the @groupX . 

sigh…