Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Video: Nutch the open source search engine

Friday, April 30th, 2010

 

Nutch      
Lucene      
SOLR

Getting started with SOLR 

Installing SOLRx

 

SOLR Demo on Grails installation
Hadoop

Cloudera Automatic Configuration for Hadoop

O'Reilly Webcast: Introduction to Hadoop

Google MapReduce

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Afghan conflict chart reflects social organism

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

This is very similar in appearance and complexity to the analog square root circuit that was evolved in a computer.  ( which I can not find right now ).  The point is biological organisms are still beyond our best minds.  And a branch of the government is supposed to solve the problems reflected by this chart?

Craigslist autoposters research and review

Monday, April 26th, 2010

In order to post multiple places on Craigslist.org automatically you need to:

Using a different email is fairly simple.  Just sign up for multiple free email accounts.  If you tread lightly you should not have to do this again.

Using a different IP address is fairly simple. Just use

FireFox has a plugin called SwitchProxy but it appears not to work well.


Searches

The professional software is too expensive and they require a steep monthly fee.

Side Issues:

Pelco PTZ Pan Tilt Zoom Software

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Pelco PTZ software download

Not sure it works with model below on ebay but it is worth a try.

Google OCR Experiment

Monday, April 19th, 2010

This is an experiment to see if google will perform optical character recognition on the file.  They are written in Japanese.  I hope to be able to recover an html version after google indexes them.

E5M_INST-Communications-Protocol

E5M-TM_-TS-Manual

OCR and support for Japanese OCR

HP abandoned the code for Tesseract and later donated it to a University who then invited Google to partake.   It is probably the way to go to do OCR on Japanese.  No installer for Windows so most likely easiest on a linux box

Video: Practical Life Extension Results – Gregory Benford of Genescient and the Methuselah flies

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Presented by Gregory Benford.

Genescient is the world's first computational biology company founded on the use of artificial biological selection to cure the diseases of aging. Our laboratory animals have been selected for longevity through 750 generations for the equivalent of 15,000 human years. I will describe Genescient's multiple pathways toward accelerating human longevity, with parallel enhancements of vigor and function. Genescient applies 21st century genomic technology to identify, screen and develop benign therapeutic substances at precise doses, to defeat the diseases of aging. Our singular approach addresses the complex genomic networks that underlie aging and aging-associated diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. I shall display some results and our first product, due in 2009.

Gregory Benford is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Professor of Physics. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and the Universities of Turin and Bologna. In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. With more than 200 scientific publications, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies. He is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the CIA.

Dr. Benford is also the author of more than thirty books, nearly all still in print. His work has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. His non-fiction Deep Time received much praise in 1999 and he won the United Nations Medal in literature in 1994.

Gregory Benford became Emeritus form the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient.

Floppy Disk Data recovery Software Tools

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I needed to get some data and code off of a 5.25 inch floppy disk.

Out of a list of datarecovery software tools  I tried

  1. FlopShow
  2. PCInspector File Recovery – PCInspector File Recovery recovered the data I needed
  3. Disk Investigator  – good tool and I will see if I need to use it
  4. OmniFlopOmniFlop Manual – A very interesting tool that allows you to import data in non PC formats via your PC floppy drive.  Only runs on 2000 or beyond.  I want to use it to recover some Commodore 64 files. Woot!

Virus Scanning Proceedure of 1-17-09 Using Microsoft OneCare and Malicious software removal tool

Monday, January 18th, 2010

ITEM                                               NOTES                                                                         Resolution

5 severe issues found

Exploit:Java/CVE-2008-5353.A

Trojan:Java/Selace.E

Trojan:Java/Selace.J

TrojanDownloader:Win32/Zlob.gen!BM                  c:\documents and settings\user01\local settings\temp\djdt1g9i.exe               File DELETED

VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.DQ

1 High issue found

TrojanDownloader:Win32/Troxen!rts

1 Medium issue found

Tool:Win32/Cmdow                                    c:\documents and settings\user01\my documents\downloads\windows xp pro.iso     File Deleted

Additional Notes:

  – deleted Java cache – most of the infections in applets?

Visual Basic 6 – Microsoft mdb simple database functions

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Searching on: sql for access

Video: Points towards the critical areas of study to understand Quantum Computing

Friday, July 17th, 2009

 

Quantum Information Science: A Quantum Computer Revolution

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