Here’s a Press release from one of the projects that I support. The NASA Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO), using its active lidar system, traced vertically through the layers of the atmosphere to find that the Australian bushfire smoke was lofting, or…
Check out my quad architecture binary: sh-3.2# file common/bin/dsh common/bin/dsh: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures common/bin/dsh (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc common/bin/dsh (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 common/bin/dsh (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64 common/bin/dsh (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable…
FARK is an alternative news source, with funny headlines for stories that he finds online. This one stood out for me: Spanish judge wants to question U.S. troops. In other news, people in hell want refreshing Mike’s Hard Lemonade Also in the news, Monks can…
More geekage. I’m writing a web service interface to my company’s tools. The idea of web services is to provide a way of remotely invoking methods that can be transparently streamed through any wire protocol you want to use. This idea is far from new,…
So, contrary to all good opinion and intention, I find myself back in the guts of the 10 year old C / C++ monstrosity that is BLAST. For those who aren’t bioinformatics geeks, BLAST is the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. It’s the very most…