castanyes blaves

sudo emacs -nw /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf

ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC=1

LM_AC_HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=120

LM_BATT_HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=120

NOLM_HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=7200

CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1

CONTROL_DPMS_STANDBY=1

# These settings specify the standby timeout for the screen in X-Windows,

# in seconds.

BATT_DPMS_STANDBY=300

LM_AC_DPMS_STANDBY=300

NOLM_AC_DPMS_STANDBY=300

sudo shutdown -r now

posted by avilella  # 10:53 AM 0 Comments

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN

posted by avilella  # 8:32 AM 0 Comments

This one is more a wish than a bet:

Cell cloning needs a big advancement to be understood my the mainstream. Or my grandmother. Or both, for what matters.

Another wish:

Big advancements in systems biology. Mainly not from the molecule or the cell up to upper levels, but from the ecosystem down. I'm very confident with this one. Fingers crossed.

posted by avilella  # 3:13 PM 0 Comments

My bets?

I bet there will be good advances in the massive resequencing field. Solexa is already giving a lot to talk. Other companies will tag along.

This will give a lot of power to ecology. Even if these new techniques won't allow one to control much _what_ is being (re)sequenced, they will provide a humongous amount of data to use comparatively. Comoditizing DNA data gathering for ecological studies would be great.

Ecology is a field that needs an urgent push to become a lot more important in political decisions. It already has a voice. But it hasn't penetrated George Bush's brain yet. Ok, ok, maybe that is too difficult.

posted by avilella  # 3:09 PM 0 Comments

There is a recent article about Open Source in BussinessWeek:

www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051228_262746.htm

Very interesting, indeed.

Investor analysts are very happy with this years performance of RedHat.

And Wall Street is bullish about next year. "Red Hat is one of the best-positioned stocks in software and should be able to further capitalize on the growing demand for open source," wrote Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Jason Maynard in a post-earnings research note.

It is curious to see these big companies evolving. I just found out that RedHat company value doubles the value of Novell Inc.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHAT

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=NOVL

which is something one wouldn't expect if only taking into account how much "buzz" each company makes in the press, or in general.

The article also mentions Firefox.

It mentions the endorsement OSS has received from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, or IBM. And the difficult-to-publicise relationship of Sun, and specially Java, with OSS.

Morotola is also very well positioned in the Mobile OSS front.

At the end, the article talks about Venture Capital and OSS. Time will tell who is who in this world.

My bets?

Well, I have none. But I think that:

IBM is like the mother of OSS big companies, or like the benevolent giant.

RedHat is like the sparky David (vs Goliath). The key is how they grow and keep doing great. Google is a good example of growing and not shitting like everybody else.

Sun Microsystems would be trying to be benevolent like IBM, and they have contributed a lot with Star(Open)Office. But they are like a benevolent giant that keeps a card in the pocket.

Novell is like the reformed-AA everybody can count on nowadays. If you need a friend for a chat, call Novell. They have shown a lot of potential for their short OSS travel, and have even more potential hiding.

On the non-OSS field, a two key players will be Apple and MSFT. Apple is more in the middle-OSS field, but not fully OSS. But Apple has something that MSFT is very scared off: "coolness". They basically sell "coolness". That's why nowadays they basically sell iPods and music. And will sell video and cinema related stuff. But as they recently switched to x86, they can compete in the application world with MSFT. Well, that _if_ they manage to make the "Rosetta" or whatever they call it now, work flawlessly. If they manage to make almost every app available for OSX86, as for MSFT, then MSFT will have to push a lot to show muscle. Maybe MSFT will Open-Source the company. Who the hell would beat MSFT if they turn into a RedHat-like company?

Anyway...

posted by avilella  # 3:01 PM 0 Comments

http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vivek/blogger/2005/12/execute-commands-on-multiple-linux-or_27.php

posted by avilella  # 4:31 PM 0 Comments

To speed up emacs startup a little bit in Ubuntu Breezy, and unless you specially use mule-util (I have no idea what is for), you can:

sudo mv /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international/mule-util.elc /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international/mule-util.elc.ori

posted by avilella  # 3:16 PM 0 Comments

lsof

The lsof utility not only tells you what file every running process has open, it also lets you know what programs have what network ports open. If netstat shows me an open port that I am unfamiliar with, running

lsof -n | grep -i tcp

is my next step to figure out what process has that port open, and what user it's running as.

posted by avilella  # 12:54 PM 0 Comments

The recurrent topic of chatting in lunch time "why wont you even

consider to go to the USA?" is back.

M., D. and C. all think that I'm too stubborn to consider that the USA

is not a good place to live right now. It is good to say that this is

all very hypothetical talking, as I:

(a) Don't pretend to go to the USA in the near future.

(b) Anybody pretends for me to go to the USA in the near future.

But after much thinking about this topic, maybe I am having a biased

view of the USA after all. Or maybe not. It is true that I like to

watch "The Daily Show" and the recent "The Colbert Report", and that

the programs are all about criticising the Falcons and such and so on.

But hey, that's exactly what is _happening_ in the USA right now. It

is not like there would be a "The Ericsson Report" in Sweden, where

they would be criticising the government for all the bad things they

would be doing. And I don't mean doubling the taxation for butter or

things like that (I'm sure in Sweden that could be a problem), I mean

the things that have been happening in the USA during the last ~5

years.

So I could say that yes, without having been there, I prefer Sweden to

the USA. And I would prefer Germany to the USA. And I would prefer

Japan to the USA. And I would prefer New Zealand to the USA. And I

would even prefer South Corea to the USA. I wouldn't prefer

Afghanistan to the USA, or Pakistan to the USA. Any country that takes

the United Nations seriously could be a good place to live. Any

country that takes the Kyoto protocol seriously would be a very nice

place to live.

And I'm not saying that every inch, every city or every state in the

USA is the same. I'm sure that the daily live in a mid-sized city in

Texas can be a lot different to the live in Boston or San Francisco,

but you get the idea.

posted by avilella  # 1:00 AM 0 Comments

After reading this paper:

Comparisons of dN/dS are time dependent for closely related bacterial

genomes

Eduardo P.C. Rocha, John Maynard Smith, Laurence D. Hurst, Matthew

T.G. Holdene, Jessica E. Cooper, Noel H. Smith, Edward J. Feild

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?cmd=prlinks&dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&id=16239014

I have started to have revolving ideas about codeml, evolver, hyphy

and a program of the likes of "seqgen", sprinkled with some of the

features in "rose", some of the features in "simcoal2", and some of

the features in the recently published "cosi":

http://www.broad.mit.edu/personal/sfs/cosi/cosi_package.tar

The thing is that with either PAML or HyPhy there will always be a

reasonable uncertainty about how accurate is the model of dN/dS

branches given by the MLE for the data. It is like the problem with

multiple sequence alignments: one will never* know if the MSA

determined by probcons, muscle, t-coffee or clustal is _the_ MSA that

depicts the true relationship of each and every aminoacid or

nucleotide of a group of individuals or species.

*well, at least until the technology in "Park Jurassic" is

achieved. Actually, better technology that in P.J., as the frogs

tinkerings were really bad in that case.

Some weeks ago I found out that Aaron Darling, of Mauve's fame,

created a whole framework of what one could call "evolving-MSAs", to

recreate realistic cases for which we know the _true_ MSA. We can then

use this _true_ MSAs to check if our alignment program is good or not.

Cosi is more or less a similar framework, but for different goals.

Cosi, sgevolver, seqgen, rose, simcoal2 and similar programs are great

tools to play with in a long flight or any other situation were one is

stuck to a confined place for several hours without much to do. Like

insomnia nights.

Anyway, CASP is another example by which one can improve the ab initio

prediction programs of protein structures by giving to the authors of

those programs truly given structures (crystallographic? - beats me).

Roderic Guigo and some other colleagues in the ab initio gene

prediction world were trying to promote a CASP-like annual event for

the gene prediction use case.

So, back to the dN/dS stuff. One thing that is always difficult to

take for granted is the reconstructed ancestral sequence given by

either PAML, HyPhy (havent tried much) or any MSA-analysis-like

program. It's a place where the problems with dN/dS analysis and those

of MSA collide.

But one thing we can do is to see how good are the reconstructed

sequences for a given sequence (using something on the likes of

seqgen), and compare the true ancestral sequences given by a seqgen

run to the PAML/HyPhy reconstructed sequences under a specific model.

Obviously, simulating sequences and checking how good is the

reconstruction is absolutely idiotic if one is analising real-world

sequences (this is more or less what my PhD advisor told me). But the

thing is that this is for assessing more or less how good this

reconstructions are. Another analogy comes to my mind: it would be

like to see how good a basketball player is when shooting 100 free

shots. Let's say that the player scores 90 of 100. We cant say this

specific player (or phylogenetic program) will be able to score 90, or

say, 70, of every 100 free shots in play-off games (or real

sequences). But it does say that under certain conditions (as much

realistic as possible given the controlled variables) it _does_ score

90 of 100, so for realistic cases (the rest of the uncontrolled

conditions) if will score close to 90, with a certain confidence of

interval.

This reconstructed sequences, by the way, are very important when

doing preferred/unpreferred codon analysis.

I guess this ideas are just "revolving" than "evolving" right now...

posted by avilella  # 12:45 AM 0 Comments

One wants to factorize the entries in a dataframe given some

groupings. E.g:

mydf = data.frame(

a = rnorm(100,10),

b = rnorm(100,10),

c = rgamma(100, 1, scale=1))

group = hist(mydf$c, breaks="FD")

group$breaks

The idea is to create a factor "mydf$d" with levels corresponding to

the ranges in group$breaks.

We incorporate the mydf$d according to where mydf$c falls in the

ranges.

mydf$d <- cut(mydf$c, breaks = group$breaks, include.lowest = TRUE)

The final df would look like:

a b c d

1 9.361029 11.007316 0.652870680 (0.5,1]

2 11.088950 8.939719 1.039056291 (1,1.5]

3 10.559973 10.918753 1.408191875 (1,1.5]

4 9.780816 10.043780 0.569005734 (0.5,1]

5 9.695545 9.318528 0.122924032 [0,0.5]

6 12.118934 10.599945 0.024634897 [0,0.5]

7 11.731335 10.891874 1.196850362 (1,1.5]

8 9.936451 11.023811 0.091343672 [0,0.5]

9 11.149087 10.859164 5.617211830 (5.5,6]

10 9.899481 8.121008 3.490734537 (3,3.5]

...

posted by avilella  # 4:17 PM 0 Comments

... and they seem to have an excellent near future.

http://www.reuters.com

http://finance.yahoo.com

posted by avilella  # 10:01 AM 0 Comments

# Create a file in the user's home directory named .shosts with at least one entry:

clienthostname.clientdomain.com username

This file must be read/write for this user only:

# chown username:username ~username/.shosts

# chmod 600 ~username/.shosts

# Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the following options:

HostbasedAuthentication yes

IgnoreRhosts no

# Run the command:

# ssh-keyscan -t dsa clienthostname >> /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

(for dsa encryption)

Restart the SSH server:

# service sshd restart

On the client:

# Edit the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and under Host *, add the following options:

HostbasedAuthentication yes

EnableSSHKeysign yes

posted by avilella  # 9:40 AM 0 Comments

I have a thesis to finish, optimistically in 10 days, realistically in about 20-30.

The Catalan and Spanish governments have an Estatut to "approve" or "disapprove", optimistically in 10 days, realistically in 20-30... years.

I mean, seriously?

Come on, I promise to finish my thesis report _if_ you get together on a Christmas lunch, shout and cry and shoot some birds, but at the end of the day you make a decision with the Estatut. No rush.

On the other side, funniest joke in weeks in an r-project intro class:

"the mean function has an option called , in which you can use which percentage of outlier points get trimmed from the sample to calculate the mean. It's like deciding how much you want to trim from the Estatut proposal..."

--- J.O. (Dept Statistics - Univ Barcelona)

posted by avilella  # 2:39 PM 0 Comments

Oh, not-so-lazy web, if you know how to make a Dimension 5000 recognize the 4th gig slot of RAM, please let me know.

Ubuntu Hoary and Breezy Live seem to have problems with that...

posted by avilella  # 1:36 PM 0 Comments

Sample a Few Elements of an Object

Description:

Randomly select a few elements of an object, typically a data

frame, matrix, vector, or list. If the object is a data frame or a

matrix, then rows are sampled.

Usage:

some(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame':

some(x, n=10, ...)

## S3 method for class 'matrix':

some(x, n=10, ...)

## Default S3 method:

some(x, n=10, ...)

posted by avilella  # 5:11 PM 0 Comments

By means of the R-project users mailing list I discovered sci.stat.consult in groups.google.com (this was Usenet before, right?).

"Questions about statistics: The R mailing lists are

"

Anyway, it is a very nice place to wander around, preferably with a cup of tea (or coffee) to occasionally sip.

posted by avilella  # 8:59 PM 0 Comments

We, non-smokers, prefer you not to smoke. We want you to join the club of non-smokers.

The mantra:

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra.

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra unconsciously.

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra unconsciously as you breath.

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra unconsciously as you breath in and out.

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra unconsciously as you breath in and out slowly.

"You don't need to smoke"

Repeat the mantra unconsciously as you breath in and out slowly and smoothly.

"You don't need to smoke"

posted by avilella  # 10:57 PM 0 Comments

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16260186&dopt=Abstract

... to add more rant to the ranting.

posted by avilella  # 5:57 PM 0 Comments

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/entertainment/4530650.stm

A computer deciphering the enigmatic smile of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa concludes she was mainly happy.

posted by avilella  # 12:05 PM 0 Comments

echo "capabilities()" | R --slave --vanilla

jpeg png tcltk X11 http/ftp sockets libxml fifo

TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

cledit IEEE754 iconv

FALSE TRUE TRUE

posted by avilella  # 8:23 AM 0 Comments

http://www.researchchannel.org/

posted by avilella  # 7:18 AM 0 Comments

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R

posted by avilella  # 4:30 PM 0 Comments

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.log" \( \! -empty \) -print

posted by avilella  # 10:52 AM 0 Comments

I narrowed down my choices to this to models with complimentary doubled-cells batteries:

http://www.optize.es/servlet/PORTATIL_THINKPAD_X41__PM_758_1.5GHZ__51_213132_optize.html

http://www.optize.es/servlet/BATERIA_LI-ION_8_CELDAS_PARA_THINKPAD_X4_213166_optize.html

http://www.optize.es/servlet/PORTATIL_SAMSUNG_Q30__PENTIUM_M_753_ULV__211148_optize.html

http://www.optize.es/servlet/BATERIA_6_CELL_4800MAH_PARA_PORTATILES_S_213059_optize.html

But yet, I'm still not sure which one to pick. So help me out here,

LazyWeb: which one should I pick?

To give some priorities:

Light: I want to bring this laptop with me a lot and I'm closer to be

30 than 20 years old.

Extended battery life: again, I want to bring this laptop with me a lot.

Totally RAD linux support: it seems that aspect is covered

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadX41Tablet

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellLatitudeX1

Keyboard: as good as to type with it all day

Mouse trackpad/clit: as good as not to have to plug a normal mouse to

browse when sorting out your groceries order

You can comment on here or send an email to avilella AT

that-free-mail-account-that-start-with-a-g-and-end-with-a-mail DOT com.

posted by avilella  # 11:24 AM 0 Comments

http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/thinkpad/thinkpad_20050614_battery_life.pdf

I found out that the different X41 laptops have strickingly different battery lifetimes. And it doesn't seem to correlate with them having either the:

Intel Dothan LV CPU

or the

Intel Dothan ULV CPU

posted by avilella  # 6:53 PM 0 Comments

Save a Bookmark in Firefox with this:

http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed

And everytime you can to add a feed, just open the link, append the RSS feed link to it, and type .

Google Reader will show you the blog and you will find a "subscribe" button to confirm the addition.

posted by avilella  # 5:57 PM 0 Comments

http://www.optize.es/servlet/PORTATIL_THINKPAD_X41__PM758_1.50_GHZ__6_208544_optize.html

posted by avilella  # 12:50 PM 0 Comments

www.optize.es

"Portatil ThinkPad X41"

posted by avilella  # 12:47 PM 0 Comments

sudo mkdir -p /opt/firefox/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/

sudo touch /opt/firefox/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default

mkdir ~/Desktop/ffsettings

cp bookmarks.html cert8.db cookies.txt formhistory.dat key3.db signons.txt history.dat mimeTypes.rdf ~/Desktop/ffsettings

sudo cp ~/Desktop/firefox-1.5.tar.gz /opt/

cd /opt

sudo tar xzvf firefox-1.5.tar.gz

sudo rm firefox-1.5.tar.gz

cd /opt/firefox/plugins/

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/* .

sudo rm libtotem_mozilla.*

cd

mv .mozilla .mozilla.ubuntu

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

firefox

cd ~/Desktop/ffsettings

cp * ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default

# To ensure that other programs use version 1.5 of firefox and not the

# old 1.07 version, go to Preferences -> Preferred Applications in the

# System menu. For the "Web Browser" tab, choose "Custom" and then

# enter the command:

firefox %s

sudo chown -R avb:avb /opt/firefox

# Tornant a posar la versio anterior de firefox

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox

sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/firefox

# Restore your old profile:

cd

mv .mozilla .mozilla-1.5

mv .mozilla.ubuntu .mozilla

# (optional) Delete the firefox directory

sudo rm -r /opt/firefox

posted by avilella  # 9:20 AM 0 Comments

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

posted by avilella  # 8:25 AM 0 Comments

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/191205&tid=131&tid=146

http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/33/macedonia-deploys-5000-gnome-in-public-schools

"The latest GNOME Journal is running a story about the deployment of 5000 Ubuntu desktops in public schools. The Republic of Macedonia is a small country in Southern Europe with a population of around 2 million. Internet penetration is only around 5% and software piracy rate is rampant. Also, the government does not play any major role in the development of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and a private sector is dominated by Microsoft technologies. Given the circumstances, one would not expect any free software related stories to make the headlines. Yet the presence of a small volunteer organization by the name Free Software Macedonia is making a big difference in this small country."

posted by avilella  # 7:21 AM 0 Comments

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41089000/jpg/_41089616_afp_vendor220.jpg

posted by avilella  # 4:37 PM 0 Comments

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41074000/jpg/_41074668_royalchelsea.jpg

From:

War veterans are learning to use the internet at a new cyber cafe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4484614.stm

posted by avilella  # 4:36 PM 0 Comments

More testing on pandora.com.

I very much enjoy Frank Sinatra in Christmas time (must be too much cinema or TV). Well, Dean Martin seems to have a similar "music genome" according to pandora.com:

"Swing influences, a mid-tempo dance style, sultry vocals, romantic lyrircs and a horn ensemble"

posted by avilella  # 7:20 PM 0 Comments

Via pandora.com I discovered that "The Red Hot Valentines" have some nice songs in their repertoire.

Not sure their music is _that_ similar to Smash Mouth, though...

posted by avilella  # 6:46 PM 0 Comments

Apple most recent 10K filing:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000110465905058421/a05-20674_110k.htm

The Company is currently the only maker of hardware using the Mac OS. The Mac OS has a minority market share in the personal computer market, which is dominated by makers of computers utilizing other competing operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

posted by avilella  # 9:23 AM 0 Comments

"We aim to reach 100m-200m laptops in 2007", Mr Negroponte

said. Global laptop production is expected to total 47m units this

year.

...

200m laptops for childs in countries like China, India, Brazil,

Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria and Thailand.

What does that mean?

It means the organizations that form and back the OLPC project are

commited to do something great for the education of the child in these

countries, where day-to-day high-quality scholarization is still

something to tackle.

It means that the UN won't be pushing to pour money to a project with

fuzzy lines that vaguely aims to strenghten the capital in the

Ministries of Education of these countries, but to put great learning

tools in the hands of child which have big energies, to learn and

discover by themselves, and little opportunities, to do so.

It also means to me that there will be a lot of computer companies

worried about what does this means to their businesses. I see it this

way: there are world-wide projects that nowadays are trying to

eradicate malaria from our world of developing countries (some of them

financed by foundations which money comes from a specially big

computer company). A lot of companies would be ready to tackle malaria

with their assets, but they don't do that, simply because there is no

money for them to do that. The OLPC project situation is similar.

So please, don't f*** this project up for the sole reason that you

either:

(a) Don't understand what this project means to you

(b) Don't want to understand what this project means to you but you

are stubbornly afraid of things you don't understand

(c) You think you have a good bragging opportunity to guess what will

make this project fail

I personally think that if in 1 year we leave in a world where 200m

chinese, indian, brazillian, argentinian, egyptian, nigerian and

thailandese kids have that tool for them, this world will be much full

of hope that it those tools never reach their hands.

posted by avilella  # 10:31 AM 0 Comments

http://lwn.net/Articles/162400/

The Chinese publication People's Daily Online notes that Philips Electronics China Group is joining the Open Invention Network. "Philips Electronics China Group announced Wednesday that the company, together with Sony, IBM, Red Hat and Novell, has decided to join funds to create a joint venture-- the Open Invention Network (OIN), to purchase core patents of Linux operation system and offer them, free of charge, to any institutions or individuals. The effort is meant to aid the advancement of Linux and break the global dominance of Windows by Microsoft."

posted by avilella  # 6:51 AM 0 Comments

llq | grep NQ | awk '{com=sprintf("llhold -r %s",$1); system(com)}'

posted by avilella  # 6:56 PM 0 Comments

http://lafarga.upc.edu/frs/?group_id=65&release_id=123

posted by avilella  # 6:34 PM 0 Comments

One can start with:

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2E

Then get a copy of the book:

LaTeX: A document preparation system

by Leslie Lamport

then in doubt about something:

google...

posted by avilella  # 5:52 PM 0 Comments

Right now, I stick to the style I picked up with:

Smash Mouth

Which is Smash Mouth and a bunch of other gangs, only 10% of which I don't dislike...

http://pandora.com

posted by avilella  # 3:52 PM 0 Comments