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Friday, June 27, 2003

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BioPerl Talks: "Neil Saunders just finished his state of BioPerl talk with some excellent "real world" example of using BioPerl in a genome sequencing project. [...] battery is at 4% damn :)" [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog]

Videoconferencing on Mac OS X -- Comment()
It seems that the new iChat AV software by Apple does not currently support H.323. However, there is a Xmeeting project at Sourceforge, which develops an application called ohphoneX for H.323 videoconferencing on Mac OS X. As I don't currently have a camera, I can't test the software right now. Also, a version of Gnomemeeting has been ported to Mac OS X. In addition, it seems that SquidCam will have H.323 support in version 2.0, according to beta testing which is going on.

Getting Matlab 6.5 to run with X11 by Apple on Mac OS X -- Comment()
I haven't been using Matlab 6.5 lately, and had to find out how to make it run under the X11 software by Apple. Fortunately Mac OS X Hints offered a nice solution. (I used the command open -a X11.) In addition, I had to manually start the license manager lmgrd, what a pain.

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Will Apple Score With The Technical Crowd? "Even the most vocal critic must agree that the forthcoming PowerPC G5 will have considerable juice, but will it have what it takes to make the grade in scientific research and engineering apps?" (StorageSupersite via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) System Requirements; Real-World Test Results: "As far as we can discern, any hardware that will run Mac OS X 10.2.x (Jaguar) will also be capable of running Mac OS X 10.3." (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Robert Louis Stevenson: "A friend is a gift you give yourself." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]