Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, April 1, 2004

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How to make quality PDF with LaTeX: "One of the things you might want to do when typesetting documents in LaTeX is produce a high-quality PDF for on-screen viewing or printing."


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Apple wins Best of Show at Bio-IT World: "Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday won a Best of Show award at Bio-IT World Conference + Expo, taking place this week in Boston, Mass. Apple won the award for its recently announced Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics."


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A Better Way to Squelch Spam? "Recently proposed anti-spam sender authentication measures such as Yahoo!'s DomainKeys and Microsoft's Caller ID are unlikely to be effective spam deterrents because they are centralized solutions that chiefly benefit major ISPs and advertisers. The Camram (Campaign for real mail) project is an open-source "hybrid sender-pays" system designed to maintain decentralized operations while imposing a computational cost on spammers and leaving legitimate email users unhindered."