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Monday, November 10, 2003
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A Great Speech by the Man who was really elected President: "Gore discusses the questions many of us have been asking. He runs down almost every single one of the liberties that this Adminstration is in the process of trampling. You can almost make a list of the amendments that are being tossed out the window. Declaring citizens enemy combatants. Sneak and peek entry to homes. Adminstrative subpoenas. Bugging client-lawyer conversations. Running background and credit checks on anyone without any need to demonstrate criminal behavior. [...] In a democracy, the state is open and the people are private. But this Adminstration increasing believes that the state is private and the people are public." [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]
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Once again, trouble starting up Matlab -- Comment()
I once again had trouble setting up Matlab so that the licence manager starts up automatically. Fortunately, the instructions at MathWorks seem to help. But I strongly dislike the flexlm system - it is fine on a multi-user system, but overkill on a personal machine. Update: Apparently you also need to run an updater to make the graphical interface work under Panther. (The command-line version started with matlab -nojvm works ok.)
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Panther: a multi-user system -- Comment()
It just now hit me that Panther is really a multi-user system. I switched between two accounts, and instead of the fine "cube" animation my display went black and switched modes. And I realized that I was using different settings in the two accounts: 85 MHz frequency vs. 100 MHz frequency. Panther was switching monitor settings between the two accounts on the fly. What other nice features are buried under the pretty surface?
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A Fairy, a Low-Fat Bagel, and a Sack of Hammers: "One bright, sunny day, the Bad Internet Fairy closed down every company and organization site on the web. [...] People were reading and writing. Frowning and laughing. Crying and cheering. Agreeing and disagreeing." [via inessential.com]
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