Anybody want a really cheap computer?
by Andy Stewart
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HI everybody,
Check this link:
http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm
This company bought the assets to the AMD PIC (personal internet
computer). They're selling it for $99, or three for $299.
Yes, it runs Linux. Here is one person's experience:
http://jsco.org/dectop/
I wonder if this machine would make a good LTSP thin client...hummmmm.
Perhaps a topic for a future WLUG meeting?
See ya later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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12 years, 1 month
Programming position at UMass CS
by Hanna M. Wallach
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Software Engineer in Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
at UMass.
Work with computer science researchers and other software engineers to
revolutionize search over research literature and patents. See our
preliminary web portal for computer science researchers at
http://rexa.info/faq, and read relevant publications at
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/papers.
Open source tools: Linux, Java, MySQL, Apache, ...
Modern methods: Test-driven development using the Java/Spring
framework. Feature-rich, Ajax-based web interfaces.
Intellectually stimulating: Learn about cutting edge methods in
machine learning, information extraction, web search, data mining,
social network analysis.
Serious hardware platforms: 100-CPU cluster, 10Tb disk, fast servers
and desktops.
Challenging work: Not cookie-cutter programming. Integrate with
machine learning methods; program for high parallelism; devise
algorithms for massive scalability. High creativity, intelligence,
experience, and independent drive required.
Experienced colleagues: Former VP R&D 170-person startup, extensive
professional software engineering experience on the team.
Tuition Benefits: Take UMass Amherst courses while working.
Opportunities to publish research papers, if desired.
True search: No internal candidate.
Excellent follow-on prospects: Several others from the lab later got
job offers from Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft. (We want someone
interested in staying multiple years, though.)
Time off: Five weeks vacation and personal time, plus 13 holidays each
year.
Gorgeous location: Amherst, MA: bucolic surroundings plus active
culture. Smith, Holyoke, Hampshire and Amherst Colleges all in the
neighborhood. Office with window.
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Rexa: http://rexa.info (create free login)
Rexa is a digital library covering the computer science research
literature and the people who create it. Rexa is a sibling to Google
Scholar, CiteSeer and the ACM Portal. It's chief enhancement is that
Rexa knows about more first-class, de-duplicated, cross-referenced
object types: not only papers and their citation links, but also
people, grants, topics---and in the near future universities,
conferences, journals, research communities, and more.
Rexa currently provides:
* Keyword search on over 7 million papers (mostly in computer science)
* Cross-linked pages for papers, authors, topics and NSF grants
* Browsing by citations, authors, co-authors, cited authors, citing
authors; (find who cites you most by clicking "Citing authors" on
your home page)
* Web-2.0-style "tagging" to bookmark papers
* Automatically-gathered contact info and photos of author's faces
* Analysis of research topics, their impact, and how they relate.
Coming soon:
* Much improved coverage of recent CS papers (it's somewhat weak now)
* Ability to make corrections to extracted data
Coming later:
* Improved ranking, extraction and co-reference accuracy
* Much more data mining
* Broader coverage of more research fields
Rather than seeing our siblings as competitors, we believe that such
services are like "newspapers for the research community", and, just
as it is tremendously important that there is not solely one national
newspaper, we think there should be many such services. This is
especially true since increasingly they will do more than simply
supply raw information, but also provide subjective analysis, pattern
discovery, and predictions.
Rexa acts as driving application and showcase for our research in
machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction,
entity resolution, trend analysis and social network analysis. We aim
to revolutionize the progress of science by providing new tools to
help scientists do their job more effectively.
============================================
Official Job Posting:
The Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory within the Center
for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst is seeking computer professionals to support its
expanding research.
The Software Engineers will design, implement, and maintain software
systems. Both positions require experience with programming in Java or
C++ and with building software systems, web-based systems experience
is a plus. Experience preferred in Unix, Network, shell script
programming and one or more of the following: information retrieval,
natural language processing, text and information extraction
processing, and database systems.
Software Engineer 1: B.S. in computer science or related field, or
equivalent combination of education, training and experience, plus 2-4
years experience or equivalent. M.S. preferred. Hiring Range: $39,200
- $55,400. Respond to Search #R25014.
Senior Software Engineer: M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent and
2-4 years of related work experience. Demonstrated leadership ability
required; project management experience preferred. Hiring Range:
$47,600 - $65,000. Respond to Search #R26907.
To apply, send a letter with your resume and three letters of
recommendation to: Search {# from above}, Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9264. These positions
are grant-funded; renewal beyond one year contingent upon continued
funding. Review of applications will continue until the available
positions are filled.
The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are
encouraged to apply.
12 years, 1 month
Evolution plugin for MS Exchange
by chuck
Hi All,
I'm running kubuntu feisty with evolution 2.10.1. I'm trying to use the
exchange plugin to connect to the MS 2003 Exchange Server at work.
I have all the info about the implementation of Exchange from the IT folks,
but I just can't make the plugin work. When I enter in my password, I
get "Can not authenticate. (password incorrect?)" error.
For the "Identity"
- Username is my name (not surprising...)
- Email address is my fully qualified email address.
For the "Receiving email"
- Server type is Microsoft exchange
- Username is my domainname\username (Note: I've tried it without the
domainname, still no joy).
- OWA URL is the webmail URL (this has been confirmed by the IT folks)
- Authenticate - I enter my password - seems to be ok.
- Authentication Type - I've tried both secure and plaintext
For "Receiving options"
- Global Address List/Active directory settings - There's no entry
I've looked at the Ubuntu launchpad website and there seems to be a few issues
with the plugin.
When evolution starts, it tries to search for mail folders, but finds nothing.
I can't even terminate the process. I have to find out what pid number it is
and terminate it with the 'kill <pid>' command.
Has anyone managed to get this working? Is there some "magic" tweaking that I
need to do?
TIA,
-Chuck
12 years, 1 month
BBQ Stuff
by Eric Martin
Ok, so far I have about 10 people RSVP'd as a yes. I'm hitting the grocery
store tonight so please let me know if you haven't already. Also, if a few
people could bring chairs that would be awesome, I only have 10 and I
couldn't grab any more. Lastly, it's BYOB just so everyone knows, and I
will have a cooler w/ice so we can keep stuff cold. See you tomorrow night
at 7, right Andy?
Eric
12 years, 1 month
Any SQL-types out there? (more lab automation stuff)
by Stephen Daukas
Good morning!
In the continuing saga of automating various activities where I work, I have
taken on processing data files. (Automating data upload is still somewhere
in the air.)...
This is rather simple in concept, but a bit less obvious in practice (aren't
they all!):
I would like to open up a CSV file and rearrange the columns according to a
standardized order. Not every data file will have all of the standard
columns (different probes collect different data), but column headers are
standardized. So, I need to inspect each column header so that I can place
it and its entire column of data into the proper position in the table,
with empty columns inserted where needed to preserve the standard sequence
of columns. In other words:
A, D, C, G, H becomes A, [B], C, D, [E], [F], G, H where [ ]
denote inserted empty columns
There are literally hundreds of files of data in CSV format, and I intend to
process each by itself, preserving the original, and creating a new
"adjusted" file for the next step. (The next step would be to concatenate
all files together for numeric processing.) Original files must be
preserved (chain of custody requirements), so I am opening the file,
selecting records using SQL, and am now ready to do the rearranging/writing
to a new file...
I didn't know if there is a "well known" SQL way of doing this (e.g., data
manipulation statements of some sort), so I thought I'd see if any
WLUGgers are also SQL-types. I have a few ideas for how to get this done,
but they are "programmer-centric" algorithms, which tend to be different
from "SQL-centric" algorithms...
The reason for SQL is that I have to do this on a MS platform because that
is the standard. But, if most of the real work is done in SQL, then I can
easily move to another platform in the future and only have to change the
"shell code". I am using VBscript as the "shell language" because it works
with all MS apps and file system objects inclusive of CSV files.
Thanks for any help!!!
Best regards,
Steve
12 years, 1 month
WLUG BBQ !!!
by Andy Stewart
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HI everybody,
The WLUG BBQ is coming up fast:
Date: Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Eric Martin's house
Address: 33 Lansing Avenue, Worcester, MA 01605
This is 2.5 miles from WPI.
Look for the penguin!
WLUG will supply burgers, dogs, munchies, soda, and the like. Thanks,
Eric, for hosting the BBQ this year!
See ya there!
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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12 years, 1 month
Thanks!
by Stephen Daukas
Hi all!
Thanks for all of the posts on "project management software"! They were
helpful!
Regards,
Steve
12 years, 1 month
