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Programming

Journal Journal: Quicky: Seven Step Svn (subversion) Setup 6

HOWTO: Getting subversion (svn) to run under SUSE linux in 5 minutes (3 minutes or less with practice and a fast machine :-)

You can apply these instructions to redhat/slackware distros by substituting /var/svn in place of /srv/svn. You can even set it up in your home directory: /home/username/whatever/svn
Toys

How Scientific Paradigms Relate 163

Here is a giant chart mapping relationships among scientific paradigms, as published in the journal Nature. This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Information Esthetics, an organization founded by map co-creator W. Bradford Paley, is giving away 25" x 24" prints of the Map of Science (you pay postage and handling via PayPal). There are also links to a 3000+ pixel wide jpg of the chart. It would be all one long spectrum except for Computer Science, which makes the connection (via AI) between the hard sciences and the soft sciences.
Encryption

TrueCrypt 4.3 Released 285

RedBear writes "A new update to the best open source transparent encryption software has been released. TrueCrypt is (the only?) open source encryption software capable of creating and mounting encrypted virtual disk images that can then be worked with transparently like any other storage drive, with data encrypted and decrypted in real-time. These virtual disks can be created as files, or entire partitions or physical drives can be encrypted and mounted transparently. Sadly there is still no Linux GUI or Mac OS X port in sight. If you are one of the thronging hordes who have been patiently awaiting ubiquitous multi-platform encryption, please consider donating time or money to the cause, and add your voice to the forum." From the site:"Among the new features [are] full compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista, support for devices and file systems that use a sector size other than 512 bytes (such as new hard drives, USB flash drives, DVD-RAM, MP3 players, etc.), auto-dismount when a host device (e.g., a USB flash drive) is inadvertently removed, and many more." Read on for more features of TrueCrypt and cached versions of all the links above.

Comment Re:Design issue alert! (Score 1) 224

But ebooks really do cost lest that physical books. In India, most of the textbooks are dirt cheap, even the printing costs are subsidised. this is atleast true. The reason is , in India, most of the books are written by writers commissioned by the government. So once they have written it , there is nothing such as author's royalty etc. etc. So I guess the ebooks can be really cheap.

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