This month’s BioGeeks meeting at KCL is on Friday, June 18th, to coincide with the Science HackDay taking place over the weekend. We have a special guest this month, Cameron Neylon, with an open-science-themed talk entitled “What have the public done for us?” Plus lightning talks on various subjects. In other news, I’ve moved the [...]
Tagged open scienceThe May tech meet is on Thursday 20th at Imperial College. This month’s speakers: Catherine Canevet — Ondex: Data integration and visualisation Christopher Barnes — ABC-SysBio: Approximate Bayesian Computation in Python with GPU support N. Purswani, L. Tweedy, Z. Patel, C. Suriel-Melchor — DASbrick: A cloud based Rich internet application for Synthetic Biology Parts Registries [...]
Tagged bioinformaticsNote to self — so I don’t have to think about it again next time. #!/bin/bash export MYSQL_PWD=myrootpassword BACKUP_DIR=/mnt/backups/mysql_backups DATE=`date -I` for dbname in `mysql -uroot –batch –skip-column-names -e "show databases;" | grep -v information_schema`; do /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -u root $dbname | gzip -9 > $BACKUP_DIR/$dbname-$DATE.sql.gz done # Clear backups older than 7 days /usr/local/bin/find [...]
Tagged linux, mysqlJoy at last! Chris Staite from the University of Birmingham has built a statically-linked version of Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser, for Centos. You can get it from here. I was getting so sick of Firefox’s slowness and bloat, and Chromium is so much snappier, and more memory-efficient too. Although to [...]
Tagged centos, linuxAs someone who works with numbers, I’ve known for ages the electoral system in the UK is a very poor model. The distribution of votes across the parties correlates very badly with the distribution of seats they get in return. It’s possible, and not uncommon, for a party’s overall vote share to go down and [...]
Tagged politicsThis month’s tech meet is at 6pm on 21st April at University College London. We have talks from… Alison Cuff, UCL The CATH database — Structural Diversity and the Question of the Fold Continuum Andrew Martin, UCL SAPTF — Sequence Analysis Plugin Tool Framework John Pinney, Imperial College GLASS — Gene LAyout by Semantic Similarity [...]
Tagged bioinformaticsThis is really a note-to-self but it might help other people too. I have two network interfaces in my Ubuntu guest (on OS X 10.4 host), one NAT, one host-only. Sometimes one of them doesn’t get an IP address — in ifconfig it has an inet6 address but not an inet address. Today I tried [...]
Tagged linux, OS X, VirtualBoxThis is worth a quick post as I couldn’t find a solution on Google and it took me an hour or two of fiddling. I have a Maven project, call it frontend-war, which contains the main service code for FuncNet. A unit test kept failing in Eclipse with NoSuchMethodError, one of my least favourite screw-ups [...]
Tagged eclipse, java, LJC, mavenTomorrow I’m giving a London BioGeeks talk about Solr, the Lucene-based search engine we’re using at CATH, and soon Smesh too. The slides are available here (PDF, 500KB). If you’re in London, come along, everyone’s welcome. Details here. We also have Manuel Corpas on KaryoDAS, and Phil Dawes on Git. And beer afterwards.
Tagged biogeeks, bioinformatics, git, karyodas, solrIn reflective mood, because it’s the end of the year, and prompted by some biographical reminiscences on Charlie Stross’s blog, I just found the contact details for my FidoNet BBS in an old nodelist from 1995. Happy new year, everyone.
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