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...laces using either interface. If you are dealing with large objects and worry about memory efficiency then .Call puts more tools at your disposal and is worth the effort. However, I did not find the .Call interface at all easy to use at first and we should keep that in mind before getting too pompous in our lectures to the "sinners of .C". (Mostly because the things I needed to know are scattered about in multiple places.) I might have to ask for an exemption on that timestamp -- the first bits of the survival package only reach back to 1986. And I've had to change source c...

...ig wins for me. But I''ve heard a lot of scary things about corrupted indexes, even when using the DRb server. Is this just FUD? Are there any unresolved issues revolving around corrupted indexes? Can I afford to use Ferret in big applications for Fortune-500 clients? (I know that sounds... pompous really, but it''s a genuine concern.) Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated. I''ve also read a few messages about serializing index requests/updates to Ferret through message-queues. Are there any decent guides/blog-posts on this topic? Thanks, -Sam

Considering the pompous response from one of the moderators, indicating the harm I inflicted on the list by an unwitting attempt to send a 76k image in a previous email, I wish to offer my apologies for any paind and suffering that any of you may have incurred. It was not my will to be harmful. Also, the arrogance por...

I am working on my thesis in which i have couple of independent variables that are categorical in nature and the depndent variable is dichotomus. Initially I run univariate analysis and added the variables with significant p-values (p<0.25) in my full model. I have three confusions. Firstly, I am looking for confounding variables by using formula "(crude beta-cofficient - adjusted

Not sure if it''s been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven''t checked out ZFS yet, do, because it will eventually become ubiquitously implemented