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Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really matter...

...untu Linux), and the NYT is a newspaper not a journal. Does any student, or teacher for that matter care whether Newton or Leibntiz invented calculas. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mark Difford <mark_difford@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > > >> I think that all appeared on January 8 in Vance's blog posting, with a > >> comment on it by David M Smith on Jan 9. So those people have -27 days > > Then there was no need for vituperative comments (not from you, of course): > simply point doubters to the right place, as you have done. But Mr. Vance's > comments...

...he product of the matrix and vectors termwise to generate a 3x3 matrix, where m[i,j]=w[i]*co[i,j]*w[j]. 0.000423773 7.47216E-08 4.41255E-08 7.47216E-08 1.96566E-11 4.29229E-11 4.41255E-08 4.29229E-11 4.11045E-11 Is this possible without writing explicit loops? Thank you, Dan Stanger Eaton Vance Management 200 State Street Boston, MA 02109 617 598 8261 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Full_Name: Brad Vance Version: 2.7.0 OS: 10.5.2 Submission from: (NULL) (71.123.195.202) Problem : When drawing transperant points with lines thick-lines(lwd>1) + fill (pch=21-25), it looks like the line is transperantly overlayed over the fill, making it look like 2-lines surround the fill (each a different color...

I am trying to set a uniform PXE environment to load multiple distros. RHEL 5.1 and 4.7 SUSE 10.2 and 11 Solaris 10 X86 Window Multiple server versions.... - Why? Because I am in hell. What I want is to have an upper level pxelinux.0 call the default menu directories that come with the releases. Is there a way to call pxelinux.0 and point it at a different pxelinux.cfg directory?

...ime. Jim Friedeck, CIO Carhill Enterprises ------------------------------ Hi Jim, Martin has review the specification you have sent and it is in line with what we originally quoted. We can get started on the modification right away. Lead time for the project is 1-2 weeks. Best Regards, Greg Vance Digium 256-428-6262 256-971-6890 (fax) gvance@digium.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Friedeck" <asterisk@carhil.com> To: "Greg Vance" <gvance@digium.com> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: Re: >> Greg, >> Just to be clea...

...log.winbindd.txt>> <<log.nmbd.txt>> <<log.bti-c2433.txt>> <<smb.conf>> Next time you want to show people lots of big long log files, can you either gzip them up, or post a url? My shared 56k line doesn't like it when people send big attachments. Vance Lankhaar ------------------------------------------------------------ Vance Lankhaar vance@pcsscreston.ca PCSS Yearbook yearbook@pcsscreston.ca PCSS Computers sysadmins@pcsscreston.ca http://www.crestonbc.com/pcss/ http://www.pc...

...ssing at both ends, and probably recompressing at the destination.) My particular application is OS installation tarballs, but a number of bloated or huge software products out there have sourceballs where there might also be real savings. Have I chosen the wrong tree to bark up? -- Christopher Vance

Hi all, I was in Las Vegas yesterday accepting an award from eWeek and PC Magazine on behalf of Samba for the Innovation in Infrastructure Award in the "Enterprise Software" catagory ! The award was sepcifically for Samba 2.2.2, and we beat out Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Version 1.4 and Bea Systems WebLogic Server 7.0 for the award, so I'm stunned that we

Hi all, I was in Las Vegas yesterday accepting an award from eWeek and PC Magazine on behalf of Samba for the Innovation in Infrastructure Award in the "Enterprise Software" catagory ! The award was sepcifically for Samba 2.2.2, and we beat out Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Version 1.4 and Bea Systems WebLogic Server 7.0 for the award, so I'm stunned that we

...uivalent to >save.image() ? I would like to be able to save the .RData and .Rhistory files and move to another machine. Right now I have to quit R which looses the plots I am working on. 3) Setting the size .Rhistory: What is the maximum size of .Rhistory and where is it set? Thanks in advance for any replys, --adrian acuster at nature.berkeley.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "b...

...y short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent AT&T researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do. The R team did not develop the user interface for R, the designers of the S programming language did. The layman reader of Vance's article will get the impression that R is a brand new invention, which is misleading and unfair. Gentleman and Ihaka should try harder to give credit where credit is due. And by the way, ARE YOU GUYS EVER GOING TO FIX your mailing list platform? It is extremely user-unfriendly and a techno...

...----------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." -- Vance Petree -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: makefile_am.patch Type: text/x-diff Size: 1186 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20070912/635768ad/makefile_am.bin

...ta where each feature data point is a vector, and my distance measurement is a weighted dot product between vectors. I would like to use R to perform a cluster analysis on this data. Does one of the R cluster analysis routines provide for a user provided distance function? Dan Stanger Eaton Vance Management 255 State Street Boston, MA 02109 617 598 8261 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE VANCE<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/> The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.' Last month, I wrote an article<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html> about the rising p...

Hi there. how do I send a winpopup message to a machine knowing its IP only? I tryed witch 'smbclient -M ' but I need the netbios for that machine... -- Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez System Administrator http://www.intelideas.net Madrid, Spain -- CtrInt

Hello Asterisk users and developers! I wanted to let you all know that Digium is hiring for a full-time technical support position. This job includes: * Benefits * Working with Open Source Software * Lots of opportunity for advancement and growth * Working directly with Martin and Mark * Long hours * Cramped office space (until we move) * Low pay Requirements are: * Some knowledge of C * Linux experience * Need to be able to be friendly and communicate with customers * Eagerness to learn, especially about Asterisk...

...s. -------------------------- Adam Kennedy (Fuzzy Logic) Amatuer Radio Call: KB9ZSY fuzzy@fuzzydice.net http://www.fuzzydice.net -------------------------- I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. -- Vance Petree, Virginia Power

...LABEL ssetup KERNEL /isolinux/kernel.lnx APPEND console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 hda=dma,ata100 hdb=dma,ata100 hdc=nodma init=/setup root=/dev/hdc ro devfs=nomount ----8<------8<---- Best regards Michael Boman -- Michael Boman Security Architect, SecureCiRT (A SBU of Z-Vance Pte Ltd) http://www.securecirt.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20021206/0ac21698/attachment.sig>

When I use SATA disks heavily on a 5.3-R machine (Athlon) with the SiI3512 disk controller, I get frequent (sometimes one every 1-5 minutes) WRITE_DMA timed out messages (with different blocks and both disks). It also panics with more than one kind of panic, and sometimes doesn't even get to finish the background fsck from the previous panic before dying again. Given that both disks get the