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We often find ourselves reading through all sorts of contests on the Internet that never seem to echo our own personal skill set or interests. Perhaps you've even fantasized about a type of contest with the types of prizes and goodies that YOU'D actually enjoy. Maybe you've wished there were something along the lines of a asterisk phone system diagram contest? With prizes ranging from

Hi everyone, Predictive Analytics World's program for Feb 18-19 in San Francisco (www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com) has grown a bit since my post several weeks ago, and is looking better than ever. The conference covers today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors. In a nutshell, PAW is a warehouse of case studies. In breaking

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AGDG-LIST:405] R Computing Contest Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:08:13 -0400 From: Larry Schaeffer <lrs at uoguelph.ca> Reply-To: lrs at uoguelph.ca To: Animal Geneticist's Discussion <agdg-list at colostate.edu> For those that are interested only: R Computer Programming Challenge Given: y = Factor A + Factor B + b1(Covariate1) +

Readers of this list might be interested in the following article in the New York Times and might find amusing the notion that "Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software...". http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07progra m.html?_r=1&ref=technology Art

Dear R-help, There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I don't understand why it won't download: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2" > getURL(my.url) [1] "" Other web pages are ok to download but this is the first time I have been unable to download a

Digium is seeking customer success stories. If you have a nominee, you could win a prize of up to $1000 cash or $2000 in Digium hardware. Digium would like to contact these customers for possible use as references for press quotes and case studies. Depending on the customer and the Asterisk implementation, we will award a prize of up to $2000 in hardware or $1000 in cash. If you have any

Digium is seeking customer success stories. If you have a nominee, you could win a prize of up to $1000 cash or $2000 in Digium hardware. Digium would like to contact these customers for possible use as references for press quotes and case studies. Depending on the customer and the Asterisk implementation, we will award a prize of up to $2000 in hardware or $1000 in cash. If you have any

I just launched the website for Rails Day 2006, the second annual 24 hour Ruby on Rails development contest. Teams of one to three people have 24 hours to develop a Rails application from scratch. When the contest is over, entries are judged, and cool prizes are awarded. http://www.railsday2006.com/ Sponsoring Rails Day is a great way to promote your company to the geek demographic. If

Hi useRs, A reminder. The IEEE ICDM Contest: Road Traffic Prediction, will end in 24 days. Hurry up if you want to play with traffic data and solve the problem of jams prediction. Prizes of $5,000 in total will be awarded for the best solutions. http://tunedit.org/challenge/IEEE-ICDM-2010 BTW, the previous contest in TunedIT was won by an R user:

I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming in R. http://bit.ly/FDS67 linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque

I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolution-computing.com In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. http://bit.ly/2HPlOe announced a directory of R user groups available on the Revolutions blog. http://bit.ly/12u7e7 noted that the Society of Actuaries promotes R with a regular column. http://bit.ly/Kh8eL

I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolution-computing.com . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. http://bit.ly/WYAnM shows how to create a URL for a Google Spreadsheet so you can read the data directly from the cloud in R with read.csv. http://bit.ly/FuUNw reported on Google's use of R to predict

I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help. In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of May: A review of "R Cookbook", a new how-to book for R programmers: http://bit.ly/j4e9Lg A detailed

Dear colleagues: This summer, the ASA will award a new prize for statistical software. This note is to encourage you to apply or nudge someone you know to apply. The award is for software that contributes to better use of computing in statistical research and applications, written while the applicant was a student. There is a $1,000 prize plus the opportunity to give an invited talk at the

Hi, I am trying something so easy but doesnt work for me. I want to have more than once zone in my lan, for example my lan es 192.168.0.0/24 and I want to have one zone for servers, other for admin Pcs. etc here is my conf: Interfaces: -------------- #ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS - eth3 detect net eth1 detect norfc1918 net eth0

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 03:37 -0700, shorewall-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Re: How to block forwarding by port 25? (John Morris) Thanks, that helped to find out the infected pc in private network, also to stop sending spam without our knowledge. is there a good tutorial how to block p2p sharing and messengers with shorewall? i read some topics and posts in forums, but

Hello - I am a little problem trying to find what dependency I need to up date - This is what I see when trying to install: rpm -Fvh shorewall-* error: Failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.2-1 is needed by shorewall-common-4.2.0-0Beta3.noarch rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.2-1 is needed by shorewall-perl-4.2.0-0Beta3.noarch I am using Centos 5.2 with the following RPM

In the docs at http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall-perl.html, "Your ipsets must be loaded before Shorewall starts. You are free to try to do that with the following code in /etc/shorewall/start" implies that code in /etc/shorewall/start is executed BEFORE Shorewall starts. In the default /etc/shorewall/start # /etc/shorewall/start # # Add commands below that you want to be

Hi, DSCP match in /tcrules/ doesn''t work with CS6 and CS7, it provides an error "invalid value" for string and hexa values. It seems that it comes from /Chain.pm/, in the function /do_dscp/: fatal_error( "Invalid DSCP ($dscp)" ) unless defined $value && $value < 0x2f && ! ( $value & 1 ); I dont understand why "$value < 0x2f", but

Hi. I set, for example, a rule with a host server: Macro.http accept fw net:www.google.es I restart shorewall and it works, but when i stop the firewall for disabling Internet (for any reason), and i want start the firewall it says: Failed to start firewall : Compiling... Compiling /etc/shorewall/zones... Compiling /etc/shorewall/interfaces... WARNING: Support for the detectnets interface