Asus and its netbooks, with interesting comments

http://www.osnews.com/comments/21589

The comments are really interesting. I have always wondered why Asus chose Xandros instead of Ubuntu for its netbook. Now there seems to be a clue.

Modeling Demographic Processes In Marked Populations

A good book, with quite some Bayesian-related information: http://www.springerlink.com/content/p67808/?p=cf7025ba5c32451290540f7ef5531dc6&pi=0

Low cost Linux desktop

http://linuxpreloaded.com/
http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php?cat=249

Synchonize Linux laptop and desktop

Useful tips: http://www.thejemreport.com/content/view/243/74/

Sharing monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc.

It seems that, with the help of this small gadget (http://www.belkin.com/flip/), two computers can share all the peripherals.

Dell Precision Linux Workstation

is likely to be my next laptop: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/workstation_precision_m4400?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

Sabre and SabreR

I discovered another multilevel multiprocess software, Sabre (and its R implementation SabreR). It seems to be very efficient and well integrated with R. It is also possible to run it (a parallel version) on a cluster. Looks very promising. I should be able to use it for serious exploration in a day or two.

Unlike aML, Sabre is still under active development, which means that new features, such as more finite mixture modeling capability, hopefully may be incorporated into future releases.

Home page: http://sabre.lancs.ac.uk/
Tutorial: http://sabre.lancs.ac.uk/short_course.html

R2jags is really cool

The package "R2jags" is really cool. Now with JAGS, it is possible to do everything about Bayesian analsys on Linux the same way as on Windows.

Another blah blah blah

Just another guy who claims that Linux is not ready: http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.html

Access blocked

Access to blogspot in China seems to be blocked again.

More screenshots

My old Ubuntu 8.04 does not look too shabby either :)

My desktop

Pretty cool, isn't it?

Hibernation and suspension

I am glad to find out that both hibernation and suspension works perfectly on my Sony laptop using Ubuntu 9.04. This is a BIG improvement.

Upgrading to OpenOffice 3.1

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-1-on-Ubuntu-9-04-111105.shtml

Ubuntu and scim

http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/10/22/howto-scim-and-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon/

Build CVS Emacs

1. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
2. ./configure --with-x-toolkit --with-xft
   

Intel Fortran and aML

I am happy to discover that aML can be successfully compiled on Ubuntu using the non-commercial Intel Fortran compiler v.11.

Bayesian materials

http://www.math.aau.dk/~slb/kurser/bayes-08/