Only a couple of years ago, you could edit your file allocation table and replace all these fancy question marks in ?ecret.doc to undelete your files.
While importing now my holiday pictures from a SD card to Picasa 2, I accidentally Continue reading Accidentally deleted files
Category Archives: Software
Catch you
Some of you may remember my recent post how to secure your laptop. There is now also an excellent way to secure your car, boat, or whatever you like. You even don’t need to be a gadget afficionado Continue reading Catch you
Single use email
It’s quite easy nowadays – install this new Firefox plugin and click “random email”. Read your inbox by clicking “check”. Take care as everything is being lost if you delete cookies!
Any new paper? A video cast how to stay informed
Following a frequent request, here is a short video how to create your own Pubmed news feed. You simply need the Sage plugin for Firefox; then goto to Pubmed, create your personal RSS feed and import this URL into the bookmark category that Sage is looking for. Here is the show: Continue reading Any new paper? A video cast how to stay informed
The world needs only five computers
The history of this quote is difficult to trace. cnet believes it is wrong to attribute it to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson. Continue reading The world needs only five computers
Galaxy – a must have
Manipulating large SNP datasets has always been a hassle, a lot of cut & paste, quick & dirty database resorts and no documentation after all. Only by the last week, I learned form the ENCODE papers that there is now a web service that helps with all kind of these tasks. Check out Galaxy — a “must have”.
My linux box
When starting again analysis of pooled DNA samples – this time on the Affymetrix platform – I discovered not only the much improved “Genotyping Console” but also that my earlier Genepool binaries do not work anymore under VMWARE/Ubuntu. I therefore tried Continue reading My linux box
QQ plot
Do you wonder what QQ means? These are quantile – quantile plots that rank observed test statistics against expected test statistics. They allow a visual inspection of overdispersion due to population substructure or other sources of biases.
QQ plots have been recommended earlier, are now frequently used and available in the snpMatrix R package. Yea, yea.
Can we meet on next Tuesday at 2 pm?
Answering this question always takes me 30 seconds – looking for my mobile and doing some pen strokes OR starting Outlook on the laptop and clicking to the desired week (BTW Sunbird is still in version 0.5). Finally I found a solution that gives me a chance for a response within 3 seconds. Continue reading Can we meet on next Tuesday at 2 pm?
So many threads to my data
but fortunately there is a little help. Have you ever been wondered about the power-on time of your hard disk? It’s all there and this utility will reveal it: Continue reading So many threads to my data
Genome Browser Bug
Here I describe a bug in the UCSC Genome Browser display that I found this morning. When locating a SNP on the human genome (where I have only surrounding sequence) I usually do a quick BLAT search Continue reading Genome Browser Bug
NetVibes, Protopage, iGoogle and my own dashboard
Having tried some of these nice web services, I would like to run it now on my own server for obvious reasons. Even after spending considerable time, I didn´t find so much useful out there. eyeOS or other web based OS produce a large amount of overhead while allowing for only one RSS reader window at a time. From the 23 or so widget management systems the only Open Source piece that I found was Posh from Portaneo who deposited at Sourceforge. I wonder why it has only 2,095 downloads so far as all other candidates (Cesar, Viewport, MuseStorm Desktop…) are demo applications only. Widgets for Posh are quite limited so far while the (most important) RSS feed widgets already work.
More useful pages are at gnetvibes.rubyforge.org.rubyforge.org, dev.netvibes.com, reblog.org.
Addendum
Dropthings: another Open Source core engine
Advertising on Pubmed
You don´t believe that? It is possible as you can see here Continue reading Advertising on Pubmed
Delete until 16-May-2008 12:00:00
Süddeutsche Zeitung complains that data are permanently stored but never deleted. Even my irrelevant newsgroup comments have been stored (for 14 years) although they have never been intended to a larger audience. As humans we have no built-in timescale and are not particular good in judging the context of any data. This might be the reason according to SZ that Victor Mayer-Schönberger argues for meta-data when data should be deleted. I agree on this proposal and want this blog entry to be deleted until 16-May-2008 12:00:00 from any server in any world, yea, yea.
The search for the worst sound
There is a nice online study by Trevor Cox on bad vibes which reminds me to a recent comment in Nature: Let the people sing … The most recent development is certainly the digitalorchestraleague postmodern conductors will have game consoles to arrange sound files.