http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:37:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is time that we start taxing sugar. R. Lustig and C. Brindis published a very compelling opinion piece in the current issue of Nature. (Vol 482) It is ALSO high time that Nature stops paywalling ALL articles. Op pieces like this one SHOULD be public on the net. Science ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/02/06/time-to/ installing wget 1.13 from source on Centos 5.7 the configure command was not happy: checking for main in -lgnutls... no configure: error: --with-ssl was given, but GNUTLS is not available. It turns out the solution is simple: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl did the trick. At first I thought that a “yum install gnutls-devel” might help. The ./configure ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/02/04/centos-source-install-wget-113-and-gnutls/ This looks like a nice mac memory stat. Just that the whole circle represents 8 GB - and that there is no applications running (in the dock) What is the OS doing with all that memory? A computer not doing anything and still using 6.5GB or memory. Nice. http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/02/03/once-we-had-it-we-had-to-waste-it/ I could do without the background music, and the maker probably waited for the climax of a stuffy nose of his kid to record this, but it is still interesting to see just how much logo-sign-language kids pick up and can identify. From my own kids I remember that they knew ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/01/31/branding-and-1-5-year-old/ In a recent computer shuffle I must have missed to deactivate a laptop of mine. I got in touch with Adobe, hoping that they could provide me with the serial numbers of the computers that have the license. They were able to give me numbers. I didn’t get around to ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/01/10/adobe-service-rocks/ Just switched back from the 27″ Apple Cinema display (latest with Thunderbolt etc) to the 30″ one after a couple of weeks. The 27″ has a nice picture. But it is useless. I am ready to write it off and put into a corner. It looks nice. When it is ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2012/01/10/apple-cinema-displays/ So glad I found this great introduction and overview of medical imaging. I liked the article since it gives a great overview of different techniques together with their genesis. Stuff like a PET scanner does not rain down on humanity. Lots of people needed to work hard to realize it. Ideas, ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2011/12/16/medical-imaging/ When adding the feed http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/07357044 to google reader the resulting page showed the wrong content, while the title is correct: This seems to be a caching issues. The workaround was to simply alter the URL in a way that would not have any effect on the feed: http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/07357044?x shows the expected content. http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2011/12/04/google-reader-shows-wrong-content-for-feed/ It is very telling to watch the first 2 minutes of this video Libya is a country that had significant changes in 2011. Nato flew countless missions. It is shocking to see somebody who aspires to become president respond to a question about this in this manner: This is a person trying ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2011/11/19/thinking-vs-remembering-soundbytes/ Last century we bought 3 full size Samsonite Oyster suitcases. Back then you had to put some stickers on them to distinguish them from all the others that people had. That changed. Now there are all those black soft textile bags on the belt. I never understood why. Those suitcases are ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2011/11/18/loving-a-suitcase/