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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. The Practice of Synthetic Biology. March 12, 2010. This is the second blog post in my series on Synthetic Biology. My first post was about the promise of synthetic biology. Ie, what makes the field so fascinating). This second post is about the “practice” of synthetic biology (i.e., my experience in toying around with some of the critical tools in the field). As an unapologetic hacker. Step 1: Set an objective. The only constraint, aside from your imaginatio...
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India - airlines - James Y Knight
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India - airlines - James Y Knight. 06 January 2009 @ 01:00 am. Thirdly: airports and airlines. I've now travelled on four different airlines in this journey so far. From Boston to Delhi, we took British Airways. It was nice, as expected, although the knee room left something to be desired. 1 comment Leave a comment. On April 15th, 2009 11:30 pm (UTC). Did you ever make it back from india? 1 comment Leave a comment.
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India - cellphones - James Y Knight
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India - cellphones - James Y Knight. 06 January 2009 @ 12:00 am. Next up: cellphones. They are ubiquitous. Not just the phones themselves, but the advertisements, and the stores selling prepaid cards for them. Every little store will have giant ads on the front for Vodaphone, Idea, and AirTel. Many places have all three giant signs on their store. Then sometimes you'll go past entire blocks painted with repeating ads for one of those three cellphone companies.
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March 22nd, 2010 - James Y Knight
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March 22nd, 2010 - James Y Knight. 22 March 2010 @ 05:18 pm. Msktutil - Linux/Active Directory keytab management. But in the meantime, I'd like to announce version 0.4 of a tool called msktutil. It allows you to conveniently create and manage computer objects (that is: kerberos accounts for your computer) in Active Directory, while also writing out and managing the keytab. This allows much easier provisioning of machines, including a keytab suitable for kerberized ssh. See the man page. BTW: if anyone kn...
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Python's Super Considered Harmful
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Python's Super is nifty, but you can't use it. Previously: Python's Super Considered Harmful). When I first heard about 'super' in python, I thought it sounded like a great idea, and should be adopted by everyone immediately! After all, it fixes inheritance diamonds, makes you not have to encode the superclass name into every call, and lets you use the same structure to call superclass methods as methods on another class (. SuperClass.foo(self, 1). In addition to the above problems, there is a huge backw...
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Boston, MA RCN QAM cable channel lineup
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Boston, MA RCN QAM cable channel lineup. IMPORTANT NOTE: Upcoming encryption of all channels. Aka: Oh, are you our customer? Sucks to be you! RCN has decided to eliminate all their analog channels. Removing analog channels frees up space for more digital channels: who can argue with that goal? As this is a list of digital channels, you'd think that wouldn't affect this list. However, they're using that as an excuse to encrypt all. I wrote some blog postings. About this, too, first expressing a hope that ...
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On contracts - James Y Knight
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On contracts - James Y Knight. 14 July 2009 @ 02:30 pm. Recently was looking at some contract writing work, and one of the potential contracts (from IC Romance, in case you're interested.) was quite odd. It contained 8 pages worth of entirely reasonable terms, but in the middle of the "Termination by Notice" section, contained this gem:. This Agreement can be modified by the Contracting Party [note: that's them]. At any moment and can be terminated by either party in writing with 14 days notice. My favor...
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msktutil -- Linux/Active Directory keytab management - James Y Knight
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Msktutil - Linux/Active Directory keytab management - James Y Knight. 22 March 2010 @ 05:18 pm. Msktutil - Linux/Active Directory keytab management. But in the meantime, I'd like to announce version 0.4 of a tool called msktutil. I use it like this (holding valid kerberos tickets that can add hosts to AD):. For hostname in $hostnames; do msktutil - precreate -h $hostname -s host done. To create a bunch of accounts. Then, on each machine, there's a daily cron job which runs. See the man page. BTW: if anyo...
