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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>trouble with diff (fwd) --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><strong>Why is diff so crazy?</strong></a>
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-- Perseverence pays off at last.
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>modem --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><strong>State of the Art in softmodems</strong></a>
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<br>winmodem(tm), HSP, ACP, DSP, whatever. Just call my ISP already
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Distros</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>RE Solaris UNIX?</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>linux anti virus?</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Por favor Ayuda !</strong></a> It said "OK" a lot, but...
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>LINUX for SGI Visual Workstation</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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Welcome to the Extra issue this February. We had a few extra things
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in the queue here this time and figured you just couldn't wait, so here
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they are!
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I have to say I am really very impressed by the Human Genome Project's
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results. There seem to be two sides of the camp... but, we can't call
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them "the Cathedral and the Bazaar":
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<li>That's already taken
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<IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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<li>The fellow the cathedrals are for, already did all the hard
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work... * these folks are just studying the results.
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</ol><ul>
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<li> Unless you feel something or someone else created every living thing.
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Still, the fact is, living things already exist, genomes and all, so
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this is discovery, not invention.
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Um, let's call them the College and the Commerce. Mr. James Kent in Santa
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Cruz wrote, over a fairly short time, a program to have about 100 pentiums help
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him assemble the genome data out of public and academic fragments. (I'm not
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sure which he used more of, ice packs, or Jolt Cola.)
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Meanwhile,
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Celera was pouring lots of hours and corporate resources into doing the same
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thing. They both succeeded to an announceable degree, within days of each
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other. We're not quite at curing cancer yet, but maybe there are enough
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resources now to start nailing some of the more clearly genetic diseases.
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There's certainly a lot of work to be done. Anyways, you can read a lot
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about all this in the New York Times -- I did.
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Of course, to read the New York Times online at
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"
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>http://www.nytimes.com</a>, they want you to register. Sigh.
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To access Celera's database, you have to pay for access (but, they might
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have more than they published about, too, so maybe you're at least paying
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for some serious R&D). Still, what the school system paid for is available
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to all of us... though not terribly readable unless you're into genetics:
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<dd><a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/">http://genome.ucsc.edu</a>
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<p>Hey wait a minute, I hear you cry. This isn't Linux! Well, I don't
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know. It could have been. It doesn't matter. (Gasp! Linux doesn't
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matter? What can you mean!?) What's more important is what gets
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<em>done</em> with a computer.
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</p><p>
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The sheer number of people who have contributed to figure out how
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we really tick, and the time they continue to put in, since
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we aren't nearly at the point where we can run a make script,
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have the waldos get out a petri dish, and create even so tiny
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a creature as a mouse "from scratch" is just amazing. (Let's see,
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if the Creator writes and debugs one line of code a year in us, we're
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as big as... er, never mind.) Compared to that, my effort every month
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on <em>LG</em> seems like a breeze.
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<BR>Published in issue 63 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> February Extra 2001</H5>
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