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Financial Literacy

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 02:06

A core problem exists in the assumption that what is profitable for an individual entity is profitable for an economy as a whole. This is raised on a divisional/entity level in the Contemporary Accounting textbook: ".. the maximisation of a division's profit may not always ensure the maximisation of the profit of the entity" (p13).

Two articles by the LVRG come to mind on this matter, one is a long-term index of real-estate prices to GDP and the other is a recent empirical study on the correlation of speculative investment to financial collapse.

Installing OpenFOAM 1.5 on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 07:21

OpenFOAM (Open Field Operationa and Manipulation) is a computational fluid dynamics toolbox which simulates "anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options." All this and free and open source as well.

Annoying older Mailman bug with certain MIME types.

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 06:24

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support various extended formats. However with older versions of Mailman there is a serious bug which affects the archives.

MIME allows the following:

  • Text in character sets other than ASCII
  • Non-text attachments
  • Message bodies with multiple parts
  • Header information in non-ASCII character sets
  • etc.,

Bahasa Indonesian Lesson Five

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 06:11

Immigration

Like most other places in the world, when entering a country you will need to notify immigration of why you are visiting, how long for and where you are staying. Keep an eye out for signs like "Bea Cukai" (Customs), "Permeriksaan Paspor" (Passport Control)

"Permisi, Saya mau melihat Bapak/Ibu-mu paspor" (Excuse me, I want to see your passport)
"Kami di sini untuk berlibur/urusan bisnis" (We are here on holiday/on business)
"Kami di sini selama empat belas hari" (We are here for forteen days)

Installing Velvet 0.7.31 on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 04:42

From their website; "Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom."

Installing NAMD 2.7b1 with CUDA on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 02:12

NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code for large biomolecular systems. Version 2.7b1 has some advantages over 2.6 and an extensive user's guide. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing architecture developed by NVIDIA providing a computing engine in NVIDIA graphics processing units or GPUs. It should make NAMD awesome, if it works.

Dreadmwidth/Livejournal Collaboration for ARCS

Submitted by lev_lafayette on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 07:33

Dreadmwidth/Livejournal Collaboration for ARCS v0.1, May 11, 2009

1. What is this?

A proposal to use the free and open source technologies used by Livejournal (livejournal.com) and further developed by Dreamwidth (dreamwidth.org) to create an effective social collaboration and journaling site for Australian researchers.

2. Background

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