From IEEE Spectrum.
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The base station’s activities are governed by a base station controller, a special-purpose computer within the station that allocates radio channels and helps coordinate handovers between the transceivers under its control.
This controller in turn communicates with a mobile switching center that takes phone calls and connects them to call recipients within the same [...]
From physorg.com.
A male-killing bacteria has led to skewed sex ratios in populations of Hypolimnas bolina butterflies in the South Pacific, but researchers have found that male butterflies on some islands have bounced back thanks to the rise of a suppressor gene.
Within 10 generations that spanned less than a year, the proportion of males of [...]
There is a Python module python-fam that uses the client lib of FAM.
There is segmentation fault on deletion of python FAM obj, which can be checked using GDB. After replacing the code PyMem_DEL with PyObject_Del in _fam.c and rebuilt the extension, the segmentation fault goes away. (I submit this as a bug?)
Here is the test [...]
GDB is the GNU Project Debugger.
I have some errors on compiling GDB:
gdb configure error: no termcap library found.
On searching, I find this solution to install ncurses-devel.
I downloaded and extracted ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm.html.
Normally, you can install rpm by
rpm -i –nodeps ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm
If this fails because it requires superuser access, you can extract with rpm2cpio using
rpm2cpio ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm > ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.cpio
and then [...]
FAM is File Alteration Monitor.
Also see The Watchful Eye of FAM by Ethan McCallum.
I am trying to use it in an environment where I have no root access, and not using portmapper.
After some changes and testing, it seems to work.
Change SuperUser uid to the uid you intend to run the program with, and also SuperUser_groups [...]
From Vanity Fair.
A single soccer match achieves what five years of combat and negotiations could not: an apparent end to Ivory Coast’s civil war. The man who brought the warring sides together was not a politician or a gun-toting strongman, but Didier Drogba, the star striker for Ivory Coast.
For nearly five years, Ivory Coast had [...]
From Physorg.com.
Compounds found in pumpkin could potentially replace or at least drastically reduce the daily insulin injections that so many diabetics currently have to endure. Recent research reveals that pumpkin extract promotes regeneration of damaged pancreatic cells in diabetic rats, boosting levels of insulin-producing beta cells and insulin in the blood, reports Lisa Richards in [...]