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Physics Journals Online. Many of these may only be
accessible from a UBC computer as they are restricted to institutions
who already purchase institutional copies of the paper journal.
Scholar's Protal Access via UBC Library to journals
of Academic Press, Elsevier Science,
Kluwer Publishers, Springer-Verlag, and Wiley Publishing
Elsevier (can see lists
of all of their journals,
which for a price
can be obtained in an
electronic version, though
most are not on the
WorldWideWeb)
Springer-Verlag (many journals, including the
Z. Phys. family
and Astronomy and Astrophysics
- currently offering free
electronic access during an
indeterminate testing period)
Computer Clocks-- Comparison of
rate fluctuations of system and real time clock vs NTP.
Scatter plots of round
trip times vs offset for a number of machines on my network.
Question: What causes the highly asymmetric delay in the ntp
packets on a Gigabit carded server?
wgen source and binary A
cryptographic password generator for Linux-- generates "passwords" together
with an entropy estimate using /usr/share/dict/words ( or your choice -f)
from the quatrogram (four letter combinations) of the words in the
dictionary. The passwords are like, but usually not, english words ( or
whatever dictionary you use). To compile wgen, use -lm for the math
library.
Useage: wgen [-l #] [-n #] [-f {dictionary}| - ] [-h]
-l max length of words (10), -n number of words created (20),
-f dictionary file with - meaning stdin (/usr/share/dict/words), -h help.
Titanic Disaster Lecture delived by Roy Brander on
the Titanic Disaster, with comparison with the Challenger disaster.
Grand Rapids American Pie Lipdub
In 2011 the city of Grand Rapids organized and filmed a massive lipdub (the
music was a recording of a live concert by Donald Mclean, and the people in
the video were pretending to sing the song) of American Pie 50 years after its
release. The film was all shot in one long continuous take through downtown Grand Rapids
with lots of people from the town taking part. It is an amazing film, and
oddly touching. Ebert called it the greatest music video of all times.
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