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Stellarium

Posted on September 15, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium … Continue reading →

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polyXmass

Posted on September 10, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Filippo Rusconi wrote to me about polyXmass, a GPL-licensed software suite for use in mass spectrometry, specifically for use with (bio-)polymers. This program is somewhat lonely in our Analytical Chemistry section, so if any of our readers know of other … Continue reading →

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Vigyaan

Posted on September 9, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Pratul Agarwal just released version 1.0 of his Vigyaan CD. This is a single CD image with many precompiled tools for bioinformatics, computational biology, and computational chemistry. Just a sample of what’s already there: Arka/GP Artemis BLAST ClustalX Garlic GROMACS … Continue reading →

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Arc-team

Posted on August 29, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

This site was just submitted to the Software section. It looks like an interesting discussion site for the use of open source software in Archaeology. It has forums and software pages (largely in German and Italian). I’m amazed how widely … Continue reading →

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Archaology and open source

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

The members of the Arc-Team (five archaeologists) run Debian and some other GNU/Linux distributions on three PCs and five notebooks (our whole system). We’ve installed Grass-GIS, different CADs, some applications for virtual reconstruction, statistics, GPS and survey data management, databases … Continue reading →

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Breaking Visual CAPTCHA

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

I just ran across this wonderful article by Mori and Malik on a technique to break the EZ-Gimpy visual CAPTCHA images that attempt to distinguish between human and automated blog commenters. (Comment, memberlist, trackback and forum spam are a huge … Continue reading →

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Software Carpentry

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Geoff Davis pointed me to the Software Carpentry site, which looks like an intensive web-based course on good software development practices for scientists and engineers. It has been assembled by Greg Wilson and covers topics like Version Control, Automated Builds, … Continue reading →

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PGOPHER

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

PGOPHER is a general purpose program for simulating and fitting rotational spectra. PGOPHER will handle linear molecules and symmetric and asymmetric tops, including effects due to unpaired electrons and nuclear spin. The program can handle many sorts of transitions, including … Continue reading →

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Cassandra

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Cassandra is a open source data viewer based on VTK. Cassandra provides a dynamic interaction with the VTK pipeline and enables to load plugins dynamically in order to perform specific tasks in data manipulation and visualisation. Find Cassandra at: http://dev.artenum.com/projects/cassandra

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New Software links!

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

Now that the site redesign is nearly complete, we’ve got a backlog of user-submitted software links: EASY! is a fortran code for constrained or unconstrained optimization (added to our Optimization section). OpenFlower is a C++ CFD code which can handle … Continue reading →

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