Monthly Archives: March 2006

SunlightLB

SunlightLB is an open-source 3D lattice Boltzmann code. It implements a standard lattice Boltzmann algorithm for three dimensional simulations, using a D3Q19 lattice with a twin relaxation time scheme. Objects, possibly moving, are included by a link bounce-back method. This … Continue reading

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Adium X

A brief break from the ongoing discussion to point out Adium X, which is an open source IM tool for Mac OS X. The cool thing about it is that if you happen to have the OS X Equation Service … Continue reading

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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. III. Sell Services

This is the third post in a series exploring how scientific software companies might be able to make money while still keeping their code open. The previous articles are: How to make money from Open Source scientific software Sell Hardware … Continue reading

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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. II. Sell Hardware

This is the second post in a series in which I’m trying to figure out a general strategy for developers of open source scientific software to make a living without closing the source to their codes. The canonical examples of … Continue reading

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How to make money from Open Source scientific software

One of my graduate students just got offered a job at computational chemistry software company. I have a lot of respect for this company; they make very good, very fast, and very capable products. They also hire real scientists and … Continue reading

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JSpecView

JSpecView, a Java-based viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format has just been released under the LGPL license. [tags]spectroscopy, java[/tags]

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JSpecView

JSpecView is a viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format. Find JSpecView at: http://jspecview.sourceforge.net/

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Freakishly good rant involving monkey urine

I won’t even post a summary. Just read Evil Monkey’s inspired rant over at NEUROTOPIA. [tags]science, graduate school[/tags]

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Allegra Goodman’s Intuition

I’ve known Allegra Goodman since she and her husband and I were all thrust into the same rainy and damp nine months in Churchill College, Cambridge. If I’d trust anyone to observe and write about life among scientists correctly, it … Continue reading

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Best comic ever

Today’s Non Sequitir hits the nail on the head.

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