Windows 7 Ubuntu like Multi-desktop

Windows 7 didn't provide multiple virtual desktops as expected. A Solution for Ubuntu like multi desktop is to use 3rd party extensions. It's not perfect, but it's working.

Here's one light weight and free one you may want to try:

Windows Pager

The also have some nice screenshots, and a flash tutorial video.





Source:WindowsPager

RDP on windows over ssh

First of all, you need to bind the port. Usually we use putty on a windows machine, or ssh on linux.

putty -L port1:DESKTOP_IP:port2 account@ip

and leave the putty window open. In many cases:
port1: 3390, the default rdp port on windows machine.
DESKTOP_IP: the ip of the remote desktop
port2: the rdp port on the remote desktop

Sometimes on a windows machine, remoting by this method will generate an error of not more than one console session is allowed. In certain windows versions, remoting over ssh is blocked. The easy fix is to use a different port other than 3390, such as 23468; then in the remote desktop ip address, type localhost:23468, which will fix the problem.

Article on Java modularity

Java 7 is out. Here's a good article explains some of the nice features.

InfoQ:Modular Java:What is it?

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R library som

Self-organizing maps for clustering, need large number of iterations.
A filtering function in the package,

filtering()

is very helpful to floor, ceil the input data table.

Corr

mantel.rtest {ade4},

This provides a comparison of two distance matrices.
Still looking for a good way of translating correlation to distance.

mahalanobis {stats}

Calculate the mahalanobis distance.

To calculate the mahalanobis distance require Cov estimate, and this can be done with either classic cov or robust cov estimate.

Procrustes Analysis

Procrustes analysis: procrustes() in vegan provides procrustes analysis, this package also provides functions for ordination and further information on that area is given in the Environmetrics task view. Generalised procrustes analysis via GPA() is available from FactoMineR.