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Monday July 17, 2006
Monopd back on track?
- Posted by Rob (#1) on July 17, 2006 17:20 CEST
Don't immediately dismiss those rumours you've heard: it looks like a new monopd release may indeed be around the corner, considering the various signs of activity in that direction:
- I've contacted Jamie, who runs the only public servers remaining, to ask what kind of patches he has made to the patched 0.9.3 he has been running. Hopefully he's willing move those patches upstream, provided they're useful of course.
- I've prepared remote access to my archives, although I will probably postpone publishing them until I have completed an upgrade to GNU Arch 1.3 on the server side. Having read-only access from my laptop is simply not too useful.
- Upgrading GCC on my laptop caused the pre-installed libmath++ headers to become unusable for monopd compilation. I have temporarily fixed this, but added making a proper -current (read: SL11) package to my to-do list. Hopefully no libmath++ source changes are required. I don't mind being the only active mirror of Surakware, but don't look forward to the possible necessity to take over maintenance of this library.
- The realisation that QtCore will not be useful on the server side (despite a previous assumption has led to the decision that for now the monopd code base will remain "as-is", removing the desirability to port to QtCore before doing any other work.
- My DSL router doesn't seem to properly forward traffic to port 1234 to Ezri, so I can't make my own monopd servers public yet, but I'm investigating.
All in all, it looks like I'm slowly finding the right motivation to get my software projects back on track.
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Stem cell federal funding
- Posted by Rob (#1) on July 17, 2006 18:39 CEST
President Bush might use his first veto om an expension of federal funding for stem cell research:
Bush, who agreed in 2001 to using federal dollars for research on a limited number of existing stem cell lines, opposes the congressional plan to underwrite research using future embryos that would otherwise be discarded at fertility clinics.
To be honest, I don't care about the outcome - there are more important things to worry about. But I anticipate another run of "Bush bans research" criticism so it's good to (again) explain that restrictions on federal funding have nothing to do with the legality of stem cell research. You want stem cell research? Fine, go do it. Just don't expect the American taxpayer to sponsor you (even more), that's all.
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