An alternative to silicon chips

A team of Stanford University engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material with the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while using less energy, than those made from silicon chips.

   Experts say the feat will galvanise efforts to find successors to silicon chips, which could soon face physical limits that might prevent them from delivering smaller, faster and cheaper devices.

If I have the pid of some process stored in a text file, let's call it program.pid, and I want to end that process via the kill command, how come I can't do this:

bash:$ cat program.pid | kill

But if cat program.pid, and just type the output into the kill command, it works and I stop the process.  Why can't I pipe the output from cat to kill?

I recently changed from Macintosh to Windows. I am new to customizing Windows so it would be awesome if one of you guys could help me.

Things I'd like to customize:
- The looks.
- The location of a few system folders (not sure how to explain this to Windows-only users)

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I'm just a lawyer /b/tard, but my girlfriend is pretty smart. She's some kind of molecular biologist or something, but I mostly just like her for her tits.

She was telling me about how she has to run an old version of some program called "Genemapper", which only runs on windows XP. Even though they're shelling out $30,000 a year to keep the sequencer running, they won't update the software.

The problem is that it takes forever, is buggy, and can only accommodate a quarter of her data set (around 200 samples, over 20 microsat loci, and something like 10,000 sample files) at a time.

Obviously, the program is running up hard against the 3GB limit in XP; I think that an SSD for swap-space would probably provide a noticeable improvement, but that's out of the question since they're running it through boot-camp on iMacs.

Anyways, here's my question - maybe it should go on a different board, but I thought I'd ask you guys first. Is there any place I can get an illegal copy of a new version of the software? (I'm not worried about being sued.) Does anyone know of free software that can read the sequencer output and do similar analysis? The sequencer is an ABI 3730.

Can anyone give me a sane explanation as to what ANTS or NIX does on the Plan9 operating system?

Scientists create digital snooping alert

Quantum cryptography is more practical, cheaper than current encryption systems

NEW YORK - Scientists say they had taken a step towards bring improved security to computer networks, developing an encryption technique that will extend protection to a small group of computer users.

   The researchers at Toshiba's European research laboratory in Cambridge, England, reported they have figured out a way to allow a group of users to exchange encryption keys - strings of numbers used to mathematically encode digital messages - through an experimental technique known as quantum key distribution.

   The technique is believed to be more practical and less expensive than existing technologies. It also extends the scale of the current quantum key systems to as many as 64 computer users from just two.

   The system does not prevent eavesdropping - it simply serves as a kind of burglar alarm, alerting computer users that an outsider is listening to a transmission on an optical network.

   Nevertheless, the advance comes at a time of growing concern about the relative ease of breaching computer security.

   Many digital encryption systems are based on the ability of two computer users to secretly exchange a "key", which is then used to establish a secure communication channel to exchange messages over a network.

   The encryption key is encoded in a special stream of photons or bits. The Toshiba work is based on the ability to make the incredibly short time measurements required to capture pulses of quantum light hidden in streams of photons transmitted over fibre optic links - and to do that in a network of dozens of users.

   The key exchange is usually protected by the use of mathematical formulas based on the challenge of factoring large numbers. In recent years, public key cryptographic systems have been improved by lengthening the factored numbers used in the formula, in principal, requiring vastly more computing resources to break into the system.

   Quantum cryptography relies instead on encoding the key in a stream of quantum information. If a third party eavesdrops on the communication, the fact will be immediately obvious.

   "One of the attractive things about quantum cryptography is that security comes in the form of the laws of nature," said Mr Andrew Shields, one of the authors and the assistant managing director of Toshiba Research Europe. "It should, in principal, be secure forever."

   The research was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

NEW YORK TIMES

Mircosoft Outlook.com and Google Chat collaborate

In A rare bit of cooperation, Mircosoft's Outlook.com is giving users of its free email service the option of logging into Google Chat to exchange instant messages and engage in audio or video conversations.

   The tie-in announced yesterday represents an uneasy alliance in the midst of a typically contentious relationship between Mircosoft and Google.

   Both Outlook.com and Google Chat are offered for free as a way for Mircosoft and Google to attract more online traffic to their advertising-supported services. - AP.

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot but here it goes can anyone point me in the right direction for learning the simplest basics for writing code, changing code, and hacking? I've seen a lot of different threads saying to start somewhere and almost everyone of them is different I only ask because I don't want to start wrong get used to it then come back to find out that I've been doing it all wrong and have to start over. or if you have the time and patience could someone try to teach me? thanks for all the help -Ju5t1n