Re: [ccp4bb] 3D passive monitor for Mac

2014-06-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I think one of our users recently purchased the LG D2343PBBN, but here's an official list (under monitors and monitor/tv's) : https://www.tridef.com/products/pc-licensed-products hopefully some of those are still available. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Shawn Xiong shawnxiong...@gmail.com

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

2014-03-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Thanks! we're gonna test one of the lg's from bh, one of our zalman's just died today. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Shaun Lott s.l...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded, on and off the list. I thought I'd post a quick summary. To clarify my question slightly (if

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo emitter

2014-02-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Did your OS/nvidia driver get upgraded? There's a bug in all of the modern nvidia drivers that cause this on the quadro 1300/1400 series. It works fine with the older nvidia drivers, e.g. 173.14.31 (note the legacy 9x.xx.xx drivers have the same problem). We're still able to use that version of

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitor

2013-11-21 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
The quadro 600 or k600 works fine, been using it for more than a year with that Asus with the built in emitter. In fact the absolute oldest and cheapest option which works is the quadro 370, but you'll want the 600 at least. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, mesters

Re: [ccp4bb] In need of SGI computer genius

2013-10-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Does this help? http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Headless Not sure, how you'd set it to output to the serial port with the commands if you can't see what you're doing in the first place though. Otherwise you'll have to look for a graphics card that'll work in an indigo, a ps/2 keyboard mouse, and a

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D graphics linux compatibility question

2013-09-17 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
(a) In previous CCP4bb discussions, it was stated that only Quadro cards are compatible with Linux setups. But could someone tell me what the minimum standard really is: is it Quadro FX380, 2000, 3800 or something else ? The nVidia site lists Quadro 3700 and 3800 as the two lowest (cheapest)

Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation

2013-03-15 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Dell Precision workstations are sold with RHEL, Ubuntu, or no OS (FreeDOS), but you can't see those options from the public websites. You need to try to get a Dell Premier account, talk to the Dell Rep for your university about that, here's a screen shot from our uni's premier site :

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-12 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Why are you dis-ing python? Seems everybody loves it... Depends on if you like the object model, some don't. In the end it really boils down to what you're used to and what you've learned to use.

Re: [ccp4bb] Nvidia 3D Vision 2 - Centos5 - Coot

2012-06-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Do you not need the 3 pin mini din to 2.5mm vesa cable with the 3d vision v2 emitter under linux? I haven't found a model # for this kit that comes with this cable and last I checked nvidia store was out of stock on purchasing these cables separately, so we still purchase the v1 kits. On Thu, Jun

Re: [ccp4bb] DLP Link vs. IR emitter based 3D projection

2012-06-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
1)   a quadro 600 or 2000 and a DLP 3D Ready projector (3000-4000 Lumen) with DLP Link Glasses? Here's the xorg.conf for (1) since I already gave you the hardware setup : http://nopaste.info/946bd53e3e.html . Enable generic active stereo in windows. You can basically drive this with any quadro

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D projector--LG CF3D

2012-06-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
ohh this is a passive stereo projector. what's the distance from the projector to the screen? On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Min, Xiaoshan x...@amgen.com wrote: Hi CCP4, I am curious if anyone has setup 3D-projector for large conference room.  We have a LG CF3D projector and it is coupled

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I tell you.  Technology just doesn't work. developers and user's don't, technology is usually ok, but I feel your pain.

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
No, that's a limit set by the ubuntu 32 bit kernel maintainers when they configured and compiled the kernel (again, see my comment about the problem being with developers and users). I think the limit is 256 for x86, 4096 for ia64 (itanium), even old versions of RHEL supported 16 and 32 logical

Re: [ccp4bb] protein structure for high schoolers

2012-01-20 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
foldit doesn't do electron densities and I don't recall if there are any puzzles in it that mention active sites/docking (it's been more than a year since I played it), but it's worth a mention. Hi- I am trying to help my former chemistry teacher set up a demonstration of protein structure

Re: [ccp4bb] linux upgrade preferences for CCP4

2011-12-21 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Paul Kraft haresea...@yahoo.com wrote: hello, I'm considering upgrading my linux software from CENTOS5 to perhaps Fedora or UBUNTO. Does anyone have an opinion about the best linux version to centos 6

Re: [ccp4bb] linux upgrade preferences for CCP4

2011-12-21 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
The price of stability is that you don't get all the latest stuff. In SL6.1, the current version of Firefox is 3.6.24, and the image rendering is SLOW. I am wondering if I want to go back that far in time. Not out of the box, but the latest ffx works in centos6. I think there are third party

Re: [ccp4bb] linux upgrade preferences for CCP4

2011-12-21 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
FWIW, I use RHEL 5 = CentOS 5 and recently upgraded to 6. Everything I use (not crystallographic software) works fine except vmware workstation currently does not work on it, Tried upgrading to vmware workstation v8? Compat guide :

Re: [ccp4bb] OSX and stereo

2011-12-07 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Erik Martinez-Hackert e...@cns.msu.edu wrote: Can anyone positively confirm that the new Zalman monitors M240W or M215W actually work on macs and pymol/coot? Specifically, I want to put this on a new macpro with an ATI Radeon HD 5770 card, but we also have

Re: [ccp4bb] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
The silence on this list was deafening. group is saying: OK, so he discovered fire and invented the wheel - but what has he done since?. 1983 Turing Award 1990 IEEE Hamming medal 1999 National Medal of Technology 2011 Japan Prize for Information and Communications (while he was still alive I

Re: [ccp4bb] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Are you saying that undergraduates do not learn to program any more, or that they use a more advanced language than C where they don't really learn what is going on? The latter. It's usually Java and .NET nowadays IIRC.

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman displays and Macs?

2011-09-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I don't recall but the Zalman also has a VGA port right? Have you tried minidisplay port to VGA? Have you tried your zalman with PC or older mac hardware just to make sure it works? On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Adrian Goldman adrian.gold...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi,        Anybody having

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman displays and Macs?

2011-09-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Am 22.09.11 11:58, schrieb Adrian Goldman: Hi,       Anybody having problems with Zalmans and the newer macs?  We can't get the MACS to even _recognise_ the existence of the Zalman display using a minidisplay port -DVI adapter and also using Thunderbolt out on a new iMAC (minidisplay

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman displays and Macs?

2011-09-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
graphics lab and doesn't like the quality on the zalman as much (as expected). HTH, Sabuj On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: Am 22.09.11 11:58, schrieb Adrian Goldman: Hi,       Anybody having problems with Zalmans and the newer macs?  We can't get the MACS

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman displays and Macs?

2011-09-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
adapter! Adrian Sent from my iPhone On 22 Sep 2011, at 18:27, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Looks like our ZM-M240W came in a few days ago and the researcher has been using it fine with a standard minidisplay port to DVI adapter off his newer imac. Zalman must have

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo

2011-09-16 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
/223430191.html that doesn't have a built in emitter which as mentioned above probably isn't going to work in linux. HTH, Sabuj Many thanks for your time. Hena On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Hena Dutta hdutt

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo

2011-09-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hena Dutta hdutt...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members, Is any one using NVidia NVision 3D Setup with active stereo in linux Yes distribution for crystallographic work? Which one would be the best choice to set up, an active stereo or a passive stereo for

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo

2011-09-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hena Dutta hdutt...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members, Is any one using NVidia NVision 3D Setup with active stereo in linux Yes distribution for crystallographic work? Which one would

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo

2011-09-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Hena Dutta hdutt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Isn't that an LCD monitor (Acer HS244HQ)? It's edge LED backlit. I don't know if there are any direct LED backlit 120Hz monitors. Couldn't find much information on those types.

Re: [ccp4bb] Computer encryption matters

2011-08-17 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, HIPAA and other regulations require systems which house patient identifiable data to have encrypted disks at our uni. Systems which house student data (e.g. SSN #'s, grades, etc) are also encrypted. Since we are doing mostly basic research or using de-identified data in structural biology, we

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo solution with Nvidia '3D vision' or '3D vision pro'

2011-05-10 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
if the modelines are actually necessary. The nvidia driver usually recognizes metamodes such as 1920x1080_120. HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D system set up

2010-04-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
There are several 120Hz LCD's that'll work (e.g. samsung 2233rz), but here are ones that are at least 23 : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009222 http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=dhscs=19sku=320-8846 HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D display - stereo only working in the lower half..

2010-03-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Only problem, using pymol or Chimera, the 3D only works in the lower half of the screen... In the top half, we see the two images superimposed and they are not separated by the shutter glasses. Surprised you got it that far. We are running it under windows. We couldn't get it to work with

Re: [ccp4bb] Nvidia 3D vision + 1920x1080 Desktop Displays

2010-03-03 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
No, and it has nothing to do with the monitor. It's the sync signal from the nvidia emitter which isn't compatible with nuvision, crystaleyes, or edimensional goggles. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Brick, Peter p.br...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: A related question: Can one use the old Crystal

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo

2010-02-03 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Yeah, only the RealD goggles, the ones that look like these and that are given out at standard (not IMAX) movie theaters: http://www.google.com/products?q=reald+3d+gogglesscoring=p will work. Several users brought back the IMAX goggles that look like these (might be yellow):

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo TF - VGA to 3-pin VESA Stereo Adapter

2010-01-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:33 AM, mesters mest...@biochem.uni-luebeck.de wrote: Hi, the following information might be of use for the ones that do not have a 3-pin mini connector and are working under linux http://www.int03.co.uk/crema/hardware/stereo/ Didn't really see anything linux

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-01-17 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
The Matchmaker utility in Chimera is another good one: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchmaker/matchmaker.html On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Miri Hirshberg m...@ebi.ac.uk wrote: Sun., Jan. 17th 2010 EBI Greetings, I am looking for a 3D structure

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo TFT

2010-01-15 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
10 without problems, here's an xorg.conf for Centos5: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=91072st=0p=968627#entry968627 HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman LCD availability

2010-01-14 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, http://www.provantage.com/zalman-tech-trimonzm-m220w~7ZALM03E.htm As someone mentioned still showing 4 in stock. That's where we got ours from. HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [ccp4bb] Best 3D stereo combination

2009-07-11 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
This chart: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html combined with the CCP4 wiki's advice (that the card should say stereo under display connectors) imply that we need to spend at least $760 on the video card alone. Is that really true??? EEK!! Uhhh no you don't. The Quadro FX 1400 is

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 license

2009-03-24 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
home computers.  I do have the current def.site from biocars downloaded.  The error that keeps coming up is No valid license for un-mar165.  ERROR CODE 5.  We tried getting an additional license (from HKL2000) for the particular detector but it still doesn't seem to work.  Any

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB protein strucutrues as screen saver

2009-02-16 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
But as a biophysics student I would like to appreciate and feel happy to have pdb structures as my computers screen savers than to have some funny and fancy stuffs. And it may help me as a motivator to solve my own structures in future

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
the point when you can just run these in Linux. HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I assume you are waiting for today's announcements of the i7 core MacPro's ? If not wait another 6 hours before deciding to buy something. hrmm, I was hoping store.apple.com was down due to modifications for this new item, it's back up but no new i7 mac pro ..

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo with Nvidia Quadro

2008-05-08 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
The 3500 series is moderately expensive. If you are on a budget maybe you could snag an older used card online somewhere. You can still buy new 1400's (OEM) for less than $160. Go to compuvest.com and search for quadro 1400.

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 and gcc4

2008-05-05 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, Have you installed the compatibility libraries compat-libstdc++-33 and libstdc++296? This is easily accomplished using yum if it is installed, e.g., $ yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296 These libraries are required for programs compiled using GCC 3.x Those

Re: [ccp4bb] cns map in coot

2008-05-02 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
attempting to read CNS map: /Users/rajadey/yong/cns/coot/excl_comp.map CNSMAPfile: can't get number of header lines WARNING:: failed to read /Users/rajadey/yong/cns/coot/excl_comp.map DEBUG:: Erasing the back molecule 1 which says that it has molecule number 1 Read map

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo emitter sync issues (linux/quadro 4500/nuvision 60GX)

2007-09-11 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Peter Adrian Meyer wrote: I've tested the emitter on another system, and it works fine there. I've also tried the drivers from the ubuntu repositories and directly from nvidia (both behave the same way). What's the video card in the other system? Are you using the same driver version on the

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux Crystallography PC with Core 2 Duo CPU?

2007-07-28 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
linwoo kang wrote: Dear all: I try to build a new linux crystallography pc with most updated CPU. Is there anyone using Core 2 Duo CPU on your linux system? works great, Xeon version too (5xxx) series

[ccp4bb] OT: turbo frodo keys?

2007-03-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, Has anyone recently been able to get Turbo Frodo keys? Thanks, Sabuj