Recent content by profroop

I used to be a computer science major, however, every time registration came around, I would always be at wits end contemplating if I should be a physicist. My 2nd semester sophomore year, I switched to Physics. After working on numerous ground-breaking research projects, and actually...

You can combine medicine with physics, but I do not think doing a physics undergrad will further your career. You can look on advance medicine specialty programs which are based on physics. Like, at my university, we have a proton therapy facility for cancer research. I do not think you need a...

My goal is to adequately provide for my family a comfortable life, and have a secure financial future. In the academia world, that seem to be rarely a concern, and lots of starving scientists out there. There was once a time when I was passionate about 'contributing to science', however, reality...

I have a MS in optical Physics and I now work as program coordinator on an implementation grant at a University. I would like to steer my career towards industry and move towards a management tracked program. I am thinking about pursuing a MBA. My MS adviser is trying to convince me to do Phd...

I have seen some nice ones from hp. I haven't really looked on them much though.

Okay, so I spoke to my system administrator, and he says that cygwin has a problem where a lot of the mirror sites have been infected with trojans. He said the only trusted one used to be Aargon, but then they started having problems as well, so he just say that we should not use it on our PCs...

Why does Root (which is the standard analysis software for CERN experiment), have on their website that cygwin is in very poor shape?

Googleing the model number AOA150-1635, I found it a Best Buy and Staples, and on both sites, it says 160GB hard drive, so I think you are good with that.

I think they say it have something to do with some backdoor open or a Trojan built into it or something along that lines.

I have heard people speak badly of every single PC manufacturer, and everyone has their good and bad experiences with each company. All I can recommend is stay away from the cheapie brands. I would recommend the business notebooks however. In my experience, these have held up the best over time...

Chrome is still in its infancy. Developers are still trying to make applications for it. The major advantage Chrome have over other browsers is its "sand box" concept. When a tab crashes, it does not crash your entire browser, but only that tab. Each tab is independent of the next, unlike the...

I have been using cygwin since a long time now, but my system administrator recommend that we no longer have cygwin installed on the lab computers because it is "in bad shape". I have also seen this on ROOT's website. "http://root.cern.ch/root/Version522.html" " What is this poor state that...

Are there any free converters to convert from MS Office 2007 to LaTex code? I already wrote a lot of things and equations in MS Office and would like to convert it to LaTex code.

So, what program does people in other professions use to produce documents?

I do not understand the spacing that you speak about, but doesn't MS Word have 'style' templates as well? You create a style called heading, which contains "bold, size 14", and for all headings, you just click "Heading". With this, you add a "table of contents" and it automatically number your...