Recent content by dcraig

IQFeed works very well under Wine on Ubuntu. I never saw any stability or performance problems at all. It is probably the cheapest option around. You can connect to it with any language - the message formats are documented and while perhaps not elegant, they are very simple and easy to...

... indeed, vaccines are terrible things.

Some of the handiwork of the anti-vaccination kooks: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/wa-facing-whooping-cough-epidemic/3757546 How many dead children is enough to satisfy their bizarre conspiracy theories?

The study is crap. One of the main requirements to take such stuff seriously is that there be some plausible known biological mechanism to cause excess mortality. The tiny increase in radiation dose (far smaller than natural background radiation) simply does not cause people to drop dead. There...

Of course anything may happen, but I can't see why Oracle bought SUN if not for Java and the corporate Java user base. For SPARC? In the unlikely event that Oracle drops Java, somebody else is bound to step in to provide paid professional support. The Java user base is enormous. Java is...

Easy to critique. First determine what your real time requirements are, and then look at GC performance in your context. It may be good enough and it may not be, but you'll never know without proper analysis. Hand waving is not a lot of use. C++ or Java or anything else and fills are still...

Which of course will come as no surprise to anybody, as the measurement of atmospheric GHG concentrations, especially CO2 is very good. The radiative forcing of those GHG changes can be calculated without models: You should read your references and try to understand them, rather engaging...

Past glaciations and interglacials were triggered by Milankovich cycles. CO2 released from the oceans acted as a feedback amplifying the effect - because CO2 is a greenhouse gas The current rate of atmospheric CO2 increase is far too high to be due to orbital climate forcings. It is due to...

The next time who says global warming is real? The EU officials responsible for regulating the labels of bottled water? Well no, I don't think they would have a lot of authority on the matter. Quite unlike every national academy of science or major international or national science body that...

You can't make a bomb from LEU. You need HEU.

That's correct. The messages are composed of a bunch of comma delimited fields. It's quite easy to deal with. I just used the diagnostics utility - Diasnostics.exe - to start the local IQFeed process and log on. You could probably automate this but it's not worth the bother. No they are not...

DTN IQFeed runs perfectly under wine on Linux. There is a socket based "API" - in reality just a bunch of message formats - that is quite easy to code to with virtually any language on Linux.

Yes. Many motherboards have a jumper you can bridge to reset to factory settings. Check the manual. A paper clip will do the job.

Ticks from IB are not time stamped so software must form bars on the basis of the PC clock. If this is a bit off then bars are going to be not the same. TWS sends it's notion of the current time when software connects to it via the API. The software may choose to sync the PC clock to this or to...

For desktop PCs I always have a preference for cards rather than USB gadgets if you have a slot available for the simple reason that they are physically more secure. Less likely to be accidentally damaged or knocked loose etc.