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Got this last night:
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Dear PLUG members,
The Dr. Tracy Lab at Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College (in Center City, Philadelphia) is looking to hire a Linux specialist for a few hours to help compile and run a neuroimaging program called Brainscape 4dfp. We are trying to compile the program in both Ubuntu 8.04 and Red Hat Linux v4.2 but ran into some problems and need assistance in troubleshooting. In particular, we are getting errors trying to run the ‘make’ function and ‘makefiles’.
If interested, please read the compilation instructions at the bottom of this e-mail. If you feel that you can help, contact Quan at (215) 955-8992 between the hours of 9:30am-5pm. We can send you the source files if you would like to try to compile the program on your own computer first.
Compensation is negotiable. The Tracy Lab is located in:
College Building, Rm. 518
1025 Walnut Street (cross-streets are Walnut Street and 10th Street)
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Best wishes,
Quan
Make instructions follow.
Three key environmental variables must be set for correct compilation and operation:
NILSRC directory in which the executables will be compiled
RELEASE directory where executables will reside
REFDIR directory that will contain (4dfp format) atlas representative target images. $REFDIR is ~600 MB and has to be downloaded (see below).
It is recommended that the linux .login (startup file) be modified to set the above three environmental variables. The login procedure should also be modified to include $RELEASE in environmental variables PATH. The system administrator performing the nil-tools install should be a member of group ‘program’.
1. Make sure environmental variable $NILSRC is properly set.
Put nil-tools.tar in $NILSRC
cd into $NILSRC and untar nil-tools.tar
2. Make sure environmental variable $RELEASE is properly set. Run make_nil-tools.csh. This will take a couple of minutes. Check for errors. You may ignore warnings about time stamps and potentially incomplete makes. When make_nil-tools.csh is done, all compiled executables should be in $RELEASE.
3. Put 4dfp_scripts.tar into $RELEASE. cd into $RELEASE and untar 4dfp_scripts.tar
4. Download refdir.tar off the web at ftp://imaging.wustl.edu/pub/raichlab/4dfp_tools/
Make sure environmental variable $REFDIR is properly set.
$REFDIR should be at least 1 GB.
Put refdir.tar in $REFDIR and untar.
Run link_711 (script to set up links in $REFDIR that identify atlas representative image masks).
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Ok, my first and most obvious question is; you are at a university doing brain research and there is no one there that can compile this? Sad, I mean really sad. So I decided to visit the ftp site and look around and download what they requested just to see what the problem is. Why I was downloading this code I was looking around the ftp site which had virtually little or no restriction on it. In the directory directly above this one I came across a directory called Lie Detection. Ok, now you've got me interested. I'm still going through this material but long story short is that you can use an MRI for effective lie detection, Though not a revelation and it does make logical sense, it's still interesting. However it sounds like a very expensive lie detector test when compared with traditional methods and then you have people that are claustrophobic and it wouldn't work for them at all.
xor
Ps If this sounds interesting to you by all means make a quick buck.
<begin post>
Dear PLUG members,
The Dr. Tracy Lab at Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College (in Center City, Philadelphia) is looking to hire a Linux specialist for a few hours to help compile and run a neuroimaging program called Brainscape 4dfp. We are trying to compile the program in both Ubuntu 8.04 and Red Hat Linux v4.2 but ran into some problems and need assistance in troubleshooting. In particular, we are getting errors trying to run the ‘make’ function and ‘makefiles’.
If interested, please read the compilation instructions at the bottom of this e-mail. If you feel that you can help, contact Quan at (215) 955-8992 between the hours of 9:30am-5pm. We can send you the source files if you would like to try to compile the program on your own computer first.
Compensation is negotiable. The Tracy Lab is located in:
College Building, Rm. 518
1025 Walnut Street (cross-streets are Walnut Street and 10th Street)
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Best wishes,
Quan
Make instructions follow.
Three key environmental variables must be set for correct compilation and operation:
NILSRC directory in which the executables will be compiled
RELEASE directory where executables will reside
REFDIR directory that will contain (4dfp format) atlas representative target images. $REFDIR is ~600 MB and has to be downloaded (see below).
It is recommended that the linux .login (startup file) be modified to set the above three environmental variables. The login procedure should also be modified to include $RELEASE in environmental variables PATH. The system administrator performing the nil-tools install should be a member of group ‘program’.
1. Make sure environmental variable $NILSRC is properly set.
Put nil-tools.tar in $NILSRC
cd into $NILSRC and untar nil-tools.tar
2. Make sure environmental variable $RELEASE is properly set. Run make_nil-tools.csh. This will take a couple of minutes. Check for errors. You may ignore warnings about time stamps and potentially incomplete makes. When make_nil-tools.csh is done, all compiled executables should be in $RELEASE.
3. Put 4dfp_scripts.tar into $RELEASE. cd into $RELEASE and untar 4dfp_scripts.tar
4. Download refdir.tar off the web at ftp://imaging.wustl.edu/pub/raichlab/4dfp_tools/
Make sure environmental variable $REFDIR is properly set.
$REFDIR should be at least 1 GB.
Put refdir.tar in $REFDIR and untar.
Run link_711 (script to set up links in $REFDIR that identify atlas representative image masks).
<end post>
Ok, my first and most obvious question is; you are at a university doing brain research and there is no one there that can compile this? Sad, I mean really sad. So I decided to visit the ftp site and look around and download what they requested just to see what the problem is. Why I was downloading this code I was looking around the ftp site which had virtually little or no restriction on it. In the directory directly above this one I came across a directory called Lie Detection. Ok, now you've got me interested. I'm still going through this material but long story short is that you can use an MRI for effective lie detection, Though not a revelation and it does make logical sense, it's still interesting. However it sounds like a very expensive lie detector test when compared with traditional methods and then you have people that are claustrophobic and it wouldn't work for them at all.
xor
Ps If this sounds interesting to you by all means make a quick buck.
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