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you're right also. you'll hear bad hacker stories when referring to people breaking into microsoft computers. if the tide turns i predict you will hear linux is insecure stories. it's the price we pay for having a corporate controlled media. i've been reading a book about this very topic:

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media


while i dont agree with all of chomskey's opionions, i do find little to disagree with so far in this book.

the book actually talks about think tanks funded by corporations used to lend credence to corporate opionions. a good example of this can be found in the recent paper released by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

the paper seems to have disappeared, but i seem to have a copy here:

http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/old_opensour ce_whitepaper.pdf

mine is here

hey.
i've got a mirror going:
mirror

the movies are here:
movies
have fun.

hey.
i've got a mirror going:
mirror

the movies are here:
movies
have fun.

if you want a relational storage solution for you photographs, i've been working on something you might find useful. currently it use's a web based front end, and generates thumbnails. it supports grouping files, but no real export functionality has been written yet.

you can check it out here:
dbpack

login with user/pw = admin/happy

is the right thing. pay for binaries, get source for free. isn't this what all the major linux vendors do anyhow?


i cannot speak for all of them but redhat, mandrake, sackware, and debian all allow you to download iso's of binaries (at least mandrake and slack used to). redhat also allows you to download the sources if you so desire. so not that's not how all the linux vendors do it. if you want you can check out for your self. my mirror of fresh rpm's mirror can be found here:
rpm's and source rpms
You can also find the iso's here which i sucked down from red hat:
iso's

i'm not saying this is how all vendors should do it, but it's the one i prefer.

is the right thing. pay for binaries, get source for free. isn't this what all the major linux vendors do anyhow?


i cannot speak for all of them but redhat, mandrake, sackware, and debian all allow you to download iso's of binaries (at least mandrake and slack used to). redhat also allows you to download the sources if you so desire. so not that's not how all the linux vendors do it. if you want you can check out for your self. my mirror of fresh rpm's mirror can be found here:
rpm's and source rpms
You can also find the iso's here which i sucked down from red hat:
iso's

i'm not saying this is how all vendors should do it, but it's the one i prefer.

Check out what this guy did. Unreal Tournament, a few PCs and projectors, and you got el cheapo 3D visualization.

CMU already offers this service on its campus, and the University of Pittsburgh will be offering it soon (though CMU's network overlaps Pitt's campus already). Even if the range is not that far, these two campuses cover a lot of area in Oakland.

-MKD

(more info on the Member States can be found here.

hey..

i just got mine. if you need to feel free to suck them down here.

the md5sums all check out.

have fun.

This link was provided by someone who replied to my post. For those of you who haven't notice, CNN pulled the original article and replaced it with a more Microsoft-friendly one. Total bullshit. I am sure MS offered them a chunk of cash to keep this on the down-low.

Go grab it here: http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/73B9A1D4d01. html

so i decided to share it with the rest of you:
the original article
have fun

hey.

i made/in the process of making a mirror here:
http://sage.che.pitt.edu/linux/sunsite.informatik. rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/OpenOffice/1.0.0/
i believe i have the linux files. the sun and windows will be there shortly.

enjoy

The ionosphere is heavily charged, right? Is it like a big capacitor or just a big charged sphere?

The cable would be a series of pairs of wires, heavily insulated

Don't forget your cable will travel through the van Allen belts. This has I think a similar charge to the ionosphere and is exceptionally highly charged during solar flares. Solar flares can disrupt power on Earth (/. geeks with brownout and clean-line UPS are mmmmmkay). This would add (or subtract) to the voltage at the ionosphere, plus the cable will cut the van Allen belts and Earth's magnetic fields, like a long wire (winding) in a gigantic alternator (electric dynamo).

Add to this the magnetic effect. The Earth's magnetic field would be disrupted by a long metal cable as the field would prefer to travel through the cable than the atmosphere, causing a warping in the Earth's magnetic field, and thus a possible weakness for solar radiation penetration. The charge on the cable could ionise the O3 in the ozone layer, damaging it. Ozone is highly corrosive so your cable will degrade in the ozone layer.

If we implement the gradual insulators system you talk about then the cable is still in effect a long power line or a collection of them (scroll down to near lecture 2 on this link), vulnerable to reflections and resonances occuring on the wire, especially if it interacts with the Earth's magnetic field causing a sympathetic resonance. Plus since the ionosphere is a large shell, a resonance could be amplified if the frequency matches the resonant frequency of the charged sphere (the opposite side of the sphere would have an inverse resonant waveform). Introducing more insulators will only change the harmonic frequencies, the resonances may still occur.

> So let me get this straight - you think I have been brainwashed by watching TV but you know the truth.
> May I ask where you learned this truth? Was it from TV? Was it from a newspaper? Do you honestly think
> the press in your country is fair and impartial but the press in mine isn't? It sounds like you have been brainwashed.


> May I ask where you learned this truth?

Sure! I read around. I went to a library, I read some history books. I spoke to people living in countries
like Israel over the net. I had the fortune to speak to a holidaying Isralie in person on New Year's.
He didn't have a good thing to say about the US. He was happy the towers fell like a cheap tent.
For the record he didn't like Palestinians, or the war between the two Races.
And yes, he'd served time in the military.

> It sounds like you have been brainwashed.

Yet I'm the one who's got something to say apart from "Kill terrorists, the US rocks, if you disagree you're obviously
wrong!"


> Where exactly are you talking about? Saudi Arabia?
> Do you think we erected any bases without permission?

I'll concede here. I couldn' find out much about US military bases in the 20 mins I spent looking.
My personal opinion, however, is that your military presence in many countries is unwelcome and resented by the common
populace.



>No, I don't we are innocent. But I do think that we try to be good.
> What separates me from you is that I actually vote for people who I think
> will make the right decisions in my name regarding our relations with other countries.

LOL. I'm 20 and I've voted in about 6 elections all up, 1 of them a federal election another 1 a by-election.
I feel I voted for the most responsible candidate, that's what elections are (technically) about.
Contrary to popular belief, the US isn't the only country on the planet to have democratic elections.
Hell, isn't it true that 25% of your citizens vote in elections ? Over here, (Australia) it's compulsary.

What seperates you and I is blind Nationalism.


> I know it doesn't always work but what else can I do?
> The point is I try to do the right thing.

Agreed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you, yourself do a thing, apart from vote every now and then.
You could give blood, you could give money, or join the Red Cross or some other charity organisation.
Odds are you've got a job and a life though, which rules these out. In that case you could educate yourself
and your friends on *why this all happened in the first place*.

> The terrorists on 911 did the opposite - the tried to kill innocent people.
> Doesn't that make any sense to you?

Does it make sense to me ? Yes it does. Those people were not innocent of electing governments.
Governments who,by their actions brought this upon themselves and their citizens. Why was the US attacked
and not (not so great) Britan, Iraq, Canada or some other country. Consider that.

They may be extremists and Terrorists, but the world works on cause and effect.
That they use brutal, 'underhand' tactics is part of terror warfare, they don't have large organised armies to
mount an assault with.

> What would you suggest we do in response???

Hold an international summit on US foreign policy ? Oh that's right, you're above peer review.
Rooting out and destroying the Taliban was logical. Now there are wars in the Israel area which you support.
Making an effort to solve these problems beyond 'killing all threats to US citizens' might help too.
Stop screwing over so many countries, weather this be through trade sanctions, supplying arms or whatever else.


>I definitely think you are the one who is brainwashed.
Keep telling yourself that mate :o) In the meantime, get an education.

General Links
Why is America Hated in the Middle East?
ATTACK ON AMERICA: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE (Professor Ali Khan,Washburn University School of Law)
The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers


-- Human Rights Links --
U.S Foreign Policy and Human Rights
Organization of American States human rights panel opposes Bush policy on POWs
Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights and the Drug war.
Afghan prisoners arrive in Cuba
Amnesty International USA

hey. im working on something like this. the page for the project is here. once i get the documentation done you should be able to write the interface in qt or whatever. i currently have a web front end. check out the test drive.

I guess it is possible to have good games written in java. A good example is Dungeon Master Clone which is a very good clone of the original Amiga game (loved it!).
So actually on a moderate hardware your Java environment is little faster than an Amiga 2000.
In a future it could easily become better... even if actually 80% of games (90% of console games) use almost all system resources, but, beware: it is always possible to code in a Java environment and use common APIs which are implemented as native system calls (by the JVM) for high performance tasks as 3D.
If such JVMs are designed on top on exsiting, or future, consolle, you could have a Java environment 80% as fast as native C environment. It could work.... maybe!

it has a web front end but another could easily be written in C or whatever:

the project is hosted on savannah. this is the webpage: dbpack

i'm currently working on the documentation:
manual.pdf

it has a web front end but another could easily be written in C or whatever:

the project is hosted on savannah. this is the webpage: dbpack

i'm currently working on the documentation:
manual.pdf

thanks.

I did find an interesting review of Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine Clay S. Conrad

A very telling passage for me was :

-----------
Instead of conceiving of it as a separate and potentially dangerous institution that is the servant or agent of the people ... government has come to be conceived as embodying the will of the people itself.
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I have never much studied US political history, that of the is long and complicated enough to take a lot of book reading. The supplanting control through the people seems to have been particularly subverted by the longevity of governmental institution (if I'm feeling generous).

It's particularly sad that only a handful of politicians I have spoken to have the slightest clue about the history of the institution they feel compelled to enter, much less the people that choose to put their faith in them.

tbh I have little real faith that jury nullification would ever be any use in modern times. "12 good men and true forming a jury of the defendants peers" hardly ever forms. I mean, who wants to place their faith in 12 people that weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty!

hey.
for those of you looking for the iso this should be a fairly fast mirror. i will have no way of verifying it till sunday. so if someone can veryify it for me that would be nice. i'll put that in a readme in the same directory along with the md5sum.

currently it's at 87 percent. it should be done in a couple hours. the final size is around 440 megs. look for the readme to know when it's done.
mirror

..."unbreakable" doesn't really mean unbreakable, or something...
Oracle said that 9i "is unbreakable". As President Clinton could easily tell you, the key word here is 'is'.

i dont know if this is necessary but i have a mirror here:

http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/mirrors//www.o dd sock.org/vorbisrc3/files/rc3/

most colleges give the students special deals. at pitt we get ms office, windows (2000, xp), visual studio, etc. for free.

< side though >
no body worth their weight in ram uses word or open office for a 400 page document. LaTeX is so much better.
</side though >

Damnit! Wolves don't eat children!

Yes they do.

You can find some more relevant articles from the BBC, academia, more academia, the parent report, evilminion.com, and self psychology bboard. Also see the journal of electronic gamblin issues.

To get the perspective correction right, we subverted the OpenGL code in the open-source portion of UT's C++ code.

this is why Open Source is so cool. this doesn't hurt sales of Unreal Tournament in any way, and hackers can still build cool things with it. incidentally, they have open-sourced CaveUT.

way to go, guys!

http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/fccm01_pilch ard.pdf

still think it was one ofNikola Tesla's experiments. :)

It amuses me to no end that MIT is fully funding this effort to the tune of $10m, yet other universities that have been doing this for a while refuse to even notice that their teachers have been doing just this for years.

I'm quite biased, of course, because someone close to me is one of these teachers. Over the last two years, the University of Pittsburgh has ignored his efforts to create a fully functional course book of material online here, until this year, when they decided to ask him to teach double the normal class load, in addition to heading a new joint-department class, and setting up a series of classes to be taught exclusively online for highschool students who can't commute to the university for AP classes.

And yet, despite all of this, he effectively earns less each year, do to absolutly no funding, and a series of raises dramatically lower than the cost of living increase. Go figure.

I guess he's just at the wrong university.

everyplace

It amuses me to no end that MIT is fully funding this effort to the tune of $10m, yet other universities that have been doing this for a while refuse to even notice that their teachers have been doing just this for years.

I'm quite biased, of course, because someone close to me is one of these teachers. Over the last two years, the University of Pittsburgh has ignored his efforts to create a fully functional course book of material online here, until this year, when they decided to ask him to teach double the normal class load, in addition to heading a new joint-department class, and setting up a series of classes to be taught exclusively online for highschool students who can't commute to the university for AP classes.

And yet, despite all of this, he effectively earns less each year, do to absolutly no funding, and a series of raises dramatically lower than the cost of living increase. Go figure.

I guess he's just at the wrong university.

everyplace

mirror for linux

i dont understand the lameness filter is requiring me to type more crap here.

and this non-sentunce is ungramtikal and filled with bad spelled words, but I bet you understand what I am commmunicatin!

Yes, I understand you, and now I understand you to be a moron. That's undoubtedly an unfair assessment, but it's a view you cultivate in that last sentence.

Richard Feynman was scientist and a teacher of science. He used communication skills well - while his science would not have been different without them, his impact would.

Another side of the coin would be Wolfgang Goethe, most heralded and remembered as a poet, but whose work in the area of science was significant as well. To Goethe, literature and science were part of the same whole.

Most people, obviously, aren't Goethe or Feynman. And perhaps I shouldn't bite on trolling like this. But studying literature isn't any more useless than studying calculus - no subject is inherently valuable. What use you make of either one is what's important.

Bringing this back on-topic, my wife is an elementary school teacher. She has an engineering degree and a degree in education. Parents of the children she has taught over the past four years tell me she's great, and I'm not surprised.

The engineering degree doesn't make her a good teacher. The education degree doesn't make her a good teacher. She has math and science aptitude, as well as a passion for reading and history, and those things help. But what helps most of all is that she cares about the kids, and she does what she can to help them individually - to understand their interests, skills, and weaknesses enough to tailor the presentation of the material so they can absorb it.

Those soft skills are what have a "vast impact" on the society around us, because they're what connect those kids with the subjects they're supposed to be learning. Science is useful, and it's one of many things she wishes to teach, but IMO, her "liberal arts" skills are what ensure that the science gets learned.

Here is a little further information about Henrietta Lacks and George Gey. The Henrietta Lacks article is from John Hopkins Magazine and the Gey article is from a University of Pittsburgh article. The Gey article gives a littl more info about his attempts at setting up cell lines and his life, etc.. The Lacks article talks about the family, how they first found out 25 years later that there mothers cells were used and ethical issues, etc..

http://www.univ-relations.pitt.edu/pittmag/culture .html

http://www.jhu.edu/%7ejhumag/0400web/01.html

There is an interesting page here where the various versions of the persecuted heroine story are online. Apparently there are hundreds of such folktales but the earliest one documented was written down by Charles Perrault (as you say) in Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Paris, 1697).

The Brothers Grimm version first appeared in Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 1st ed. (Berlin, 1812), v. 1, no. 21.

man i started mirroring this when i saw it posted and it took hours to get the whole thing. http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/linux_report .pdf

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So I found this article interesting, and would agree that this is a pretty big step forward in Cybernetics. I mean, they're almost to the point of keeping brain slices alive for weeks at a time now, and using them in sensor technology! Though when it comes to replacing human organs, my money is on biotech. Maybe we'll have replacement livers, kidneys and hearts by the time I'm decrepit and in need of them, who knows? But I'm signing a donor card for now, so I can still be useful in the event of an accident. We need a bit more work until we have replacements as good as those that come from donors, yet. So be a responsible citizen and sign your donor card, and tell your family about it.

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the author sent me a patch to take care of the tempfile stuff in rh 6.2

download patch here

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http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/mirrors/Final-0. 2-30pct-index_32.png

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download this: template.tex

if you want an figure uncomment the image portion at the bottem and stick it where you want it. same for tables and equations.


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sorry. in html.

http://puccini.che.pitt.edu/~karlj/Classes/CHE2101 /l04/

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write it in LaTeX (a solution thats been around for a while), and couple that with tex2html which has pretty nice output. check out the lecture notes from out thermo class:

http://puccini.che.pitt.edu/~karlj/Classes/CHE2101 /l04/l04.pdf

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http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/infocom-paper.pd f

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I'd have to say that the best teachers I've ever had don't care about the money - they'd work for $1 a year. My CS teacher in high school (also taught me calc) was the best teacher I've ever had. Even though he was teaching to three levels of CS kids at once (Intro [Pascal] / Basic [C++] / Data Structures [C++]), I learned so much from him. He would stay and work with students as late as possible, and he taught himself C++, then Data Structures when kids were demanding a more advanced courses. He could be a researcher or a professor, but instead he's doing what he loves, teaching high school students. A good programmer does NOT make a good teacher.

We didn't do AP. We do The University of Pittsburgh College in High School Program. It's much more effective, multiple tests and mastery programs are assigned over the year, rather than a one shot deal like the AP test. You end up with actual Pitt college credit, not a goofy AP score. [the Data Structures course at my old high school isn't supported by Pitt]

Carnegie Mellon took my Pitt credits just like they take AP scores, to get out of 15-111/15-112 - I placed into 15-113. (Currently introductory CS courses are taught in C++)

I'd have to say that the best teachers I've ever had don't care about the money - they'd work for $1 a year. My CS teacher in high school (also taught me calc) was the best teacher I've ever had. Even though he was teaching to three levels of CS kids at once (Intro [Pascal] / Basic [C++] / Data Structures [C++]), I learned so much from him. He would stay and work with students as late as possible, and he taught himself C++, then Data Structures when kids were demanding a more advanced courses. He could be a researcher or a professor, but instead he's doing what he loves, teaching high school students. A good programmer does NOT make a good teacher.

We didn't do AP. We do The University of Pittsburgh College in High School Program. It's much more effective, multiple tests and mastery programs are assigned over the year, rather than a one shot deal like the AP test. You end up with actual Pitt college credit, not a goofy AP score. [the Data Structures course at my old high school isn't supported by Pitt]

Carnegie Mellon took my Pitt credits just like they take AP scores, to get out of 15-111/15-112 - I placed into 15-113. (Currently introductory CS courses are taught in C++)

This issue is discussed in detail on this UPitt Law school web site.

Links
gyrons
vacum-less aether

I start downloading the 8-bit games movie (pretty damn cool) when there were only 3 comments posted. Starts out dloading at 45 K/sec, but steadily drops... and drops...

me too.

here you go

http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/Vcsclip.mov

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