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They even take requests

Of course, if you're not near Northwest Indiana, it's probably not all that convenient.

If you're near Chicago you can always check out American Science & Surplus, or you can order stuff delivered from their web site.

"Let us ADD our INCOME to our CAPITAL, as the squirrel adds to its autumn horde. Aye, there's the SUM that makes a TOTAL WEALTH. 3000 DUCATS? Is this an EXPENDITURE I see before me? Marry 'tis best 'twere TAKEN AWAY, like as the magpie taketh away the jewel of great price. But hist! Here cometh the INTEREST, and 'tis of no mean interest, i' faith! I had lief ADD a percentage of this, than clasp my fair Rosalind's spleen."

In all reality, as many people have pointed out, there is a large chunk of poetry written in various programming languages, and the inverse is true as well; many human languages are used in forms that are human "programs". Instead of being stored on harddrives, they are published in cookbooks and engineering texts.

--
Evan

Universal Standard Disclaimers.

Yeah, yeah I know they are not the same as TOS, but they're still a good read!

Purdue not only offers CS and Computer Enginerring, but also a lot of hands-on networking through the Telecom & Networking tract in Computer Technology. If you really want hands-on network admin, design, etc., take a look at their program here.

Traditionally:

Computer Science = Software
Computer Engineering = Hardware
Computer Technology = Software + Hardware + Business

Something you might want to consider is CPT..

http://www.tech.purdue.edu/cpt/information/about.h tml

GO Spafford!!! Purdue's Man on Computer Security
www.purdue.edu

Apparently college doesn't weed out the idiots.

AltaVista stupidity search

I've never really had a job that was too terrible, but an ex-girlfriend of mine worked as a lab technicican at an unamed state animal disease lab. Own of her primary functions was to crack open the skulls of horses and remove the brain. After removal, she stuffs the brain into a blender to liquify it. These is done so the brain matter can be tested for fungus. Not that it matters for the horse in question any more. Nice, eh? If you want to request this done to a horse ask about the Fumonisin screen for only $15.

I've never really had a job that was too terrible, but an ex-girlfriend of mine worked as a lab technicican at an unamed state animal disease lab. Own of her primary functions was to crack open the skulls of horses and remove the brain. After removal, she stuffs the brain into a blender to liquify it. These is done so the brain matter can be tested for fungus. Not that it matters for the horse in question any more. Nice, eh? If you want to request this done to a horse ask about the Fumonisin screen for only $15.

Strange, all my glass objects have shapes.

There's a reasonably strong body of literature that suggests that increasing your intake of omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) and decreasing your intake of omega 6 fatty acids (margarines, oils, junk foods) can aid treatment of ADHD in at least some cases.

Some references:

Deficiency in omega-3 fatty acids tied to ADHD in boys

Increased levels of ethane, a non-invasive marker of n-3 fatty acid oxidation, in breath of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

There are more papers available from PubMed, including one describing a sudy which showed no measurable improvement. Evidence in favour of the general health benefits of a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids is strong, however, so it seems (to me, at least) like a pretty simple and worthwhile thing to try.

From the research page http://www.chem.purdue.edu/wilker/adhesives.htm It would appear the the iron is only involved in stabilizing the transition state responsible for crosslinking the Dopaquinone monomers. The final glue appears to be iron free. Does anyone have a better mechanism referernce?

It's delicious!

oops - here is the correct link for second year.

My Japanese textbook, Nakama 1, has a companion site provided by the publisher and authors, with some small additions made by Japanese lecturers at American universities. One of the resources that I initially thought would be useless was the spreadsheet-based dictionaries (first year, second year). These have proven quite valuable, especially since you can use Excel with the Office Japanese IME (offered for free from MS) to search the text in English or Japanese.

My Japanese textbook, Nakama 1, has a companion site provided by the publisher and authors, with some small additions made by Japanese lecturers at American universities. One of the resources that I initially thought would be useless was the spreadsheet-based dictionaries (first year, second year). These have proven quite valuable, especially since you can use Excel with the Office Japanese IME (offered for free from MS) to search the text in English or Japanese.

The mantle is at really absurd pressures, on the order of millions of atmospheres. Water at this pressure does not become vapor, but rather Something Weird.

And my personal favorite:

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Enviornment

otherwise known as "Why didn't I just start with this in the first place."

In general, I've found that Stevens, as well as Douglas Comer are two authors who can always be trusted to deliver material that is both relevant and enlightening.

The US is spending some money on research for quieter roadways.
The Purdue Institute for Safe, Quiet, and Durable Highways

Just because it's not in the news doesn't mean it's not happening.

I'd like to thank the author on so many excellent points. He probably knows that this article will be met with flame.

Unfortunatly, I have a parallel set of horror stories.

I think there are a number of factors have brought this situation around but the predominant factor is the Peter principle on a mass scale for management at technology companies.

This has happened as a symptom of fighting between the technologically challenged and the technologically gifted continue because of failure to communicate. Software engineers (any engineers) live in the reality warp between social needs and scientific envelopes. Hence the difficulty for some managers to truly comprehend what engineers are saying. For a software enginner to be successful, they must bend their reality to meet artificial and often nonsensical goals. When a software engineer meets a near absolute issue, it is often impossible for them to communicate the level of risk. Hence the technically challenged management is unable to comprehend the gravity of the risk. Hence the ultimate breakdown of trust.

Example scenario:

IT administrator wants to "be more secure" and rules on creating a firewall. (often for selfish purposes - i.e. to attain experience) Engineer's job just got harder and asks IT guy for reasoning. IT guy responds with a "management told me" response. Engineer grunts in disapproval and moves on because the past experiences with discussing this with management have never been fruitful. As a cancer grows so does this process and finally, no-one does anything.

This has nothing to do with large companies, I've seen it happen in small companies as well.

I have managed many software development teams in large and small companies (as the director of SW dev) and I often have had to simply ask that my engineering team do all the administration. It's amazing how a bunch of smart developers can take the job of 5 administators and turn it into an hour a month kind of duty. Hence, I now look for developers that are skilled in all aspects of computers, from writing software to being able to administer an installation of machines.

If you look at high profile examples (like *both* Space Shuttle disasters) you can see that this problem is endemic in the a bureaucracy as one of the evolutionary stages. Unfortunatly, if the management at the very top of an organization can't understand this, the outcome is inevitable.

Here are some URL's and you can see what is happening in the world where management and engineers fail to communicate:
http://whyfiles.org/185accident/index.html
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/ecology/le sson.htm
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/031120.Ra manujam.errors.html

This has been done a long time ago (early 90s) by Zenith -- the Zenith Cruisepad
That thing had a little AMD 386 chip embedded, and ran a Citrix WinFrame client, and your PC ran a WinFrame server.
I got one recently, to play with, and tried to get it to work, but couldn't, since the Citrix SW they use only runs on windows 3.1, which I can't even find an old disk of :)

I've had to migrate too many users who treated "c:\" as their home directory. Someone started bitching to me about not going directly to c:\ when Explorer opened, I'd be deeply tempted to go BOFH and replace her computer in the middle of the night with an 80286 running DR. DOS and Windows 2.

I think swapping it out for an Etch-a-Sketch would be better. You could even pass it off as one of "those new-fangled Tablet PCs."

Basically, it would simply be a touch-sensitive dumb terminal for a "central server" or master machine on my desk or in my closet.

You've pretty much described the Zenith Data Systems CruisePAD, another bit of tablet technology that failed to find a market. CSO was practically giving them away not long ago.

Gramatical rules for quotation marks can be found here.

I'd expect the quotation marks around "Pound sand" come under the rule "Use quotation marks to indicate words used ironically, with reservations, or in some unusual way."

We currently use PBS Pro to do our scheduling.

As for statistics, check this out.

P.S. If anyone wants or needs high school biology CD-ROMs dealing with cell structure and function, mitosis, meiosis, drugs, alcohol, microscopy, and genetic diseases (including cancer), I still have the CDs and will cut you a fantastic deal. Good stuff, written by scientists and high school teachers.

Isn't the point of having a digital camerea is so you can delete the bad pics?

I'm getting dizzy just looking at some of these. Or maybe it's just the Crown Royal...

After looking at this picture i see a zip drive, floppy, and cdrom in every computer. I can understand a cdrom and maybe a floppy but why does EVERY computer in that cluster need a zip drive? seems like a waste of $ to me

You can use Maya 5 or 3dsmax 5. You submit the jobs via specific lab computers and get email notification when the job begins and finishes rendering.

More details are available at pete.purdue.edu.

Can anybody tell me what, these are?

great. now there's little kids crying everywhere. last time i browse in the living room.

Here at Ohio State, we use a free program called RevRdist to keep the Mac machines up to date.

Coal and radiation
Gravity controlled reactor.
This story is from 1996, but if you Google, you'll find the test results and see that it works as expected.

But on the subject of sesame seeds... they're a very big crop - the sixth largest in the world production of edible oil seeds.

And yes, there is valuable intellectual property in sesame seed genetics.

It's not a troll. Seriously. It was Professor Lipschitz or Lipshitz or some variation on that-- no idea if he was tenured or not. It was my freshman year, and I *believe* it was first semester, making it Chem 124 (the honors chemistry for freshman engineers-- biggest mistake I ever made taking honors for a class unrelated to my core CmpE studies) in fall of 1995.

I know this is only going to make you doubt me further-- I'd give you his full name and a definite semester/year/class, but I'm on a 2-week business trip out of town and can't get to my old notes at home to check for you.

He had an interest in asteroids as well, and was always bringing us images and videos of that stuff, despite it being a chemistry class.

I *believe* it was this guy, as the face matches up roughly with my memory, but it's been 8 years and he looks to have lost some weight. Email him and ask him about the Hoover Dustette.

Even better, here is a link indicating at least a few of these incidents as having appeared in the British Medical Journal.

I couldn't make this shit up.

The harm is that right now we don't have a way to contain the waste that we're sure will last as long as the waste remains radioactive. Maybe something will be found but until then I'd rather not generate tons of waste without a good plan to handle it. Not just storage, but also transportation to the storage site and security from would-be thieves. And as much as I support the space program I have a hard time with the idea of loading the waste into a launch vehicle that could life it into the stratosphere before blowing up. I'm not being a luddite, just cautious. Brakes were just as necessary an invention as the engine.

This is a great step forward in reactor design. But let's get the waste solved, THEN implement.

Did you by chance study engineering at Purdue?

....can be found here. My favorite:

"You're proposing to build a box with a light on top of it. The light is supposed to go off when you carry the box into a room that has a Unicorn in it. How do you show that it works?"

Purdue University has been working on this. Football fans can borrow a PDA that have access to current game statistics, other game scores, etc through 802.11b. See Here

Show your hate for SCO. Get a cool t-shirt and donate to the Open Source Now Fund.

Please have a look at the free Cassandra system:
https://cassandra.cerias.purdue.edu
You can create any number of profiles, and you get emails daily about new CVE entries in ICAT (icat.nist.gov) or Secunia advisories (Secunia) that relate to the software or keywords you select.
You can use the freeware KeyAudit to scan your systems:
Windows KeyAudit: http://www.sassafras.com/restricted/keyaudit/keyau dit.exe
Mac KeyAudit: http://www.sassafras.com/restricted/keyaudit/keyau dit.sit

Sassafras just stopped maintaining KeyAudit, so I'm looking for an alternative application scanner to replace KeyAudit, as well as a Linux/UNIX equivalent (I'm the author of Cassandra).

I'm aware that it's not perfect, and the html and presentations are rather basic. However, it's free, it has been working for a few years now, and I'm listening for suggestions and open to criticism. I'll try to improve it as time allows.
Cheers
Pascal Meunier

No, no no... That's not Xenu of Scientology fame, that's Xinu of Douglas Comer fame.

Sheez, obviously if it was Xenu, the line would have started way to the left of the whole Unix hierarchy on the chart -- we're talking 95,000,000 years ago, after all.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

We'll never know who the best are. Because they're SMART ENOUGH NOT TO BRAG ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC.

All sarcasm aside, I once heard Prof. Gene Spafford of CERIUS say that some of his best students had simply dissapeared from the face of the Earth. He suspected that they were either recruited by Government organizations, or major corporations; and he was afraid that some even went to work for organized crime.

THESE people are the real pros. They get the job done, get paid, and quietly move on. They could live next door to you, and you'd have no clue that they crack heavily guarded systems for a living. For every Adrian Lamo or Kevin Mitnick, or even Peter Shipley for that matter, there are a half dozen guys way better that you'll never hear about.

We'll never know who the best are. Because they're SMART ENOUGH NOT TO BRAG ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC.

All sarcasm aside, I once heard Prof. Gene Spafford of CERIUS say that some of his best students had simply dissapeared from the face of the Earth. He suspected that they were either recruited by Government organizations, or major corporations; and he was afraid that some even went to work for organized crime.

THESE people are the real pros. They get the job done, get paid, and quietly move on. They could live next door to you, and you'd have no clue that they crack heavily guarded systems for a living. For every Adrian Lamo or Kevin Mitnick, or even Peter Shipley for that matter, there are a half dozen guys way better that you'll never hear about.

Here's an example. (Work-safe, I promise.)

Someone here maintains a pretty good list of webcams on campus. There a few cams that I go past every single day and I never knew they were there. Same being said for the computer lab cameras. I always thought they were for security, and not being broadcast over the net

actually, a "truely" random number means you just pull it out of your @$$; you know nothing about what that number *should* be

a uniform distribution of pseudo-random numbers means you know at least a sequence of numbers should conform to a uniform distribution -- aka you know something about what the sequence should look like.

randomness is only used for stuff we don't understand (modeling) or don't want to understand (encryption)

look for CLIGEN (should be a link on horizon.nserl.purdue.edu -- Chuck made some improvements in this exact area to this soil erosion model)

Let's have a party in a week, everyone will be back at it's birthplace