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Yup, plenty of buildings around there. A real bustling place it is.

Of course, you are the one who thought I was refering to a 1989 & 1994 quake as 'a year apart'.

Where did I do that? I think you're the one who's not doing the reading.

An earthquake you can only prepare for. You can over-engineer tall office buildings but only retrofit older ones, which will never be as dependably safe. Most people are going to be on those older buildings when it hits. You can lay seismographs from here to eternity but you will still only begin to understand the shape of the fault and what it is going to do.

The big one is still coming.

OK, you can reimplement a modern processor core in an
FPGA if you really want to (I can guarentee you that
the FPGA will NEVER run anywhere near as fast as the
regular chip) or you can do what I did for our senior
design project

We used a Xilinx Spartan II to run the main board on a model helicopter control. The idea was that several sensors, including a 2 axis tilt, accelerometers, RF controller and an ultrasonic sonar could be easily integrated into the VHDL core, and then the chip would calculate 4 PWM outputs that drove the 4 motors. While the thing unfortunately didn't fly (weight problems, but hey, we're CompE's not aeros!) the board itself worked
great and the software UART outputted all sorts of fun data about what was going on.

Here's the interesting kicker: The entire system was clocked at a grand total of 1MHz (that's right folks, 1Mhz) and even that was too fast for most of the onboard operations that we internally clock divided. This thing operated all of the components completely in parallel, so there were no interrupts needed at all. The reconfigurability of the FPGA means you can quickly adapt it to solve a whole bunch of specialized problems very efficiently and quickly. This thing definitely met the criterion for a hard realtime system (motor updates within 1ms of a sensor or RF input) and it did it all
via VHDL code, no OS or any high level software needed.

Now obviously this is a very embedded solution and is not extremely flexible, but sometimes you need to step back and look at the true advantages that the hardware provides for you, and use it for something other than reimplementing someone else's CPU core, (of course, that
can be a hell of alot of fun too.... mmm... 21st Century overclocked Trash 80)

PS--> use my spam address: foxcm2000@hotmail.com and
I'll be more than happy to send you all the VHDL we used
to implement the project since I just graduated yesterday! :)

Well, that sentence didn't come from the OEM EULA, so I don't know if it holds up. OTOH, it says "your place of purchase..." but you never purchased it; the OEM did. Therefore can you return it? Is it more of a transfer of license than anything else? One of those "sorry, no refunds" type of deals?

On that note here is the diary of some joker that thought he could pull this off with HP.

Yes, you're right. Sometimes you can even use a backdoor password. I remember that password AMI worked for every AmiBIOS some time ago (extremely stupid idea, once someone knows such a password, every system can be compromised). There's a lot of interesting articles on the Web about cracking BIOS passwords:

• HOW TO BYPASS BIOS PASSWORDS by Elf Qrin
• How to Bypass BIOS Passwords by LabMice.net
• BIOS Password Recovery by Password Crackers, Inc.

A Google search for BIOS Passwords gives quite a few hits. Putting your floppy into the drive is the fastest and easiest thing you can do if you have physical access, but it's not the only issue. No one should ever be allowed to be near the important servers, except people responsible for the security.

Somehow off-topic, but speaking about security, I have to recommend one of the best texts about security (mostly about secure programming) I've ever read: Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO by David A. Wheeler. Great read. And speaking about passwords, it's good to read great publications of Alec Muffett, the author of the famous crack(1) and CrackLib:

• Security FAQ
• Proper Care and Feeding of Firewalls
• WAN-Hacking with AutoHack (plus slides)
• How To Build Your Own Network Intrusion Kit (readme)
• Programming Holes that will hose your System Security
• Crack FAQ
• CrackLib README
• Crack Humour

It's maybe not very on-topic when speaking about physical security, but it's very important to understand the security as a whole.

Yes, you're right. Sometimes you can even use a backdoor password. I remember that password AMI worked for every AmiBIOS some time ago (extremely stupid idea, once someone knows such a password, every system can be compromised). There's a lot of interesting articles on the Web about cracking BIOS passwords:

• HOW TO BYPASS BIOS PASSWORDS by Elf Qrin
• How to Bypass BIOS Passwords by LabMice.net
• BIOS Password Recovery by Password Crackers, Inc.

A Google search for BIOS Passwords gives quite a few hits. Putting your floppy into the drive is the fastest and easiest thing you can do if you have physical access, but it's not the only issue. No one should ever be allowed to be near the important servers, except people responsible for the security.

Somehow off-topic, but speaking about security, I have to recommend one of the best texts about security (mostly about secure programming) I've ever read: Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO by David A. Wheeler. Great read. And speaking about passwords, it's good to read great publications of Alec Muffett, the author of the famous crack(1) and CrackLib:

• Security FAQ
• Proper Care and Feeding of Firewalls
• WAN-Hacking with AutoHack (plus slides)
• How To Build Your Own Network Intrusion Kit (readme)
• Programming Holes that will hose your System Security
• Crack FAQ
• CrackLib README
• Crack Humour

It's maybe not very on-topic when speaking about physical security, but it's very important to understand the security as a whole.

Yes, you're right. Sometimes you can even use a backdoor password. I remember that password AMI worked for every AmiBIOS some time ago (extremely stupid idea, once someone knows such a password, every system can be compromised). There's a lot of interesting articles on the Web about cracking BIOS passwords:

• HOW TO BYPASS BIOS PASSWORDS by Elf Qrin
• How to Bypass BIOS Passwords by LabMice.net
• BIOS Password Recovery by Password Crackers, Inc.

A Google search for BIOS Passwords gives quite a few hits. Putting your floppy into the drive is the fastest and easiest thing you can do if you have physical access, but it's not the only issue. No one should ever be allowed to be near the important servers, except people responsible for the security.

Somehow off-topic, but speaking about security, I have to recommend one of the best texts about security (mostly about secure programming) I've ever read: Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO by David A. Wheeler. Great read. And speaking about passwords, it's good to read great publications of Alec Muffett, the author of the famous crack(1) and CrackLib:

• Security FAQ
• Proper Care and Feeding of Firewalls
• WAN-Hacking with AutoHack (plus slides)
• How To Build Your Own Network Intrusion Kit (readme)
• Programming Holes that will hose your System Security
• Crack FAQ
• CrackLib README
• Crack Humour

It's maybe not very on-topic when speaking about physical security, but it's very important to understand the security as a whole.

We're back on.

MRTG Stats on Purdue I2 Connection

hmm, i don't know about you, but i'm much more interested in basement virgins than executive vice presidents

You don't have to write in assembler or get a newer compiler. Just get libsse . It provides a similar programming interface to apple's hack of GCC. The same author also wrote a libmmx, but that is fairly useless since MMX is so poor.

What about the fully cryptated and anonymous
GNUnet

This seems to be somewhat related to the problem of faster than ligth travel.

A very througout treatise of the problems concerning faster than light travel can be found here

Summary: There is bad news, very bad news and downright awfull news for people dreaming of a warp drive (but a little light of hope is given in the last section).

its actually ACMAINT, not ACTMAINT (most people confuse those).

No wonder I couldn't find any literature on it!

Here is a link to a paper describing ACMAINT (Z'd PostScript format)

Here is a readme for ACMAINT. It is open source, as its source is publicly accessable and located here. There is a homemade software license in the file headers, which basically says give us credit where credit is due... no GPL constraints, etc. (Makes me wonder why people actually bind themselves to the GPL anyway; whatever happened to good old "I trust you with the source and you won't rip me off." Anyway...) It looks like it requires a dedicated database server to do its operations, according to the article linked above. However, it is a very conveinent solution to what the original article was indicating (he never said he was using Kerberos). The plus for ACMAINT is that is works with pretty much any Unix; Solaris is used heavily in its primary implementation, though.

About PC-RDist, I believe that they are sticking with it for WinXP last time I checked. Which, although nice, sucks as it flushes and refreshes the registry at logout, a feature, although nice, takes about 5 minutes.

its actually ACMAINT, not ACTMAINT (most people confuse those).

No wonder I couldn't find any literature on it!

Here is a link to a paper describing ACMAINT (Z'd PostScript format)

Here is a readme for ACMAINT. It is open source, as its source is publicly accessable and located here. There is a homemade software license in the file headers, which basically says give us credit where credit is due... no GPL constraints, etc. (Makes me wonder why people actually bind themselves to the GPL anyway; whatever happened to good old "I trust you with the source and you won't rip me off." Anyway...) It looks like it requires a dedicated database server to do its operations, according to the article linked above. However, it is a very conveinent solution to what the original article was indicating (he never said he was using Kerberos). The plus for ACMAINT is that is works with pretty much any Unix; Solaris is used heavily in its primary implementation, though.

About PC-RDist, I believe that they are sticking with it for WinXP last time I checked. Which, although nice, sucks as it flushes and refreshes the registry at logout, a feature, although nice, takes about 5 minutes.

its actually ACMAINT, not ACTMAINT (most people confuse those).

No wonder I couldn't find any literature on it!

Here is a link to a paper describing ACMAINT (Z'd PostScript format)

Here is a readme for ACMAINT. It is open source, as its source is publicly accessable and located here. There is a homemade software license in the file headers, which basically says give us credit where credit is due... no GPL constraints, etc. (Makes me wonder why people actually bind themselves to the GPL anyway; whatever happened to good old "I trust you with the source and you won't rip me off." Anyway...) It looks like it requires a dedicated database server to do its operations, according to the article linked above. However, it is a very conveinent solution to what the original article was indicating (he never said he was using Kerberos). The plus for ACMAINT is that is works with pretty much any Unix; Solaris is used heavily in its primary implementation, though.

About PC-RDist, I believe that they are sticking with it for WinXP last time I checked. Which, although nice, sucks as it flushes and refreshes the registry at logout, a feature, although nice, takes about 5 minutes.

its actually ACMAINT, not ACTMAINT (most people confuse those). You'll find some helpful links about basics of it at purdue's labinfo pages (search) and off google (search key=acmaint). It is house-written, but all in all pretty dang effective. PCR-dist doesn't fit into the login scheme of things at all. Its just there so the win98 machines provide the same environment to everyone and give you the freedom to install your own software. Sadly, we're moving away from that model with winxp, replacing it with roaming profiles. In any case though, if you have the ability to pursue something custom, purdue's system is a pretty good model if your setup is large enough to justify something like it. (note that the recent hack was on a non-acmaint machine, though details haven't been too publicized about that either).

At Purdue University students use one password to access almost every online university resource. 90% of the computer labs use some sort of Windows variant. They use PC-R Dist to verify the user and keep the computers installed with a 'fresh' copy of Windows everytime a user logs on.

Most servers are all *nix based with the majority being sun servers. When a user changes their password anywhere, it gets distributed across the entire system.

I apologize for the lack of details but I don't know any of the specifics on whether or not it is a central password file or different servers all keep a current copy of the same file.

The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.

A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.

The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.

The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.

A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.

The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.

The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.

A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.

The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.

The idea was to teach us to program, not to condition us for a life under redmond rule.

That's funny. When I was in college the idea was to teach us to solve problems using computers in any language. I wrote code in PERL, Java, C/C++, and LISP.

The point of college isn't to learn to program in different languages, but to acquire and hone basic problem solving skills that you can apply to whatever language/tool/solution best fits the bill.

I better get my insurance updated.

Ultima 1: A Legend is Reborn - http://www.peroxide.dk/ultima/

Ultima 4: The Dawn of Virtue - http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/ultima4/

Ultima 5: Lazarus - http://www.u5lazarus.com

Ultima 6: Prophecy - www.laymeduck.com/u6

Ultima 9: Eriadain - http://eriadain.multimania.com

Ultima 9: Redemption - http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~fountain

Also, Bard's Tale is being remade into Devil Whiskey (Bard's Tale 4). It can be seen at http://www.bardslegacy.com

My college has a similar set up because it saves an incredible amount of bandwidth. It's not to be mean, or malicious, or spy on your browsing habits, it's just to save bandwidth. And it does (I wish I had numbers to back this up, but I don't run the proxy).

There have been problems with the proxy in the past (it not returning any data) and there are still some minor issues, but on the whole it works well (in that you don't ever notice it).

It sounds like the ISP in question has a bug in their web cache code. If the web cache doesn't have the particular URL cached, it forward the request to the intended destination. I'd bet it's trying, but it can't lookup whatever OpenNIC URL is being specified (because it doesn't use OpenNIC). The ISP really should report this bug to the manufacturer.

My advice is this -- get the ISP on your side to fix the problem. They won't remove the proxy, and they shouldn't have to if the bug is fixed.

I'm very surprised at the little ammount of attention that GNUnet has gotten in the P2P arena. GNUnet is anonymous, distributed, encrypted, reputation based, has accounting, allows for distributed queries, and uses dynamic routing. While GNUnet is still beta software, I think it's a great anti-censorship tool. What all this means in non-buzzword speak, is that you have a tool that combines a lot of the great qualities from other similar networks (FreeNet, mojo nation, etc) and doesn't have all of the short comings. Give it a shot.

All of those are much slower than the equivalent C code.

Proof? Of course, there cannot be one, but if you like benchmarks, compare the Great Computer Language Shootout. Though C "wins", I wouldn't exactly call it "much slower".

They all use byte-code or generate C code, then compile the C code.

Wrong. For all languages I mentioned there are native compilers available. For all (AFAIK, not sure about Standard ML), there are also bytecode compilers available, for some also compilers to C.

BTW, nobody would ever be so stupid to first generate bytecode, then C out of this (At least I hope so). Oh, and assembly isn't what you compile to in the end, thats why there are assemblers.

None that I know of generate assembly language directly.

If you talk of generating native binaries directly, you surely should try to get to know more. Here are a few:

• OCaml
• Standard ML of New Jersey
• MLton
• The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
• NHC 98
• CLisp
• CMUCL
• Stalin

Check out the Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ for a better explanation than I can give. I for one hope that Einstein is wrong... the universe is so much more exciting in Star Wars.

My wife got XP Pro and Office XP full versions, minus documentation, "for academic use," for $5 a pop at Purdue.

In the previous comment, I meant to add: (c) MTBE was profitable to sell, and now it's profitable to remove

Sorry for the incomplete post.

-- SysKoll

No way man, PAPERS is where it's at! Except that it's down at the moment :(

Check out ACME at Perdue University. It was setup by a couple grad students on the cheap and really is a model of inexpensive high-performance computing. I think they only spent a coupe grand on the whole thing with help from the school scrap yard. Some good lessons in there. Oh, and they run FreeBSD which, as it's name suggestes is FREE!!

I find it hard to believe that you studied botany.

The fact that you disagree with me isn't a very good basis on which to doubt my statement that I studied botany. I may, for example, have had rotten teachers, or it may have been a long time ago, or I may have been an awful student. Or, for that matter you might be wrong. As it turns out, I was a botany major for three years, it was a long time ago, and I'm probably not an impartial judge on the other questions.

If CO2 were a limiting factor, it would be in short demand, but it's in great excess...is very readily available at the elevations in the atmosphere where it's required.

I suspect you mean "great demand" or "short supply" (instead of "short demand"). CO2 is not abundant. It makes up less than 0.04 percent of the atmosphere (Argon, for comparison, is 25 times as common, but you don't hear people talking about Argon as particularly abundant).

N and P on the other hand, are in demand, and usually not in great surplus.

IIRC, this is quite true in areas with exceptionally high water flow (e.g. rain forests, the open sea), since fixed Nitrogen & Phosphorous are generally very soluble, and thus wash away. But most plant growth occurs outside these areas (this is why people are so concerned about the rain forests; they grow very slowly and will take a long time to recover).

Plant matter (dried) is about 45-50% carbon & 40% oxygen by mass. Less than 0.5% is nitrogen & phosphorous (combined). Plants are mostly starch / sugar / cellulose--in short, carbohydrates--and very little protein (which is where the N & P go). So the C/(N+P)ratio in plants is on the order of 100 to 1.

If you look at the volume of space surrounding a plant (say, half air, half soil) you will see fixed nitrogen in the soil between 10 & 50 ppm. Given dirt's specific gravity is around 2.5, and air's is around 0.00127, and therefore dirt is pretty close to 2000 times as dense as air, and carbon is just a little lighter than oxygen, we find an environmental ratio of about: (0.03%/3) to (2000*50/1000000) or 10^-5 to 1.

Thus, from a plants point of view (comparing abundance inside the plant to outside the plant) nitrogen and phosphorous are about 10^7 times as abundant as carbon.

The idea that CO2 is a limiting factor for most ecosystems is laughable.

*smile* You say that, but I'll bet you wouldn't cough up a "+1 Funny" if you had mod points, would you?

-- MarkusQ

Oh, I'll bet you do a Fourier transform more than several times a day. JPEG image compression and MPEG video compression are both based on the discrete cosine transform, which is really a discrete Fourier transform in sheep's clothing.

Remember how terribly slow JPEG decompression used to be back in the days of yore? That's a large part of the reason.

What I find most interesting are the kinds of projects that have sprung up in Gnutella's wake. Many of these started out as attempts to improve Gnutella, and have since moved on (the Gnutella Next Generation working group never really materialized into anything)

We had napster and one extreme, gnutella at the other, and in the middle a re a number of partially centralized systems with super peers like Fast Track, such as:
Open FT
JXTA Search
GNet
NEShare

and many others...

Then there are the alternative projects that use an entirely different mechanism. For example, social discovery as implemented in:
NeuroGrid
ALPINE

Or distributed keyword hash indexes like:
Chord
Circle
GISP
JXTA Distributed Indexing

And many others as well.

The coming year(s) will see a lot of maturity in these areas, and searching large peer networks will become ever more efficient over time. Gnutella showed us the possibilities of a fully decentralized model, and refinements of its underlying architecture can produce vastly better solutions.

2002 will be an interesting year for peer networking applications...

This will vary by the college or university that you consider attending. I graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of Purdue University in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My brother graduated this past December from the Computer Science department. I work with several people who graduated from one of the schools of technology. I would summarize the various degrees as follows:

• Computer Science: Very focused on math and the theory behind algorithms. Basic and advanced programming courses in C++ and Java. Some exposure to databases.
• Computer Engineering: Very focused on physics and computing logic. Basic and advanced programming courses in C. Some exposure to object oriented techniques.
• Technology: Focused on practical applications of technology. Courses cover database management, operating systems, network architectures. Some light programming courses.

A number of people in Computer Engineering later switched to Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, as they wanted to focus either more on hardware or more on software. All three degrees (EE, CE, CS) received approximately the same number of offers at graduation, and at roughly the same pay level. Students from the Technology department received just as many offers, but at a lower pay level.

I would suggest that if you liked your IT job, go for a Technology degree with a minor in management. You may not get as much utility from a CS or CE degree.

This will vary by the college or university that you consider attending. I graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of Purdue University in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My brother graduated this past December from the Computer Science department. I work with several people who graduated from one of the schools of technology. I would summarize the various degrees as follows:

• Computer Science: Very focused on math and the theory behind algorithms. Basic and advanced programming courses in C++ and Java. Some exposure to databases.
• Computer Engineering: Very focused on physics and computing logic. Basic and advanced programming courses in C. Some exposure to object oriented techniques.
• Technology: Focused on practical applications of technology. Courses cover database management, operating systems, network architectures. Some light programming courses.

A number of people in Computer Engineering later switched to Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, as they wanted to focus either more on hardware or more on software. All three degrees (EE, CE, CS) received approximately the same number of offers at graduation, and at roughly the same pay level. Students from the Technology department received just as many offers, but at a lower pay level.

I would suggest that if you liked your IT job, go for a Technology degree with a minor in management. You may not get as much utility from a CS or CE degree.

This will vary by the college or university that you consider attending. I graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of Purdue University in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My brother graduated this past December from the Computer Science department. I work with several people who graduated from one of the schools of technology. I would summarize the various degrees as follows:

• Computer Science: Very focused on math and the theory behind algorithms. Basic and advanced programming courses in C++ and Java. Some exposure to databases.
• Computer Engineering: Very focused on physics and computing logic. Basic and advanced programming courses in C. Some exposure to object oriented techniques.
• Technology: Focused on practical applications of technology. Courses cover database management, operating systems, network architectures. Some light programming courses.

A number of people in Computer Engineering later switched to Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, as they wanted to focus either more on hardware or more on software. All three degrees (EE, CE, CS) received approximately the same number of offers at graduation, and at roughly the same pay level. Students from the Technology department received just as many offers, but at a lower pay level.

I would suggest that if you liked your IT job, go for a Technology degree with a minor in management. You may not get as much utility from a CS or CE degree.

This will vary by the college or university that you consider attending. I graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of Purdue University in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My brother graduated this past December from the Computer Science department. I work with several people who graduated from one of the schools of technology. I would summarize the various degrees as follows:

• Computer Science: Very focused on math and the theory behind algorithms. Basic and advanced programming courses in C++ and Java. Some exposure to databases.
• Computer Engineering: Very focused on physics and computing logic. Basic and advanced programming courses in C. Some exposure to object oriented techniques.
• Technology: Focused on practical applications of technology. Courses cover database management, operating systems, network architectures. Some light programming courses.

A number of people in Computer Engineering later switched to Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, as they wanted to focus either more on hardware or more on software. All three degrees (EE, CE, CS) received approximately the same number of offers at graduation, and at roughly the same pay level. Students from the Technology department received just as many offers, but at a lower pay level.

I would suggest that if you liked your IT job, go for a Technology degree with a minor in management. You may not get as much utility from a CS or CE degree.

If you following the links to CS 615 from my home page then you'll find some functional/object-oriented code to solve finite elements with various iterative solvers (conjugate cradient, multigrid, etc.) for various problem domains (symmetric elliptic problems, transport-dominated diffusion problems, parabolic problems, nonlinear elliptic obstacle problems, etc.) .

If you following the links to CS 615 from my home page then you'll find some functional/object-oriented code to solve finite elements with various iterative solvers (conjugate cradient, multigrid, etc.) for various problem domains (symmetric elliptic problems, transport-dominated diffusion problems, parabolic problems, nonlinear elliptic obstacle problems, etc.)

At Purdue, where I got my degree, you have to take a wide variety of courses. The listing is here. Here is the bit you are asking about:
Additional Requirements 33-40 credits

English composition: ENGL 101 and 102 or ENGL 103. 3-6 cr. (sem. 1-2)
Modern foreign language: See the School of Science bulletin for requirements. 12-16 cr. (sem. 1-4)
Humanities and social sciences: See the School of Science bulletin for requirements. 18 cr. (sem. 3-8)

As someone with their own supercomputer (ACME and /. of 6/6/2000) I can say that you'll come up with a bunch of things you would like to do but haven't found the CPU time to do. This of course presumes that you have half a brain.

We run NP complete problems to completion. Our idle loop is a prime number factoring of one of the RSA challenge numbers. If we were to hit one of those numbers (even the $10k one) we'd more than pay for the machine (but not the A/C or power).

I do ponder what a typical PBS.org reader would do with their own supercomputer. Most lack the sophistication to get a return on investment on even just the air conditioning and electricity better yet the cost of the hardware and the set up. But what do you expect from someone who practices identity theft?

All that said, it is having this class of power out in the hands of the masses that could well bring the next BIG NEW IDEA. It is neat that it can be done and I hope a bunch of /.ers write the code they want to run on such a thing then build one to run it.

-- Multics

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times(free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA , Purdue, Duke, UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Posted by chrisd [dibona.com] on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 [mailto] was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article [nytimes.com] on the New York Times [nytimes.com] (free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT [mit.edu], UCLA [ucla.edu], Purdue [purdue.edu], Duke [duke.edu], UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie [google.com], an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Partly, I'd assume, these features help people feel comfortable leaving their dorm rooms. But also, these features are expensive to setup for only a semester or two, so the management sets them up in bulk (i.e. cheaper) and uses it as a marketing tool.

The general setup is an Ethernet drop in every room, along with cable, phone, and panic alarms.

While some of these apartments are strictly local to Purdue, some companies are even doing this similar community complex idea at several campuses across the country.

Here's a bunch

Potentially humorous, but factually incorrect.

Purdue's estimated cost for 1 year (for in state students) is $12,000. That's tuition + room + board + books + misc. fees.

UCLA costs about the same.

You could sent two students to either Purdue or UCLA for less than the cost for 1 student at Duke.

The University of Illinois is also more expensive.

Purdue University has an Agreement with Microsoft which enable us to recive original, lisenced versions of original Microsft Software for 5$. u can check out the detaile here> http://www.purdue.edu/MSCA/.

We get all software right from Windows Xp to office to the full 6cd pack of Visual Studio 6 for only 5 dollars.

Every student is entitle to a copy and there are no limitations.

Futhermore, Purdue's Computer society host and Ftp mirror for almost all the possible Linux ditro's thereby not even needing us to use up extra bandwidth to download from outside.

Very recently i belive there has even been agreement to let the Computer Science Majors to download all of the Microsoft software free of charge from a web server starting from even the arabic version of Windows 3.11 up till windows Xp.

And ALL this this is being done legally. therefore i see no reason for there to be Software piracy at Purdue University. The article just mentions there had been raid and i think this is just to Defame Purdue Univsity. It does not even say that any thing was confiscated at purdue university - Just another Angry purdue Student :) Vikas

Posted by chrisd
on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM

from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.

akiaki007 was among many who wrote in
to say: "Check out this
article
on the New York Times (free reg, blah
blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include
MIT, UCLA,
Purdue, Duke,
UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group

DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for
crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news
briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide
my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times (free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."