Domain: uky.edu
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Re:Community Radio 88-92 MHz
The FM Spec originally called for allocation all the way up to 109.1, but the ancient console radio/turntable in the lobby of Keeneland Hall at UK is the only one I've ever seen. If you're in Lexington, drop by take and look at it, its more fun the the UK basketball museum
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Re:lots out there
Codewarrior has some nice features for sure, but after the license fiasco at UK, I'll never use it.
Synopsis:
For intro to programing (CS115) the gods above decide it was time to move to an IDE, so packaged with our text(excellent book for intro C/C++ programing BTW), they bundled a copy of CodeWarrior 4 that had license keys that expired about a week after classes began. So the CS department had to scramble with Metrowerks to get new keys, but I kept chuging along with HTML-Kit, puTTY and the student webserver, with my ~home/bin mounted on my windows box. Every program was compiled with -ansi and -wall switches. I double checked on codewarrior to make sure it would compile before submitting programs, but that was about it. -
Re:lots out there
Codewarrior has some nice features for sure, but after the license fiasco at UK, I'll never use it.
Synopsis:
For intro to programing (CS115) the gods above decide it was time to move to an IDE, so packaged with our text(excellent book for intro C/C++ programing BTW), they bundled a copy of CodeWarrior 4 that had license keys that expired about a week after classes began. So the CS department had to scramble with Metrowerks to get new keys, but I kept chuging along with HTML-Kit, puTTY and the student webserver, with my ~home/bin mounted on my windows box. Every program was compiled with -ansi and -wall switches. I double checked on codewarrior to make sure it would compile before submitting programs, but that was about it. -
A monster sucess story
A brief history
"Laid off" from Ihigh.com
Graduated in may from UK
Spent the summer both online and off in the job hunt
My Current Employer found me in late September through Monster, I'm now their Jr. Webmonkey and Rookie Solaris Admin who breaks^?^?^?^?^?^? stress-tests machines.When all is said and done, in this market, be prepared to wait. If you have the time and cash, get training, be ready when things hit the upswing
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Universities have had to build them...
Here is the University of Kentucky's
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Universities have had to build them...
Here is the University of Kentucky's
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Try this site...
This site has details about the MOLTAR project affiliated with the University of Kentucky LUG. The jist of it is a GI joe motorized tank with a web cam for demo's and drawing ooh's and aah's from the crowd.
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Re:Education as a game
Are you really suggesting that the poor packaging of good ideas is a good thing..."
Truth needs no adornment.
As for educational materials, compare computer advertising with computer manuals. I rest my case.
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Gigbabyte Mirror Bandwidth
http://linux.uky.edu/kernel/v2.4/
This mirror is so fast, it will speed your downloads up, even past your NIC/modem's supposed maximums. -
Hope your pay is better
I assisted with the @home roll out at UK, it really pissed me off that the Insight technicians that did our job off campus got paid double what we did, but it was a good experience, especially the girl with the ancient Packard bell that I had to saw through the case to add a nic (One of our other techs had stripped every one of the case screws).
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Origami
I've been working on a project to organise and present documents by faculty at the University of Kentucky called Origami. Take a loot here to see where i've gone with it. It's written in PHP and uses mysql and the local filesystem to store paper information. If you'd like I can write some quick documentation and send you a tarball of what i've got so far.
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Re:No pollution on the buildings!
A church that's 800 years old looks like the day it was built to my eyes, and that most of the wear and tear that I'm used to has occurred just within the past century.
No kidding! Just look at this picture of the Church of St. Dmitrii from the exhibit, and compare it to this one, taken in the early 1990s. The recent one is filthy.
That the deterioration to these buildings occurred largely in the last century is correct, but do not place the blame solely on the industrialization. The Soviet state had a much greater effect on the current poor condition of Russian Orthodox churches.
During the rule of Lenin and Stalin, thousands of churches were completely destroyed, most famously, The Church of Christ the Saviour, in Moscow. Many more were damaged and looted, others were used as clubs or wharehouses, like the magnificent Church of the Savior on the Blood in St. Petersburg (picture here). It has only been relatively recently that major restorations have been undertaken to return some of these architectural landmarks to their former glory. Furthermore, a state obsessed with military parity with the West had few resources left to perform even simple maintenance to clean the facades of many buildings.
Something else that is interesting is how, in some respects, so little has changed from the time these pictures were taken. Aside from the clothing, this picture could have been taken in any Russian town this very day. And a train ride through the Russian countryside reveals many villages that look similar to this even today.
Prokudin-Gorskii's photographs are simply amazing, though, a real treasure. I agree with many of the other posters who said that these pictures place one's black and white mental image of the past in a whole new light. Kudos to the Library of Congress for this exhibit. I am sure it will be of immense value to scholars and students world wide.
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Re:Basketball EDUThe slogan "America's Next Great University" is the slogan for University of Kentucky?
Here at the University of Louisville we have the (advertising) slogan "Dare to be Great". This has sparked parodies such as "Dare to be Stupid".
Some how those parodies don't have the irony of "America's Next Great University". It brings a message of "Eeehh, we are not so great yet. But by the time you graduate, we will really kick ass!"
Besides, we have Pitino now. So I don't think that UK deserves basketball.edu. Although we might get pitino.edu and rename the school to University of Pitino.
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Where I would start....
Novell, they surely could help your techs spend the cash for three more client licenses. University of Kentucky has a large collection of G3 macs spread out over our student labs novell network and we used to have a shit load of powermacs from 25-200 mhz, so it can be done
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Ethernet started wirelessHeh, and then just imagine that ethernet started out as a wireless radio packet switching protocol on Hawai. Coax was considered an improvement... See: What is the internet
The Ethernet concept arose because a researcher from Xerox PARC spent a sabbatical period at the University of Hawaii and noticed that the random access radio system could be operated on a coaxial cable at data rates thousands of times faster than could be accomplished through the air.
How about using glass fiber to the home instead? Maybe even use wired routers switches to get our packets on the fastest network?!? Then all get what we want and we can reserve the limited bandwidth for radio packets for applications that really need to be mobile, instead of as a nifty techie replacement for DSL.--
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Informatics program at University of Kentucky
While we don't offer a full degree program, we offer a certificate to complement your (MS/MA/Ph.D) in
- Biology
- English
- Foreign Languages
- Health Care
- Linguistics
Check out their site at http://grendl.rch.uky.edu/informatics/
<disclaimer>No the server is not a beowulf, it is used for the electronic beowulf project</disclaimer>
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Re:You think the FBI is crooked eh?Cops lie...take this account Hosting a kegger at my house 2 days before classes start here at UK (America's next great university). I'm the only smoker living in the house so I am outside with a few other people smoking and drinking a beer.
Lexington PD rolls up, says they received a noise complaint, funny, the neighbors on all sides are here, and I had just came from the street, stereo was inaudible. They ask where the keg is, I lead them around the backside of the house, they ask have you been serving minors "no of course not officer, please check the IDs on the people that were outside with me" (12 21+ year-olds.)
They ask can we come in, I mention that they don't have a search warrant, they cite me on a bullshit charge
126.90 to Fayette county, just because I don't smoke in my house
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Re:Pick a different section
hey John. Dr. Keen has cleared me to use g++ until SCS quits dragging their feet on the lab install, but this kind of kills SAC in the long term doesn't it?
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On the university level
it seems CS departments "roll their own" often, I know for a fact that here at UK we use a heavily modified debian core in the cs/enginering linux lab, I am pretty sure that U of Michigan uses a redhat-based system.
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Re:Any transl sw w browser integ?? What do we needlangauage is supposed to be specified in the DOCTYPE/dtd declaration in the first line, here is the one for XHTML 1.0 on my homepage
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/strict.dtd">
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Re:Not posted from the Netscape 6I fired it up to see how my personal page looked, and be damned if I didn't get an extra bullet in an unordered list.
I then checked it against a different stylesheet with a single bullet class (resume.css instead of style.css), problem disappears
Ok fair enough, fire up the bug reporter, navigator crashes, but the crash reporter gave much better info than I have ever gotten from Dr. Watson.
And so the tale of netscape flameouts continues, but I wouldn't mind having that crash reporter come up instead of the cryptic win 98 invalid Page Fault at register..... error message for all program crashes
Please stop by to see the behavior yourself at http://sweb.uky.edu/~jdholl1/welcome.html
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Directory Structures in generalThis problem is rampant through the unix communinty, a lot of sysadmins simply run too many bin(s),here's a count at sweb.uky.edu, my current web development platform at the University of Kentucky
- /bin
- /sbin
- /sbin/bin
- /usr/bin
- /usr/sbin
- /usr/sbin/bin
- /usr/local/bin
- /usr/local/sbin
- /usr/local/sbin/bin
That is nine by my count, its seems Admins should take note from Windows 95/98/2000 is that it gives people a common place to install their programs, typically called program files (I changed it to bin, you could call it bob or maurice if you wanted).
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Re:Question of proper code
The question of validated HTML syntax is very important when containing to under 5K, things like alt text for images, dtd's, and closing tags become very important,, I'm intrigued though, so I'll give it a shot, check out my project \\SWEB/~jdholl1/index.html
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You missed one KAOS/PAPERSThis is different from Beowulf cluster in that you have two networks going one low-latency/low-bandwidth and one high-latency/high-bandwidth. This is what Avalon did, though with an out of the box Parallel port network, rather than a parallel port network optimized for message passing parallel processing.
Depending on what you need the cluster for you should adapt network at your clustering technology.
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axis, wincam one, etc.
I setup a Wincam under FreeBSD using a WinCam.one about 3 years ago. Certainly the AXIS is superior, but (in addition to not being available then) I had very little money to work with, and I was unable to run ether to the camera position, thus I needed the modem capabilities of the wincam.one (yes, I know, some of the newer AXIS cameras can do that too). I had a good experience with the WinCam, it ran flawlessly for over a year, and has since been redeployed (Though it's down right now as the area it's in is rewired for comm and power). And they have some simply multiplexing capabilities, however the image snap times are slow at 640x480x24 because of the serial line speed (high-speed serial is supported I think, >200K). Axis units and a little software to front-end them would probably be easiest and provide a higher-quality output, but would probably set you back $6k...x10.com has/had some tiny cameras with 2.4Ghz transmitters, these combined with reasonable video capture cards would provide an interesting solution the required little wiring. Though I'm not sure how you could caputre 6 images, or easily rotate through 6 video inputs...