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Here at the University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business we use InoculatIT. It is a great program. Everything is automated. We set up a server to pull the updated infomation from the web and then set the clients to look for that server. We use Active Directory to push the client out to the client computers and to make sure that the lab machines and all notebooks keep it installed. The personal machines can uninstall the software if they choose.

[T]he lectronic insertion of brand-name, 3D computer-generated products into TV shows that already are on tape. Although the virtual products are inserted into the scenes in post, the process is different from digital compositing in that the former occurs in real time. In other words, instead of physically compositing a CG box of Corn Flakes into every video frame showing Jerry Seinfeld's kitchen cabinet -- an expensive process because of the amount of time involved -- virtual product placement technology is capable of tracking the motion in the video sequence and inserting the CG box onto the cabinet shelf automatically. Therefore, after some initial computer set-up, inserting that virtual box of Corn Flakes into a 10-second video sequence takes only 10 seconds.

From the FAQ, Question 2: Great! Then I can just jump right in and use it, right?

"Um, no. Ganymede itself is an extensible and customizable system that can do a tremendous amount for you, but right now it is not an 'out-of-the-box' admin package. In order to make Ganymede useful, you need a schema kit, which consists of a database definition for the network information you want to manage, a set of custom Java plug-in classes that will make the Ganymede server smart about how your information is supposed to be connected together, and a set of classes and scripts that will take information from Ganymede and propagate it into your network."

The FTP server is still reasonably quick and has a lot of documentation and promotional material available. It's at ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/ for those of you who want to see if it can walk-the-walk by giving it a go instead of just talk-the-talk by looking at, admittedly impressive, pictures.

Fine, then go to this page to get the complete Doomsday algorithm, including corrections for the Julian calendar.

Where I work, we master all of our accounts for UNIX and NT, along with all of our email routing, our NFS volume definitions, our automounter configuration, and our DNS, in Ganymede.

We synchronize passwords from Ganymede into NIS, Samba, and our Windows NT PDC. We also configure tacacs and radius, and LDAP from the same master database. Ganymede provides a high quality GUI interface, and allows you to designate privileges over the directory database to as many classes of administrators as you like. Several people can be simultaneously browsing and making changes to the database, and when transactions are committed, a background thread updates all of the network services. Ganymede is the closest thing that the open source community has to NDS or Active Directory, in terms of being a complete management solution, even though it is not based on LDAP and it does not scale anywhere near as well as an Active Directory or NDS. If you are looking to manage a single location, however, Ganymede will do the job right.

Take a look at the web site in my .signature, below. Ganymede 1.0 is due out within the next week, along with a userKit that supports password synchronization for UNIX, Samba, and Windows NT, with password quality checking handled by Clyde Hoover's excellent nPasswd passwd validation suite.

G0del

Wow, that sounds a lot like Microsoft's definition of an argument. Perhaps we should use something a little more applicable?

Most of our enemies would see it most efficient to use prions.

These are what scientists think are responsible for mad cow disease, as well as the Kuru disease from Africa. Supposedly, if used as a biological weapon (which is years away, if even possible), they could be targetted toward specific ethnic groups and people with certain attributes. (Yes, each word in the above is a link to a resource.)

How about:
$*ARGS is chomped;

Maby it's just me, but I fear that setting properties to variables that affect how fuctions work on them, will greatly decrease the quality of code, available.

Let's just face it, not everybody has even heard of Dijkstra, let alone know how to write 'proofable' programs.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc

Everyone always stares at me when I profess the beauty of Lisp, as well as its possibilities. While being the second oldest language still in use (after Fortran), it's still modern with respect to the new applications people are finding for the language. For the curious, here's some other cool Lisp/Scheme projects:

A Common LISP Hypermedia Server

UTexas's archive of classic Lisp AI code (SHRDLU, Eliza, etc.)

SPIKE - Planning/Scheduling software for the Hubble Space Telescope

Babylon - an environment for developing expert systems

Lisp-Stat - statistics package


Also, here's a great directory on more info and resources on Lisp:
Association of Lisp Users

I took a class on ACL2 last year, and it's actually much more than the quote above indicates. It is a fully executable subset of Common LISP, which has been augmented to be a sound logic in which general theorems can be stated and proven. In other words, you can write a program in it, and then prove theorems about that program. It can also be used to model hardware systems, and then prove theorems about them.

I think ACL2 is a perfect example of the ambiguity of the distinction between code and speech. Mathematical theorems and their proofs would generally be considered to be expression, regardless of what formal language is used to write the proof. But if you choose ACL2 as your proof language, then a theorem could itself be, or contain, executable LISP programs. How is one to distinguish, then, between a "circumvention device" and a proof or theorem about it, if they're both expressed in the same language?

Was involved in a student organisation of game programers ( EGaDS! - Electronic Game Developer Society of the Universtiy of Texas at Austin While I was there, the thing I heard most often from guest speakers was to make sure you have a demo of some kind (eurodemo, game, mod, level, etc), or be willing to do grunt work as a tester (at the same time working on your demo...)

It's important that you show initiative, that you can learn on your own, cause you do that kind of thing a lot. Versatility is good as well.

And most important, know the right people. Sorry, but all this other stuff just makes sure you resume doesn't get thrown away with the rest.

Here is an excellent online introduction to Scheme, a lisp dialect.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/schintro/sch intro_toc.html

And here are many links to Books, Online tutorials, etc for learning Lisp

http://www.lisp.org/table/learn.htm

According to history, the Texas legislature put forward an ordinance of secession on 1 February 1861, where it passed by a vote of 166 to 8. It was then put before the voters, where it again won 46,153 to 14,747 on 23 February 1861. It became official in March of 1861, when they also opted to join the Confederacy.

This information is available here, where it is maintained by the Texas State Historical Association and hosted by the University of Texas.

"get your facts strait, just because the mason dixon line was above TX doesn't mean that all the states south of it seceded."

There were 3 states wholly below the Mason-Dixon line that did not secede. Kentucky essentially sat on the fence for several years, Maryland's legislature and the Port of Baltimore were essentially held hostage, and Kansas was admitted into the union as a free state 29 January 1861, just over a month after South Carolina left. None of these three was Texas.

"Ya know stupid people piss me off."

Need any help getting that foot out of your mouth? :)

I suggest you read the original that Rob refer to in the 'from' section. It was by the Jonathan Swift, who also wrote Gulliver's Travels, equally as savage a social satire in the day. It wasn't a kid's book then, it was a savaging of the social strata.

At any rate you can read A Modest Proposal here.

For those that cannot spare the time, the essay concerns his suggestion that, in 1729, when famine, overpopulation and poverty were in staggering proportion in Ireland, that the Irish eat their own children. The point being that the Irish had to do something about their problems, because the BRITISH certainly weren't going to help...
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God, someone just had to bring up Squeak. Ugh.
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Wow, someone who uses Squeak in the real world! I hope you're getting paid a very large sum of money to do so, since I can't imagine anyone doing it out of personal preference.
As stated above I'm currently in a OOP class using Squeak, and maybe 75% of the people I know in there would agree with me when I say Squeak has been the worst programming language I've ever had to deal with (out of the seven or eight I've learned).
The Squeak IDE is one of the most frustrating pieces of software I've ever had to use. Slow, ugly as sin (both the original MVC and the newer Morphic GUI), and bloated as all hell. You must have superhuman patience to be able to create a game for your wife using it.
But good luck trying to turn it into a binary to distribute to your friends, because you can't! And don't ask them to try and learn the language either, because there's no documented API, and the purportedly self-commented code really isn't. Did I mention that that same code sometimes breaks on you, fresh from an install? Yep, believe it.
Also (and yes, I realize I'm reaching here), but the syntax is all backwards. It's not sufficiently like natural laugnage to be easy for beginners to use, and it just frustrates experienced programmers used to nearly every other language (i.e., based on C). It's going the way of Hypercard, Apple's old natural language-based multimedia programming environment.
It's *really* hard to believe that Squeak was supposed to become the language used on the Dynabook, If a bunch of college students can't get the hang of it, I don't see how elementary-school kids could either.
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He talks about looking for the killer application that will make him go out and spend the big money on a whole new system.

Actually I have three of them:

• Solaris 8 -- either the incredibly picky x86 version, or just buying a damn (ultra)sparc to run the sparc version
• Oracle -- this is the real killer. According to my friend Lynn who had the inclination to run it and the money to keep buying stuff until it was happy, you need 512 meg of ram and up as a practical limit. Not to mention a fast disk that's in the 8+ gig range you plan on devoting solely to Oracle. And this is just for a smallish installation he's using to teach himself. God only knows how much it would want for a big one (well, a Sun E10K is a good bet, I seem to recall that was what eBay used to run their Oracle on).
• Enterprise Java -- anything in the java app server / servlet / J2EE category just soaks up the ram as fast as I can throw it at the machine...

And all of these are not flashy, consumer, game-type 'ware, the usual suspects for driving hardware upgrades. My point being that even us CLI-only, minimalist sysadmin types are going to run into this phenomenon now and again. (Although in this realm I think the scaling axis is usually more ram / more processors as opposed to faster processors (and of course video cards aren't a factor at all), as an example see the configuration of the pretty-damn-busy-but-still-very-responsive ccwf, where my skool account is...).

http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/programs/pcs/.

Personally I think that this is a great idea. In fact, I've already sent an email to Charles Vest (the MIT president) letting him know that I support the OpenCourseWare initiative.

Perhaps the community could help to contribute to this effort by establishing a means of communication (message boards, etc.) for people working through the online courses.

On a side note, I attend the University of Texas at Austin. While there I've begun to work with some professors on some web based interactive supplements for our Introduction to Electrical Engineering class. You can see what we have so far at http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ee302sup/

Personally I think that this is a great idea. In fact, I've already sent an email to Charles Vest (the MIT president) letting him know that I support the OpenCourseWare initiative.

Perhaps the community could help to contribute to this effort by establishing a means of communication (message boards, etc.) for people working through the online courses.

On a side note, I attend the University of Texas at Austin. While there I've begun to work with some professors on some web based interactive supplements for our Introduction to Electrical Engineering class. You can see what we have so far at http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ee302sup/

On a related note, the halting problem is formally undecidable only for machines with infinite memory. With finite memory, eventually you either halt or repeat a previous state.

Hey, I found the TOPEX data before you did. Look for TOPEX in here and you'll see that the sea level rise was mostly due to an El Nino. Oh, wonderful..the TOPEX site data has been adjusted to match tide gauges, but no mention whether they used the IPCC adjustments or just raw tide gauge data.

The other reason I'm in favour is that Brixton (in South London) has a bad (but deserved) reputation for aggro between the police and the local black population, going back beyond the riots in 1981 (that's the London police's site, by the way - more realistic stuff here.) With CCTV, allegations of brutality can be more easily verified and rascist / thuggish cops thrown in jail, where they belong.

The only negative consequence I can think of is that it's going to increase the price of dope... :(
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles

Actually, advisors seem fairly useless. At The University of Texas anyway, they were always a waste of time. I'm not saying this out of childhood spite either. They don't know the curriculum and will just read from the flowchart when suggesting courses or a major. Go see what they have to offer, but don't expect much help.

A far better idea is to join the ACM which is applicable to any major and looks good on the resume. Your school's ACM should have some good socialization opportunities, and you should use these during your first year to meet as many upper classman as you can.

Find one who knows his shit (not necessarily the person who gets straight A's mind you) and ask what he/she think about the curriculum and everything. If you find the right person, he/she will know what's up better than any Advisor and half the Faculty as well.

perl, patch, configure -- developer-facing, highly derived from original UNIX work

www/browsers -- giving you this one, as noted above; gopher is part of that but I haven't checked the origin

muds -- nope, originally developed on an Essex University mainframe in 1978, later licensed to CompuServe commercially; see this history from the co-inventor

markup language/links -- invention of these concepts is somewhat disputed, but none of the major early candidates I know of (SGML, Xanadu, HyperCard) were open source software projects

the open source development process -- sorry, I'm just not impressed by what I've seen of the software in this space, so it's hard for me to sing the praises of the system

Tim

Here's a few good ones (I'll leave out the obvious links to Sluggy and stuff, and those that I've seen people mention already.):

Nukees
Acid Reflux
Snail Dust
Avalon
Bruno
Waiting For Bob (currently on hiatus)
Clan of the Cats
It's Walky
Irritability

The university of Texas at Austin does a lot of research in the area, so they might be a place to start.

Responding to my own post... Here are some links. The UT Railgun Pulsed Power Project can be reached here (clcik on Research Projects). I got the numbers wrong, but they're still impressive (40 MJ spread out over 15 pulses, and that was in 1988). Here's another good railgun site.

Not enforcing a copyright does not cost you the copyright.

STILL WRONG.

Take a look at THIS link. It clearly states that one of the reasons that Xerox failed in it's suit is that it waited too long to bring charges of copyright infringement and thereby had to rely on weaker arguments.

linux on laptops is a site that has links to linux installation instructions for any type of laptop imaginable. i've used this resource several times and find it very useful.

Setup was easy, the only tweak needed was with X11 and it was well documented here. The Yamaha sound card was not supported when I installed, but it is now.
There is an excellent site with information on all sorts of laptop setups here and a HOW-TO at LDP.

Even though pre-made images are great, something as simple as a recipe for tweaking a distro to work well with a system could be lucrative.

I am one of many people who host websites devoted to describing how to get different distros working on different machines. In the eleven months since it was first published, my site has had over three thousand hits. Three thousand hits may not seem like a lot, but those could be three thousand customers paying money for a product (a guide to installing linux on their particular laptop) that is nearly free to the producer (simply harvest the data provided by sites linked to by the Linux on Laptops database.)

Beyond that, by providing support and even compatability gaurantees for specific laptops they have information for, this could well be a very, very lucrative business for a company, without having to produce their own images!

safety Sorry No. Go down and have a look at the 'murder' columns, shows a value of deaths per 100k. US ends up w/ double digits with countries like the USSR, Latvia & Brazil - Drastically higher than sub 2 values of star performers like Canada, Belgium, Greece and Japan..

freedom Sorry No. Have a look at the Corruption Index (Scroll to Table 1), American Imperialism (and here), McArthyism.. I wont bother with the links: DMCA, Marijuana Prohibition, Prostitution, Collusive Monopolies (RIAA/MPAA), The Cuban Embargo, Kent State Massacre, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra Affair, Watergate, Assassinations of John/Bobby Kennedy & MLK, Invasion of Granada, The War on Drugs, Internet Censorship in Schools/Libraries, Consumerism, Work holism, Invasion of Dominican Republic, Gulf War, Systemic Racism (weak gay rights)... etc etc

quality of life Sorry No. Canada has the highest Standard of Living on the planet - 7 years running...

I went to Chicago for NewYears eve to visit some friends. On the way home we heard a news reporter 'lead out of a story' by saying "...and after all; we are the richest and most powerful people in the world." What I began to think is that Americans have begun to treat their 'democracy' (*ahem*) like a Religion. There is no debate. They have enjoyed a very good 150 years - and like all successful civilizations; it will eventually end. If America didnt have such a large piece of 'virgin' North America to exploit for natural resources, and did host a World War (or two) Im betting the world would be a very different place. The 'success' of America dosnt prove the 'rightness' of Capitalism - so get that out of your head. America's 'success' is not success at all! (See adbusters.org about consumerism and mindlessness). America would do itself a favour and learn a little collective humility. Surely the last election has taught you something...

The system has been horribly corrupt by politicians and business people 'on the take'. Their is no longer anyone in Washington who intends to lead Americans. To help America lead and become better global citizens - and try their best to help set a good example - and take examples from those who are already doing good. No person on this planet should be without the rights described in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the US Constitution (or similar documents written or yet-to-be written). Like it or not this is a Global Village and we should be working together for the good of us all.

I refuse to become cynical and jadded. People will respond that this is 'The Real World' - to that I suggest people decide what we are choosing to make this 'Real World' become? Like it or not our collective action/inaction everyday sets the course for the future. We need to stop the 'present' America from setting the course that it is now (and using arms/propaganda to force others into capitulating). (I wont bother with the globalization/imperialist/enslavement/end-of-the-p lanet scenario that is our current future).

Please American PEOPLE do something about your government.

Doh, maybe if I spelled his damn name right. Dr. Burger not Dr. Berger.

"Billion Transistor Architectures" in PDF format.

And here's his homepage with other articles you should find interesting. He's the hauss; one the best professor I've ever had the pleasure of taking. The architecture is called CMT = Chip MultiProcessor.

Ryan Earl
Student of Computer Science
University of Texas

Doh, maybe if I spelled his damn name right. Dr. Burger not Dr. Berger.

"Billion Transistor Architectures" in PDF format.

And here's his homepage with other articles you should find interesting. He's the hauss; one the best professor I've ever had the pleasure of taking. The architecture is called CMT = Chip MultiProcessor.

Ryan Earl
Student of Computer Science
University of Texas

A grounding in the fundamentals of mathematics, most essentially rigourous logic, has been the keystone for my career in computing. I currently work as a web designer. My HTML was easy to pick through practice and because I had become used to learning logical systems quickly. I was trained as an economist in college. One course with a brilliant man, Dr. David Kendrick, introduced me to the power of computing in connection with economics.

Mathematics is the best language to talk computerese. If you're not into it, maybe you should consider a different profession.

Perhaps those of you who don't get it should look at what you have for an imagination and what you have for an attention span. This is a thinking person's movie, not a movie that will whack you over the head with "get it, moron!". Further, until you've made a movie and dealt with all the problems that come with one, ponder what you say. This was a spectacular thing that we're still talking about 32 years later.

The Technology. My bigger bitch is with the people here that bitch about the technology. Perhaps you've been standing behind the door, but it is you and I that make the technology happen. If we want video phones then we should get off our collective asses and code the damn things up.

And, if we want the things this movie guessed would happen, they're not beyond the edge of our technology. All it takes is a political will to do these things and it will happen. What happened to the US space program, post Apollo 11, can only be considered a travesty. There was a viable team of very smart, can-do people that attained a spectacular goal. What did we did to the team? We laid most of them off and said, 'thanks guys'. That NASA was capable of all sorts of cool things but instead the press and hence the country looked at Vietnam instead.

So if you want the BIG technology this vision of the future offers, argue for it with your government critters. They will listen if you will take the time to clearly state the case. They're actually there to do the right thing, if only they can figure out what that is.

--Multics

P.S. don't whine at me about the Space Shuttle either. They went from an Apollo command module (think row-boat) to a reusable space truck (think modern cargo ship) in one step. They're allowed to have made (and continue to make) some blunders along the way -- after all this is rocket science.

Check out http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lapto p.

From what the links there said, you need to turn off PCI power management, and use the alsa drivers.

Okay, here are the links you'll need when picking out a free software laptop:

Linux:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lapto p/
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html

FreeBSD:
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html
http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/LAPTOP_SURVEY/index. html

OpenBSD:
http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd-mobile

NetBSD:
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/laptops-and-n etbsd.html
http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/netbsd/

X window system LCD configs:
http://www.sanpei.org/Laptop-X/note-list.html
http://www.sanpei.org/Laptop-X/Laptop-X/

Notebook survey for graphics/PCMCIA
http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf/notebooks.html

If anyone has any other links for other free software OSes, please post them :)
--posted anonymously to avoid karma whoring.

A webpage for help to the people who whant to run Linux have been around for a while. Check it out:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lapto p/

Getting an inexpensive used/refurbished laptop is not very hard to do. There are plenty of places on the Internet and elsewhere to find your hardware needs.

Dollar Computer, a frequent advertiser in the back of Computer Shopper, has made finding a laptop in your price range rather simple. Just go to their site and input the price range that you are willing to pay. I did a search for models costing between $0 and $150 and came up with three (one 386 and two 486s).

The minimum requirement for running Linux is, of course, a 386. I would suggest, however, that if you are going to run Linux on these low-end machines, that you do so without X. X Windows is a big time resource hog that you can live without so long as you are willing to "go primitive" and use a command line. There a solitare games that can be played in text mode and SVGAlib, so you have alternatives to going with a full GUI environment.

Most of the old hardware will be supported under Linux, but you might want to look at the Linux Laptop pages before you buy.

I hope this helps.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lapto p/

Not only does it have a laptop compatibility list that is twenty times larger than the ZDNet one, but it also has howto's, discussion forums, and much, much more.

There seems to be a slashdot mentality that all advertising is inherently wrong, and it is moral to take any steps to nullify any advertising that you may see.

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can.

Kill yourself.

Seriously though, if you are, do.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.

Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming.

You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too,

"Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!

Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"

"What didya do today honey?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know," [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?

I think that this is not correct. I think that advertising is fundamental to the way that the internet has grown during the previous few years

Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/

The homepage of Karen K. Uhlenbeck

Oh yeah, she does seem to be bright and funny. Just read the comment on the bottom part of the homepage. (and we'll just forgive her the horrible formatting)

P.S. Maybe she is somebody for a Slashdot Interview

I'd like to consider myself a strong Linux supporter, and I've been working almost exclusively in Java and Perl for the last 5 years.

I'm getting ready pretty soon to release version 1.0 of my network directory management system for various platform, including Linux. It will be interesting to see how many people shy away from it solely because of it being written in Java. I am completely confident that the work we have done could not have been accomplished with 4 times the resources using any other programming environment that is available today, let alone 5 years ago when we started.

Linux on Laptops is a good resource for laptop configuration tweaking and driver support. They might have information about an open source driver for your audio chipset.

Many of Dell's newer laptops seem to have LCD display artifacting problems under X... Customizing XF86Config can eliminate this, but I haven't found a distro that will support their LCDs and chipsets out of the box. Linux on Laptops is a good resource for making laptops work with Linux, however.

Is anyone else thinking about the movie Virus? Or is this the super army or robots anime has been warning us about for years. Maybe we should start considering the status of our own army of super robots. Some of the people I could find working on it are The Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Laboratory, The MIT Mobot Group, The University of Texas at Austin has a Robotics Research Group, and there is the Stanford Robotics Laboratory. All in all pretty dismal. you only have to go a few links down in a search result list to get to the Biped Robot Research in the World link. If you check it out you may notice, They are all in Japan. We are soooo gonna get our asses kicked. Even Robodex 2000, the world's first exhibition of "Robots as Partner" from November 24-26 is in Yokohama, Japan.

(Or try the Perry-Casteneda Library at the really big U)

I guess that's the PCL at the University of Texas at Austin.

I spent way too much time there, though I seem to have spent most of my time in the UGL or in the Physics-Math Library rather than the PCL.