The hotel where I stayed last night stopped the elevators between 11:55 and 12:05 last night.
They said it was because of fear of power loss and NOT due to Y2K compliance issues with the elevator itself.
But.. still kinda too precautionary for me.
I personally turned on ALL my computers last night before I went out just to see if the logs would show anything funny.. (everything is working normal)..
As a student in Computer Science, it's nice to know that we can begin to learn from some well-known games.
I'm sure there are many other students who are beginning to develop games and would like some form of hint in where to start. Well.. now they have a place.
Thanks ID.
Personally I'm not a games person, and I don't have much interest in programming games (I'm more of an OS and server person), but that won't stop me from taking a look at the source to see what I can find.
For those of you in the City of Toronto, ON, Canada.. Would be interested and happy to know that Toronto Utilities and Toronto Hydro have been sending out flyers saying that their water treatment plants and hydro are all Y2K compliant. The water treatment plants are run by 2 separate power sources incase one of them goes down for any reason..
I think M$ is playing monopoly again. They probably had something against Sun standardizing Java because M$ still wants to have their own "slightly enhanced" version of Java to get more people using Windows. M$ Probably somehow bribed Sun into doing so.
Reading the article, I have gotten the impression that if a non-developer wants something fixed, only-then they would pay the developers to fix it.
The article said that without an initiative, independant developers are lazy.
What happened to the motivation of coding just for the self-pride in "I did this"?
It seems that a move towards this "co source" idea would make current open-source developers become more lazy unless they get their monetary incentive to fix a bug. I can see developers finding bugs, and just leaving them as if they don't exist, until someone is willing to pay them to fix it.
Now.. the idea of making money is good for most people, but bridging open source with commercial is bad.
There are other ways open-source developers can make money coding.. possibly work for a company that develops open source products and gets payed in tech support (such as Red Hat)..
Maybe this is a hidden ploy by M$ to crash down linux from behind.
Now that these kids know that they are "potential terrorists," are they more likely to become terrorists? What if this "geek-profiling" was kept confidential?
Does anybody else think there is potential for self-fullfilling prophecy for those people who were borderline and would not become "bad" people to now move towards such a profile just because that's how they are labelled?
I personally do not fit into this profile, I do find myself spending hours infront of a computer though due to my great interest in technology and figuring things out, but I am interested to hear what others have to say.
Just wanted to add. I have tested these things (RARITAN) with 1024x768@85Hz work's ok.
It also has modules for Sun SparcStations/UltraSparc/etc.. (but no special keyboard keys unless you buy the Sun KVM switch SMX), addons for USB and Serial Ports.
Working as a SysAdmin for the Government over the summer, I got a chance to do a little research on a few KVM switches and got to implement a matrix system to allow up to 4 workstations control 72 computers (scalable to 256) using Raritan KVM switches.
One thing you should know when looking at KVM switches, is if there is any form of on-screen control, you WILL have problems of some sort (usually minor). I have experienced all kinds of problems with different brands which usually include errors like "no video detected" or the switch doesn't like the refresh rate. For these type of errors, you should look for a switch with a management port that will allow firmware upgrades.
If you are looking for a matrix system (chaining up KVM switches to allow more computers), you need to look at how many workstations you'll need simultaneously, and which "banks" to put the compuers on. For example, if you have a matrix system with 2 banks of computers "BANK A" and "BANK B", and two workstations "WS A" and "WS B"; depending on the system, and how you configure it, you would want to find out if both workstations can access one bank, or one workstation/bank. ie. If WS A is connected to a machine in BANK A, you may not be able to connect WS B to another computer in BANK A. A good matrix system would allow for multiple connecitons to each bank, but this would usually require an extra cable for cascading.
Let me give a basic explanation of most cabling situations in matrix systems: There will usualy be MASTER & SLAVE KVM switches. All of the workstations will be connected to the master switch, and the output ports of each of the slave switches will be connected to the input of the master switch (the master is kind of like a network hub). Each slave switch will be considered a bank (could be thought of as another hub connected to the main switch). If there is one cable connected between the master and slave, there is only enough "bandwidth" to allow one KVM connection to a computer in that particular bank; therefore, most matrix KVM switches will require/allow more connections between each bank and the master if the user wants to have more than one workstation in each bank.
Some interesting things I found available on KVM switches are features such as user level security to allow only certain users on secure computers, video monitoring - to allow one user to control a computer while the other is able to watch what is happening on the video, but not be able to control, and of course, standard stuff like naming each computer for an on-screen menu. Other addon peripherals include such things as allowing the workstation to be over 600ft away from the KVM switch using CAT5 cabling.
One other thing to know is these KVM switches are very expensive, the cost of implementing the system that I did came close to costing $70,000 CAN. But if you are looking for single user versions with only 8 ports, they are available for approx $1500.
From what I found of Raritan switches, they are fairly easy to use, but did have a few minor glitches which most of were fixed by a firmware upgrade. You may want to take a look at Raritan's web site
I think it must be option C: Hah.. But I still want to see the working code of the W system before we can move onto Y. Who created W anyway, it was one of the first unix distro creators like 20 years ago?
"Lucent's WaveStar OpticAir system eventually will enable business customers and service providers to transmit up to 10 gigabits (billion bits) per second (Gb/s) of information between locations. At this rate, customers will be able to transmit the data contained on 15 CD ROMs through the air in less than a second."
10 billion bits = about 1GByte/second.. now how many cd-roms (650MBytes) can be transfered in 1 second?
Also, what kind of redundancy does this thing offer? What if something passes in between the receiver and transmitter, or the weather is bad?
From what I've heard, 100baseT has only been able to sustain transfer rates of 45mbit / second max. I have not seen any systems where the 100baseT does not get start to max out at this rate. It's worth keeping note of because you will likely not be able to stream more than 35-40 1.2mbit streams simultaneously without multicasting over a single fast ethernet connection.
Apparently, RAID is compiled into the RedHat kernels, but they are not yet available on the standard kernels, unless you patch the kernel with RAID drivers. I had to do this when upgrading to 2.2.10 here at work from RedHat's 2.2.5-15. I don't remember where the patch is, but I'm sure it's easy to find.
Well.. first of all human brains are analog. Therefore it is not possible to figure out a number in bits/bytes.
But if it were digital, According to a PC Magazine article from 1996, Protein does have digital switches in it which can store data 3-dimentionally at a density of 4 Terrabytes per Square Inch.
Well I don't know the specifics of how you are going to be using it.. but basically there are a few things u could do. a) in the BIOS, there is usually something called "HALT ON ??? ERRORS" change this to NONE.. there may be something separate called "Keyboard check" which should be disabled. When this is done.. 2.2 allows console on serial port. If you are doing this through a local serial cable, then just run an unused set of pins to the reset pins on your motherboard and install a reset button to it. If this is to be done remotely (ie via modem).. you could probably find someone to create a box which will buffer the serial ports input and on a sequence of characters, short 2 pins (reset pins on mboard), and the rest will flow through to the serial port.
As for having the bios run over the serial port, I've seen some Digital DEC PC's with bios options that will run in "server mode" which will send all text through COM1..
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The hotel where I stayed last night stopped the elevators between 11:55 and 12:05 last night.
They said it was because of fear of power loss and NOT due to Y2K compliance issues with the elevator itself.
But.. still kinda too precautionary for me.
I personally turned on ALL my computers last night before I went out just to see if the logs would show anything funny.. (everything is working normal)..
Although we were not able to prove relativity or show it's true capabilities in this century, I think Einstein deserves the credit.
As a student in Computer Science, it's nice to know that we can begin to learn from some well-known games.
I'm sure there are many other students who are beginning to develop games and would like some form of hint in where to start. Well.. now they have a place.
Thanks ID.
Personally I'm not a games person, and I don't have much interest in programming games (I'm more of an OS and server person), but that won't stop me from taking a look at the source to see what I can find.
Here's a hillarious video of the robot's instability on nec's site. Here he's having a schitzo attack..
This summer I wanted to find a chea[ used Sparc 10 or 20 box just to play around with the different hardware on a different OS (Solaris)..
Everyone told me to install Solaris on a PC.. While I wanted to play with a completely different platform.
Now I can have different hardware to run the same OS as I do now.
Personally, I prefer Linux due to the Open Source, free, etc.. But I just wanted to learn solaris by experience incase I needed it..
Ahh well..
Now if only they find a decent distro of Linux for the palm pilot, their IPO can probably increase 1000% on the release day.
Actually, it's Torontonians.. as I said originally.. That's how they refer to people who live in Toronto on radio/tv/newspaper
For those of you in the City of Toronto, ON, Canada.. Would be interested and happy to know that Toronto Utilities and Toronto Hydro have been sending out flyers saying that their water treatment plants and hydro are all Y2K compliant. The water treatment plants are run by 2 separate power sources incase one of them goes down for any reason..
Just though other Torontonians may be interested.
I wonder if it will avoid stuff like paper, or it will pick it up..
I think M$ is playing monopoly again. They probably had something against Sun standardizing Java because M$ still wants to have their own "slightly enhanced" version of Java to get more people using Windows. M$ Probably somehow bribed Sun into doing so.
Reading the article, I have gotten the impression that if a non-developer wants something fixed, only-then they would pay the developers to fix it.
The article said that without an initiative, independant developers are lazy.
What happened to the motivation of coding just for the self-pride in "I did this"?
It seems that a move towards this "co source" idea would make current open-source developers become more lazy unless they get their monetary incentive to fix a bug. I can see developers finding bugs, and just leaving them as if they don't exist, until someone is willing to pay them to fix it.
Now.. the idea of making money is good for most people, but bridging open source with commercial is bad.
There are other ways open-source developers can make money coding.. possibly work for a company that develops open source products and gets payed in tech support (such as Red Hat)..
Maybe this is a hidden ploy by M$ to crash down linux from behind.
How do you, and the Debian team feel about Corel only allowing adults (over 18) to download their distrobution of Linux?
Now the real question is...
Now that these kids know that they are "potential terrorists," are they more likely to become terrorists? What if this "geek-profiling" was kept confidential?
Does anybody else think there is potential for self-fullfilling prophecy for those people who were borderline and would not become "bad" people to now move towards such a profile just because that's how they are labelled?
I personally do not fit into this profile, I do find myself spending hours infront of a computer though due to my great interest in technology and figuring things out, but I am interested to hear what others have to say.
How bout a floor that will act kind of like an escallator which is moving in the opposite direction of the walking.
ie.. ever try running up an escalator going down and realize you weren't really moving?
If we can make this floor sort of like that, but in some sort of a spherical shape (but you walk on the top of it, rather than inside it)..
If anyone else doesn't get this, please reply!.
Wouldn't 17/11/1999 also be an odd day? or 31/1/1999?
How is 19/11/1999 any different than 3/1/1999 where all the digits are also odd?
Just wanted to add.
I have tested these things (RARITAN) with 1024x768@85Hz work's ok.
It also has modules for Sun SparcStations/UltraSparc/etc.. (but no special keyboard keys unless you buy the Sun KVM switch SMX), addons for USB and Serial Ports.
Working as a SysAdmin for the Government over the summer, I got a chance to do a little research on a few KVM switches and got to implement a matrix system to allow up to 4 workstations control 72 computers (scalable to 256) using Raritan KVM switches.
One thing you should know when looking at KVM switches, is if there is any form of on-screen control, you WILL have problems of some sort (usually minor). I have experienced all kinds of problems with different brands which usually include errors like "no video detected" or the switch doesn't like the refresh rate. For these type of errors, you should look for a switch with a management port that will allow firmware upgrades.
If you are looking for a matrix system (chaining up KVM switches to allow more computers), you need to look at how many workstations you'll need simultaneously, and which "banks" to put the compuers on. For example, if you have a matrix system with 2 banks of computers "BANK A" and "BANK B", and two workstations "WS A" and "WS B"; depending on the system, and how you configure it, you would want to find out if both workstations can access one bank, or one workstation/bank. ie. If WS A is connected to a machine in BANK A, you may not be able to connect WS B to another computer in BANK A. A good matrix system would allow for multiple connecitons to each bank, but this would usually require an extra cable for cascading.
Let me give a basic explanation of most cabling situations in matrix systems: There will usualy be MASTER & SLAVE KVM switches. All of the workstations will be connected to the master switch, and the output ports of each of the slave switches will be connected to the input of the master switch (the master is kind of like a network hub). Each slave switch will be considered a bank (could be thought of as another hub connected to the main switch). If there is one cable connected between the master and slave, there is only enough "bandwidth" to allow one KVM connection to a computer in that particular bank; therefore, most matrix KVM switches will require/allow more connections between each bank and the master if the user wants to have more than one workstation in each bank.
Some interesting things I found available on KVM switches are features such as user level security to allow only certain users on secure computers, video monitoring - to allow one user to control a computer while the other is able to watch what is happening on the video, but not be able to control, and of course, standard stuff like naming each computer for an on-screen menu. Other addon peripherals include such things as allowing the workstation to be over 600ft away from the KVM switch using CAT5 cabling.
One other thing to know is these KVM switches are very expensive, the cost of implementing the system that I did came close to costing $70,000 CAN. But if you are looking for single user versions with only 8 ports, they are available for approx $1500.
From what I found of Raritan switches, they are fairly easy to use, but did have a few minor glitches which most of were fixed by a firmware upgrade. You may want to take a look at Raritan's web site
I think it must be option C: Hah.. But I still want to see the working code of the W system before we can move onto Y. Who created W anyway, it was one of the first unix distro creators like 20 years ago?
Take a look at this quote...
"Lucent's WaveStar OpticAir system eventually will enable business customers and service providers to transmit up to 10 gigabits (billion bits) per second (Gb/s) of information between locations. At this rate, customers will be able to transmit the data contained on 15 CD ROMs through the air in less than a second."
10 billion bits = about 1GByte/second..
now how many cd-roms (650MBytes) can be transfered in 1 second?
Also, what kind of redundancy does this thing offer? What if something passes in between the receiver and transmitter, or the weather is bad?
From what I've heard, 100baseT has only been able to sustain transfer rates of 45mbit / second max. I have not seen any systems where the 100baseT does not get start to max out at this rate. It's worth keeping note of because you will likely not be able to stream more than 35-40 1.2mbit streams simultaneously without multicasting over a single fast ethernet connection.
Apparently, RAID is compiled into the RedHat kernels, but they are not yet available on the standard kernels, unless you patch the kernel with RAID drivers. I had to do this when upgrading to 2.2.10 here at work from RedHat's 2.2.5-15. I don't remember where the patch is, but I'm sure it's easy to find.
Well.. first of all human brains are analog. Therefore it is not possible to figure out a number in bits/bytes.
But if it were digital, According to a PC Magazine article from 1996, Protein does have digital switches in it which can store data 3-dimentionally at a density of 4 Terrabytes per Square Inch.
Well I don't know the specifics of how you are going to be using it.. but basically there are a few things u could do. a) in the BIOS, there is usually something called "HALT ON ??? ERRORS" change this to NONE.. there may be something separate called "Keyboard check" which should be disabled. When this is done.. 2.2 allows console on serial port. If you are doing this through a local serial cable, then just run an unused set of pins to the reset pins on your motherboard and install a reset button to it. If this is to be done remotely (ie via modem).. you could probably find someone to create a box which will buffer the serial ports input and on a sequence of characters, short 2 pins (reset pins on mboard), and the rest will flow through to the serial port.
As for having the bios run over the serial port, I've seen some Digital DEC PC's with bios options that will run in "server mode" which will send all text through COM1..