HAH! Our team, team 98 consisted of 8 students and 1 teacher. No corporate sponsor(aside from the local Bosch Structural Aluminium distributor giving us a load of that stuff to work with, which, i must thank them very much) or any engineers to work with. I was the jack-of-all trades guy, working on the electronics, drivetrain, pneumatics, and chassis. I was also the lead machinist, making many of the machined parts on the robot. We worked out of a small room in the back of a class room and had a very small room for our machine shop. The school allocated funds came out to be just enough to pay for the Nationals at Epcot in Florida and that was it. We turned out 74 out of 83 teams in Galileo Division. Not too shabby for a totally student run team and about 1/5 the size of comparable teams (like 108, 218, etc). Cheers.
hate to say it, but you are wrong, my friend. IBM was one of the partners in developing the PowerPC chip, which was a combo of 88k technology by Motorola and the old POWER (not power3) technology by IBM
HAHA! FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN FOR A LOOONG WHILE!!!
time to show the sun/cisco admins around here that they've got a site along their vein of work:P
IMHO, i think all technicians should read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Excelent book discussing the qualities of a good mechanic(which all geeks basically are, computer mechanics) and the philosophy behind the mechanic's lifestyle. Some parts are rather irrelvant or boring but, most of it is very interesting.
Speaking of which, my friend(which, i guess can be called my girlfriend) are going on a trip the day after valentines to the observing site of the local astronomical society and do some observing et al:P
A friend of mine for his project in the AP Physics B class last year was to build a "rail gun" that (ideally) shot a metal(aluminum or steel) ring to speeds close to mach 1. unfortuneately, the administration was not too happy and the school did not have the power requirements to charge up a bank of 50 or so 1kv 0.001 uf (i think....) capicators to power the coils. additionally it was a multistage device (or with multiple stages of coils fired in sequence) and timing the triggers was difficult and the scr (silicon controled rectifiers...almost like silicon/solid state relays but not quite) didnt fire at the same time. it was an interesting project something to go down in the Geek History of our school.
well, as someone remarked ealier, competition is good, but a better solution:
why not have both?
ipfilter and iptables
one team works exclusively on iptables (ala russ etc.) and another team works on the kernel modules that interface with ipfilter for optimal linux proformance. there, you get the best of both worlds.
Kinda unrelated, but has anyone here gotten GRE to work between a *BSD (NetBSD) and a Cisco router or even another BSD machine? I've had a hell of a time trying to figure it out and the online docs are only slightly helpful. Thanks
To the best of my knowledge...a cup of coffee contians about 100-150mg of caffeine. a 12oz serving of coke contains about 70-100 mg and a penguin mint is about 30 mg. and fyi...LD-50(the amount where 50% of the population that you give the substance to dies) of caffeine is about 200mg/kg soo...if you're about 150lb...thats about 13 grams of caffeine and about 130 cups of coffee.
Heh. We need more young(er) people interested in astronomy. At my high school, the people enrolled in the astronomy class are typically jocks who need the passing grade to meet the science requirement, but the teacher(who also happens to be my US FIRST and BEST sponser and good friend) is truly 100% enthusastic about it. Oddly the people who are trully interested arent even in the class, but in the after-school astronomy club. Oh well.
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/summary/local/ scroll to bottom for the specs(including the SPEC values) for the power3...includes practically all the mainstream processors
I think cable modem service TOS should be less restrictive....no servers? what about playing network quake or halflife? With this new device, what about running your own http/ftp/ssh/telnet servers? Service in Lewisville, TX by @Home really sucks, probaly because of the service techs or the service itself.
Why not the dual G4 motherboard RioREd by silicon fruit? I thought it was really cool when I saw it. Standard PC components (i think) and runs FreeBSD, Linux, AIX, or BeOS. my 2cents.
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Why not just get a new case and power supply combo for 20$ or a server case for about 150$? Saves the trouble and insures 100% compatibility.
i must say that mozilla 0.9 is by far, the best in rendering pages and speed (more so than ie 5 and ns 4.76).
HAH! Our team, team 98 consisted of 8 students and 1 teacher. No corporate sponsor(aside from the local Bosch Structural Aluminium distributor giving us a load of that stuff to work with, which, i must thank them very much) or any engineers to work with. I was the jack-of-all trades guy, working on the electronics, drivetrain, pneumatics, and chassis. I was also the lead machinist, making many of the machined parts on the robot. We worked out of a small room in the back of a class room and had a very small room for our machine shop. The school allocated funds came out to be just enough to pay for the Nationals at Epcot in Florida and that was it. We turned out 74 out of 83 teams in Galileo Division. Not too shabby for a totally student run team and about 1/5 the size of comparable teams (like 108, 218, etc). Cheers.
bookpool.com has pretty good prices
hate to say it, but you are wrong, my friend. IBM was one of the partners in developing the PowerPC chip, which was a combo of 88k technology by Motorola and the old POWER (not power3) technology by IBM
HAHA! FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN FOR A LOOONG WHILE!!! time to show the sun/cisco admins around here that they've got a site along their vein of work :P
IMHO, i think all technicians should read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Excelent book discussing the qualities of a good mechanic(which all geeks basically are, computer mechanics) and the philosophy behind the mechanic's lifestyle. Some parts are rather irrelvant or boring but, most of it is very interesting.
Uh....i thought frame relay was basically ppp/hdlc over a public packet switched network, kinda like an extended serial connection. Right?
What does this mean for the future of DSL?
Speaking of which, my friend(which, i guess can be called my girlfriend) are going on a trip the day after valentines to the observing site of the local astronomical society and do some observing et al :P
its copyleft.net
uh...not quite.
A friend of mine for his project in the AP Physics B class last year was to build a "rail gun" that (ideally) shot a metal(aluminum or steel) ring to speeds close to mach 1. unfortuneately, the administration was not too happy and the school did not have the power requirements to charge up a bank of 50 or so 1kv 0.001 uf (i think....) capicators to power the coils. additionally it was a multistage device (or with multiple stages of coils fired in sequence) and timing the triggers was difficult and the scr (silicon controled rectifiers...almost like silicon/solid state relays but not quite) didnt fire at the same time. it was an interesting project something to go down in the Geek History of our school.
well, as someone remarked ealier, competition is good, but a better solution: why not have both? ipfilter and iptables one team works exclusively on iptables (ala russ etc.) and another team works on the kernel modules that interface with ipfilter for optimal linux proformance. there, you get the best of both worlds.
Kinda unrelated, but has anyone here gotten GRE to work between a *BSD (NetBSD) and a Cisco router or even another BSD machine? I've had a hell of a time trying to figure it out and the online docs are only slightly helpful. Thanks
Anyone have a mirror up for the docs? Our team(and probably other teams too) are having trouble downloading the docs from the crappy first server.
To the best of my knowledge...a cup of coffee contians about 100-150mg of caffeine. a 12oz serving of coke contains about 70-100 mg and a penguin mint is about 30 mg. and fyi...LD-50(the amount where 50% of the population that you give the substance to dies) of caffeine is about 200mg/kg soo...if you're about 150lb...thats about 13 grams of caffeine and about 130 cups of coffee.
you could just build a cheap machine and load it up with your fav. distro/os and have it colocated somewhere.
actually, read the article and check the link out. the satellite was built by amsat and launched on an ESA rocket. nothing to do with NASA. wake up.
Heh. We need more young(er) people interested in astronomy. At my high school, the people enrolled in the astronomy class are typically jocks who need the passing grade to meet the science requirement, but the teacher(who also happens to be my US FIRST and BEST sponser and good friend) is truly 100% enthusastic about it. Oddly the people who are trully interested arent even in the class, but in the after-school astronomy club. Oh well.
I was thinking about making a wireless hamradio packet radio link to my servers so that i can administer them. Dunno. Anyone tried before?
hmm... looks like this article has been reposted on slashdot before... http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/10/1222226.shtm l
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/summary/local/ scroll to bottom for the specs(including the SPEC values) for the power3...includes practically all the mainstream processors
I think cable modem service TOS should be less restrictive....no servers? what about playing network quake or halflife? With this new device, what about running your own http/ftp/ssh/telnet servers? Service in Lewisville, TX by @Home really sucks, probaly because of the service techs or the service itself.
Why not the dual G4 motherboard RioREd by silicon fruit? I thought it was really cool when I saw it. Standard PC components (i think) and runs FreeBSD, Linux, AIX, or BeOS. my 2cents.