Download the files, burn the ones you need to CDs (you've got a burner since you're using ISOs to install elsewhere), and run the install process. When the installer chokes saying "can't find file" just change disks and click "try again". Or, copy the files to the destination hard drive and install from "local directory". Or burn a DVD with the files. Or pay for the retail version, which comes out sooner and supports development of future versions.
The music you like sucks. My favorite music is more creative/better produced/most appropriately listened to while driving really fast/etc. Blah blah blah.:)
I've bought music that I like recently (and some that I didn't). Don't say that everything "good" is free, or that I've been brainwashed to like stuff that costs money - people have different opinions, and popular music isn't necessarily just popular because an exec said so - some people actually like popular stuff. That's how it got popular, after all...
I could almost take you up on that.;) The power tour (home page here) is going St. Louis to Davenport on June 9. The most logical route, IMHO, would be to come up I55, then cut across 155 to I74. That'd take us through your back yard, it seems. My wife and I will be touring in what's very likely the only flat black '71 Chevelle with flat white doors. If you're into cars at all, you might wanna take a lawn chair out to the nearest interstate overpass (or head over to the cruise night in Davenport) - there should be a couple thousand muscle cars and newer hotrod-type cars driving by - we'll probably be in the area sometime early in the afternoon, given that the tour normally departs sometime around 8AM... Even if you don't see us, it might be fun to watch the pretty and/or old cars.;)
Seems odd that you'd have any reason to go to (or through) Winchester - though there are a couple of colleges in nearby Jacksonville, and Winchester could potentially be near a decent route to Alton/St. Louis from up there.
Hooray for drifting way offtopic... Stop by and say hi if you happen to participate in the Hot Rod Power Tour this year - it's not going too far from Chambana on its path through IL.:)
The "grammar" in "grammar nazi" is not describing the type of nazi - it's part of the name in my interpretation (ie. not someone who's a nazi while being separately grammatical). I'd give half credit if the suggestion was capitalization of a proper noun, but I'm granting no credit for changing a noun to a misspelled adjective.:)
Feminists would probably complain that you started off using "one" but then continued with "his/himself". This is presuming feminists are also grammar nazis, of course.:)
Yeah, it was probably a good decision to get a job *before* the dot-com thing went all to heck.:)
I think I "only" got a 33 on the english part, so perhaps that's why I still had to take a test there. Huh. Judging based on how my peers performed on the ACT, I'd think that anything over 25 or so should be adequate. Then again, looking at the quality of people's written communication in general, perhaps the bar is appropriately located at 34.;)
Winchester is located pretty much where a line west from Springfield and north from St. Louis would intersect. I've been through Woodhull, but I don't remember why (or when). That's probably similar to how most people remember Winchester - "there's a sign on the interstate that says Winchester's that way, though I've never been there"...
I didn't. I went for 3 years (starting in '95), then decided to get a job as a sysadmin so I could pay for stuff, and ended up finishing up a CS degree through Franklin University's online program (which fit around my work schedule better, being asynchronous and all). I've been considering doing UIUC's IMCS program, but just haven't been able to convince my employer (or wife;)) to fork over the cash for those classes. The online thing worked out well, as I now work for an online course developer.:)
The rhet105 prof thing based on ACT must be a new one - I got a 34 on my ACT (somehow I got a 36 on the math component despite my crummy background) and still had to take a written math and "writin'" placement test before enrolling at UIUC.
There were 47 people in my graduating class - small-town central IL at its finest. Our athletics were adequate (I played until I got hurt my Junior year), but our acedemics sucked. Makes me wish I'd been in your small-town school instead.:)
"Flamebait"? I didn't think pico users were smart enough to use/.'s moderation feature - or maybe that was an offended mac user who didn't like the similarities between pico and MacOS? Eh, live 'n learn.:)
They could just go to something like "mittens" or "Mr. Jingles" - which are certainly the names of several cats out there. My cat's name is Ed, though I don't think "Ed" is as cool of an operating system name as, say, "Puma" (or "Mountain Lion", or "Cougar")...
That'd be the most appropriate one - it wraps lines without asking you, it has a simple interface that makes the most common tasks easy but less common tasks (that I use all the time) impossible, etc.:)
My school only offered "math IV", which was just barely pre-calc. I had to take calculus at the local community college just to be at a reasonable math level when I started school.:( I think Early Graduationguy did have some AP credits, though my school also didn't offer those (crappy small-town high schools). I tested out of Rhet 105, but that was it.
My real-world experience has been good. As a sysadmin first for Parkland and now for "a company", I've had far less stress in the workplace than I had in school (though Parkland's beaurocracy was just as bad for employees as for students, as far as I can tell). Then, I only get called outside of work hours when there's a genuine emergency, so I may have it better than others in similar positions. Large companies generally result in larger checks, but you get larger stress because of it. I'll stick with the smaller places, personally - the minor pay cut is well worth the major life benefits.
I know one guy who did it in 3 or 3.5 years (I forget which). He was a darned smart guy, but one of those who wouldn't make a big deal out of it. Everyone else I knew was there for at least 4.5 years. Stupid Gen-ed requirements...:)
I was a Comp Eng major (BTW kids, if you wanna program, don't do CompE with a software specialty - unless you're really into Electrical Engineering or you really want to end up as a grumpy sysadmin;)), and the course just counted as a free elective. It would've been a stretch to get all the coursework in within 4 years anyway, so I had some free time in that extra semester... There has to be at least one "fun/easy" course per semester, anyway, or you get burned out.;) Java was my "fun" course, a decompiler combined with the example MPs took care of the "easy" part... Hooray for easily decompiled bytecode and lazy TA's!
Is CS225 a real class now, rather than one that meets for 2 hours twice a week, requires 20+ hours outside of class, yet only results in 1 credit hour? When I was there, I took Java as that one course where different sections are things like Fortran, COBOL, Java, etc. Then again, the boneyard was about the best landscaping feature of the engineering quad, which definitely isn't saying much.
If you're in the engineering school, you could make fun of the Poly Sci people even if they had nice buildings, IMHO.;) That's where a few of my friends who started in CS went - Poly Sci. Funny how starting a CS program with some horrible language like Scheme (or Lisp, or Haskell, or any functional language) will do that.:)
I'm not sure why I called him a Dean, I meant Professor - he *is* a dick, though. Clearly he's a decent politician, as he managed to work his way though the beurocracy of a major university, but he's still a dick. Ask anyone who took CS125 when it was still taught using Scheme - there're probably still a few grad students hanging around who remember that (I got an A, so that's not why I dislike him). *Friedman* was a nice guy, too bad he stepped down.
I've gotta be over there for a graduation next weekend, perhaps I'll swing by Eng. Hall. I knew it was supposed to be remodeled someday. I'd like to see if they finally got the Engineering Quad fixed up, too...
Disk corruption is handled seperately. If you don't trust your drive controller, then you should spend some time fixing up the disk writing susbsytem. Disk writes should be guaranteed if they say they're succesful, except in the case of a power failure. At that point, swap integrity doesn't matter anyway.:)
You've never seen UIUC's engineering campus's main building, have you? It's about a million years old and the front doors weigh about a half-ton each, so if you manage to make your way up the wavy, deeply worn out stone stairs out front, you'll probably collapse just trying to enter the building. Then, when you're inside, it's 1963 decorations all around. Or, that's how it was when I was there 5 years ago. Supposedly it was due for a remodel, but that money probably went to finance some fruitcake group who loudly proclaims that they're offended on the behalf of the remaining Iliniwek (who, BTW, approve of the Chief).
Yet, they managed to attract the some of the top CS faculty in the world. Dean Kamen may be a dick, but the other staff's pretty well qualified.
Nope, his page (and tag;)) are correct. You want to start on the passenger side in the general case, and do the rear first. You want to do the lines in order from longest to shortest, unless the manufacturer specifies otherwise. Granted, the order doesn't usually matter in the rear since the distribution block is centered on the rear differential - presuming the car is a "real" car and therefore has powered rear wheels - but the front lines are usually distributed on the driver's side, resulting in the passenger line being longer than the driver's line. It's easier to remember to start on the passenger side both times, IMHO, even though the rear often doesn't matter.
I personally prefer to use my homebuilt pressure bleeder, but then, I'm lazy like that.:)
I'll wholeheartedly agree that Russel SpeedBleeders are just about the best friggin' thing ever to be invented, though.
How much do you think it costs to live in a dorm? Is that really just rent? Nope - it includes other services. What about tuition? Does that all go to salaries and building upkeep? Nope - it pays for network connectivity. Students *do* pay for their connectivity - it's just hidden and/or much faster than what the typical home user can get.
Rip with a ripper that verifies the wave file. Listen to it first to make sure you've got a good source. Then encode using a current version of lame and the --r3mix commandline option (or --insane now, since r3mix is unmaintained, deprecated, and without a site anmymore). Come back and let us know what music you listen to that has detectable artifacts. I'll bet you don't hear any that weren't there before. VBR's the only way to fly.
All of my music's archived that way, and I just recreate CDs when I want them on CD. It works out well, and I don't know anyone who can tell the difference (despite knowing some studio engineers).
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Download the files, burn the ones you need to CDs (you've got a burner since you're using ISOs to install elsewhere), and run the install process. When the installer chokes saying "can't find file" just change disks and click "try again". Or, copy the files to the destination hard drive and install from "local directory". Or burn a DVD with the files. Or pay for the retail version, which comes out sooner and supports development of future versions.
The music you like sucks. My favorite music is more creative/better produced/most appropriately listened to while driving really fast/etc. Blah blah blah. :)
I've bought music that I like recently (and some that I didn't). Don't say that everything "good" is free, or that I've been brainwashed to like stuff that costs money - people have different opinions, and popular music isn't necessarily just popular because an exec said so - some people actually like popular stuff. That's how it got popular, after all...
I could almost take you up on that. ;) The power tour (home page here) is going St. Louis to Davenport on June 9. The most logical route, IMHO, would be to come up I55, then cut across 155 to I74. That'd take us through your back yard, it seems. My wife and I will be touring in what's very likely the only flat black '71 Chevelle with flat white doors. If you're into cars at all, you might wanna take a lawn chair out to the nearest interstate overpass (or head over to the cruise night in Davenport) - there should be a couple thousand muscle cars and newer hotrod-type cars driving by - we'll probably be in the area sometime early in the afternoon, given that the tour normally departs sometime around 8AM... Even if you don't see us, it might be fun to watch the pretty and/or old cars. ;)
Seems odd that you'd have any reason to go to (or through) Winchester - though there are a couple of colleges in nearby Jacksonville, and Winchester could potentially be near a decent route to Alton/St. Louis from up there.
:)
Hooray for drifting way offtopic... Stop by and say hi if you happen to participate in the Hot Rod Power Tour this year - it's not going too far from Chambana on its path through IL.
That would've been good for 1/3 credit - 2/3 if it'd been a coma. ;)
Yeah, I still haven't found anything to do - good thing it's just about time to go home...
The "grammar" in "grammar nazi" is not describing the type of nazi - it's part of the name in my interpretation (ie. not someone who's a nazi while being separately grammatical). I'd give half credit if the suggestion was capitalization of a proper noun, but I'm granting no credit for changing a noun to a misspelled adjective. :)
:(
Man, I need something better to do today...
Feminists would probably complain that you started off using "one" but then continued with "his/himself". This is presuming feminists are also grammar nazis, of course. :)
Yeah, it was probably a good decision to get a job *before* the dot-com thing went all to heck. :)
;)
I think I "only" got a 33 on the english part, so perhaps that's why I still had to take a test there. Huh. Judging based on how my peers performed on the ACT, I'd think that anything over 25 or so should be adequate. Then again, looking at the quality of people's written communication in general, perhaps the bar is appropriately located at 34.
Winchester is located pretty much where a line west from Springfield and north from St. Louis would intersect. I've been through Woodhull, but I don't remember why (or when). That's probably similar to how most people remember Winchester - "there's a sign on the interstate that says Winchester's that way, though I've never been there"...
I didn't. I went for 3 years (starting in '95), then decided to get a job as a sysadmin so I could pay for stuff, and ended up finishing up a CS degree through Franklin University's online program (which fit around my work schedule better, being asynchronous and all). I've been considering doing UIUC's IMCS program, but just haven't been able to convince my employer (or wife ;)) to fork over the cash for those classes. The online thing worked out well, as I now work for an online course developer. :)
:)
The rhet105 prof thing based on ACT must be a new one - I got a 34 on my ACT (somehow I got a 36 on the math component despite my crummy background) and still had to take a written math and "writin'" placement test before enrolling at UIUC.
There were 47 people in my graduating class - small-town central IL at its finest. Our athletics were adequate (I played until I got hurt my Junior year), but our acedemics sucked. Makes me wish I'd been in your small-town school instead.
"Flamebait"? I didn't think pico users were smart enough to use /.'s moderation feature - or maybe that was an offended mac user who didn't like the similarities between pico and MacOS? Eh, live 'n learn. :)
They could just go to something like "mittens" or "Mr. Jingles" - which are certainly the names of several cats out there. My cat's name is Ed, though I don't think "Ed" is as cool of an operating system name as, say, "Puma" (or "Mountain Lion", or "Cougar")...
That'd be the most appropriate one - it wraps lines without asking you, it has a simple interface that makes the most common tasks easy but less common tasks (that I use all the time) impossible, etc. :)
My school only offered "math IV", which was just barely pre-calc. I had to take calculus at the local community college just to be at a reasonable math level when I started school. :( I think Early Graduationguy did have some AP credits, though my school also didn't offer those (crappy small-town high schools). I tested out of Rhet 105, but that was it.
My real-world experience has been good. As a sysadmin first for Parkland and now for "a company", I've had far less stress in the workplace than I had in school (though Parkland's beaurocracy was just as bad for employees as for students, as far as I can tell). Then, I only get called outside of work hours when there's a genuine emergency, so I may have it better than others in similar positions. Large companies generally result in larger checks, but you get larger stress because of it. I'll stick with the smaller places, personally - the minor pay cut is well worth the major life benefits.
I know one guy who did it in 3 or 3.5 years (I forget which). He was a darned smart guy, but one of those who wouldn't make a big deal out of it. Everyone else I knew was there for at least 4.5 years. Stupid Gen-ed requirements... :)
I was a Comp Eng major (BTW kids, if you wanna program, don't do CompE with a software specialty - unless you're really into Electrical Engineering or you really want to end up as a grumpy sysadmin ;)), and the course just counted as a free elective. It would've been a stretch to get all the coursework in within 4 years anyway, so I had some free time in that extra semester... There has to be at least one "fun/easy" course per semester, anyway, or you get burned out. ;) Java was my "fun" course, a decompiler combined with the example MPs took care of the "easy" part... Hooray for easily decompiled bytecode and lazy TA's!
Is CS225 a real class now, rather than one that meets for 2 hours twice a week, requires 20+ hours outside of class, yet only results in 1 credit hour? When I was there, I took Java as that one course where different sections are things like Fortran, COBOL, Java, etc. Then again, the boneyard was about the best landscaping feature of the engineering quad, which definitely isn't saying much.
;) That's where a few of my friends who started in CS went - Poly Sci. Funny how starting a CS program with some horrible language like Scheme (or Lisp, or Haskell, or any functional language) will do that. :)
If you're in the engineering school, you could make fun of the Poly Sci people even if they had nice buildings, IMHO.
Oh, so this is an "internet" file server, serving to non-trusted machines? :)
I'm not sure why I called him a Dean, I meant Professor - he *is* a dick, though. Clearly he's a decent politician, as he managed to work his way though the beurocracy of a major university, but he's still a dick. Ask anyone who took CS125 when it was still taught using Scheme - there're probably still a few grad students hanging around who remember that (I got an A, so that's not why I dislike him). *Friedman* was a nice guy, too bad he stepped down.
I've gotta be over there for a graduation next weekend, perhaps I'll swing by Eng. Hall. I knew it was supposed to be remodeled someday. I'd like to see if they finally got the Engineering Quad fixed up, too...
You forgot:
3) Amazon usually chrages *less* than the price on the book's cover
Since I buy computer books regularly, free shipping plus $10 or so less than the cover price works out to be a pretty good deal...
Disk corruption is handled seperately. If you don't trust your drive controller, then you should spend some time fixing up the disk writing susbsytem. Disk writes should be guaranteed if they say they're succesful, except in the case of a power failure. At that point, swap integrity doesn't matter anyway. :)
I forget, where did the creators of Netscape go to school?
You've never seen UIUC's engineering campus's main building, have you? It's about a million years old and the front doors weigh about a half-ton each, so if you manage to make your way up the wavy, deeply worn out stone stairs out front, you'll probably collapse just trying to enter the building. Then, when you're inside, it's 1963 decorations all around. Or, that's how it was when I was there 5 years ago. Supposedly it was due for a remodel, but that money probably went to finance some fruitcake group who loudly proclaims that they're offended on the behalf of the remaining Iliniwek (who, BTW, approve of the Chief).
Yet, they managed to attract the some of the top CS faculty in the world. Dean Kamen may be a dick, but the other staff's pretty well qualified.
Nope, his page (and tag ;)) are correct. You want to start on the passenger side in the general case, and do the rear first. You want to do the lines in order from longest to shortest, unless the manufacturer specifies otherwise. Granted, the order doesn't usually matter in the rear since the distribution block is centered on the rear differential - presuming the car is a "real" car and therefore has powered rear wheels - but the front lines are usually distributed on the driver's side, resulting in the passenger line being longer than the driver's line. It's easier to remember to start on the passenger side both times, IMHO, even though the rear often doesn't matter.
:)
I personally prefer to use my homebuilt pressure bleeder, but then, I'm lazy like that.
I'll wholeheartedly agree that Russel SpeedBleeders are just about the best friggin' thing ever to be invented, though.
How much do you think it costs to live in a dorm? Is that really just rent? Nope - it includes other services. What about tuition? Does that all go to salaries and building upkeep? Nope - it pays for network connectivity. Students *do* pay for their connectivity - it's just hidden and/or much faster than what the typical home user can get.
Rip with a ripper that verifies the wave file. Listen to it first to make sure you've got a good source. Then encode using a current version of lame and the --r3mix commandline option (or --insane now, since r3mix is unmaintained, deprecated, and without a site anmymore). Come back and let us know what music you listen to that has detectable artifacts. I'll bet you don't hear any that weren't there before. VBR's the only way to fly.
All of my music's archived that way, and I just recreate CDs when I want them on CD. It works out well, and I don't know anyone who can tell the difference (despite knowing some studio engineers).