search on ted foe the 19 year old graduating from high school who is switching his focus from the last time he gave a ted talk about fusion at 14 to his new interest and business venture fission.
You can do this easily with physical models held in place by a stand, colored smoke from smoke bombs or even dry ice, and a fan. What you are looking for is turbulence. Which is easy to spot as the smoke passes the variaous parts of the model. It shows up as swirls.
Don't believe the hype. Almost all bug fixing is dealing with the lack of foresight of the original designer/programmer. Take the time out to think through the extreme use cases of your code. You will save you and other programmers a lot of head scratching and retrofitting work later on. And stop repeating that horrible mantra. Reminds me of Y2K and the horrible posix time system we all still use. 1970 is the furthest back anybody doing any time calculations will ever have to go. Nice little short sighted code shortcut that has forced every programmer that wants to do a simple projection forward or backward in time to have to hack together a system. Imagine how much time would have been saved the world over if that first programmer had thought about leap seconds, different calendaring systems, daylight savings, and billions of years into the past or future.
For Starcraft and Diablo 2 you can register your keys at us.battle.net to get access to the latest versions of those titles available for download for Mac and PC for free.
Changing your beacon interval to 101 keeps your wifi networks beacons perpetually out of sync with your neighbors wifi noise. The problem every one is having is errors like unable to find access point, connection error, and being dropped from your access point. This single change makes all of the other tweaks esoteric and uneccessary. Access points know how to deal with noise and interference. Access points do not know how to deal with an excessive amount of lost beacons. And they shouldn't.
I have been meaning to set this up and try it for some time now. It's a complete ledger system with PDF printing and runs from a web server. I belive it's PHP based. Check it out at http://www.sql-ledger.com/
The X works without configuration. Setup windowmaker as the default desktop manager.
Download and installed the startalk tarball. Appears to work up until actual use. Used a serial port monitor. Can see it get up to the point where it does the initial AT commands and recieves an OK back from the motorola phone/modem but it stops there. Need to look into it further. Had to change one line of source to get it to compile (Replaced a psignal with a fprintf to stderr) and added the --no-locking option to./configure.
I'm very happy with the performance and wish there were more packages available through the automated setup.exe's package management. Although if the compiles from source continue to be as easy as this. I may not care.
The only caveat is that I already had what I needed on Windows (Apache MySQL PHP Perl) and only needed the X Server. So there is a bit of overlap here.
"Zero" will get you from basic math concepts up to understanding the math of black holes in short order and it's a small short paperback written by some math genius in laymans terms. I got my wife to read it after I was through and she actually said she thought it was good.
There are a couple of other good one like that. "How Brains Work" easy reading "e: The Story of a Number" gets tricky but teach you the math "Pi: The Story of a Number" same as last one but I'm not sure if that's the right title "Where Math Comes From" shows that our math is not a universal truth and can really tell us nothing beyond what is in our brains already
What you want is equal access for all and no bandwidth hogging. you need to setup a firewall with rate limiting. But not based on port but instead based on workstation. Because the problem isn't one of which service or program is being used. But that when some kid does his research from the computer room he isn't competing for bandwidth from the bandwidth hogs. Every workstation gets throttle after an acceptable amount of bursting. If your doing research the only thing you'll notice is that surfing is faster. If you are downloading large files and sharing files you will only see the hit if you go past a certain threshhold. From there you can fine tune it.
Check out iptables' queues in the netfilter package on linux. There are a lot of howto's for them. Don't start out too confrontationally or you may find your but replaced.
If you find you really need to kill off some P2P access throttle them down to 0bps for 1 minute after every 10 minutes of bursting access tcp/ip will take care of the rest. Just know that they can and will switch to P2P software that works through firewalls and proxies and such.
Worry more about cleaning up the mess and creating administrative policies one at a time. If the network bandwidth already sucks you may have an easier time than think getting things running smoothly again. Setup squid or some other proxy, then kill all the ports, and open up IM and other apps as people complain. Just remember to distribute a memo beforehand on how you will be making changes to the network to speed up everyones access. Don't mention all the other stuff. Just make it clear that you will help anyone that is having problems.
A word of caution. Don't try to implement NAT at the same time as you do this as everybodies IM will stop working and you will have to setup port redirections for everyone at the same time to fix their problems. They will probably make you feel the heat.
You can also do a stealth method but people will think you don't know what you are doing. And that you are causing the network to fail.
You may not have heard that there is a theory that oil fields are self replenishing. The theory is actually more intense than that and is about life deep inside earth (deeper than you might imagine). Check out this posting. The guy that came up with the theory is Thomas Gold. He's a nobel laureate and he wrote a book about it called , The Deep Hot Biosphere. Here's an overview of his theory. I can't find the original article I read about this. But that article went on to say that this is a new field for Gold and his last theory which proved to be true had the same initial reaction as this one. He's usually booed and hissed and heckled off the podium when he presents his work at the conferences. No respect I tell ya!
Bring your passport or you won't always get duty free.
Make sure there is a sign saying it is a duty free shop (or just ask).
Your cultural tour will probably stop by there as part of the tour. So you should try to get a hold of the tour schedule.
The American movies in the movie theaters are in English with Japanese subtitles.
Everybody speaks english. Some better than others.
Don't be afraid to stop in the little homey establishment as well as the fast food noodle, curry, and sushi shops. The food in Japan is a little expensive but not something you want to miss. Avoid buying your meals at 7-11 or Lawson or McDonalds. You can bump into holes in the wall with better food.
Don't worry about buying a fair cheaper than you need on the trains they just make you pay the difference when you get off. Don't lose your ticket though as they make you pay the highest price for the line (as if you can from the furthest destination). It always cheaper to get the day pass if you will be traveling around a lot. Just remember that you have to plan out which lines you will be using as they have different tickets. Get a map as soon as you can some maps are better than others. So grab one anytime you see them.
Don't spend too much time or money in the arcades and avoid going into the gambling parlors (Those are the places with the funny looking pinball machines).
Stop by the cheapest hotel in Japan, The New Koyo, if you want the expat's guide to Japan from the horses mouth. Just make sure you stay up late, hang out in the lounge and ask lots of questions. They have cheap broadband internet access at an hourly rate and provide both a computer or an ethernet cable.
DESCRIPTION
losetup is used to associate loop devices with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and to
query the status of a loop device. If only the loop_device argument is given, the status of the corresponding
loop device is shown.
OPTIONS
--delete, --detach, -d
detach the file or device associated with the specified loop device.
--encryption, -e encryption
enable data encryption. The following keywords are recognized:
There is a way to talk directly to the MySQL database using quoted SQL within Access that I didn't see mentioned. Use only queries as your data sources. Change the properties of the queries to quoted SQL. Which means don't let Access interpret the text I'm going to type. (It's text mode queries only.) The returned query results are static only so you have to do all your updates row by row using quoted SQL update and delete statements with parameter passing.
This translates into a lot of extra work because you have to actually code all of your interaction with the database. But the real benefit is that you will undermine your bosses lame effort at making you use VB so he can read and maintain the code. And you will save yourself from having to do this at the end when you discover that your real enemy is the way Access lulls you into a sense of RAD when you always end up having to hand code the interactions/representations with/of data to produce those simple reports/summaries that are always just beyond the reach of a straight forward query in MS Access. You will also have the luxury of being able to switch away from the demon AKA Access to any language/environment/database because you will have forced yourself to have intimate knowledge of all the interactions in your application from program flow in the GUI to dataflow in the database. And you'll never have to rely on the limitations of cursors and stuff because you can always hand optimize the amount of data passed back and control what gets cached on the client side. Rather than relying on the undocumented dynamics of someones hacked app turned bundled money making monstrosity. i.e. MS Access
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search on ted foe the 19 year old graduating from high school who is switching his focus from the last time he gave a ted talk about fusion at 14 to his new interest and business venture fission.
I provide my VPN to myself for free. ;)
You can do this easily with physical models held in place by a stand, colored smoke from smoke bombs or even dry ice, and a fan. What you are looking for is turbulence. Which is easy to spot as the smoke passes the variaous parts of the model. It shows up as swirls.
Don't believe the hype. Almost all bug fixing is dealing with the lack of foresight of the original designer/programmer. Take the time out to think through the extreme use cases of your code. You will save you and other programmers a lot of head scratching and retrofitting work later on.
And stop repeating that horrible mantra. Reminds me of Y2K and the horrible posix time system we all still use. 1970 is the furthest back anybody doing any time calculations will ever have to go. Nice little short sighted code shortcut that has forced every programmer that wants to do a simple projection forward or backward in time to have to hack together a system. Imagine how much time would have been saved the world over if that first programmer had thought about leap seconds, different calendaring systems, daylight savings, and billions of years into the past or future.
For Starcraft and Diablo 2 you can register your keys at us.battle.net to get access to the latest versions of those titles available for download for Mac and PC for free.
Changing your beacon interval to 101 keeps your wifi networks beacons perpetually out of sync with your neighbors wifi noise. The problem every one is having is errors like unable to find access point, connection error, and being dropped from your access point. This single change makes all of the other tweaks esoteric and uneccessary. Access points know how to deal with noise and interference. Access points do not know how to deal with an excessive amount of lost beacons. And they shouldn't.
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http://identi.ca/freegnu
I have been meaning to set this up and try it for some time now. It's a complete ledger system with PDF printing and runs from a web server. I belive it's PHP based. Check it out at
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
Bash, Apache, PHP, MySQL, gcc, binutils, openssh, etc, etc..
./configure.
The X works without configuration. Setup windowmaker as the default desktop manager.
Download and installed the startalk tarball. Appears to work up until actual use. Used a serial port monitor. Can see it get up to the point where it does the initial AT commands and recieves an OK back from the motorola phone/modem but it stops there. Need to look into it further. Had to change one line of source to get it to compile (Replaced a psignal with a fprintf to stderr) and added the --no-locking option to
I'm very happy with the performance and wish there were more packages available through the automated setup.exe's package management. Although if the compiles from source continue to be as easy as this. I may not care.
The only caveat is that I already had what I needed on Windows (Apache MySQL PHP Perl) and only needed the X Server. So there is a bit of overlap here.
"Zero" will get you from basic math concepts up to understanding the math of black holes in short order and it's a small short paperback written by some math genius in laymans terms. I got my wife to read it after I was through and she actually said she thought it was good.
There are a couple of other good one like that.
"How Brains Work" easy reading
"e: The Story of a Number" gets tricky but teach you the math
"Pi: The Story of a Number" same as last one but I'm not sure if that's the right title
"Where Math Comes From" shows that our math is not a universal truth and can really tell us nothing beyond what is in our brains already
What you want is equal access for all and no bandwidth hogging. you need to setup a firewall with rate limiting. But not based on port but instead based on workstation. Because the problem isn't one of which service or program is being used. But that when some kid does his research from the computer room he isn't competing for bandwidth from the bandwidth hogs. Every workstation gets throttle after an acceptable amount of bursting. If your doing research the only thing you'll notice is that surfing is faster. If you are downloading large files and sharing files you will only see the hit if you go past a certain threshhold. From there you can fine tune it.
Check out iptables' queues in the netfilter package on linux. There are a lot of howto's for them. Don't start out too confrontationally or you may find your but replaced.
If you find you really need to kill off some P2P access throttle them down to 0bps for 1 minute after every 10 minutes of bursting access tcp/ip will take care of the rest. Just know that they can and will switch to P2P software that works through firewalls and proxies and such.
Worry more about cleaning up the mess and creating administrative policies one at a time. If the network bandwidth already sucks you may have an easier time than think getting things running smoothly again. Setup squid or some other proxy, then kill all the ports, and open up IM and other apps as people complain. Just remember to distribute a memo beforehand on how you will be making changes to the network to speed up everyones access. Don't mention all the other stuff. Just make it clear that you will help anyone that is having problems.
A word of caution. Don't try to implement NAT at the same time as you do this as everybodies IM will stop working and you will have to setup port redirections for everyone at the same time to fix their problems. They will probably make you feel the heat.
You can also do a stealth method but people will think you don't know what you are doing. And that you are causing the network to fail.
There it is again.
This one is formatted.
2-Disk Xwindow Linux
Ooops, I don't know how that space got in the link.
i sk Xwin.htm
http://www.mungkie.btinternet.co.uk/projects/2d
http://www.mungkie.btinternet.co.uk/projects/2disk Xwin.htm
It's got a 2.4 kernel, recommends a minimum of a 486DX, has xfree 4.1 included, and it's Debian based.
The current release is considered stable.
coyotelinux.com
386SX Processor or greater *
12Mb RAM
1.44Mb Floppy Drive
MDA Display
It's a two floppy LRP derivative that uses the 2.4 kernel.
Oops! He's not a Nobel laureate. I found Tom's bio. Click his name in the upper left corner of that page to check out his current work.
You may not have heard that there is a theory that oil fields are self replenishing. The theory is actually more intense than that and is about life deep inside earth (deeper than you might imagine). Check out this posting. The guy that came up with the theory is Thomas Gold. He's a nobel laureate and he wrote a book about it called , The Deep Hot Biosphere. Here's an overview of his theory. I can't find the original article I read about this. But that article went on to say that this is a new field for Gold and his last theory which proved to be true had the same initial reaction as this one. He's usually booed and hissed and heckled off the podium when he presents his work at the conferences. No respect I tell ya!
Bring your passport or you won't always get duty free.
Make sure there is a sign saying it is a duty free shop (or just ask).
Your cultural tour will probably stop by there as part of the tour. So you should try to get a hold of the tour schedule.
The American movies in the movie theaters are in English with Japanese subtitles.
Everybody speaks english. Some better than others.
Don't be afraid to stop in the little homey establishment as well as the fast food noodle, curry, and sushi shops. The food in Japan is a little expensive but not something you want to miss. Avoid buying your meals at 7-11 or Lawson or McDonalds. You can bump into holes in the wall with better food.
Don't worry about buying a fair cheaper than you need on the trains they just make you pay the difference when you get off. Don't lose your ticket though as they make you pay the highest price for the line (as if you can from the furthest destination). It always cheaper to get the day pass if you will be traveling around a lot. Just remember that you have to plan out which lines you will be using as they have different tickets. Get a map as soon as you can some maps are better than others. So grab one anytime you see them.
Don't spend too much time or money in the arcades and avoid going into the gambling parlors (Those are the places with the funny looking pinball machines).
Stop by the cheapest hotel in Japan, The New Koyo, if you want the expat's guide to Japan from the horses mouth. Just make sure you stay up late, hang out in the lounge and ask lots of questions. They have cheap broadband internet access at an hourly rate and provide both a computer or an ethernet cable.
You can do this with a loopback device on any version of linux with losetup.
LOSETUP(8) MAINTENANCE COMMANDS LOSETUP(8)
NAME
losetup - set up and control loop devices
SYNOPSIS
losetup [ -e encryption ] [ -o offset ] [ -p num ] loop_device file
losetup [ -d ] loop_device
DESCRIPTION
losetup is used to associate loop devices with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and to
query the status of a loop device. If only the loop_device argument is given, the status of the corresponding
loop device is shown.
OPTIONS
--delete, --detach, -d
detach the file or device associated with the specified loop device.
--encryption, -e encryption
enable data encryption. The following keywords are recognized:
There is a way to talk directly to the MySQL database using quoted SQL within Access that I didn't see mentioned. Use only queries as your data sources. Change the properties of the queries to quoted SQL. Which means don't let Access interpret the text I'm going to type. (It's text mode queries only.) The returned query results are static only so you have to do all your updates row by row using quoted SQL update and delete statements with parameter passing.
This translates into a lot of extra work because you have to actually code all of your interaction with the database. But the real benefit is that you will undermine your bosses lame effort at making you use VB so he can read and maintain the code. And you will save yourself from having to do this at the end when you discover that your real enemy is the way Access lulls you into a sense of RAD when you always end up having to hand code the interactions/representations with/of data to produce those simple reports/summaries that are always just beyond the reach of a straight forward query in MS Access. You will also have the luxury of being able to switch away from the demon AKA Access to any language/environment/database because you will have forced yourself to have intimate knowledge of all the interactions in your application from program flow in the GUI to dataflow in the database. And you'll never have to rely on the limitations of cursors and stuff because you can always hand optimize the amount of data passed back and control what gets cached on the client side. Rather than relying on the undocumented dynamics of someones hacked app turned bundled money making monstrosity. i.e. MS Access
Just my 2 cents.
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