Edsger Dijkstra, winner of a Turing Award and a contributor to the field of Computer Science in many many crucial areas (proofs, path finding, semaphores, etc...), does his 'computing' with a pen and paper.
Reminds me of a quote I read somewhere (a sig, maybe?):
"Number 3 pencils and quadrille pads."
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) , when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
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I've got one of these too. And you did reference one of the things that I've noticed about it. It's quite loud. It might just be that it seems noisy where it is, but I've only got one 7200RPM, ATA66 drive in it and all the fans it came with, and it still creates a lot of noise. And then I go and put a slightly wobbly CD in the 48X cdrom drive and create some REAL noise. Agh! It makes me want to get a Kenwood TrueX CDROM drive.
Incidently, I got the SX1030(10 bays -- 2x3.5ext 4x3.5int 4x5.25ext; 300W PSU)B. Yes, it's black:). So it looks pretty cool, to boot. Here are some pics from GamePC:
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_1_LG.jpg http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_2_LG.jpg http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_3_LG.jpg http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_3_LG.jpg http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_5_LG.jpg
The one bad thing that I read about this case that I can vouch for is the placement of the 3.5" drive cages. You pull back a lever and then slide them back and out. Very clever. However, they are also nicely aligned with your "top" PCI slot and/or AGP slot so you must remove that card if it's big enough or just be very careful if you're removing drives from that cage. Unfortunately, it's the one on bottom, so you'll likely put harddrives there (floppy/zip/ls120/etc would go above) and, since they get better so often, you'll want to change them occasionally and taking out your video card each time you change drives could get annoying. Well, that only goes for those of us using IDE. The SCSI people could always get an external enclosure.
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm glad you like my.sig. I wanted to put an actual link in it, but, unfortunately, the slashdot.sig char limit includes the html "code" and all the <a href="http://www.mchawking.com"> blah blah blah took up too many chars. So I had to get slightly creative.
Oh well...
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
The last thing we need is some punk aliens popping our US-football-field-sized balloons and allowing them to fall to Earth.
Of course, you know what would happen then. All the huge balloons from all the other galaxies would fly to us in mourning of the death of ours. Hmm, a scary thought indeed.
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I always wondered why it looked like "http://innocent-site/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20 %20%20%20%20%20%20" in my Netscape 4.76 status bar:). After a while, I just learned that the string of %20's meant it was a goatse.cx link.
What will they come up with next?
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
In one of my recent blunders, I removed lots of jumpers from a working motherboard for which I did not have the manual. So, after a LOT of searching, I discovered what it was, an ABIT AH4T. However, ABIT did not have the manual on their sites, no matter how much I looked. And unfortunately, their "moved manuals" site was down.
Anyway, after a lot of searching, I came across a rather large file (for a dialup user, 9.2MB) that looked promising, so I spend 30-45min downloading it. It said it was an archive of motherboard jumper settings. And it was! Over 14,000 devices, not just motherboards. You name it, and it's not currently easily available, and it's likely there. For your convenience, I've placed it here: http://downloads.members.tripod.com/ahaning/th99fr ee.tar.gz. I encourage those with fast connections to mirror this. Enjoy!
(Oh, and yes, I was able to get the settings for my board. Of only board makers would have more often printed that information on the board somewhere. Whoopie for the internet!
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm reasonably confident that growing cultures of it inside powerplants won't significantly affect the course of its evolution.
Well, I'm reasonably confident that the more bacteria that we produce, and thus the more they reproduce, the more chances they have for evolution. Each time they reproduce, there is a possibility that there will be a mutation. If that mutation is good(allows them to live better), it will spread and survive. We must hope that what is good for them is good for us.
But I really don't need to explain this, it's pretty simple.
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Does anything actually get produced that is region 8?
Every DVD gets produced for Region 8, as well as every DVD player. It's just that they are VERY expensive and only available through special government channels.
I hear there's also a region 9 especially for Mars!
kickin' science like no one else can, my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm sure that problem could be dealt with in software. Not, however, without creating new problems. Which means there will be new revisions which will create new problems, and so on. *Sigh* Such are the tradeoffs that come when everything is centered around money.
Routers, print servers, calculators, game consoles, cars, traffic signal equipment, space shuttle, ISS, cellular phones, and I'm sure there are other uses.
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I don't think he wants her to suck his wallet empty.
Actually, I've run LRP before and am trying to get it up now. My first big obstacle was that the newest version (2.9.8) was too large for me to be able to use the other packages (bind823, sshd, pppd) that I wanted. And, the multi294.lrp package available caused the boot to fail (multi294 adds the cabability to boot LRP from 2 floppies for root v 2.9.4 only). So, I've had to use 2.9.4. With this, I could easily fit all my packages on the disk with room to spare. Maybe even store logs in the extra 20 or so MB. As long as this would work properly (I haven't yet read the article, sorry, bad habit) with the old drives I have in my machine and it would simply be a software hack, this would be a great thing for LRP. The only slowness would come when booting. But even now, booting isn't that slow. It's pretty comparable to what you'd get from a 486-66 running a full distro with enough for a router and firewall. Maybe a little longer.
Wouldn't the Earth's gravity also pull the asteroid towards us?
Besides that, who the hell wants humans around longer than the Universe intended!? I've grown up Roman Catholic, so I know this goes against my religion and all(7 days, "let there be light!", yeah, sure, God spoke English and Jesus and Mary were caucasian and spoke with a British accent. Even the Pope believes in the Big Bang theory, provided that God started it all.), but life on Earth sprung up out of organic soup by chance. This likely happens all the time (every million or so years, maybe) and then after a while, it goes away and life springs up somewhere else.
I got this concept from a show I saw on PBS (NOVA or Scientific American Frontiers, I forget). The idea that one guy had is that the Universe is like a Christmas tree (ok, ok, evergreen) with blinking lights on it. Whenever a light is on, it signifies a planet with life on it. The lights aren't blinking on and off at a very high rate. So, we would have to be very lucky if a nearby light (planet/galaxy) was on (had life on/in it).
Anyway, my point is that this is stupid. We may prolong the length of life for things that live on Earth now, but what about the things that might prevail in a hotter climate? Would the quality of life be all that much better? We're already ruining the Earth and heating it up, how would changing its orbit such that it's cooler really help other than delaying the inevitible. The Earth will get swallowed up in some way. Be it the Sun, from us, or gazillions of little space creatures that only feed on human flesh. The Earth and everything else that we know and love will go byebye and there is nothing we can do to stop it but of course, the Linux kernel source will always be free:) send THAT to the aliens so they can protect it).
Maybe you are talking about http://www.ronsangels.com/. It was all over the news and tabloids when it was first launched. Beautiful women selling their eggs. Hrm, at least they aren't letting their eggs "go to waste". But something about it still seems wierd. I mean, aren't they taking all the fun out of getting to use the eggs of a beautiful woman? Or are women who want beautiful babies buying into this?
I never wanted to spend the time learning how to set up a [whatever] manually...
Now I wouldn't consider myself a master programmer or sysadmin. I can do very basic C/C++ programming and I can get a basic idea of what some code is doing if I study it for a while. I've also set up things like Samba/NFS/ipmasq and some other things. However, I do NOT consider myself capable of installing them. Why? Because I've only installed packages and commented out some lines in config files. Most of the network services in my distro of choice, Slackware, are setup by default. I didn't do anything to get them to work. The creators of the packages did most of the hard work. Even the source I have to compile is infinitely easier with autoconfig (./configure, make, make install occasionally some more work is involved). At most, I follow some of their examples in the config files.
Now, I don't want to spend the time to learn how to setup a machine from scratch, either. However, I think that, in the end, the struggle will pay off. That reminds me of my physics professor from the last physics class I took. One of the things he said on his syllabus was that the exams would be more focused around the struggle to solve the problem than the algebra. In this case, the struggle around how to set up a cluster and what to think about would be the major learning experience. You can learn how to install Linux and build a computer without a cluster.
So, this may make the task easier, but I would not recommend it to someone who is interested in learning. Well, it could be nice just for a short project. But if you want to say that you know how to set up a Beowulf cluster, I don't think this sounds like a good idea. Most of the knowledge you'd learn from building a cluster would arise from the things you'd have to struggle with (MPI/PVM coding, for instance).
It's probably been said before by some famous person, but I'll recall the saying that comes to mind: He who makes no mistakes learns nothing. (If this project makes cluster-building as foolproof as it sounds, it will only be beneficial to those who've already set up a cluster and know what's giong on.)
The reason Real and Quicktime can get by with their proprietary formats is because people will go through the trouble to install them and use them. Look at all the trouble you went through. It's also easier for those who think the web should be full of full-motion video and Flash pages everywhere. If they have to right-click|Save as for IE or right-click|Save Location As for Netscape or Shift|Right-click if it doesn't work, that's more trouble for the site (well, not really, but keeping it simple for even the biggest dolts is tough. However, AOL seems to manage:) ).
If you want them not to use Real or Quicktime (Sorenson, in particular) then don't install their player and write to the site maintainers and request the video in an easier-to-deal-with format like MPEG, DivX;-), or AVI. Perhaps they'll blow you off, perhaps they'll think about it (what's 30MB more and less bandwidth wasteage since people can download it only once if they want to see it over and over?). Either way, as long as you'll go through the trouble to use their product, they'll make it and others will use it.
Sounds like he just ran their page through a script and happened to have a couplebooks lying around his place. Maybe slightly suspicious. But nothing for which to arrest him. They must not have any REAL criminals running around.
Now those police. They're the ones that need a spanking. Their website promotes the free distribution of music. With our law enforcement officers setting such a poor example for the citizens and children, how can we expect those same people to respect the law when it comes knocking at their door?
Hmm, death beam. What an interesting way to deal with your opponent who's sitting next to you:).
Player1: Take that! *Click* *Zap*
Player2: AAARrrrgggGGhhh!!!
Player1: Haha! (To Players 3 4 and 5) Who's next?
Players 3 4 and 5: (Turn around and exit room in a hurry.)
Player2: (Sits stunned, wiggling a little.)
Yeah, of course. And even 36400 would be overkill. But the problem still exists of figuring out how to allow the controller/receiver to continue to communicate without bad stuff happening when the signal has been obscured.
I still think that, after all the R&D had been performed (And MS does this very well, when it comes to hardware. Just look at their mice. Maybe they aren't "revolutionary", but they certainly are nice.) the cost of creating a wireless controller would be so expensive as to make it a bad choice. And the wireless controllers I've seen (ok, only one, for the 8bit NES) are clunky and heavy and require AA batteries. However, looking at the size of that controller, they could probably add on some more [weight, size] and you wouldn't really notice. The NES controller isn't all that ergonomic, either:).
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No. We will never have a 3D filesystem browser that represents your filesystem in a visually palatable format.
Nope. Never.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Edsger Dijkstra, winner of a Turing Award and a contributor to the field of Computer Science in many many crucial areas (proofs, path finding, semaphores, etc...), does his 'computing' with a pen and paper.
Reminds me of a quote I read somewhere (a sig, maybe?):
"Number 3 pencils and quadrille pads."
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) , when asked
what CAD tools he used to design the Cray
I; he also recommended using the back side
of the pages so that the lines were not so
dominant.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I've got one of these too. And you did reference one of the things that I've noticed about it. It's quite loud. It might just be that it seems noisy where it is, but I've only got one 7200RPM, ATA66 drive in it and all the fans it came with, and it still creates a lot of noise. And then I go and put a slightly wobbly CD in the 48X cdrom drive and create some REAL noise. Agh! It makes me want to get a Kenwood TrueX CDROM drive.
:). So it looks pretty cool, to boot. Here are some pics from GamePC:
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g
g
g
g
Incidently, I got the SX1030(10 bays -- 2x3.5ext 4x3.5int 4x5.25ext; 300W PSU)B. Yes, it's black
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_1_LG.jp
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_2_LG.jp
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_3_LG.jp
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_3_LG.jp
http://www.gamepc.com/images/rev-sx1030_5_LG.jp
The one bad thing that I read about this case that I can vouch for is the placement of the 3.5" drive cages. You pull back a lever and then slide them back and out. Very clever. However, they are also nicely aligned with your "top" PCI slot and/or AGP slot so you must remove that card if it's big enough or just be very careful if you're removing drives from that cage. Unfortunately, it's the one on bottom, so you'll likely put harddrives there (floppy/zip/ls120/etc would go above) and, since they get better so often, you'll want to change them occasionally and taking out your video card each time you change drives could get annoying. Well, that only goes for those of us using IDE. The SCSI people could always get an external enclosure.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Crap. That looks dumb, let me try that again...
.sig. I wanted to put an actual link in it, but, unfortunately, the slashdot .sig char limit includes the html "code" and all the <a href="http://www.mchawking.com"> blah blah blah took up too many chars. So I had to get slightly creative.
I'm glad you like my
Oh well...
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm glad you like my .sig. I wanted to put an actual link in it, but, unfortunately, the slashdot .sig char limit includes the html "code" and all the blah blah blah took up too many chars. So I had to get slightly creative.
Oh well...
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Hopefully not.
The last thing we need is some punk aliens popping our US-football-field-sized balloons and allowing them to fall to Earth.
Of course, you know what would happen then. All the huge balloons from all the other galaxies would fly to us in mourning of the death of ours. Hmm, a scary thought indeed.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I always wondered why it looked like "http://innocent-site/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% 20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20 %20%20%20%20%20%20" in my Netscape 4.76 status bar :). After a while, I just learned that the string of %20's meant it was a goatse.cx link.
What will they come up with next?
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
You seem to have fallen asleep while typing that link and entered in a couple more characters.
Here, I'll post the correct one:
http://www.peacefire.org/error-rates/
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
In one of my recent blunders, I removed lots of jumpers from a working motherboard for which I did not have the manual. So, after a LOT of searching, I discovered what it was, an ABIT AH4T. However, ABIT did not have the manual on their sites, no matter how much I looked. And unfortunately, their "moved manuals" site was down.
r ee.tar.gz. I encourage those with fast connections to mirror this. Enjoy!
Anyway, after a lot of searching, I came across a rather large file (for a dialup user, 9.2MB) that looked promising, so I spend 30-45min downloading it. It said it was an archive of motherboard jumper settings. And it was! Over 14,000 devices, not just motherboards. You name it, and it's not currently easily available, and it's likely there. For your convenience, I've placed it here: http://downloads.members.tripod.com/ahaning/th99f
(Oh, and yes, I was able to get the settings for my board. Of only board makers would have more often printed that information on the board somewhere. Whoopie for the internet!
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm reasonably confident that growing cultures of it inside powerplants won't significantly affect the course of its evolution.
Well, I'm reasonably confident that the more bacteria that we produce, and thus the more they reproduce, the more chances they have for evolution. Each time they reproduce, there is a possibility that there will be a mutation. If that mutation is good(allows them to live better), it will spread and survive. We must hope that what is good for them is good for us.
But I really don't need to explain this, it's pretty simple.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Does anything actually get produced that is region 8?
Every DVD gets produced for Region 8, as well as every DVD player. It's just that they are VERY expensive and only available through special government channels.
I hear there's also a region 9 especially for Mars!
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
I'm sure that problem could be dealt with in software. Not, however, without creating new problems. Which means there will be new revisions which will create new problems, and so on. *Sigh* Such are the tradeoffs that come when everything is centered around money.
Routers, print servers, calculators, game consoles, cars, traffic signal equipment, space shuttle, ISS, cellular phones, and I'm sure there are other uses.
I don't think he wants her to suck his wallet empty.
Actually, I've run LRP before and am trying to get it up now. My first big obstacle was that the newest version (2.9.8) was too large for me to be able to use the other packages (bind823, sshd, pppd) that I wanted. And, the multi294.lrp package available caused the boot to fail (multi294 adds the cabability to boot LRP from 2 floppies for root v 2.9.4 only). So, I've had to use 2.9.4. With this, I could easily fit all my packages on the disk with room to spare. Maybe even store logs in the extra 20 or so MB. As long as this would work properly (I haven't yet read the article, sorry, bad habit) with the old drives I have in my machine and it would simply be a software hack, this would be a great thing for LRP. The only slowness would come when booting. But even now, booting isn't that slow. It's pretty comparable to what you'd get from a 486-66 running a full distro with enough for a router and firewall. Maybe a little longer.
Perhaps I should point out that I was being sarcastic (just in case) :). Oh, and Moses looked like Charlton Heston.
Wouldn't the Earth's gravity also pull the asteroid towards us?
:) send THAT to the aliens so they can protect it).
Besides that, who the hell wants humans around longer than the Universe intended!? I've grown up Roman Catholic, so I know this goes against my religion and all(7 days, "let there be light!", yeah, sure, God spoke English and Jesus and Mary were caucasian and spoke with a British accent. Even the Pope believes in the Big Bang theory, provided that God started it all.), but life on Earth sprung up out of organic soup by chance. This likely happens all the time (every million or so years, maybe) and then after a while, it goes away and life springs up somewhere else.
I got this concept from a show I saw on PBS (NOVA or Scientific American Frontiers, I forget). The idea that one guy had is that the Universe is like a Christmas tree (ok, ok, evergreen) with blinking lights on it. Whenever a light is on, it signifies a planet with life on it. The lights aren't blinking on and off at a very high rate. So, we would have to be very lucky if a nearby light (planet/galaxy) was on (had life on/in it).
Anyway, my point is that this is stupid. We may prolong the length of life for things that live on Earth now, but what about the things that might prevail in a hotter climate? Would the quality of life be all that much better? We're already ruining the Earth and heating it up, how would changing its orbit such that it's cooler really help other than delaying the inevitible. The Earth will get swallowed up in some way. Be it the Sun, from us, or gazillions of little space creatures that only feed on human flesh. The Earth and everything else that we know and love will go byebye and there is nothing we can do to stop it but of course, the Linux kernel source will always be free
If you don't want to be cloned, then don't.
But I'm shedding skin and hair all over the place! How am I supposed to stop!?!
Maybe you are talking about http://www.ronsangels.com/. It was all over the news and tabloids when it was first launched. Beautiful women selling their eggs. Hrm, at least they aren't letting their eggs "go to waste". But something about it still seems wierd. I mean, aren't they taking all the fun out of getting to use the eggs of a beautiful woman? Or are women who want beautiful babies buying into this?
Either way, it seems strange to me.
here and here
I never wanted to spend the time learning how to set up a [whatever] manually...
Now I wouldn't consider myself a master programmer or sysadmin. I can do very basic C/C++ programming and I can get a basic idea of what some code is doing if I study it for a while. I've also set up things like Samba/NFS/ipmasq and some other things. However, I do NOT consider myself capable of installing them. Why? Because I've only installed packages and commented out some lines in config files. Most of the network services in my distro of choice, Slackware, are setup by default. I didn't do anything to get them to work. The creators of the packages did most of the hard work. Even the source I have to compile is infinitely easier with autoconfig (./configure, make, make install occasionally some more work is involved). At most, I follow some of their examples in the config files.
Now, I don't want to spend the time to learn how to setup a machine from scratch, either. However, I think that, in the end, the struggle will pay off. That reminds me of my physics professor from the last physics class I took. One of the things he said on his syllabus was that the exams would be more focused around the struggle to solve the problem than the algebra. In this case, the struggle around how to set up a cluster and what to think about would be the major learning experience. You can learn how to install Linux and build a computer without a cluster.
So, this may make the task easier, but I would not recommend it to someone who is interested in learning. Well, it could be nice just for a short project. But if you want to say that you know how to set up a Beowulf cluster, I don't think this sounds like a good idea. Most of the knowledge you'd learn from building a cluster would arise from the things you'd have to struggle with (MPI/PVM coding, for instance).
It's probably been said before by some famous person, but I'll recall the saying that comes to mind: He who makes no mistakes learns nothing. (If this project makes cluster-building as foolproof as it sounds, it will only be beneficial to those who've already set up a cluster and know what's giong on.)
The reason Real and Quicktime can get by with their proprietary formats is because people will go through the trouble to install them and use them. Look at all the trouble you went through. It's also easier for those who think the web should be full of full-motion video and Flash pages everywhere. If they have to right-click|Save as for IE or right-click|Save Location As for Netscape or Shift|Right-click if it doesn't work, that's more trouble for the site (well, not really, but keeping it simple for even the biggest dolts is tough. However, AOL seems to manage :) ).
If you want them not to use Real or Quicktime (Sorenson, in particular) then don't install their player and write to the site maintainers and request the video in an easier-to-deal-with format like MPEG, DivX;-), or AVI. Perhaps they'll blow you off, perhaps they'll think about it (what's 30MB more and less bandwidth wasteage since people can download it only once if they want to see it over and over?). Either way, as long as you'll go through the trouble to use their product, they'll make it and others will use it.
Sounds like he just ran their page through a script and happened to have a couple books lying around his place. Maybe slightly suspicious. But nothing for which to arrest him. They must not have any REAL criminals running around.
Now those police. They're the ones that need a spanking. Their website promotes the free distribution of music. With our law enforcement officers setting such a poor example for the citizens and children, how can we expect those same people to respect the law when it comes knocking at their door?
Hmm, death beam. What an interesting way to deal with your opponent who's sitting next to you :).
Player1: Take that! *Click* *Zap*
Player2: AAARrrrgggGGhhh!!!
Player1: Haha! (To Players 3 4 and 5) Who's next?
Players 3 4 and 5: (Turn around and exit room in a hurry.)
Player2: (Sits stunned, wiggling a little.)
Yeah, of course. And even 36400 would be overkill. But the problem still exists of figuring out how to allow the controller/receiver to continue to communicate without bad stuff happening when the signal has been obscured.
:).
I still think that, after all the R&D had been performed (And MS does this very well, when it comes to hardware. Just look at their mice. Maybe they aren't "revolutionary", but they certainly are nice.) the cost of creating a wireless controller would be so expensive as to make it a bad choice. And the wireless controllers I've seen (ok, only one, for the 8bit NES) are clunky and heavy and require AA batteries. However, looking at the size of that controller, they could probably add on some more [weight, size] and you wouldn't really notice. The NES controller isn't all that ergonomic, either