http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/pre ss _alert_march.html
Sorry, but people knew about this, and are afraid of being labeled extreme. To the average American who does not understand these issues, joining groups like the EFF is extreme, and marching on City Halls is extreme.
Gene Spafford was instrumental in blocking the installation of Carnivore onto Purdue University's network. Many other schools folded, but he was adament about users rights.
Once many people start using this, you wont be able to get the fuel for free. It is free now, because grease is considered waste. Once it has a value, restaurants will charge for it. Besides, this is a short term solution to a long term problem.
The normal "cracker" hates big corporations. If enough crackers realize that every virus they write helps Symantech, they will stop for a while, so Symantech's value to a customer goes down. Symantech will shrink, and security minded people are smart. If security focus is no longer the place to find out about risks, then another source will emerge. The Darwinism of internet communities is great. As soon as one company starts charging for a service, 3 more come out and do it for free, often time learning from the mistakes of the first. Watch this cycle with music sharing. The only music sharing that is viable for more than 6 months at a time is IRC and FTP.
Thank you, this needed to be said. Developers do not recompile every object file when they build a new binary, only what has changed. The master build is only important so that every one is linking against about the same code, and there is one standard that is referred to as the teams output.
I organized an event like this for my high school. We did the fps though. Half-Life, Quake2. Quake3 was in beta at the time, so we played that. A lot of racing games, some starcraft. It was good fun, and as long as it was supervised the administration was relatively cool about it. We never made it abundently clear we were doing the fps thing though.
1. The processor, ram and motherboard all get replaced at the same time. This one is the expensive one, and the most pertinent to performance, but it is hard to upgrade one without the other 2.
2. Second system is your storage. Your drives and controller. IDE and SCSI are more or less backward compatible, but the newer drives are sooooo much faster, feature less noise, and seem more reliable. Drives make a large amount of the high performance perception. Adding RAM in linux helps cache drives, adding performance. Windows gains less from this addition.
3. The third system is your graphics, audio and network. Im an app developer, and do little 3d. I listen to mp3's, so I touch these components rarely. I buy the consumer level NVidia, and do well with it.
4. The fourth is your case and powersupply. ATX is standard now, but cases wear out, get scratched, I modify them too much. Im on my fourth case in 2 motherboards, so I average about one a year.
Computers have planned obsolesence, make sure you buy at the right point on the price curve, and you come out ahead. I love performance, so I buy dual processors, but I buy a little slower chips. I find that helps prolong computer life without spending too much. I also multitask constantly, for gamers, it is a differant story. Watch pricewatch, read anandtech, save your pennys.
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The monetary value of this gift was estimated to be 10,000,000,000 jihadies, the jihadai is the al qaeda's main currency. The value in dollars was about $1.39 u.s. It is believed that the one al qaeda computer was taken away along with osama bin ladens's fax machine. A local resident was quoted as saying "Babba gook, zin, zin, wallop", which translates to "How do you fit a whole office in that small metal box". Multiple phone calls to inside sources, where not returned, because in addition to no computers, there are no phones. Coming up next, should the new parking lot in the middle east have white or yellow stripes.
I attend Purdue University's computer engineering program, as well as co-op as an embedded applications programmer for one of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. This problem is something you have to deal with. Professors run all kinds of cheat finding scripts, and the TA's in the lab are listening for any kinds of cheating. It is needed, as I am sick and tired of all my peers sharing answers, while I work to learn them. In my opinion, cheating lowers the quality that is assigned to the piece of paper that I earn.
As far as curves, in computer engineering we all choose our little groups of 3 or 4 people. Beyond those people, you don't help anyone, because in the end it only hurts you. Teachers here stick to a solid bell curve. In EE201, the first real circuits course, about 1/3 of the 500 people in the course will fail. This is after 2 semesters of prerequisites that have similar failure percentages. 1 out of 2 engineers are gone in the first year. You fight for every percentage point, and it can be very stressful, you don't want to make in any harder on yourself.
VIA bought them, and they just came out with 2 new chips, the samuel 1 and samuel 2. They are socket 370 compatible, and are pushing 1 gighz. They also have extremely low power consumption. My MP3 machine features a Samuel 1 @ 667, which only consumes 12-14 watts. I bought this on an integrated motherboard with video, audio, lan, ata66, and 3 PCI slots for $80. Very quiet machine, with low power bill.
To run it on windows or linux, it is a single binary. Both fit on a floppy, and do not need to be installed. I confuse the heck out of people when I go into a windows computer lab, and my machine is "running" linux.
Isn't the shielding from a case due to the gaussian surface the case ( a conductor) provides?
E*flux = Qenc;
Farraday first expressed some fundamental concepts in words, such as electromagnetic field lines, and later capacitance (hence farads), but I believe Gauss discovered this one.
The biggest hold back I see is the power supply. The pizza box chassis is so thin, and having an external power supply really ruins the mod. Plus I would like to sell it if I could find a buyer.
My roommate and I have had one for months. Exact same case. Pretty easy mod, the hardest part was drilling the holes for motherboard standoffs. I put an ecs motherboard in it with a builtin cyrix 667, and 192 megs of ram. I wanted the cyrix's low power consumption since I am a starving college student who has to pay the bills. The ecs motherboard also had lan, audio and video on board. I put 120 gigs of storage in it, and have it running windows terminal services, so I can use the rdesktop program on my linux computers. It also serves some DNS and acts as an NT domain controller. Mainly it stores MP3's. The other thing about it that is neat is I added a crystalfontz lcd panel. Old SGI cases are hard to find though, so good luck repeating. How all I need to do is find someway to mod my sparc 5 *grin*
I bought one from Milwaukee PC. $249. Celeron 533, 64 MB ram, 10 gig HD, Intel 810. Legacy free. It died about a week later. I sent it back, and they charged me a restocking fee. I don't think I could condone doing business with a company that charges to return a broken product, but they have em if you wnat them.
I recently picked up a sparc station 5, and have been messing around. I find that under linux and solaris, disk performance is horrible. I have tried 3 differant drives, 50 pin and sca, and after running hdparm -tT, I never get a transfer rate over 4 megs/sec? How can I speed this up?
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sorry to burst your bubble of ignorance, but it has been announced everywhere like at:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/11/135
and at:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002
and just for kicks at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/pr
Sorry, but people knew about this, and are afraid of being labeled extreme. To the average American who does not understand these issues, joining groups like the EFF is extreme, and marching on City Halls is extreme.
Gene Spafford was instrumental in blocking the installation of Carnivore onto Purdue University's network. Many other schools folded, but he was adament about users rights.
Once many people start using this, you wont be able to get the fuel for free. It is free now, because grease is considered waste. Once it has a value, restaurants will charge for it. Besides, this is a short term solution to a long term problem.
The normal "cracker" hates big corporations. If enough crackers realize that every virus they write helps Symantech, they will stop for a while, so Symantech's value to a customer goes down. Symantech will shrink, and security minded people are smart. If security focus is no longer the place to find out about risks, then another source will emerge. The Darwinism of internet communities is great. As soon as one company starts charging for a service, 3 more come out and do it for free, often time learning from the mistakes of the first. Watch this cycle with music sharing. The only music sharing that is viable for more than 6 months at a time is IRC and FTP.
WinME is windows without a kernel
I also ran it on Win 3.0, on a toshiba 3000 series laptop, 286 with 640K ram, upgraded to 2.8 megs ram, 20 meg harddrive, orange and brown screen.
Thank you, this needed to be said. Developers do not recompile every object file when they build a new binary, only what has changed. The master build is only important so that every one is linking against about the same code, and there is one standard that is referred to as the teams output.
I organized an event like this for my high school. We did the fps though. Half-Life, Quake2. Quake3 was in beta at the time, so we played that. A lot of racing games, some starcraft. It was good fun, and as long as it was supervised the administration was relatively cool about it. We never made it abundently clear we were doing the fps thing though.
I view my computer as 4 systems.
1. The processor, ram and motherboard all get replaced at the same time. This one is the expensive one, and the most pertinent to performance, but it is hard to upgrade one without the other 2.
2. Second system is your storage. Your drives and controller. IDE and SCSI are more or less backward compatible, but the newer drives are sooooo much faster, feature less noise, and seem more reliable. Drives make a large amount of the high performance perception. Adding RAM in linux helps cache drives, adding performance. Windows gains less from this addition.
3. The third system is your graphics, audio and network. Im an app developer, and do little 3d. I listen to mp3's, so I touch these components rarely. I buy the consumer level NVidia, and do well with it.
4. The fourth is your case and powersupply. ATX is standard now, but cases wear out, get scratched, I modify them too much. Im on my fourth case in 2 motherboards, so I average about one a year.
Computers have planned obsolesence, make sure you buy at the right point on the price curve, and you come out ahead. I love performance, so I buy dual processors, but I buy a little slower chips. I find that helps prolong computer life without spending too much. I also multitask constantly, for gamers, it is a differant story. Watch pricewatch, read anandtech, save your pennys.
cide1
The monetary value of this gift was estimated to be 10,000,000,000 jihadies, the jihadai is the al qaeda's main currency. The value in dollars was about $1.39 u.s. It is believed that the one al qaeda computer was taken away along with osama bin ladens's fax machine. A local resident was quoted as saying "Babba gook, zin, zin, wallop", which translates to "How do you fit a whole office in that small metal box". Multiple phone calls to inside sources, where not returned, because in addition to no computers, there are no phones. Coming up next, should the new parking lot in the middle east have white or yellow stripes.
I attend Purdue University's computer engineering program, as well as co-op as an embedded applications programmer for one of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. This problem is something you have to deal with. Professors run all kinds of cheat finding scripts, and the TA's in the lab are listening for any kinds of cheating. It is needed, as I am sick and tired of all my peers sharing answers, while I work to learn them. In my opinion, cheating lowers the quality that is assigned to the piece of paper that I earn.
As far as curves, in computer engineering we all choose our little groups of 3 or 4 people. Beyond those people, you don't help anyone, because in the end it only hurts you. Teachers here stick to a solid bell curve. In EE201, the first real circuits course, about 1/3 of the 500 people in the course will fail. This is after 2 semesters of prerequisites that have similar failure percentages. 1 out of 2 engineers are gone in the first year. You fight for every percentage point, and it can be very stressful, you don't want to make in any harder on yourself.
VIA bought them, and they just came out with 2 new chips, the samuel 1 and samuel 2. They are socket 370 compatible, and are pushing 1 gighz. They also have extremely low power consumption. My MP3 machine features a Samuel 1 @ 667, which only consumes 12-14 watts. I bought this on an integrated motherboard with video, audio, lan, ata66, and 3 PCI slots for $80. Very quiet machine, with low power bill.
To run it on windows or linux, it is a single binary. Both fit on a floppy, and do not need to be installed. I confuse the heck out of people when I go into a windows computer lab, and my machine is "running" linux.
Isn't the shielding from a case due to the gaussian surface the case ( a conductor) provides?
E*flux = Qenc;
Farraday first expressed some fundamental concepts in words, such as electromagnetic field lines, and later capacitance (hence farads), but I believe Gauss discovered this one.
Cide1
The biggest hold back I see is the power supply. The pizza box chassis is so thin, and having an external power supply really ruins the mod. Plus I would like to sell it if I could find a buyer.
My roommate and I have had one for months. Exact same case. Pretty easy mod, the hardest part was drilling the holes for motherboard standoffs. I put an ecs motherboard in it with a builtin cyrix 667, and 192 megs of ram. I wanted the cyrix's low power consumption since I am a starving college student who has to pay the bills. The ecs motherboard also had lan, audio and video on board. I put 120 gigs of storage in it, and have it running windows terminal services, so I can use the rdesktop program on my linux computers. It also serves some DNS and acts as an NT domain controller. Mainly it stores MP3's. The other thing about it that is neat is I added a crystalfontz lcd panel. Old SGI cases are hard to find though, so good luck repeating. How all I need to do is find someway to mod my sparc 5 *grin*
Doug
Just a few more posts, and this article goes into the slashdot hall of fame. Yet another bonus of running a web site, you can be a cyber pimp.
Here is a link to the google cache of the homepage..
Isnt this the beauty of the GPL, AOL already has the full source to RedHat.
I bought one from Milwaukee PC. $249. Celeron 533, 64 MB ram, 10 gig HD, Intel 810. Legacy free. It died about a week later. I sent it back, and they charged me a restocking fee. I don't think I could condone doing business with a company that charges to return a broken product, but they have em if you wnat them.
2:1 is what I meant, 1:2 would be increasing the size of the data.
About 1:2, sometimes more, often times less. It depends on the nature of the material being encoded, and the algorithm being used.
Great school, but in the middle of nowhere.
Sorry, couldnt resist
This is offtopic...
I recently picked up a sparc station 5, and have been messing around. I find that under linux and solaris, disk performance is horrible. I have tried 3 differant drives, 50 pin and sca, and after running hdparm -tT, I never get a transfer rate over 4 megs/sec? How can I speed this up?