Arora might fill your thirst for a lightweight browser, it's opensource, uses Qt for it's UI and Webkit as it's core and has the private browsing, flash blocking etc...
I really liked the DE2 because it has a whole lot of peripherals and can be used with Quartus II. I wanted to get one so I could tinker with it in my own time for fun.
We were introduced to VHDL in our University's Digital Circuits course.
Most of the above commenter's have mentioned that Verilog is C like, I personally have never used or programmed in Verilog so I can't comment on that.
I did however like VHDL very much, particularly because it was *different* from C, I'm kinda growing tired of C like languages and VHDL was a breath of fresh air. It made FPGA's and the entire course in general a whole lot of fun.
It's strong typed nature was a bit cumbersome at first especially with converting std_logic to std_logic vectors and such because we weren't really shown how to do this or given a syntax/library reference like MSDN or Java's Documentation site.
So I'd say make a good introduction to Entities, Ports and Architectures, explain Process, Signal and Constant statements very well, also particularly highlight the strong typed nature of VHDL.
I think most of your students (such as myself) will not have done any programming in a true strongly typed language before, so this will be bit of a shock, and getting those conversions will be frustrating. (I have been there, Googling really does not help all that much)
I hope your students get as much fun out of that course as I did.
Relating to this, India's going through elections and E-Voting is being used there. We've used a different approach alltogether towards this problem and thought readers might like to read if they're interested.:)
Here's the main article covering the devices used:
I for one am constantly launching links in new windows from Firefox's retarded right click menu, it's actually really noticeable when I use Google Chrome...I have to force myself to choose the first menu option when I right click a link.
Hey Mozilla, forget Javascript performance, how about more simple things like making a decent right click menu?
This problem has been a huge annoyance, but there is a way around in Arch Linux, there should be similar solutions for other distro's.
For the Arch Linux workaround, nspluginwrapper is used to get around the limitation with a whole bunch of 32bit libs. The full details are on the Arch Linux Wiki.
The book...not mathematics of concrete as is said in the book...
"When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, not Stone's Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone-Cech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)"
I for one am furious about Lucas not giving any screen time to the Jedi Master Plo-Koon.
I mean COME ON! He's the master of Form V of Lightsaber combat, he has an alternative for Sith Lightning called Electric Judgement and the dude can freaking manipuate weather to aid in combat! But noooooooooooo...we have to see shitty Ki-Adi-Mudi and crappy Shaak-Ti.
What the hell Lucas?! Stop keeping the bad-ass characters in the dark and emo-wimpy ones in the frontlight (aka Obi-Wan)
I have a 2001 era DVD player hooked up to my 1000W surround sound but it can't play MP3's. I'm in the process of getting a up converting DVD Player. (HD path is too costly for the very occasional movie watching)
Can't the industry come up with ways to update the codec packs for these players? There will most certainly be newer formats with better compression in the future. Why waste an entire player for silly codecs as I am right now?
I'm rather confused by this whole sudden spike in oil. The news media keeps blaming it on China/India/developing economies. I can't say for China but in India fuel has always been expensive and the cars are built for maximum gas mileage. Plus doubling of oil due to industry is unheard of in just a few months.
Then come the speculators, here's where I'm befuddled. With the airlines and massive corporations like GM, Ford etc and such going into bankruptcy; how is it that there was no pressure from these sectors to keep the fuel prices down? I'm seeing layoffs and bankruptcies all around.
Shouldn't the balance in market have prevented such a huge blast in fuel prices? What's going on here?
Disclaimer: The above is a genuine question, and not intended as troll/flamebait in any way.
"Jindal was born in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1971. He graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1987 and went on to attend Brown University where he graduated with honors in biology and public policy. Following his graduation from Brown he attended Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar, having turned down admissions to medical and law schools at both Harvard and Yale."
2) Chubbypanda - The Epicurious Wanderer: Pomegranate Muffins - [Cooking] Dec 16, 2006... My mother thought a pomegranate would make an apropos.... a weak point in the skin where I won't goosh the seeds when I make a breach.... http://www.chubbypanda.com/2006/12/pomegranate-muffins-cooking.html
4) weird, tasty All the vegetable goosh disappeared, as did the rice,..... Which I guess is apropos: this salad is very pretty, very exciting, and a big ol' useless tease.... http://eats-the-holla.livejournal.com/
Hasn't this Digital Home idea been in the making since the early 90's?
Bluetooth was supposed to be key step to aid in this process but has altogether failed.
I can probably see Sony coming out with a solution for this since they do have many products and the expertise.
Plus do we really want everything to be controlled by software? The quote "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization" comes to mind.
...then why fix it?
No seriously, is there something really wrong with the way distro's are released today? Or is this just for Ubuntu to add another check to the "we invented that here" list.
Plus there are the excellent points made in the above post "A lot of buzz" by bsDaemon.
Gentoo or LFS might be taking it a bit too far.
Try Arch Linux, you start off with a base suite and install X, and your favourite window manager/desktop environment on it. No need for lengthy gentoo-ish source compiles or hassle of LFS. Mind you Arch Linux is for i686 and x86_64 only though.
cheers,
There is a non profit organization named reBoot in Canada that takes old machines, cleans them and donates them to various community centers and other non-profit organizations that are in need of computers. This is their website, they have a few locations across the country.
It's a nice place, I did my volunteer hours there. If you have old machines that you need to get rid of, perhaps try here before igniting them or going "Office Space" on them.:P
Last I checked they like it if you have a many systems of the same model, it makes it easier for them to give support for them. If you're a company that needs to get rid of a whole set of machines, I think reBoot can help. Best to call them before though.
cheers,
file_reaper
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Arora might fill your thirst for a lightweight browser, it's opensource, uses Qt for it's UI and Webkit as it's core and has the private browsing, flash blocking etc...
cheers
Soo...you like dinosaur comics yes?
This might be offtopic, but while we're on the topic here, does anyone know of any *afforable* FPGA kits for students?
Our university used the Altera DE2 boards, found here http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/DE2/
I really liked the DE2 because it has a whole lot of peripherals and can be used with Quartus II. I wanted to get one so I could tinker with it in my own time for fun.
Any recommendations for one less than $500~ ?
We were introduced to VHDL in our University's Digital Circuits course.
Most of the above commenter's have mentioned that Verilog is C like, I personally have never used or programmed in Verilog so I can't comment on that.
I did however like VHDL very much, particularly because it was *different* from C, I'm kinda growing tired of C like languages and VHDL was a breath of fresh air. It made FPGA's and the entire course in general a whole lot of fun.
It's strong typed nature was a bit cumbersome at first especially with converting std_logic to std_logic vectors and such because we weren't really shown how to do this or given a syntax/library reference like MSDN or Java's Documentation site.
So I'd say make a good introduction to Entities, Ports and Architectures, explain Process, Signal and Constant statements very well, also particularly highlight the strong typed nature of VHDL.
I think most of your students (such as myself) will not have done any programming in a true strongly typed language before, so this will be bit of a shock, and getting those conversions will be frustrating. (I have been there, Googling really does not help all that much)
I hope your students get as much fun out of that course as I did.
Cheers,
filereaper.
Relating to this, India's going through elections and E-Voting is being used there. We've used a different approach alltogether towards this problem and thought readers might like to read if they're interested. :)
Here's the main article covering the devices used:
http://techaos.blogspot.com/2004/05/indian-evm-compared-with-diebold.html
Here's the /. article covering that:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/1448230&art_pos=5
I for one am constantly launching links in new windows from Firefox's retarded right click menu, it's actually really noticeable when I use Google Chrome...I have to force myself to choose the first menu option when I right click a link.
Hey Mozilla, forget Javascript performance, how about more simple things like making a decent right click menu?
I knew the title of that movie would just bring trouble!
SEE! See how things are turning out?!
This problem has been a huge annoyance, but there is a way around in Arch Linux, there should be similar solutions for other distro's.
For the Arch Linux workaround, nspluginwrapper is used to get around the limitation with a whole bunch of 32bit libs. The full details are on the Arch Linux Wiki.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Flash_on_Arch64
cheers,
The book...not mathematics of concrete as is said in the book...
"When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, not Stone's Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone-Cech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)"
I for one am furious about Lucas not giving any screen time to the Jedi Master Plo-Koon.
I mean COME ON! He's the master of Form V of Lightsaber combat, he has an alternative for Sith Lightning called Electric Judgement and the dude can freaking manipuate weather to aid in combat! But noooooooooooo...we have to see shitty Ki-Adi-Mudi and crappy Shaak-Ti.
What the hell Lucas?! Stop keeping the bad-ass characters in the dark and emo-wimpy ones in the frontlight (aka Obi-Wan)
-One really pissed off Star Wars fan.
I have a 2001 era DVD player hooked up to my 1000W surround sound but it can't play MP3's. I'm in the process of getting a up converting DVD Player. (HD path is too costly for the very occasional movie watching)
Can't the industry come up with ways to update the codec packs for these players? There will most certainly be newer formats with better compression in the future. Why waste an entire player for silly codecs as I am right now?
So hey...how do I fix them CRC Errors? Any good FOSS tool out there?
cheers,
I might be wrong but wasn't it that when Apple was considering buying Be vs NeXT, Be was asking for a much higher price?
BeOS was awesome, I wonder what Apple could have been with Be's stuff in it right now.
cheers,
Bring in another dude with a massive Reality Distortion Field...
I'm rather confused by this whole sudden spike in oil. The news media keeps blaming it on China/India/developing economies. I can't say for China but in India fuel has always been expensive and the cars are built for maximum gas mileage. Plus doubling of oil due to industry is unheard of in just a few months.
Then come the speculators, here's where I'm befuddled. With the airlines and massive corporations like GM, Ford etc and such going into bankruptcy; how is it that there was no pressure from these sectors to keep the fuel prices down? I'm seeing layoffs and bankruptcies all around.
Shouldn't the balance in market have prevented such a huge blast in fuel prices? What's going on here?
Disclaimer: The above is a genuine question, and not intended as troll/flamebait in any way.
Getting this message for all platform downloads at http://www.n-brain.net/updates.htm
0: Connection failed to the host localhost.
Any mirrors available?
cheers,
file_reaper
Surely this computer thingy must be the same as my home computer thingy....it always works when I turn it off and on again.
Sure glad the safety systems kicked in as per normal.
To clarify on your comment; Bobby Jindhal has an Indian ancestry but he is born on American soil.
To quote from Louisiana's official site http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&navID=38&cpID=1&catID=0
"Jindal was born in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1971. He graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1987 and went on to attend Brown University where he graduated with honors in biology and public policy. Following his graduation from Brown he attended Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar, having turned down admissions to medical and law schools at both Harvard and Yale."
cheers.
goosh disagrees...
... ..... I mean I loved barbrasteele, but this is just more apropos. Those beachy melodies make me long for you! ...
... My mother thought a pomegranate would make an apropos .... a weak point in the skin where I won't goosh the seeds when I make a breach. ...
... The half-bottle of Grey Goosh courshing through my liver .... From what Iâ(TM)ve heard of South Beach, the Batman costume would be more apropos. ...
..... Which I guess is apropos: this salad is very pretty, very exciting, and a big ol' useless tease. ...
guest@goosh.org:/web> apropos goosh
1) MySpace.com - JACQUI - 22 - Female - California - www.myspace.com
http://www.myspace.com/goosh
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5991200
2) Chubbypanda - The Epicurious Wanderer: Pomegranate Muffins - [Cooking]
Dec 16, 2006
http://www.chubbypanda.com/2006/12/pomegranate-muffins-cooking.html
3) The Bat Cave - A Feminine Perspective  Innocent Bystanders
Feb 5, 2008
http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-bat-cave-a-feminine-perspective/
4) weird, tasty
All the vegetable goosh disappeared, as did the rice,
http://eats-the-holla.livejournal.com/
Hasn't this Digital Home idea been in the making since the early 90's? Bluetooth was supposed to be key step to aid in this process but has altogether failed. I can probably see Sony coming out with a solution for this since they do have many products and the expertise. Plus do we really want everything to be controlled by software? The quote "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization" comes to mind.
...then why fix it? No seriously, is there something really wrong with the way distro's are released today? Or is this just for Ubuntu to add another check to the "we invented that here" list. Plus there are the excellent points made in the above post "A lot of buzz" by bsDaemon.
Gentoo or LFS might be taking it a bit too far. Try Arch Linux, you start off with a base suite and install X, and your favourite window manager/desktop environment on it. No need for lengthy gentoo-ish source compiles or hassle of LFS. Mind you Arch Linux is for i686 and x86_64 only though. cheers,
There is a non profit organization named reBoot in Canada that takes old machines, cleans them and donates them to various community centers and other non-profit organizations that are in need of computers. This is their website, they have a few locations across the country. It's a nice place, I did my volunteer hours there. If you have old machines that you need to get rid of, perhaps try here before igniting them or going "Office Space" on them. :P
Last I checked they like it if you have a many systems of the same model, it makes it easier for them to give support for them. If you're a company that needs to get rid of a whole set of machines, I think reBoot can help. Best to call them before though.
cheers,
file_reaper