HearHear! I'll take it over a lead role in the cage any day. I'm quakin' in my boots about what the computer industry's going to be like in ten years. Scary.
I wouldn't mind paying $40 a pop for DVD's with MP3's on them. (Or more.) I can't stand paying $17 for a cd, when I can buy a DVD for 6.99 at bestbuy. If the cd's that cheap, I'll think about it. I know it's about 10cents to make a CD. And I'm a musician, so I know how poor the average musician is. And some of these *artists* wouldn't know a scale if it slapped them in the ass...But then again, they don't get much of the $17 dollars anyway.
I use an AS 500 running GNU/Debian every day. It's twin sits outside for general use. Another Alpha, an AS250 is running headless in the corner, printserving and doing some network stuff. (Also Debian.) These three computers have NEVER been shut off since I installed Linux on them, except to move them physically.
I can't say I miss them, cuz they're still here! DEC (Sorry, they perfer to be called Digital Equipment Corperation or Digital I think.) really did they're job too well in developing these guys.
However, HP's being smart. Since the research is being done with other architechtures, it's best to follow suite.
I fell in love with these boxes upon the first boot...Having "more" and "cat" in the bios just rocked my world. I wish others would have taken the hint!
This really is the best way. Keeping it simple (stupid) would be the best path to follow for secure code. But then there'd be nothing to spurn the market to switch up to the latest Intel Chips and the newer software to run on the latest chips and the latest gizmos which need the newest software and the latest chips to run and...Oh, we were talking about slowing the spread of Virii. Seems this does apply.
Of course, there's my solutions to slowing the spread of virii: (All should help. Any can be done.)
switch to GNU/Linux. (Put on flame-retardant suite *now*.)
Instruct users on the use of the "delete" key.
Instruct users why it's not a good idea to use a GUI email programs.
Instruct users into the ease of tracking your behaviors online and that little number called your IP, which is very easy to find.
Instruct users how to patch their Windows Boxen, to disable services which shouldn't be enabled and patch their Explorer/Outlook/AND Offices. (Oh, never mind... Windows is already more secure than ever.:) )
Explain why it's not *good* to click on every popup add that you see.
Educate lusers to make them into users. (BOFH cameo.)
THEN, reassess the situation and begin implimenting fixes like making the OS and Hardware more impervious to virii.
Sorry guys, but alot can be done with the existing stuff. Even though it hasn't been made *simple* or in a lazy manner (read, easiest way), its what we have to work with. One well written piece of paper circulated to 500 people can come a long way in upgrading the user's brainware. Its eaisier than convincing M$ (and others) to rewrite code. Lets see what happens then.
You don't exist. Go away. (Trying to ssh under an invalid username. I did NOT need it when it came up. I didn't touch a computer for about an hour after.)
Something Wicked happened while trying to resolve...(I love debian. I don't think this happens anymore with apt-get, but it was funny.)
I didn't buy it. I just tried to salvage the situation. I finally convinced him that he'd not saved any money by buying that crap and we had to get a new motherboard/vid/lan for the computer.
Keep in mind that when this class of boards came out, the reviews were probably fantastic. I was asking for a second opinion.:)
People actually use these things?!? I've had some of the worst experiences with computers on integrated motherboards. (PC-Chips, 748 (or something.) ("Highly Integrated" video, lan, modem, sound, atx-riser expansion, Socket 370 or slot 1, partridge-in-a-pear-tree-adaptor.) (The ram fell out of the socket if you tapped the case. Wouldn't boot the same way twice. Ran win2k for all of 30 minutes, then core dumped.)
Are these really, "honestly" any good now?
-=fshalor
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The thing that sent shivers across my keyboard was that this was discovered the day before Field Day. Maybe I'm just still recovering from pulling an all-nighter for the good of the air waves, but man this is wierd. It will be interesting to see if any stations got AO-7, considering there were probably more people trying to work sat operations this weekend than in the last several months. Also, didn't we just have a "near miss" with an asteroid? The plot thickens...73 de kg4dxh
Here goes, in order of when I used them. Pain index is on a scale from 0-499, 500 being sheer, Hell's Chicken Agony.:) Just for reference: PI of Windows 2000 is about 94.
2.4.0 : PI=30 : Nice, stable, quick. Ran it for a while.
2.4.2 : PI=68.7 : Had a few issues, USB didn't seem to work right.
2.4.6 : PI=246.246246246 : ACK WHAT the F***?!? Where's the Keyboard??
2.4.5 : PI=20 : Don't leave home without it. This kernel's saved my butt about 6 times.
2.4.9 : PI=20+2^t, t(days)=[1,2,3,...] : I lost count of the reboot cycles due to my video ram being corrupted. NVIDIA Geforce2 and 2.4.9 don't like each other too well. Also, this really needed some preemption help. I had to ssh into my box about 4 times in one day to kill X and reset (or try).
2.4.17 : PI=3 : S. O. L. I. D. {for now} all seems well thus far. I'll go to 2.4.18 in about three months of uptime. Complaint: no NVIDIA kernel option. Solution: Switch to ATI. Pending.
Cool, I just watched the trailer in a window in windows in a window in vmware. Frame. By. Slow. Frame. At 1 frame per second. Who said this was short? Heck, it took the queen 20 seconds to say one word. Now that's cool. Anyhow, did anyone spot any balance issues on the part of the cast. (Like the one on epI where Darth Mal nearly falls on his own into the reactor core after they get through the laser walls.)
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I was a bit supprised at the smallish arrows in figure 9, (these led back to the trusted lieutenents and Linus.)
Considering the shere volumes of emails these guys get...
1. We're NOT in a war against Islam.
2. If we think we're in a war against Islam, then we have lost.
3. We are in a war against Microsoft and almost all that she stands for.
4. This would be a major blow in the final battle of that war.
5. Any "linux" based application/hardware that takes even a miniscule share in any market is worth the time spent to develop it, as long as it's intentions are pure.
6. Without inventions like these (when can I get mine?) we regress into nothing.
7. (and last one.) The souls of the victims of every war and conflict in history would like you to get your information straight. And would like us to get on with our lives.
No one can tell anyone else who they don't know how to get on with our lives. I'm not telling you to get over it, am I?
And to struggle for that on-topic (1), think about the heat issue, folks. These cards have got to be smokkin'
And this follows nasa releasing this stuff s little while ago.
Are these guys (JPL and NASA) trying to get us to do their jobs for them? (By what else...sending pigs to mars! Pun intended.) Or is this just them clearing out old stuff to make way for new stuff.
My bet is their magnetic tape media is getting unstable and they're too ashamed to admit it. Their sending it out to the world to let us mirror is in lots of places, under the allusion that it's actually worth something.
It would be interesting though, to spend some time checking through these programs and tutorials to see if problems which led to the Challanger disater are apparent. Freynman said that the software development at JPL and NASA was tops, but he was comparing it to other parts of the organizations which were using orings for expansion joints which were designed as compression fittings. And other such problems.
-=fshalor
Hey, atleast we didn't have to fight for it this time.
No illegal code for people to wear on shirts...
No annoying hassels between Ac3 and dts...(why the hell doesn't sound work...why the hell can I get sound, but the video is only half decoded...)
Of course, this means that the chances of success are asimtonically close to n.
Not much is wrong. I would hate to be in that research group right now. Can you imagine how something like this can effect your career options?
In research, there is a fine line to walk. You have to balance what you say and hold back so that the "discovery" remains yours and you also remain "open and communicative" to the world. It's tough.
It hurts to see this happen to a group as prestigious as this. Groups else where will hold back findings as a result of this occurance.
-=fshalor
Here at my university, the CS degree says CIS on the diploma. Much to the annoyance of the cs majors who care about such things. And reguardless of the fact that the college has been trying to change the diploma for years, it remains the same; they take what is a traditional cs corse regiment and get a piece of paper with cis all over it.
That aside, and since I'm an engineering major, I would ask three questions with the courses and discriptions right infront of me.
1. Which is more vigerous for you personally.
2. Which is eaisier to adapt to what you eventually want to do or will give you more options for finding that out.
3. Which set of professors are you more comfortable with. (You'll probably have to make some appointments and actually talk to these people.)
Talking to these professors can answer the cis vs cs payscale issue too, if that's what interests you.
goodluck, -=fshalor
Anyone ever heard of a packet BBS? A computer with a TNC (terminal node controler, radio modem) and an HF radio which accepts logins from other similarly equiped computers. (sure, limited to about 300kilobauds, but change this up with a more expensive microwave setup, with less lower I might add, and directional antenna and you have a less traceable signal and over 19.2 kbps) If you arange via usenet group with codes for transition times and frequencies, you can run for a long time. Piggeback a carrier with the subversive informaiton under a legit and legal packet transmission (hi, how are you, how are the kids...) and you have a pretty effecient transmission system. Saves on the phone bills too.
But why? Honestly folks, as tyranical as our society in the states seems at times, breaking the laws gives CREDINCE to those laws. (If you're found out.) Electronic meduim regulation is about to do some changing. The cat is out of the bag (and I don't mean the RS gimick-mouse) E-{stuff} has changed the way we live.
The system will change. If it doesn't, it will be destroyed in time. But not by subversive software.
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I wouldn't mind paying $40 a pop for DVD's with MP3's on them. (Or more.) I can't stand paying $17 for a cd, when I can buy a DVD for 6.99 at bestbuy. If the cd's that cheap, I'll think about it. I know it's about 10cents to make a CD. And I'm a musician, so I know how poor the average musician is. And some of these *artists* wouldn't know a scale if it slapped them in the ass...But then again, they don't get much of the $17 dollars anyway.
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I can't say I miss them, cuz they're still here! DEC (Sorry, they perfer to be called Digital Equipment Corperation or Digital I think.) really did they're job too well in developing these guys.
However, HP's being smart. Since the research is being done with other architechtures, it's best to follow suite.
I fell in love with these boxes upon the first boot...Having "more" and "cat" in the bios just rocked my world. I wish others would have taken the hint!
By the way. One of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world uses linuxBios. Just thought I'd mention that. :)
Of course, there's my solutions to slowing the spread of virii: (All should help. Any can be done.)
Sorry guys, but alot can be done with the existing stuff. Even though it hasn't been made *simple* or in a lazy manner (read, easiest way), its what we have to work with. One well written piece of paper circulated to 500 people can come a long way in upgrading the user's brainware. Its eaisier than convincing M$ (and others) to rewrite code. Lets see what happens then.
How hard would it be to adapt Scanrand to do state-less packet inspection. Like on a router? This could be the "profit" point to the argument.
It must have been M$...
Oh, sorry, just kidding. I meant IBM. I could see them letting this thing run. The're smart enough to figure out if it's really gonna hurt them.
Any word on whether the're also playing nice about which sites are displayed first?
Keep in mind that when this class of boards came out, the reviews were probably fantastic. I was asking for a second opinion. :)
I'd say asking is valid.
At least we'll actually get a say. I hate M$'s rhetorical catch phrase. "Where do you want to go today?"
-=fshalor
Are these really, "honestly" any good now?
-=fshalor
Enders Game. Orson Scott Card. Nuff said...
The thing that sent shivers across my keyboard was that this was discovered the day before Field Day. Maybe I'm just still recovering from pulling an all-nighter for the good of the air waves, but man this is wierd. It will be interesting to see if any stations got AO-7, considering there were probably more people trying to work sat operations this weekend than in the last several months. Also, didn't we just have a "near miss" with an asteroid? The plot thickens...73 de kg4dxh
This is a bad sign for many. A sad day at best. And a cold morning looks to us from the morrow.
Just my (22/7)x10^-1 cents.
Cool, I just watched the trailer in a window in windows in a window in vmware. Frame. By. Slow. Frame. At 1 frame per second. Who said this was short? Heck, it took the queen 20 seconds to say one word. Now that's cool. Anyhow, did anyone spot any balance issues on the part of the cast. (Like the one on epI where Darth Mal nearly falls on his own into the reactor core after they get through the laser walls.)
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I was a bit supprised at the smallish arrows in figure 9, (these led back to the trusted lieutenents and Linus.)
Considering the shere volumes of emails these guys get...
I think I'll stop here. I could go on for a while. These can all be justified.
1. We're NOT in a war against Islam.
2. If we think we're in a war against Islam, then we have lost.
3. We are in a war against Microsoft and almost all that she stands for.
4. This would be a major blow in the final battle of that war.
5. Any "linux" based application/hardware that takes even a miniscule share in any market is worth the time spent to develop it, as long as it's intentions are pure.
6. Without inventions like these (when can I get mine?) we regress into nothing.
7. (and last one.) The souls of the victims of every war and conflict in history would like you to get your information straight. And would like us to get on with our lives.
No one can tell anyone else who they don't know how to get on with our lives. I'm not telling you to get over it, am I?
And to struggle for that on-topic (1), think about the heat issue, folks. These cards have got to be smokkin'
-=fshalor
And this follows nasa releasing this stuff s little while ago. Are these guys (JPL and NASA) trying to get us to do their jobs for them? (By what else...sending pigs to mars! Pun intended.) Or is this just them clearing out old stuff to make way for new stuff. My bet is their magnetic tape media is getting unstable and they're too ashamed to admit it. Their sending it out to the world to let us mirror is in lots of places, under the allusion that it's actually worth something. It would be interesting though, to spend some time checking through these programs and tutorials to see if problems which led to the Challanger disater are apparent. Freynman said that the software development at JPL and NASA was tops, but he was comparing it to other parts of the organizations which were using orings for expansion joints which were designed as compression fittings. And other such problems. -=fshalor
Hey, atleast we didn't have to fight for it this time.
No illegal code for people to wear on shirts...
No annoying hassels between Ac3 and dts...(why the hell doesn't sound work...why the hell can I get sound, but the video is only half decoded...)
Of course, this means that the chances of success are asimtonically close to n.
Where "n" is a low number.
-=fshalor
Not much is wrong. I would hate to be in that research group right now. Can you imagine how something like this can effect your career options? In research, there is a fine line to walk. You have to balance what you say and hold back so that the "discovery" remains yours and you also remain "open and communicative" to the world. It's tough. It hurts to see this happen to a group as prestigious as this. Groups else where will hold back findings as a result of this occurance. -=fshalor
Here at my university, the CS degree says CIS on the diploma. Much to the annoyance of the cs majors who care about such things. And reguardless of the fact that the college has been trying to change the diploma for years, it remains the same; they take what is a traditional cs corse regiment and get a piece of paper with cis all over it. That aside, and since I'm an engineering major, I would ask three questions with the courses and discriptions right infront of me. 1. Which is more vigerous for you personally. 2. Which is eaisier to adapt to what you eventually want to do or will give you more options for finding that out. 3. Which set of professors are you more comfortable with. (You'll probably have to make some appointments and actually talk to these people.) Talking to these professors can answer the cis vs cs payscale issue too, if that's what interests you. goodluck, -=fshalor
Anyone ever heard of a packet BBS? A computer with a TNC (terminal node controler, radio modem) and an HF radio which accepts logins from other similarly equiped computers. (sure, limited to about 300kilobauds, but change this up with a more expensive microwave setup, with less lower I might add, and directional antenna and you have a less traceable signal and over 19.2 kbps) If you arange via usenet group with codes for transition times and frequencies, you can run for a long time. Piggeback a carrier with the subversive informaiton under a legit and legal packet transmission (hi, how are you, how are the kids...) and you have a pretty effecient transmission system. Saves on the phone bills too. But why? Honestly folks, as tyranical as our society in the states seems at times, breaking the laws gives CREDINCE to those laws. (If you're found out.) Electronic meduim regulation is about to do some changing. The cat is out of the bag (and I don't mean the RS gimick-mouse) E-{stuff} has changed the way we live. The system will change. If it doesn't, it will be destroyed in time. But not by subversive software.