Half of my engineers just switched to Linux plus StarOffice for their day-to-day communications. So far, so good. If these emulators get good enough to run OrCAD, Modelsim, and the FPGA development packages, then we can lose Windows completely from our R&D operation.
Modelsim runs on Linux currently (as does synopsys design compiler and some back end layout tools). I reckon all EDA tools will soon run on linux, most of them already do anyway. The only problem with using PCs for serious EDA work is the limited amount of RAM you can install (4GB). We have a few linux boxes with 4GB of ram and even then, a single process is limited to 3GB - sometimes that's just not enough. For serious synthesis jobs we still have to run on a 64bit HP machine with 8GB of RAM.
Is is Carbon Monoxide ( CO ) that is not produced by alcohol, and it is CO that creates the greenhouse effect.
However, from you formula, neither does regular fuel. Whats wrong?
CO (and NOx) are produced because of the high temperatures and pressures inside an internal combustion engine. I'm pretty sure you'd get both of these with when running on alcohol or gasoline. CO is produced when there is insufficient oxygen, and NOx come from oxidation of the nitrogen in the incoming air.
If you burnt some gasoline in a dish, you'd get very little CO and NOx, just CO2 and water. Same goes for alcohol.
however it is slowing down by some "mysterious" force
I read in this weeks New Scientist mag about this. Apparently it is 400,000km nearer to earth than it should be. I believe the doppler shift of its return signal is used to calculate its speed, and hence its distance
This shortfall in distance might suggest that gravity doesn't obey the inverse square law at large distances. If this is true, it might be a reason for the anomalous motions of galaxies, and the speculation about the existance of dark matter.
It has correctly found my win95 (way back on my p75 in '96), win98, win2k and winxp partitions on various computers over the years.
Finding the partitions is not the problem. The problem is shrinking and existing windows partition that takes up the whole disk. Most times you need to back up the partition, repartition the disk, restore the backup etc.
Personally, I don't care if I have 2000 binaries in/usr/bin. All I care about is that the programs work, and I sure don't want a monster PATH variable, or have to worry about 2000 symlinks in/usr/bin.
What do people have against package managers? I have no problem with RPMs. I don't want to fiddle with my system, I just want to use it to do work.
Better still, we could work closer to where we live, i.e. work at home. Lots of people spend nearly all day in a cube, sat in front of a computer. I can do that just as easily at home.
Try reading the article - it refers to the Millennium Bridge in Gateshead (NE England), NOT the wobbly one in London.
OK, I admit it, I didn't read the article! I didn't actually think that there would be two bridges in the UK with the same name.
I remember some program on the telly about the Gatehead millenium bridge. Don't they actually 'squeeze' the whole bridge lengthways with huge hydraulic rams to make the thing tilt?
The disorientation people feel when using things like 3D interfaces is nothing more than the shock of literally seeing things in a different way. It is not indicative of anything inherent in the interface itself.
Yes it is. The dizzyness is caused by your eyes seeing movement, but the balance organs in your ears begin unable to detect it. Basically, it confuses your brain. Faster framerates tend to make things worse because the visual impression of movement is stronger
I looked through the change log, and found no mention of the NFS locking bug that you get when your home directory is an NFS mount (which is of course, a common setup on a company network).
Does anyone know if this is fixed? It's such a basic problem that I can't believe it's been in there since version 0.8 or something. It wouldn't be so bad if evolution allowed you to specify where to put your mail store, but no, it doesn't.
I bet this single problem alone prevents very many people from using it.
I believe minidiscs work like this. Someone's bound to correct me if i'm wrong.
To write, the laser heats a very small spot on the disc (to above the Curie point), and the magnetic head magnetises the spot in the required orientation. The use of the laser allows a much smaller spot on the disc to be targetted than with the magnetic head alone.
Reading is done without the laser, just the magnetic head in a manner similar to a hard disc.
I wouldn't say carbon exists *as* a metal, but agree that is does have metallic qualities.
Actually carbon is more of a semiconductor - if you look at the periodic table it is in the same column ('group'?) as Silicon and Germanium, and is why it has semi-conductor properties.
I'm running 2.4.11 so I just downloaded the 2.4.12 patch and attempted to apply it.
Well, the patch wouldn't apply properly (some crap about a file already existing in/tmp), but using the --dry-run command it seemed fine.
Sooo, I deleted my/usr/src/linux symlink, and tried to 'mv linux-2.4.11 linux' to see if that would allow me to apply the patch. Well, thats the first time i've seen the 'mv' command segfault! Machine then locked solid. Is this a manifestation of the symlink bug?
After rebooting, fsck went mad, but I seem to have a working system again. Watch out!
I read the new scientist article about this. It's even worse than you say. As well as different power sockets, the voltage is different.
And drinking water - the americans use silver ions to keep it pure, but the russians use iodine. Accidentally mix the two and you get a precipitate of silver iodide, which can clog filters and valves.
Unfortunetally, that analogy about Ford wrenches is not entirely accurate. My friend is a Nissan mechanic. On Nissans, for example, some models require a custom Nissan tool to remove/adjust brakes. So, at least some auto manufacturers are going proprietary with their tools as well.
Yes, but Nissan aren't preventing anyone else from making a tool that will adjust Nissan brakes.
An OS only needs to provide a library of function calls to applications to control the basic features of the hardware it's running on. It's got nothing to do with GUIs, command lines etc. These are all just applications running on the OS.
Lots of appliances have OS's in them. eg. mobile phones, video recorders, digi cameras etc.
I reckon a simple program like a monitor/debugger could be classed as an operating system. It would have some sort of command input, and let you control and observe the behaviour of the system.
I doubt if anything as complex as this could have run on a vacuum tube machine though.
Why develop on Windows? Well maybe because the vast majority of potential customers will want windows programs, no matter how hard it sucks. If you write stuff for money, develop on Windows, if you do it for fun, it can only be *nix.
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Modelsim runs on Linux currently (as does synopsys design compiler and some back end layout tools). I reckon all EDA tools will soon run on linux, most of them already do anyway. The only problem with using PCs for serious EDA work is the limited amount of RAM you can install (4GB). We have a few linux boxes with 4GB of ram and even then, a single process is limited to 3GB - sometimes that's just not enough. For serious synthesis jobs we still have to run on a 64bit HP machine with 8GB of RAM.
However, from you formula, neither does regular fuel. Whats wrong?
CO (and NOx) are produced because of the high temperatures and pressures inside an internal combustion engine. I'm pretty sure you'd get both of these with when running on alcohol or gasoline. CO is produced when there is insufficient oxygen, and NOx come from oxidation of the nitrogen in the incoming air.
If you burnt some gasoline in a dish, you'd get very little CO and NOx, just CO2 and water. Same goes for alcohol.
Jeff
however it is slowing down by some "mysterious" force
I read in this weeks New Scientist mag about this. Apparently it is 400,000km nearer to earth than it should be. I believe the doppler shift of its return signal is used to calculate its speed, and hence its distance
This shortfall in distance might suggest that gravity doesn't obey the inverse square law at large distances. If this is true, it might be a reason for the anomalous motions of galaxies, and the speculation about the existance of dark matter.
Jeff
Finding the partitions is not the problem. The problem is shrinking and existing windows partition that takes up the whole disk. Most times you need to back up the partition, repartition the disk, restore the backup etc.
Too much trouble for most average users.
Jeff
Offtopic I know, but:
If the friend/foe system worked as I think it
should, then I could still browse at -1 but
have all my foes disappear because I've given them a -6 bias.
Why doesn't it work like this?
Jeff
Personally, I don't care if I have 2000 binaries in /usr/bin. All I care about is that the programs work, and I sure don't want a monster PATH variable, or have to worry about 2000 symlinks in /usr/bin.
What do people have against package managers? I have no problem with RPMs. I don't want to fiddle with my system, I just want to use it to do work.
Jeff
Better still, we could work closer to where we live, i.e. work at home. Lots of people spend nearly all day in a cube, sat in front of a computer. I can do that just as easily at home.
Jeff
OK, I admit it, I didn't read the article! I didn't actually think that there would be two bridges in the UK with the same name.
I remember some program on the telly about the Gatehead millenium bridge. Don't they actually 'squeeze' the whole bridge lengthways with huge hydraulic rams to make the thing tilt?
Jeff
Jeff
Yes it is. The dizzyness is caused by your eyes seeing movement, but the balance organs in your ears begin unable to detect it. Basically, it confuses your brain. Faster framerates tend to make things worse because the visual impression of movement is stronger
Jeff
Too bad it doesn't display newsgroups like netscape mail or mozilla or outlook express. This means I have to run two apps instead of one, sigh!
Jeff
I looked through the change log, and found no mention of the NFS locking bug that you get when your home directory is an NFS mount (which is of course, a common setup on a company network).
Does anyone know if this is fixed? It's such a basic problem that I can't believe it's been in there since version 0.8 or something. It wouldn't be so bad if evolution allowed you to specify where to put your mail store, but no, it doesn't.
I bet this single problem alone prevents very many people from using it.
Jeff
You can read the thing with a magnetic head.
I believe minidiscs work like this. Someone's bound to correct me if i'm wrong.
To write, the laser heats a very small spot on the disc (to above the Curie point), and the magnetic head magnetises the spot in the required orientation. The use of the laser allows a much smaller spot on the disc to be targetted than with the magnetic head alone.
Reading is done without the laser, just the magnetic head in a manner similar to a hard disc.
Jeff
I wouldn't say carbon exists *as* a metal, but agree that is does have metallic qualities.
Actually carbon is more of a semiconductor - if you look at the periodic table it is in the same column ('group'?) as Silicon and Germanium, and is why it has semi-conductor properties.
Jeff
Im using a pretty recent Konqueror (2.1.1), and the minus was missing from the new scientist article, but visible in the posts here.
Jeff
I'm running 2.4.11 so I just downloaded the 2.4.12 patch and attempted to apply it.
/tmp), but using the --dry-run command it seemed fine.
/usr/src/linux symlink, and tried to 'mv linux-2.4.11 linux' to see if that would allow me to apply the patch. Well, thats the first time i've seen the 'mv' command segfault! Machine then locked solid. Is this a manifestation of the symlink bug?
Well, the patch wouldn't apply properly (some crap about a file already existing in
Sooo, I deleted my
After rebooting, fsck went mad, but I seem to have a working system again. Watch out!
Jeff
No it wouldn't make sense. What if the driver is sober, but he is transporting his drunken friends home from the pub?
Jeff
And drinking water - the americans use silver ions to keep it pure, but the russians use iodine. Accidentally mix the two and you get a precipitate of silver iodide, which can clog filters and valves.
Jeff
Yes, but Nissan aren't preventing anyone else from making a tool that will adjust Nissan brakes.
Jeff
Lots of appliances have OS's in them. eg. mobile phones, video recorders, digi cameras etc.
Jeff
I doubt if anything as complex as this could have run on a vacuum tube machine though.
Jeff
On the + side you get oxygen. On the - side, you get hydrogen. Burn the hydrogen, and you get presto chango... Water.
OK, what's the point of using your electricity from solar cells to break down water, and then burn the stuff again?
Why not just use the electricity directly?
Jeff
See this link to read how microbes survived on the moon after a lunar missions.
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