If I post anything about FreeBSD sucking and Linux ruling, I'll get an automatic +1, Insightful, right? Also, for some more karma, I could say Linus is the man and Microsoft sucks, which, on a good night, could yield another +1 or +2, eh? Oh, the fun never ends! This truly is the land of opportunity! ______________________________
Eric Krout
This was posted at Plastic.com several hours ago:-D
But, it is a good story, so let it be. ______________________________
Eric Krout
READ THIS IF YOU WANT THE *REAL* TRUTH
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What is 'IT'?
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· Score: 1
"IT is an Individual Transport device utilizing a rotating electro magnetic field for propulsion. The rotational device is magnetic bearing mounted, thus producing minimal drag. External mag strips may be required; however, it may be done without changing design."
______________________________
Eric Krout
Thousands of Amigans gathered in Cologne Germany to buy the many new poducts on display at the booths or to watch the various presentations of the 20+ attending companies.
I was wondering if anyone knew any URLs of sites selling these fascinating new poducts? I've already got a shakespeareduct and a hemingwayduct, and am looking into buying more!
It involved writing/modifying a timer module for a Microkernel implemented in modula 2, which is written by one of my lectures and is available from here.
So what software do you use (Powerpoint?) to create your lectures that gives them the capability and AI features to create kernels and microkernels? Please reply with the link;-D
"Hey, I just read that IDSA is suing a certain abandonware website. Here's a link to my abandonware website." -- unicron, poster of this article
That's kind of like a drug dealer hearing about another neighborhood drug dealer getting busted, and then sending a news flash article into the local newspaper as himself.
We can't forget that the goal of Transmeta wasn't to create amazingly high speed processors compared to today's standard, but to make comparable (and slightly better) processors for mobile Internet-connected computers (or web slates, laptops, etc.). It's ashame that people are "dissing" the company, so to speak, because the benchmarks (very old-school traditional ones, mind you) don't amaze them. Give Transmeta time, and I think you'll be incredibly pleased at what they produce. After all, working with code-morphing technology is just a bit challenging;-D ______________________________
Eric Krout
As Treasurer of the Bucknell University ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), myself and the other officers help to persuade industry, faculty, and students computer experts or evangelists to (of OOP, OSS, Linux, etc) come to Bucknell to give a presentation. In the past year or so, we've had guests like Dan Quinlan of Transmeta, speaking on the Linux Standards Base, Ralph Droms (inventor of DHCP), a faculty member at Bucknell, John 'Maddog' Hall (Linux International executive director) on the Flexibility of the Linux OS, and many others. Currently, Eric S. Raymond has added us to his mailing list and will probably come Spring semester to talk about his ideals and beliefs when it comes to software.
What are our methods of obtaining guests? First, it helps to have some connections with someone related to the person you'd like a have speak at your school. Second, being at a top-notch college like Bucknell University tends to give some incentive, perhaps, for people to visit. Finally, persistance does pay off occassionally; if there's someone you really want, make sure you remind them via email or vmail every so often that you'd be absolutely delighted to have them grace you with their presence;-D
Read the following passage, and if you still don't feel as though you should care to steer the United States of America toward a better, brighter future by voting for the candidates you agree with most, then I genuinely feel sorry for you.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." ______________________________
Eric Krout
I learned in my introductory college physics course about EMF, and we determined (based on decade-old, proven scientific formulas) that power lines could not possibly cause genetic mutation or reformation of any kind. Therefore, I do not understand why people keep getting caught up in the whole cell phone cancer scare.
The only possible danger of using cell phones is memory loss, as noted in thisWired article. The article describes how scientists have found that radio frequencies have been proven to cause long-term memory loss in rats, and thus may be equally harmful to humans. ______________________________
Eric Krout
Last school year, Bucknell Universitydid block students from using Napster after realizing that the file-sharing program represented at least 40% of all network traffic and resulted in a total saturation of our T-3 at the peak of Napster's popularity here on campus. Since the staff and administrators at Bucknell care a great deal about their students' welfare, they worked hard to provide a legal alternative that didn't saturate our network.
Their final solution was entirely free (i.e. Bucknell paid $0.00); it involved setting up an iBeam server and coordinating with content provider Launch.com so that anyone Bucknellians can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of legal music beamed off of a dish on top of the campus' Computer Center. ______________________________
Eric Krout
Last school year, Bucknell University did block students from using Napster after realizing that the file-sharing program represented at least 40% of all network traffic and resulted in a total saturation of our T-3 at the peak of Napster's popularity here on campus. Since the staff and administrators at Bucknell care a great deal about their students' welfare, they worked hard to provide a legal alternative that didn't saturate our network.
Their final solution was entirely free (i.e. Bucknell paid $0.00); it involved setting up an iBeam server and coordinating with content provider Launch.com so that anyone Bucknellians can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of legal music beamed off of a dish on top of the campus' Computer Center. ______________________________
Eric Krout
I'm wondering why people have stopped hacking the::CueCat:: simply because they received threatening letter from the company. I mean, these kind of empty lame-a** threats are certainly not new. Personally, I think that if a company creates and distributes a product (especially for free!) that is able to be "modified", then it's totally fair game for the OSS community to tinker with it. Any thoughts? ______________________________
Eric Krout
Myself and many others "in the know" realized that Red Hat was heading in a downward spiral every since people starting proclaiming Mandrake's flavor or Linux as "a better Red Hat than Red Hat." Moreover, once we installed and played around with Mandrake, we realized that all the hype that surrounded it truly was deserved. ______________________________
Eric Krout
Sorry, but White Anglo-Saxon
Protestants (WAPs) have done
quite a bit for computing,
and society as a whole.
Perhaps the white boys at/.
should check themselves
before they rig-ity-wreck
themselves.
I've heard from a good deal of (older) computer scientists, engineers, programmers, and students that their English skills have suffered slightly since they began programming, resulting in more spelling/grammer mistakes. Until recently, I thought that it was all nonsense. However, since I now probably spend more time reading code in various programming & scripting languages than I do plain old English, I've started to notice the same effect personally.
Has this happened to anyone else (I'm SURE it has)?
I would strongly recommend using Java if you'd like to write code that is truly portable and can be run on anything from a Palm Pilot, to your toaster, to Windows or Mac's new X OS. Another good reason to use Java is that with the introduction and "rave reviews" given to XML, it's a great way to combine code (Java) and data (XML) portability since both of these languages are seemingly made for one another and work quite nicely together. Good luck!
Slashdot Mirror
If I post anything about FreeBSD sucking and Linux ruling, I'll get an automatic +1, Insightful, right? Also, for some more karma, I could say Linus is the man and Microsoft sucks, which, on a good night, could yield another +1 or +2, eh? Oh, the fun never ends! This truly is the land of opportunity!
______________________________
Eric Krout
This was posted at Plastic.com several hours ago :-D
But, it is a good story, so let it be.
______________________________
Eric Krout
"IT is an Individual Transport device utilizing a rotating electro magnetic field for propulsion. The rotational device is magnetic bearing mounted, thus producing minimal drag. External mag strips may be required; however, it may be done without changing design."
______________________________
Eric Krout
Username: slashdot2000
Password: slashdot2000
Enjoy!
______________________________
Eric Krout
Thousands of Amigans gathered in Cologne Germany to buy the many new poducts on display at the booths or to watch the various presentations of the 20+ attending companies.
I was wondering if anyone knew any URLs of sites selling these fascinating new poducts? I've already got a shakespeareduct and a hemingwayduct, and am looking into buying more!
______________________________
Eric Krout
It involved writing/modifying a timer module for a Microkernel implemented in modula 2, which is written by one of my lectures and is available from here.
;-D
So what software do you use (Powerpoint?) to create your lectures that gives them the capability and AI features to create kernels and microkernels? Please reply with the link
______________________________
Eric Krout
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.gtlinc.c
______________________________
Eric Krout
"Hey, I just read that IDSA is suing a certain abandonware website. Here's a link to my abandonware website." -- unicron, poster of this article
That's kind of like a drug dealer hearing about another neighborhood drug dealer getting busted, and then sending a news flash article into the local newspaper as himself.
______________________________
Eric Krout
We can't forget that the goal of Transmeta wasn't to create amazingly high speed processors compared to today's standard, but to make comparable (and slightly better) processors for mobile Internet-connected computers (or web slates, laptops, etc.). It's ashame that people are "dissing" the company, so to speak, because the benchmarks (very old-school traditional ones, mind you) don't amaze them. Give Transmeta time, and I think you'll be incredibly pleased at what they produce. After all, working with code-morphing technology is just a bit challenging ;-D
______________________________
Eric Krout
As Treasurer of the Bucknell University ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), myself and the other officers help to persuade industry, faculty, and students computer experts or evangelists to (of OOP, OSS, Linux, etc) come to Bucknell to give a presentation. In the past year or so, we've had guests like Dan Quinlan of Transmeta, speaking on the Linux Standards Base, Ralph Droms (inventor of DHCP), a faculty member at Bucknell, John 'Maddog' Hall (Linux International executive director) on the Flexibility of the Linux OS, and many others. Currently, Eric S. Raymond has added us to his mailing list and will probably come Spring semester to talk about his ideals and beliefs when it comes to software.
What are our methods of obtaining guests? First, it helps to have some connections with someone related to the person you'd like a have speak at your school. Second, being at a top-notch college like Bucknell University tends to give some incentive, perhaps, for people to visit. Finally, persistance does pay off occassionally; if there's someone you really want, make sure you remind them via email or vmail every so often that you'd be absolutely delighted to have them grace you with their presence ;-D
Good luck!
______________________________
Eric Krout
Read the following passage, and if you still don't feel as though you should care to steer the United States of America toward a better, brighter future by voting for the candidates you agree with most, then I genuinely feel sorry for you.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
______________________________
Eric Krout
I learned in my introductory college physics course about EMF, and we determined (based on decade-old, proven scientific formulas) that power lines could not possibly cause genetic mutation or reformation of any kind. Therefore, I do not understand why people keep getting caught up in the whole cell phone cancer scare.
The only possible danger of using cell phones is memory loss, as noted in this Wired article. The article describes how scientists have found that radio frequencies have been proven to cause long-term memory loss in rats, and thus may be equally harmful to humans.
______________________________
Eric Krout
I've setup a lightning fast mirror @ the following URL: http://EKrout.Resnet.Bucknell.edu/i nde x.html. Enjoy!
______________________________
Eric Krout
Last school year, Bucknell University did block students from using Napster after realizing that the file-sharing program represented at least 40% of all network traffic and resulted in a total saturation of our T-3 at the peak of Napster's popularity here on campus. Since the staff and administrators at Bucknell care a great deal about their students' welfare, they worked hard to provide a legal alternative that didn't saturate our network.
Their final solution was entirely free (i.e. Bucknell paid $0.00); it involved setting up an iBeam server and coordinating with content provider Launch.com so that anyone Bucknellians can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of legal music beamed off of a dish on top of the campus' Computer Center.
______________________________
Eric Krout
Last school year, Bucknell University did block students from using Napster after realizing that the file-sharing program represented at least 40% of all network traffic and resulted in a total saturation of our T-3 at the peak of Napster's popularity here on campus. Since the staff and administrators at Bucknell care a great deal about their students' welfare, they worked hard to provide a legal alternative that didn't saturate our network.
Their final solution was entirely free (i.e. Bucknell paid $0.00); it involved setting up an iBeam server and coordinating with content provider Launch.com so that anyone Bucknellians can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of legal music beamed off of a dish on top of the campus' Computer Center.
______________________________
Eric Krout
I'm wondering why people have stopped hacking the ::CueCat:: simply because they received threatening letter from the company. I mean, these kind of empty lame-a** threats are certainly not new. Personally, I think that if a company creates and distributes a product (especially for free!) that is able to be "modified", then it's totally fair game for the OSS community to tinker with it. Any thoughts?
______________________________
Eric Krout
Myself and many others "in the know" realized that Red Hat was heading in a downward spiral every since people starting proclaiming Mandrake's flavor or Linux as "a better Red Hat than Red Hat." Moreover, once we installed and played around with Mandrake, we realized that all the hype that surrounded it truly was deserved.
______________________________
Eric Krout
Sorry, but White Anglo-Saxon /.
Protestants (WAPs) have done
quite a bit for computing,
and society as a whole.
Perhaps the white boys at
should check themselves
before they rig-ity-wreck
themselves.
______________________________
Eric Krout
I've heard from a good deal of (older) computer scientists, engineers, programmers, and students that their English skills have suffered slightly since they began programming, resulting in more spelling/grammer mistakes. Until recently, I thought that it was all nonsense. However, since I now probably spend more time reading code in various programming & scripting languages than I do plain old English, I've started to notice the same effect personally. Has this happened to anyone else (I'm SURE it has)?
I would strongly recommend using Java if you'd like to write code that is truly portable and can be run on anything from a Palm Pilot, to your toaster, to Windows or Mac's new X OS. Another good reason to use Java is that with the introduction and "rave reviews" given to XML, it's a great way to combine code (Java) and data (XML) portability since both of these languages are seemingly made for one another and work quite nicely together. Good luck!
We are an omnipotent superpower. Go USA!
Seriously, I think this is a great idea. I would personally love to figure out how this engine works and play around with it.