I thought of several rejoinders to the comment about a four-year old. Something along the lines of X years of slashdot, and yet to create a troll with the intelligence of a four-year old.
Then I thought a better approach, is how many thousands of years has it taken to develop computational devices to the point they are now? Yes, the last 50 years has seen the process accelerating, but that doesn't mean it hasn't taken longer.
In many ways we are still at the abacus level of AI.
Yes, however, in the example of UC-Davis, the state contributions to the school account for approx 12% of the budget last I heard when I was working for the annual fund back in 1994. At that time student fees were approximately 5%, the rest came from donations, endowments, licensing of UC-Davis "inventions" and other initiatives such as the annual fund I was working for. I got disgusted with working for the annual fund, becasue it meant calling parents of students begging for donations.
Anyways, how about you get 12% of the donation? About enough to cover the sales tax...
Interesting. I am looking at building a semi-low cost machine in the near future, keeping case (but not PS), hard drives, burner, and sound card from my current machine. I was debating between ATI 8500 and Geforce Ti 4200, and finally settled on the Geforce because NVIDIA offers support for Linux/XFree, where as ATI, per contact with their sales/marketing has stated they have NO plans to offer anything similiar. One person went so far to ask why in the world would I WANT hardware 3d support on Linux.
I personally use a Panasonic portable CD player that will playback cd's with MP3's on them. With 700 megs per CD, and about 6 hours on two double AA's, it has proved portable and economical. If I want to listen to a new song a friend has on CD, I can do so without having to encode it.
I have been using mkisofs/cdrecord to burn cd's at home while at work for a while now. Just need to call my wife and ask her to put in a new CD. My kids have even got to the point they know when the CD pops out, time to put in another blank.
Actually ctrl-c, ctrl-v doesn't work in all windows apps, unless the programmer of the app sets it up to work. Same with the Linux clipboard, the apps are where the implementation matters, NOT the window manager.
This isn't exactly new to Earthlink either. Several of the ISPs they purchased have been offering similiar products for a couple of years. Such as the "wireless" T1 that jps.net offered.
On one server I regularly do development on, it is a Duron 800, but a quick and dirty of the following turnd up 10 instances of bash running. Either in scripts that are running in the background, or active users. Each one taking up some space in RAM. 4 of them are runninng scripts that are there to restart muds if they crash, and they will stay resident until the mud is shutdown. This is just one relatively small server with a few muds hosted on it. If ash or a true bourne shell would do a better job in less, you know what I say we need it.
I do not own the server, but I pay to host a MUD off of it.
However, before you go saying to use tcsh, or csh, they seem to use more memory than bash.
Also the size of the binary does not always equal the size of the memory it takes up. The executable for the mud is 2.1 megs, but when it loads all of the related files takes up about 12 megs of RAM.
Retail processors do come with heatsinks already attached, but they have still been known to come off.
Second, over clocking is NOT looked on favorably by any processory manufacturer, at least not officially. Including a larger heatsink/fan for overclocking would be condoning overclocking.
1988: Apple started shipped the Apple//gs, which was not in the Mac family, but did have sound out. The g was supposed to be for graphics, and the s for sound.
I think you can go back even further, to soldiers lobbing body parts of leprosy, plague victims, and enemy dead during sieges. Now that goes back a LONG ways.
You probably signed a contract stating that you must consent to all necessary searches. (These are common in contracts for workers in critical government facilities as part of your standard security agreements.)
Heck, many non-government jobs have them as a standard of employment. My current employer does have such a policy, and I work for a ISP, working with PTP and Frame circuits.
Previous jobs that have had similiar policies where I have worked. Actually come to think of it EVERY place I have worked has had such a policy. Look at your employee manual.
Staples
Super Saver (Albertson's Warehouse Store)
GenCo (recoupment warehouse)
Lamson & Sessions (poly fabrication)
University of California, Davis Campus
Blue Shield of California
Unocal (Part of Union 76 Petroleum companies)
If it is illegal, a lot of employers seem to do it. Now I have not had the policy exercised, but the employee manual did include it. It was something along the lines of: "In order to protect our valuable resources of the company, we reserve the right to search all personal belongings on company premises, including bags, purses, pockets, desks, cars in the company parking lot, breakrooms, and any other place related to your place of work."
I am not quoting exactly, but you get the idea. Now, working for the Federal Government, in a time during which we are at WAR, and in a facility that potentially could be handling potential biological weapons, I would say, "Get the heck over it." Other Federal employees are getting more personal searches. You know the Postal workers with the swabs up their noses? You are complaining about a daily search of your bag going in and out of a facility handling biologicals? Get some perspective here.
Btw, did you bother to RTFM? In this case your employee manual before asking slashdot.
For those with puritan sensibilities that is Read The Forgotten Manual.
Federal Employees have long enjoyed many "perks" that those of us in the private sector have not. For example it is next to impossible to fire a civil servant.
Back in the late 1980's Apple was afraid of anti-trust suit because the had hardware, OS, and at that time the most popular "Office" suite for their platform.
They spun off Claris and gave Claris the office suite. It had been called AppleWorks, then ClarisWorks.
Eventually after MS gained dominance in the Word processor market on the Mac, Apple bought Claris back, and rename the product back to Appleworks.
Have you read the windows README? It is quite a long list.
In addition there is the windows hardware.txt, and so on. Each of them basically coming down to if we didn't manufacture it, we can't guarantee it, and we don't even guarantee what we make.
I run a online game, and had a domain registered for it, until a company claimed I was infringing on their trademark and wanted the domain.
Well fighting them I thought would be too expensive so let them have it for their nickel. (They paid to transfer it). They are now out of business and a couple of squatters picked it up.
They want $2500 for the domain name. Excuse me?
The game I run is covered under the Diku MUD License, Merc License, and RoM MUD license. It is fun, but not worth $2500.
(btw, for those who don't know, those licenses expressly forbid profiting from running the game based on them)
Actually a lot of things I have seen indicate that Linux may be slightly ahead of Mac.
A lot of the pro-Mac numbers talk about "total Macs" sold since 1984. Well, I can tell you that probably at least half of those are not gaming machines, and that is just my own idea of seeing them, minus about half to keept it a safe figure.
On desktop, they are probably slightly ahead. But overall, I am not so sure.
I work with PTP circuits everyday all day long. I know of one guy who is paying well within their budget for a much longer loop.
Currently in the US Worldcomm is waiving setup, they may do so in Canada as well, but I just priced an approx 120 mile T1, and the loop fees were only $670/month with 1 year contract. (Downtown Sac to North Shore Tahoe). The link up at the other end with a major ISP was $500/month.
With a $120,000 budget, even Canadian this should be doable.
Yes, a lot of things go through that building. The company I work for had a TON of DSL circuits that routed through there. There was at least one redback in that building, and those connected to those were routed through a 300 mile change to another redback that was available. Those customers are still having latency from such long PVC's.
Verizon, and the CLEC's that service in that area will not dispatch to that building at all. Many of the people connected through that building did not lose their connections until power followed by the exhaustion of the generators fuel in that building. I took angry calls from customers in the NYC area who thought they were not affected by the bombing because they didn't drop until approx 12 hours later. Some were persistant and demanding we send somebody to fix their line, but the majority were understanding of our position.
As for PTP they are a bit harder to re-route. I understand that Verizon was able to restore partial service with priority going to high-end circuits. Probably why you have service back. Realize though that only volunteers are allowed into the building, and Verizon from what I heard is not taking ANY work order requests. So if you go down again, and the problem is in that building, you probably won't come back up for a while.
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I thought of several rejoinders to the comment about a four-year old. Something along the lines of X years of slashdot, and yet to create a troll with the intelligence of a four-year old.
Then I thought a better approach, is how many thousands of years has it taken to develop computational devices to the point they are now? Yes, the last 50 years has seen the process accelerating, but that doesn't mean it hasn't taken longer.
In many ways we are still at the abacus level of AI.
Yes, however, in the example of UC-Davis, the state contributions to the school account for approx 12% of the budget last I heard when I was working for the annual fund back in 1994. At that time student fees were approximately 5%, the rest came from donations, endowments, licensing of UC-Davis "inventions" and other initiatives such as the annual fund I was working for. I got disgusted with working for the annual fund, becasue it meant calling parents of students begging for donations.
Anyways, how about you get 12% of the donation? About enough to cover the sales tax...
This may be an over simplification, but isn't Carbon/Classic essential an emulator on OSX of the pre-BSD based Mac OS's?
Cocoa then being the native OS X/BSD based apps.
Interesting. I am looking at building a semi-low cost machine in the near future, keeping case (but not PS), hard drives, burner, and sound card from my current machine. I was debating between ATI 8500 and Geforce Ti 4200, and finally settled on the Geforce because NVIDIA offers support for Linux/XFree, where as ATI, per contact with their sales/marketing has stated they have NO plans to offer anything similiar. One person went so far to ask why in the world would I WANT hardware 3d support on Linux.
I personally use a Panasonic portable CD player that will playback cd's with MP3's on them. With 700 megs per CD, and about 6 hours on two double AA's, it has proved portable and economical. If I want to listen to a new song a friend has on CD, I can do so without having to encode it.
I have been using mkisofs/cdrecord to burn cd's at home while at work for a while now. Just need to call my wife and ask her to put in a new CD. My kids have even got to the point they know when the CD pops out, time to put in another blank.
The first link is broken.....
They are some wired headsets that use an air tube to transmit the sound instead of putting even the tiny speaker in your ear.
Alan, you were one of the coders, if not the primary coder behind AberMUD. Do you still play around with the MUD scene?
Actually ctrl-c, ctrl-v doesn't work in all windows apps, unless the programmer of the app sets it up to work. Same with the Linux clipboard, the apps are where the implementation matters, NOT the window manager.
As long as he doesn't Open source the BED, the bedtalk wouldn't be so bad.
This isn't exactly new to Earthlink either. Several of the ISPs they purchased have been offering similiar products for a couple of years. Such as the "wireless" T1 that jps.net offered.
On one server I regularly do development on, it is a Duron 800, but a quick and dirty of the following turnd up 10 instances of bash running. Either in scripts that are running in the background, or active users. Each one taking up some space in RAM. 4 of them are runninng scripts that are there to restart muds if they crash, and they will stay resident until the mud is shutdown. This is just one relatively small server with a few muds hosted on it. If ash or a true bourne shell would do a better job in less, you know what I say we need it.
I do not own the server, but I pay to host a MUD off of it.
However, before you go saying to use tcsh, or csh, they seem to use more memory than bash.
Also the size of the binary does not always equal the size of the memory it takes up. The executable for the mud is 2.1 megs, but when it loads all of the related files takes up about 12 megs of RAM.
Retail processors do come with heatsinks already attached, but they have still been known to come off.
Second, over clocking is NOT looked on favorably by any processory manufacturer, at least not officially. Including a larger heatsink/fan for overclocking would be condoning overclocking.
1988: Apple started shipped the Apple //gs, which was not in the Mac family, but did have sound out. The g was supposed to be for graphics, and the s for sound.
I think you can go back even further, to soldiers lobbing body parts of leprosy, plague victims, and enemy dead during sieges. Now that goes back a LONG ways.
Heck, many non-government jobs have them as a standard of employment. My current employer does have such a policy, and I work for a ISP, working with PTP and Frame circuits.
Previous jobs that have had similiar policies where I have worked. Actually come to think of it EVERY place I have worked has had such a policy. Look at your employee manual.
Staples
Super Saver (Albertson's Warehouse Store)
GenCo (recoupment warehouse)
Lamson & Sessions (poly fabrication)
University of California, Davis Campus
Blue Shield of California
Unocal (Part of Union 76 Petroleum companies)
If it is illegal, a lot of employers seem to do it. Now I have not had the policy exercised, but the employee manual did include it. It was something along the lines of:
"In order to protect our valuable resources of the company, we reserve the right to search all personal belongings on company premises, including bags, purses, pockets, desks, cars in the company parking lot, breakrooms, and any other place related to your place of work."
I am not quoting exactly, but you get the idea. Now, working for the Federal Government, in a time during which we are at WAR, and in a facility that potentially could be handling potential biological weapons, I would say, "Get the heck over it." Other Federal employees are getting more personal searches. You know the Postal workers with the swabs up their noses? You are complaining about a daily search of your bag going in and out of a facility handling biologicals? Get some perspective here.
Btw, did you bother to RTFM? In this case your employee manual before asking slashdot.
For those with puritan sensibilities that is Read The Forgotten Manual.
Federal Employees have long enjoyed many "perks" that those of us in the private sector have not. For example it is next to impossible to fire a civil servant.
Oh, of course IANAL
Back in the late 1980's Apple was afraid of anti-trust suit because the had hardware, OS, and at that time the most popular "Office" suite for their platform.
They spun off Claris and gave Claris the office suite. It had been called AppleWorks, then ClarisWorks.
Eventually after MS gained dominance in the Word processor market on the Mac, Apple bought Claris back, and rename the product back to Appleworks.
Have you read the windows README? It is quite a long list.
In addition there is the windows hardware.txt, and so on. Each of them basically coming down to if we didn't manufacture it, we can't guarantee it, and we don't even guarantee what we make.
I run a online game, and had a domain registered for it, until a company claimed I was infringing on their trademark and wanted the domain.
Well fighting them I thought would be too expensive so let them have it for their nickel. (They paid to transfer it). They are now out of business and a couple of squatters picked it up.
They want $2500 for the domain name. Excuse me?
The game I run is covered under the Diku MUD License, Merc License, and RoM MUD license. It is fun, but not worth $2500.
(btw, for those who don't know, those licenses expressly forbid profiting from running the game based on them)
Actually a lot of things I have seen indicate that Linux may be slightly ahead of Mac.
A lot of the pro-Mac numbers talk about "total Macs" sold since 1984. Well, I can tell you that probably at least half of those are not gaming machines, and that is just my own idea of seeing them, minus about half to keept it a safe figure.
On desktop, they are probably slightly ahead. But overall, I am not so sure.
I work with PTP circuits everyday all day long. I know of one guy who is paying well within their budget for a much longer loop.
Currently in the US Worldcomm is waiving setup, they may do so in Canada as well, but I just priced an approx 120 mile T1, and the loop fees were only $670/month with 1 year contract. (Downtown Sac to North Shore Tahoe). The link up at the other end with a major ISP was $500/month.
With a $120,000 budget, even Canadian this should be doable.
I doubt naming the subnet would really get me any further than reporting it to the NOC for the university.
Also my home connection piggy backs on them.
The university starts later than most (Sept. 28), and I started getting this round of hits about the same time the Dorms opened up.
Problem, is the university doesn't seem to be willing to do anything about it.
These like many "true" emotions may fade with time, or be replaced by others.
You learn to live with them, and replace them with good emotions.
Verizon, and the CLEC's that service in that area will not dispatch to that building at all. Many of the people connected through that building did not lose their connections until power followed by the exhaustion of the generators fuel in that building. I took angry calls from customers in the NYC area who thought they were not affected by the bombing because they didn't drop until approx 12 hours later. Some were persistant and demanding we send somebody to fix their line, but the majority were understanding of our position.
As for PTP they are a bit harder to re-route. I understand that Verizon was able to restore partial service with priority going to high-end circuits. Probably why you have service back. Realize though that only volunteers are allowed into the building, and Verizon from what I heard is not taking ANY work order requests. So if you go down again, and the problem is in that building, you probably won't come back up for a while.