Don't read much, do you?
The MIT boys got the car on the roof by assembling it on the roof. I could say "How hard is it to carry a whole bunch of parts onto a roof and use a ratchet set?" As for the bridge, do something for me. First, calculate the weight of a stripped down bug. Next, travel to a different country and figure out how much ground (water?) clearence your target bridge has. Now calculate how far down your bug will be hanging. Now figure out how many newtons will be acting on your cables. Now figure out how to make it all work securely. These are engineers, not idiots you see on "RealTV"
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You're blowing the comment out of preportition. This was about the Linux-y licence (GPL) vs. BSD-ish license (BSD) not about Linux vs. FreeBSD as an operating system. ---
What? When was the last time MIT students traveled halfway across the hemisphere into a foreign country, risking their academic careers (A jail + court stint can really cut into your class time!) and preformed an [illegal] engineering feat? MIT almost always stays on their home turf, and pulls from a student base signifigantly larger than UBC's. I have undergrad engineering friends here at Lakehead (a northern Ontario U) who know that UBC will be the toast of all the engineering conventions for the rest of the year, and the year's just begun. Nothing like having the canuck's invade your soil to put you in defense mode, eh? ---
or buy a vibrator and tape it to your mouse. That would work too, and would defeat any "use of software to decry juno of revenue... blah blah..." arguements.
of course, this wouldn't be good for people in conservative homes, or people like me that have the computer in their bedroom. (I can deal with my 15 cooling fans, but a vibrator? woah!) ---
As much as I love (and use) the opennap servers, they are not a viable alternative to commercial napster. The servers have limited load, for one, and the (commercial) Napster users DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. A friend of mine was recently banned by Metallica because she had a song titled "Metallica-Sucks.MP3"
She didn't know what to do, because her IP dosn't change, and she couldn't get around the block. I asked her if she tried Napigator or any of the alternatives. Her response? "What? You mean that there's more than just napster?"
She's just a typical college student. If the average student dosn't know about the options, who does? No, the typical Slashdotter dosn't count on this one. ---
I liked that the team at least had enough class to attempt compensation for the horrible things that the poor workers endured. One has to wonder at the kind of dedication it takes to deliver some of this crap. ---
Are you serious? Of course your readers go there!
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Even your stats indicate that MORE than half of your viewers use Internet Explorer! The biggest software company, one that prides itself on supposedly "enterprise level" server software has it's DNS down. It dosn't matter if you don't like them or not, many people visit them daily! I visit them in order to obtain the latest patches for my clients, and to find out if the problem I'm fixing is one that MS is aware of.
I've kept out of it so far, but jeez Taco, don't you think you should try to REDUCE the trolling in your forums? ---
As a Canadian citizen, I would really like to see the DMCA effect me directly. We have anti-piracy laws up here too, but if I want to tape something off T.V., there's nothing to stop me. If I want to record a copyrighted video stream, there will be a way, regardless of the method. Not too long ago, DISH network, who provides the hardware for ExpressVu was cracked. People everywhere made use of this. The same will happen with HDTV copy protection. ---
From the article: "the beam then left the chamber carrying nearly the same shape, intensity and other properties it had when it entered."
Umm... NEARLY?
This is very very cool, but I don't want my computer to be displaying nearly what it should, or doing math that is nearly correct. Remember the original pentium? ---
The most obvious one is pretty simple: There are a lot of near-earth asteroids, and a armageddon-like one is actually not all that improbable. By playing with a comet like this, NASA can determine a few things
a) Can we shoot a comet with a rocket
b) what kind of damage can we expect the rocket to do
c) weither or not firing a nuke at an asteroid is a viable option in a armageddon senario
d) how much money we can spend on weird crap and get away with it
I was reading a hardware article, probably over at Tom's... anyway, It mentioned that when they overheat, P3s shut down. Athlons do not... anyone see the cost potential on a blown fan here? ---
I've already decided that I'm upgrading shortly before my return to school next fall.
If I have the coin to get a dual system of any x86 chip, I will. If I don't, I'm getting a Thunderbird. The DDR ram will give me some nice throughput (hmm, server potential there?) and the integer performance? I can definately be happy with that... Here's the point: Why pay more for a SMP box if you don't need it? ftp.cdrom.com uses a single P3 for all the users it serves!
The Athlon will provide an excellent server for many. ---
Who's wrong?
I think that the truth lies somewhere between. Certainly MS wants to protect their share of the server market, espically since MS is starting to limit their OSs by #of CPUs.
What this does for Microsoft is it allows them to say that,
a) Our server market share is being threatened by a free os
b) look at us, poor microsoft being attacked by both sides.
It's not one or the other, but both. ---
Apart from Konquorer - who the gnome zealots won't use - Mozilla is the only mainstream browser out there for Gnu/Linux users. How many times have you gone to a page only to be turned away because your browser "isn't supported by this website"? Mozilla - being a semi-offical netscape project, will actually have people and companies making scripted sites that will work properly with mozilla. One way that redmond has been trying to keep people away from linux is by not releasing IE for linux - it ensures that some web sites simply won't display on linux. The point is this: Mozilla stands to be a real mainstream browser. Don't knock it before it gets a decent chance. ---
The web is still - and perhaps will always be - HTML based.
We've already got extensions to it - html 3.1, html 4.0, shockwave, php3, css, javascript, the list goes on and on. Why are we arguing over XML when we already have all these existing "standards" to stumble over? The netscape and microsoft web browsers add their own unique tags and extensions as well. (Remember when MIDI was the most amazing thing on web pages?) I'm much more interested in getting a common set of standards that lets any browser (perhaps even lynx?) view the page with the content intact. I just love comeing across a site that REQUIRES a certain plugin, because they didn't want to spend their time making sure that their HTML would work with every browser. *sigh* ---
I don't see anything from anyone else about networking, so here goes:
VMware has an interesting approch to bridged networking - putting eth0 into promisc. mode. Do you think this is the best way to do VM networking? What methods would provide the best performance with the lowest overhead? ---
Quite right. It's not that hard to stream MP3s. I've got my entire Marilyn Manson collection MP3'd so that I don't have to change cd's all the time. All I have to do is move them into ~/public_html and I'll be able to get them from anywhere using Winamp or XMMS. (Oh, I'm on a T3... kinda helps I guess) ---
How do they plan to store it for 7 years? Assuming that they encode all their voice traffic at 64kbit/s, that still leaves 480kbyte/min. There are HOURS and HOURS of voice/day. A typical large company will have 25 voice lines, 15 of which are guaranteed to be in use from 0900 - 1700, and that dosn't even TOUCH the amount of data & fax traffic. If they can find a way to do this without building a town to support their data aquisition, why the hell not? It'd be an amazing feat. ---
I'd make myself look guilty on purpose. I'd take freely distributable mp3s, like ones from my friend's band dead composer, and modify them to look like metallica songs. Let's see them sue me for distributing songs I've got permission to distribute. ---
that dosn't explain it. TV for example, broadcasts AM and FM at the same time on the same freq. for each channel - AM for video, FM for audio.
Monitors should be leaking AM in those ranges you mentioned, not FM. The frequency range does not specify am/fm. ---
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I used to do consulting (computer) for the company that made her battens. Here's a link to their gallery.
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Don't read much, do you? The MIT boys got the car on the roof by assembling it on the roof.
I could say "How hard is it to carry a whole bunch of parts onto a roof and use a ratchet set?"
As for the bridge, do something for me. First, calculate the weight of a stripped down bug. Next, travel to a different country and figure out how much ground (water?) clearence your target bridge has. Now calculate how far down your bug will be hanging. Now figure out how many newtons will be acting on your cables. Now figure out how to make it all work securely.
These are engineers, not idiots you see on "RealTV"
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You're blowing the comment out of preportition. This was about the Linux-y licence (GPL) vs. BSD-ish license (BSD) not about Linux vs. FreeBSD as an operating system.
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What? When was the last time MIT students traveled halfway across the hemisphere into a foreign country, risking their academic careers (A jail + court stint can really cut into your class time!) and preformed an [illegal] engineering feat? MIT almost always stays on their home turf, and pulls from a student base signifigantly larger than UBC's. I have undergrad engineering friends here at Lakehead (a northern Ontario U) who know that UBC will be the toast of all the engineering conventions for the rest of the year, and the year's just begun. Nothing like having the canuck's invade your soil to put you in defense mode, eh?
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or buy a vibrator and tape it to your mouse. That would work too, and would defeat any "use of software to decry juno of revenue... blah blah..." arguements.
of course, this wouldn't be good for people in conservative homes, or people like me that have the computer in their bedroom. (I can deal with my 15 cooling fans, but a vibrator? woah!)
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have you tried freshmeat? It's a pretty good resource.
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As much as I love (and use) the opennap servers, they are not a viable alternative to commercial napster. The servers have limited load, for one, and the (commercial) Napster users DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. A friend of mine was recently banned by Metallica because she had a song titled "Metallica-Sucks.MP3"
She didn't know what to do, because her IP dosn't change, and she couldn't get around the block. I asked her if she tried Napigator or any of the alternatives. Her response? "What? You mean that there's more than just napster?"
She's just a typical college student. If the average student dosn't know about the options, who does?
No, the typical Slashdotter dosn't count on this one.
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I liked that the team at least had enough class to attempt compensation for the horrible things that the poor workers endured. One has to wonder at the kind of dedication it takes to deliver some of this crap.
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Even your stats indicate that MORE than half of your viewers use Internet Explorer!
The biggest software company, one that prides itself on supposedly "enterprise level" server software has it's DNS down. It dosn't matter if you don't like them or not, many people visit them daily!
I visit them in order to obtain the latest patches for my clients, and to find out if the problem I'm fixing is one that MS is aware of.
I've kept out of it so far, but jeez Taco, don't you think you should try to REDUCE the trolling in your forums?
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As a Canadian citizen, I would really like to see the DMCA effect me directly. We have anti-piracy laws up here too, but if I want to tape something off T.V., there's nothing to stop me. If I want to record a copyrighted video stream, there will be a way, regardless of the method.
Not too long ago, DISH network, who provides the hardware for ExpressVu was cracked. People everywhere made use of this. The same will happen with HDTV copy protection.
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From the article: "the beam then left the chamber carrying nearly the same shape, intensity and other properties it had when it entered."
Umm... NEARLY?
This is very very cool, but I don't want my computer to be displaying nearly what it should, or doing math that is nearly correct. Remember the original pentium?
---
The most obvious one is pretty simple: There are a lot of near-earth asteroids, and a armageddon-like one is actually not all that improbable. By playing with a comet like this, NASA can determine a few things
a) Can we shoot a comet with a rocket
b) what kind of damage can we expect the rocket to do
c) weither or not firing a nuke at an asteroid is a viable option in a armageddon senario
d) how much money we can spend on weird crap and get away with it
I'm only partially joking about d.
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I was reading a hardware article, probably over at Tom's... anyway, It mentioned that when they overheat, P3s shut down. Athlons do not... anyone see the cost potential on a blown fan here?
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I've already decided that I'm upgrading shortly before my return to school next fall.
If I have the coin to get a dual system of any x86 chip, I will. If I don't, I'm getting a Thunderbird. The DDR ram will give me some nice throughput (hmm, server potential there?) and the integer performance? I can definately be happy with that...
Here's the point: Why pay more for a SMP box if you don't need it? ftp.cdrom.com uses a single P3 for all the users it serves!
The Athlon will provide an excellent server for many.
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I'd phone them. 703.293.6299
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Who's wrong?
I think that the truth lies somewhere between. Certainly MS wants to protect their share of the server market, espically since MS is starting to limit their OSs by #of CPUs.
What this does for Microsoft is it allows them to say that,
a) Our server market share is being threatened by a free os b) look at us, poor microsoft being attacked by both sides.
It's not one or the other, but both.
---
Apart from Konquorer - who the gnome zealots won't use - Mozilla is the only mainstream browser out there for Gnu/Linux users. How many times have you gone to a page only to be turned away because your browser "isn't supported by this website"? Mozilla - being a semi-offical netscape project, will actually have people and companies making scripted sites that will work properly with mozilla. One way that redmond has been trying to keep people away from linux is by not releasing IE for linux - it ensures that some web sites simply won't display on linux.
The point is this: Mozilla stands to be a real mainstream browser. Don't knock it before it gets a decent chance.
---
The web is still - and perhaps will always be - HTML based.
We've already got extensions to it - html 3.1, html 4.0, shockwave, php3, css, javascript, the list goes on and on.
Why are we arguing over XML when we already have all these existing "standards" to stumble over? The netscape and microsoft web browsers add their own unique tags and extensions as well. (Remember when MIDI was the most amazing thing on web pages?) I'm much more interested in getting a common set of standards that lets any browser (perhaps even lynx?) view the page with the content intact. I just love comeing across a site that REQUIRES a certain plugin, because they didn't want to spend their time making sure that their HTML would work with every browser. *sigh*
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I don't see anything from anyone else about networking, so here goes:
VMware has an interesting approch to bridged networking - putting eth0 into promisc. mode. Do you think this is the best way to do VM networking? What methods would provide the best performance with the lowest overhead?
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Quite right. It's not that hard to stream MP3s. I've got my entire Marilyn Manson collection MP3'd so that I don't have to change cd's all the time. All I have to do is move them into ~/public_html and I'll be able to get them from anywhere using Winamp or XMMS. (Oh, I'm on a T3... kinda helps I guess)
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If everyone put a miniture collecter in their bathroom vents, we'd have a lot less wasted water.
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How do they plan to store it for 7 years? Assuming that they encode all their voice traffic at 64kbit/s, that still leaves 480kbyte/min. There are HOURS and HOURS of voice/day. A typical large company will have 25 voice lines, 15 of which are guaranteed to be in use from 0900 - 1700, and that dosn't even TOUCH the amount of data & fax traffic. If they can find a way to do this without building a town to support their data aquisition, why the hell not? It'd be an amazing feat.
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I'd make myself look guilty on purpose. I'd take freely distributable mp3s, like ones from my friend's band dead composer, and modify them to look like metallica songs. Let's see them sue me for distributing songs I've got permission to distribute.
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Ken wrote the B programming language, not C. He did later re-write Unix in C though.
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that dosn't explain it. TV for example, broadcasts AM and FM at the same time on the same freq. for each channel - AM for video, FM for audio. Monitors should be leaking AM in those ranges you mentioned, not FM. The frequency range does not specify am/fm.
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