they also indicated, for how long trafic had been stopped/slow. The article makes mention that this technology isn't that functional because it doesn't give any indication about the reason for the slowdown, but if there is a time period associated with the trafic jam, driver could make assumptions about what the problem was, and wether or not to find alternate routes.
Durring a game of Quake3, the sound still comes through the speakers, and if you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get out of X, then you'll fire your weapon, and it will continue firing untill you return. It has made for some embarasing moments for me.
Hell, I usually have to tell my boss that I'm too busy to play Quake3. Its all about the relaxed workplace.
iso != International Standards Organisation
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under the auspices of the International Standards Organisation.
Not to be picky or anything,but ISO is not an acronym, its actually a latin prefix, meaning "The same".
Iso is the short form for "The International Organization for Standardization", not "The International Standards Organisation".
When RedHat bundles it as its release web server
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when I can do an 'up2date' and it gives me Apache 2.X. Then I'll do it.
I wouldn't bother with anything else. Call me lazy and trusting, but thats how it is.
// Lets deliberately make this page inaccessable to all but two browsers. if ( (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') || (navigator.appName == 'Netscape') ) {
displayPage(); } else {
youMustHaveAnOldBrowser(); }
Well once Microsoft has changed its Desktop OSs to be little more than a platform for.NET and C# bytecode interpreting, then all Linux users need to do is have a good implementation of a C#/.NET bytecode interpreter, and just like Java, we should be able to run it. But because Microsoft will force this down everyones throte, it may catch on more than Java has. Microsoft Word implemented in Byte Code would be a big step towards Linux on the desktop.
From what I got from this book, (not a definition, but perhaps an explanation)
If you have many simple units preforming behaviours built on simple common rule-sets, who all interact together, and react to these interations according to their rule-sets, and a macro-behaviour occurs (something that none of the individuals would be able to do by themselves) this is Emergent behaviour.
I thought that is was one of the best, most thought provoking books I've read in a long long time. I was able to find a copy when it was in publisher pre-release, and I found that 'Emergence Theory' was exactly what I've been looking for as the glue to make me understand the idea of genetic/natural computing and how it relates to evolution.
You can see who is visiting your site, unless they are using an anonymizer proxy, or other system to hide your headers. The HTTP-REFERRER header gives you exactly this information.
I thought about the fact that one could look at the referer data from a web server to make http bi-directional, but I think that for any kind of emergent behaviour to come about, one has to have many individual units all behaving in similar ways, so even if one or two people were to hook in some smart web scripting that looks at, and reports who refered to them, it wouldn't make a difference unless a large critical-mass of individuals did the same thing. So HTML over HTTP in it's present incarnation is not bi-directional for all practical purposes.
The reviewer doesn't seem to like the idea of micro evolution without the intervetion of God,
There is no mention of where these rules as such come from except through evolutionary survival or initial chance...
The idea that a God figure could be there, tweaking the parameters as the model runs, or even setting the initial conditions works against his ideas.
Could be, but this is a book based on scientific theory, so you can't really blame it for not showing a creationist side of the argument.
More than anything, this book made me want to go out and write some cool internet client/server that would do some very simple, known, micro-behaviours but if distributed widly around the internet, and interacting in various ways, they would produce, undefined, Macro Behaviour! That is what Emergence Theory is all about, if I understand it correctly. Same thing that's happening in the brain, Neurons are doing very simple micro-behaviours, but put them into a great big hunk of brain where there are millions of simple units interacting and doing micro-behaviours (fire-nofire) extreamly intelegent and unpredictible Macro-behaviours occur.
This book got me all excited because this was the first time this was explaned to me in a simple way using analogies that I understand, like software, games and even Slashdot! I recomend it, Steve Johnson is also the author of "Infomation Culture" which is apparently a pretty good book too, I havn't read it yet.
The hard core C programming and data structures often associated with CS is not nessisarily what you're gonna get out in the work place.
Theres nothing saying that you can't do RAD with visual basic, or web scripting or other programming endevours which (dispite the fact that they CAN get very complicated and tricky) are often quick and easy. That is to say, assuming its the trickyness, and little perfectionist things that are pissing you off about CS. Perhaps you just need to try different types of programming!
Whenever you walk by a computer and see someone using pico, be kind. Pause for a second and remind yourself that: "There, but for the grace of God, go I."
-- Harley Hahn
Well, FU all - someone has to write the OS - someone has to write and perform the music - someone has to setup and maintain the databases (as well as machines, Internet connectivity, etc.)
Thats right, that someone is us! and/or people like us. Those who don't want to pay!
And many of us spend a lot of time and effort, doing a lot of coding and maintaining etc. so that we can enjoy free OS's a free CDDB, and other free services (not only free as in money free, but free as in companies can't swoop it and steel our work).
Something like a CDDB that was built largly by user contributions, is something that should be kept in the public domain, thats the big problem here. Many of us work for companies who sell software, obviously everything can't be free, but it pisses me off that the few CDs that I took the time (albiet not much time) to enter into their database over the years exists now for their benefit, rather than the benefit of everyone. If I had known that, I sure as hell wouldn't have bothered to submit my CD info.
If this kind of thing continues, I could see, there being a real need for public proxy servers running in non-censoring countries, so that people can get around the blocking software in the censored contries.
Its funny how there really isn't any way of totally blocking information on the internet... Damn the man.
University of Guelph Steam Tunnels
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During my first year on campus, I heard rumours that there existed old steam tunnels that connected all the buildings on campus. Of course, my partner in crime, and myself felt it obligatory to locate these tunnels, and utilize them for our own crafty wants. Upon finding grates on the ground that billowed warmth, and often light, we found our entrance.
On various post-bar drunken wanders, we managed to get in via a metal door on the ground that we were able to jimmy the latch on the inside with the help of a strong skinny stick.
Once we were in, good gravity, was it ever a good find. We could get into virtually any building on campus at any time of day or night. We could hook up cable to any residence room, and we could wreck havoc onto the digital phone system that the University used.
They go on forever, narrowing to the point that you walk single file, and duck way down, and opening up into cavernous rooms that echo when you talk. Some of the tight squeezes were reminisant of spalunking into a cave except that this was all man made.
One method of getting into the tunnels that we found was to get into a maintanance closet that has a tricky door that can be opened with a good old fashion flying shoulder. Then we would shimmy down a hot water pipe (not much fun) then crab walk on our back along a 1.5"x1.5" tunnel for about 100 meters.
We found that maintanance workers had porn on the walls, and that others had broken into the tunnels as far back as the 60's and left their mark with spray paint.
To those in new buildings, or campus' explore them late at night, and checkout anything that looks like a maintanace access, because often they can be lots of fun, and can allow for trickery, and copeious amounts of hellish behaviour. I think in Guelph Ontario though, the punishment on campus for being caught in the steam tunnels is expulsion. So its all about keeping the escape posibilities in mind all the time.
Sweet jesus, as if some of the IRC networks arn't already overworked enough. Any of the last few battle scared EFNet servers will finally cut their losses, and say "To heck with you all" while they pack up their server, and twine up their twisted pair.
Although maybe some people who have a commercial interest in this could setup some IRC servers that can handle serious load, and will scale with the amount of usage.
If theres money to be had, it could very well mean the introduction of new IRC servers. Maybe this will be the best thing that has happened to IRC in a long time. Although, maybe it will just mean more splits, and slower servers.
"although I can't say the same for the country's general socialistic tendencies"
Good gosh! Whats so horrible about looking out for other people? Regardless of what anyone thinks, there are in fact people who want to get onto the internet (and who want health care) who genuinely can not afford it. Is it so bad to help them out?
In my opinion, and in the opinion of many people, its not so bad.
Thats probably enough time to design and implement a pretty well hidden bit of malicious code that would soon be on most of the computers around the world!
If they were smart, they could sneak a little bit of trickery into IIS, or some other MS service.
This, my friends, is the real danger, I'm sure that the source code wouldn't do too many people good, but the possiblity of writing your own personal backdoor into Windows is pretty Frickin huge.
I phoned @home tech support wondering what happened to their irc server, and they told me flatly that they've just shut it down. So all the @home people no longer have a home. They told me that it wasn't a supported service, so thats why they didn't notify any of their customers, and that it was closed down due to abuse.
It has been down for a little more than a month(?) and I wonder if a lot of the fallover from that server is overloading, and causing grief with others. That is, for the few that allow @home people to connect, and don't tell them to connect to their own irc server (which no longer exists).
Damn the man. Maybe we could convince the nice Havenco people to host an EFNet ircd!!
When I took OAC (grade 13 Whatever) We had three projects, One I can't remember, the other was a Scorched Earth game (two tanks chucking bombs at eachother given a variable velocity and angle of trajectory). That was really cool, it tied in some physics, and stuff.
They let us use any programming language we wanted, so as I was a pascal guy back in the day, so I used Delphi.
And for the third project, they let us do anything we dang well pleased! As long as we produced a fairly good Specifications Document and Design Document. I did a cool top down multi-car racing game. The chicks loved it. =)
But Honestly, I think that if you let the kids program what they want in the programming language of their choice, some students will really thrive and enjoy themselves.
"You're going to have a piece of software that will only work on one machine. It will provide enormous inconvenience." -Adobe Dude.
I can't get over these guys, and thier pompus views on their software. 'We're gonna punish all you nasty software pirates by crippling our software!' Don't they know that this is a competative industry?
Ok Fine, then we'll code something similar, only make it portable, AND we'll make it free.
The philosophy is a result of more than twenty years of software development and has grown from the UNIX community instead of being enforced upon it. It is a defacto-style of software development. The nine major tenets of the UNIX Philosophy are:
1.small is beautiful 2.make each program do one thing well 3.build a prototype as soon as possible 4.choose portability over efficiency 5.store numerical data in flat files 6.use software leverage to your advantage 7.use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability 8.avoid captive user interfaces 9.make every program a filter
The Ten Lesser Tenets
1.allow the user to tailor the environment 2.make operating system kernels small and lightweight 3.use lower case and keep it short 4.save trees 5.silence is golden 6.think parallel 7.the sum of the parts if greater than the whole 8.look for the ninety percent solution 9.worse is better 10.think hierarchically
Slashdot Mirror
they also indicated, for how long trafic had been stopped/slow. The article makes mention that this technology isn't that functional because it doesn't give any indication about the reason for the slowdown, but if there is a time period associated with the trafic jam, driver could make assumptions about what the problem was, and wether or not to find alternate routes.
Durring a game of Quake3, the sound still comes through the speakers, and if you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get out of X, then you'll fire your weapon, and it will continue firing untill you return. It has made for some embarasing moments for me.
Hell, I usually have to tell my boss that I'm too busy to play Quake3. Its all about the relaxed workplace.
Not to be picky or anything,but ISO is not an acronym, its actually a latin prefix, meaning "The same". Iso is the short form for "The International Organization for Standardization", not "The International Standards Organisation".
when I can do an
'up2date'
and it gives me Apache 2.X. Then I'll do it.
I wouldn't bother with anything else. Call me lazy and trusting, but thats how it is.
// Lets deliberately make this page inaccessable to all but two browsers.
if ( (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') || (navigator.appName == 'Netscape') ) {
displayPage();
}
else {
youMustHaveAnOldBrowser();
}
morons.
tar cfz - *myfiles.* | ssh -l username remotehost.com "tar xfz -"
Well once Microsoft has changed its Desktop OSs to be little more than a platform for .NET and C# bytecode interpreting, then all Linux users need to do is have a good implementation of a C#/.NET bytecode interpreter, and just like Java, we should be able to run it.
But because Microsoft will force this down everyones throte, it may catch on more than Java has.
Microsoft Word implemented in Byte Code would be a big step towards Linux on the desktop.
From what I got from this book, (not a definition, but perhaps an explanation)
If you have many simple units preforming behaviours built on simple common rule-sets, who all interact together, and react to these interations according to their rule-sets, and a macro-behaviour occurs (something that none of the individuals would be able to do by themselves) this is Emergent behaviour.
I thought about the fact that one could look at the referer data from a web server to make http bi-directional, but I think that for any kind of emergent behaviour to come about, one has to have many individual units all behaving in similar ways, so even if one or two people were to hook in some smart web scripting that looks at, and reports who refered to them, it wouldn't make a difference unless a large critical-mass of individuals did the same thing. So HTML over HTTP in it's present incarnation is not bi-directional for all practical purposes.
The reviewer doesn't seem to like the idea of micro evolution without the intervetion of God,
Could be, but this is a book based on scientific theory, so you can't really blame it for not showing a creationist side of the argument.More than anything, this book made me want to go out and write some cool internet client/server that would do some very simple, known, micro-behaviours but if distributed widly around the internet, and interacting in various ways, they would produce, undefined, Macro Behaviour! That is what Emergence Theory is all about, if I understand it correctly. Same thing that's happening in the brain, Neurons are doing very simple micro-behaviours, but put them into a great big hunk of brain where there are millions of simple units interacting and doing micro-behaviours (fire-nofire) extreamly intelegent and unpredictible Macro-behaviours occur.
This book got me all excited because this was the first time this was explaned to me in a simple way using analogies that I understand, like software, games and even Slashdot! I recomend it, Steve Johnson is also the author of "Infomation Culture" which is apparently a pretty good book too, I havn't read it yet.
yebbNOSPAM@kidojo.com
The hard core C programming and data structures often associated with CS is not nessisarily what you're gonna get out in the work place.
Theres nothing saying that you can't do RAD with visual basic, or web scripting or other programming endevours which (dispite the fact that they CAN get very complicated and tricky) are often quick and easy. That is to say, assuming its the trickyness, and little perfectionist things that are pissing you off about CS. Perhaps you just need to try different types of programming!
Whenever you walk by a computer and see someone using pico, be kind. Pause for a second and remind yourself that:
"There, but for the grace of God, go I."
-- Harley Hahn
I actually just sang that outloud.
It was fun.
Thats right, that someone is us! and/or people like us. Those who don't want to pay!
And many of us spend a lot of time and effort, doing a lot of coding and maintaining etc. so that we can enjoy free OS's a free CDDB, and other free services (not only free as in money free, but free as in companies can't swoop it and steel our work).
Something like a CDDB that was built largly by user contributions, is something that should be kept in the public domain, thats the big problem here. Many of us work for companies who sell software, obviously everything can't be free, but it pisses me off that the few CDs that I took the time (albiet not much time) to enter into their database over the years exists now for their benefit, rather than the benefit of everyone. If I had known that, I sure as hell wouldn't have bothered to submit my CD info.
I don't think thats an idiotic thing.
Booya.. Proxy it up baby!
Its funny how there really isn't any way of totally blocking information on the internet... Damn the man.
During my first year on campus, I heard rumours that there existed old steam tunnels that connected all the buildings on campus. Of course, my partner in crime, and myself felt it obligatory to locate these tunnels, and utilize them for our own crafty wants. Upon finding grates on the ground that billowed warmth, and often light, we found our entrance.
On various post-bar drunken wanders, we managed to get in via a metal door on the ground that we were able to jimmy the latch on the inside with the help of a strong skinny stick. Once we were in, good gravity, was it ever a good find. We could get into virtually any building on campus at any time of day or night. We could hook up cable to any residence room, and we could wreck havoc onto the digital phone system that the University used.
They go on forever, narrowing to the point that you walk single file, and duck way down, and opening up into cavernous rooms that echo when you talk. Some of the tight squeezes were reminisant of spalunking into a cave except that this was all man made.
One method of getting into the tunnels that we found was to get into a maintanance closet that has a tricky door that can be opened with a good old fashion flying shoulder. Then we would shimmy down a hot water pipe (not much fun) then crab walk on our back along a 1.5"x1.5" tunnel for about 100 meters.
We found that maintanance workers had porn on the walls, and that others had broken into the tunnels as far back as the 60's and left their mark with spray paint.
To those in new buildings, or campus' explore them late at night, and checkout anything that looks like a maintanace access, because often they can be lots of fun, and can allow for trickery, and copeious amounts of hellish behaviour. I think in Guelph Ontario though, the punishment on campus for being caught in the steam tunnels is expulsion. So its all about keeping the escape posibilities in mind all the time.
As it'were, and twas, it tiss and twill be.
Thusly spake, the word of Bob.
Although maybe some people who have a commercial interest in this could setup some IRC servers that can handle serious load, and will scale with the amount of usage.
If theres money to be had, it could very well mean the introduction of new IRC servers. Maybe this will be the best thing that has happened to IRC in a long time. Although, maybe it will just mean more splits, and slower servers.
Good gosh! Whats so horrible about looking out for other people? Regardless of what anyone thinks, there are in fact people who want to get onto the internet (and who want health care) who genuinely can not afford it. Is it so bad to help them out?
In my opinion, and in the opinion of many people, its not so bad.
Thats probably enough time to design and implement a pretty well hidden bit of malicious code that would soon be on most of the computers around the world!
If they were smart, they could sneak a little bit of trickery into IIS, or some other MS service.
This, my friends, is the real danger, I'm sure that the source code wouldn't do too many people good, but the possiblity of writing your own personal backdoor into Windows is pretty Frickin huge.
It has been down for a little more than a month(?) and I wonder if a lot of the fallover from that server is overloading, and causing grief with others. That is, for the few that allow @home people to connect, and don't tell them to connect to their own irc server (which no longer exists).
Damn the man. Maybe we could convince the nice Havenco people to host an EFNet ircd!!
When I took OAC (grade 13 Whatever) We had three projects, One I can't remember, the other was a Scorched Earth game (two tanks chucking bombs at eachother given a variable velocity and angle of trajectory). That was really cool, it tied in some physics, and stuff.
They let us use any programming language we wanted, so as I was a pascal guy back in the day, so I used Delphi.
And for the third project, they let us do anything we dang well pleased! As long as we produced a fairly good Specifications Document and Design Document. I did a cool top down multi-car racing game. The chicks loved it. =)
But Honestly, I think that if you let the kids program what they want in the programming language of their choice, some students will really thrive and enjoy themselves.
-Adobe Dude.
I can't get over these guys, and thier pompus views on their software. 'We're gonna punish all you nasty software pirates by crippling our software!' Don't they know that this is a competative industry?
Ok Fine, then we'll code something similar, only make it portable, AND we'll make it free.
The philosophy is a result of more than twenty years of software development and has grown from the UNIX community
instead of being enforced upon it. It is a defacto-style of software development. The nine major tenets of the UNIX
Philosophy are:
1.small is beautiful
2.make each program do one thing well
3.build a prototype as soon as possible
4.choose portability over efficiency
5.store numerical data in flat files
6.use software leverage to your advantage
7.use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability
8.avoid captive user interfaces
9.make every program a filter
The Ten Lesser Tenets
1.allow the user to tailor the environment
2.make operating system kernels small and lightweight
3.use lower case and keep it short
4.save trees
5.silence is golden
6.think parallel
7.the sum of the parts if greater than the whole
8.look for the ninety percent solution
9.worse is better
10.think hierarchically