There was some discussion of possible translations of "Ximian" from Chinese, back when the name was being considered. Most of them were nonsensical, and none was offensive. My favorite was "western noodle", which suggests the slogan, "the fastest way to send pasta".
Have fun with that heuristic. The rest of us will try things more akin to hill-climbing or simulated annealing while you and the MBA's are stuck in a local minimum.
> Consider Ximian, Lindows, etc. They all modify kde to look like windows.
Ximian modifies KDE? When did this happen?
Re:Good arguments not to use Ximian
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A couple of our programmers are night owls. Yes, they work all night, but they sleep all day. Gets a bit inconvenient having to walk around them when they're sprawled out, but it doesn't affect the code quality.
Am I the only person who thinks of Mozilla whenever anyone talks about Blizzard releasing software? Yes, I know, I've played Warcraft (both), Diablo (both), and Starcraft, but any time I see mention of a new software release from Blizzard, I automatically think of Mozilla, not games.
It's not true that the body uses up available carbohydrate before starting to burn fat. Different tissues use different sources of energy, regardless of how much is available.
The heart doesn't use carbohydrate for energy. It only burns fat. This means that aerobic exercise, in addition to being good for the heart, has extra benefits for the waist.
The brain, conversely, doesn't normally use fat at all, since fat has trouble crossing the blood-brain barrier. The human brain requires a lot of metabolic energy, so the amount of carbohydrate burned in a day can be fairly significant. Since you use up this energy even if you have your but parked in a chair, this is part of your basal metabolic rate.
Normal muscle (except in the heart) uses either fat or carbohydrate. Of course, this assumes some measure of physical activity. Muscle stores a certain amount of carbohydrate, after which it has to draw carbohydrate from the blood, which gets it from a small reserve of carbohydrate which is stored in the liver after you eat.
The metabolic effect of a very low carbohydrate diet is similar in some ways to untreated Type I diabetes. The brain needs carbohydrate, so the body tries to find a way. Fat is normally stored by the body in a form that connects three fatty acids together with a small carbohydrate molecule. The body breaks up the stored fat into the carbohydrate, which goes to the brain, and the fatty acids, which ends up being waste material. It's not normal for the body to have stray fatty acids around like this, and the fatty acids get shunted through some unintended metabolic pathways, eventually breaking down into acetone and similar substances, which evaporate from the lungs. This type of metabolism is called ketosis, and the resulting sweet-smelling breath (smelling of nail polish remover) was a classic symptom of late stage Type I diabetes in the days before insulin therapy. The diabetes analogy breaks down in that the blood sugar isn't actually elevated.
The whole point of very low carbohydrate diets is to put the body into ketosis, in which fat is broken down into nail polish remover, which is exhaled. This is faster, easier, and less hunger-inducing than exercise. I remain unconvinced that it's healthy.
Low-carbohydrate diets can also be low in water soluble vitamins, since they rely primarily on meat, eggs, and dairy at the expense of grains, legumes, and vegetables.
The excess protein in a low-carbohydrate diet, assuming you're eating meat rather than butter, gets burned up, since there's no good way to make it into fat. This places an extra burden on the kidneys.
If you're heavy because you eat from habit rather than hunger, reducing caloric intake is a good place to start. It's better to start by reducing fat intake, though, since your body already has that in excess. If you're heavy because your appetite exceeds your metabolism, your best recourse is a combination of exercise and reduced caloric intake. Again, the best recourse is to reduce fat intake.
David Touretzky would probably get a kick out of this language, since it could lead to a dramatic rendition of a CSS descrambler.
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- There seems to be a consensus that the audio-interactive magnetic fluid piece was the most interesting thing in the art show this year (previous winners include the wooden mirror, with the raining text coming in close behind, and the computer-driven sand table). The linked reviewer thought so, as did I, as did another person I asked at SIGGRAPH.
- There weren't many teapots in the papers this year, nor were as many bunnies as in previous years. David hasn't yet moved in to replace the bunny (I saw much less of David this year than I did at his debut last year). Instead, it looks like the mesh junkies are using various other non-bunny models from Stanford. One of these days I need to make a graph of the number of teapot, bunny, etc. figures in the proceedings over time.;-)
- Yes, it did seem a bit smaller and quieter than previously. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a side effect of dot-com funding drying up. Normally the LA conferences draw more film industry people, so one might expect it to be bigger this year than last.
Corn as a fuel source doesn't do much better than break even, because corn needs a lot of nitrogen-based fertilizer. Soybeans have nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots and actually increase the amount of fixed nitrogen in the soil. They need very little fertilizer in comparison to other crops, and they're not normally grown in places that need a lot of irrigation. Soybeans are a much better choice than corn as a fuel crop. If soybean-based fuels boost the price of soybeans, it will also help encourage corn farmers to rotate soybeans through their fields more often, which will further decrease the amount of energy needed for fertilizer.
Using the existing machines (assuming they're running Linux or another sufficiently useful operating system) is probably the best use of resources. If you're going to be putting big burdens on the network, it's probably worth putting a bridge between you and the rest of the school, just so you're not all on the same collision domain. Ethernet-based Beowulf clusters are much happier with switching hubs in any event, especially as the number of nodes increases. You could get a couple of 16-port switches for less than a single node would cost, and the system would perform much better without burdening the rest of the network.
If you wanted to build an actual dedicated cluster, I've been looking at hardware lately, and one could build a 4-node cluster for around $2150. Feel free to cut lots of corners on HD (you don't need much space), video card (cheapest you can find, try at ham swaps), don't bother with monitors, don't even bother with CD-ROM (you can install over the network from a boot floppy). You certainly don't need sound cards. You can skip mice completely, and you only need keyboards for booting (depending on your BIOS). A KVM switch (and one monitor) may make it easier to bring all of them up and troubleshoot. The single monitor may make it easy for the students to see the action, but you may just prefer to do remote display. If you're going to spend more than that, look into low-end SMP hardware. They're less than twice the price of single-CPU nodes ($3200 for a 4-node dual-CPU cluster), and you can more than double your performance (depending on the application), since the network is typically the biggest bottleneck. Then again, this may go against the lesson of "not needing special hardware".
Especially for Jr. High students, it's probably necessary to run something more interesting than heat transfer and fluid dynamics simulations. I'd recommend checking out PVMPOV. Then again, I may be biased.;-)
If the point is to demonstrate the usefulness of clusters to students, you'd be cutting yourself off at the knees by using VMWare, since I don't think your performance would improve by adding more virtual machines (unless you have them each set up to use a small fraction of the resources of the host machine). It may be useful as a development environment, but only so long as you're checking correctness. For profiling and general study of performance characteristics, you need the real thing.
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You didn't get a UPS for your fish?
Fenway neighborhood is fine, too.
And when the configure script fails because you don't have the necessary libraries installed, or because the libraries are the wrong version?
Building from source isn't the simple solution to dependencies that it appears to be.
Now I'm picturing SCO as Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, a bitter, ancient woman in a yellowed wedding dress.
"Zimmian" - as, for instance "xylophone".
There was some discussion of possible translations of "Ximian" from Chinese, back when the name was being considered. Most of them were nonsensical, and none was offensive. My favorite was "western noodle", which suggests the slogan, "the fastest way to send pasta".
How much do you want to bet that you could find common blocks of 10 to 15 lines of code between the Linux kernel source and the Lions book?
There were trademark ambiguities around "Helix".
"Short term thinking is absolutely rational."
Have fun with that heuristic. The rest of us will try things more akin to hill-climbing or simulated annealing while you and the MBA's are stuck in a local minimum.
What, is Steve Jobs a Yankees fan or something?
> Consider Ximian, Lindows, etc. They all modify kde to look like windows.
Ximian modifies KDE? When did this happen?
A couple of our programmers are night owls. Yes, they work all night, but they sleep all day. Gets a bit inconvenient having to walk around them when they're sprawled out, but it doesn't affect the code quality.
http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/merch. htm
Now imagine that animated, with LEGO figures. Hmm... sounds vaguely familiar...
1. GENERAL MORAL IMPERATIVES.
...continuing through 1.8.
1.1 Contribute to society and human well-being.
1.2 Avoid harm to others.
That site... are they talking miles or kilometers?
Am I the only person who thinks of Mozilla whenever anyone talks about Blizzard releasing software? Yes, I know, I've played Warcraft (both), Diablo (both), and Starcraft, but any time I see mention of a new software release from Blizzard, I automatically think of Mozilla, not games.
It's not true that the body uses up available carbohydrate before starting to burn fat. Different tissues use different sources of energy, regardless of how much is available.
The heart doesn't use carbohydrate for energy. It only burns fat. This means that aerobic exercise, in addition to being good for the heart, has extra benefits for the waist.
The brain, conversely, doesn't normally use fat at all, since fat has trouble crossing the blood-brain barrier. The human brain requires a lot of metabolic energy, so the amount of carbohydrate burned in a day can be fairly significant. Since you use up this energy even if you have your but parked in a chair, this is part of your basal metabolic rate.
Normal muscle (except in the heart) uses either fat or carbohydrate. Of course, this assumes some measure of physical activity. Muscle stores a certain amount of carbohydrate, after which it has to draw carbohydrate from the blood, which gets it from a small reserve of carbohydrate which is stored in the liver after you eat.
The metabolic effect of a very low carbohydrate diet is similar in some ways to untreated Type I diabetes. The brain needs carbohydrate, so the body tries to find a way. Fat is normally stored by the body in a form that connects three fatty acids together with a small carbohydrate molecule. The body breaks up the stored fat into the carbohydrate, which goes to the brain, and the fatty acids, which ends up being waste material. It's not normal for the body to have stray fatty acids around like this, and the fatty acids get shunted through some unintended metabolic pathways, eventually breaking down into acetone and similar substances, which evaporate from the lungs. This type of metabolism is called ketosis, and the resulting sweet-smelling breath (smelling of nail polish remover) was a classic symptom of late stage Type I diabetes in the days before insulin therapy. The diabetes analogy breaks down in that the blood sugar isn't actually elevated.
The whole point of very low carbohydrate diets is to put the body into ketosis, in which fat is broken down into nail polish remover, which is exhaled. This is faster, easier, and less hunger-inducing than exercise. I remain unconvinced that it's healthy.
Low-carbohydrate diets can also be low in water soluble vitamins, since they rely primarily on meat, eggs, and dairy at the expense of grains, legumes, and vegetables.
The excess protein in a low-carbohydrate diet, assuming you're eating meat rather than butter, gets burned up, since there's no good way to make it into fat. This places an extra burden on the kidneys.
If you're heavy because you eat from habit rather than hunger, reducing caloric intake is a good place to start. It's better to start by reducing fat intake, though, since your body already has that in excess. If you're heavy because your appetite exceeds your metabolism, your best recourse is a combination of exercise and reduced caloric intake. Again, the best recourse is to reduce fat intake.
If you're running sawfish, they're all still in the root window middle-click menu. If you want them in your panel menus, try the following:
Go into the control center > panel > menu and set Programs (GNOME) to appear in a menu or submenu. Then run the following, as root:
for dir in `lsThey'll then appear in the menus under Program > [category] > Red Hat Menus
Assuming this isn't a complete joke...
David Touretzky would probably get a kick out of this language, since it could lead to a dramatic rendition of a CSS descrambler.
- There seems to be a consensus that the audio-interactive magnetic fluid piece was the most interesting thing in the art show this year (previous winners include the wooden mirror, with the raining text coming in close behind, and the computer-driven sand table). The linked reviewer thought so, as did I, as did another person I asked at SIGGRAPH.
;-)
- There weren't many teapots in the papers this year, nor were as many bunnies as in previous years. David hasn't yet moved in to replace the bunny (I saw much less of David this year than I did at his debut last year). Instead, it looks like the mesh junkies are using various other non-bunny models from Stanford. One of these days I need to make a graph of the number of teapot, bunny, etc. figures in the proceedings over time.
- Yes, it did seem a bit smaller and quieter than previously. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a side effect of dot-com funding drying up. Normally the LA conferences draw more film industry people, so one might expect it to be bigger this year than last.
Copyleft has Free Sklyarov t-shirts.
Dave... I don't think you should do that, Dave...
Attacking the First Amendment is generally much more lucrative than defending it.
Corn as a fuel source doesn't do much better than break even, because corn needs a lot of nitrogen-based fertilizer. Soybeans have nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots and actually increase the amount of fixed nitrogen in the soil. They need very little fertilizer in comparison to other crops, and they're not normally grown in places that need a lot of irrigation. Soybeans are a much better choice than corn as a fuel crop. If soybean-based fuels boost the price of soybeans, it will also help encourage corn farmers to rotate soybeans through their fields more often, which will further decrease the amount of energy needed for fertilizer.
Using the existing machines (assuming they're running Linux or another sufficiently useful operating system) is probably the best use of resources. If you're going to be putting big burdens on the network, it's probably worth putting a bridge between you and the rest of the school, just so you're not all on the same collision domain. Ethernet-based Beowulf clusters are much happier with switching hubs in any event, especially as the number of nodes increases. You could get a couple of 16-port switches for less than a single node would cost, and the system would perform much better without burdening the rest of the network.
If you wanted to build an actual dedicated cluster, I've been looking at hardware lately, and one could build a 4-node cluster for around $2150. Feel free to cut lots of corners on HD (you don't need much space), video card (cheapest you can find, try at ham swaps), don't bother with monitors, don't even bother with CD-ROM (you can install over the network from a boot floppy). You certainly don't need sound cards. You can skip mice completely, and you only need keyboards for booting (depending on your BIOS). A KVM switch (and one monitor) may make it easier to bring all of them up and troubleshoot. The single monitor may make it easy for the students to see the action, but you may just prefer to do remote display. If you're going to spend more than that, look into low-end SMP hardware. They're less than twice the price of single-CPU nodes ($3200 for a 4-node dual-CPU cluster), and you can more than double your performance (depending on the application), since the network is typically the biggest bottleneck. Then again, this may go against the lesson of "not needing special hardware".
Especially for Jr. High students, it's probably necessary to run something more interesting than heat transfer and fluid dynamics simulations. I'd recommend checking out PVMPOV. Then again, I may be biased. ;-)
If the point is to demonstrate the usefulness of clusters to students, you'd be cutting yourself off at the knees by using VMWare, since I don't think your performance would improve by adding more virtual machines (unless you have them each set up to use a small fraction of the resources of the host machine). It may be useful as a development environment, but only so long as you're checking correctness. For profiling and general study of performance characteristics, you need the real thing.