I must say that Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers are some great people. My high school (Lakewood High School) has done FIRST since 1995.
Tried to get my university to sponsor a team when I was a freshmen, but that didn't fly.
Like previous people have said, if you get a chance to do this, do it.
I have found VNC to be a perfect utility for installing Oracle on a remote unix box. Its as good as X, but you can use it in disconnected mode so that if the network is slow or unstable, it doesn't kill all the stuff running under your session...you just reconnect and everything is still there as you left it.
Look it up on FreshMeat or Yahoo!.
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If you want easy, painless wireless get the PalmVII (or wait for the newer PalmVIIx - it will have 8MB of RAM instead of just 2MB) If you want fast, truly tcp/ip access, get the Omnisky. I have both a PalmVII and a PalmVx with OmniSky and I love the OmniSky. You can even telnet and irc from the palm (and VNC too). Omnisky is a more expensive initial cash outlay, but right now they have a program where you get a $150 rebate after you have paid for 6 months of service. The service is also cheaper than Palms (if you are talking unlimited bandwidth - which is the only way to fly IMO). You also have the option of waiting for Omnisky's Springboard for Visor's. That will probably yield your best bet if you don't want a PalmV. --b
One of the biggest things holding back quantum cryptography is the fact that you can't go but 30km before you lose the signal. In traditional communications you can just use a booster/repeater....but when we are talking about measuring the spins of photons we run into the heisenburg wall. (can't measure something without disturbing it)
Since repeaters would need to measure a photon to recreate it as a stronger signal, this has always been out of the question. But now if we have this cable that can go great distances without repeaters, then we are one giant step closer to quantum crypto.
If you want more info on the subject, I suggest the book "Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse"
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SuSE is the only distro that is certified for use with Oracle. I doubt that Oracle would let them die. I expect to see SuSE become part of Oracle.
Could you imagine how great a country the US would be if we had a prez that actually acted like they do on West Wing. That show kicks ass.
I must say that Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers are some great people. My high school (Lakewood High School) has done FIRST since 1995. Tried to get my university to sponsor a team when I was a freshmen, but that didn't fly. Like previous people have said, if you get a chance to do this, do it.
I have found VNC to be a perfect utility for installing Oracle on a remote unix box. Its as good as X, but you can use it in disconnected mode so that if the network is slow or unstable, it doesn't kill all the stuff running under your session...you just reconnect and everything is still there as you left it. Look it up on FreshMeat or Yahoo!. --b
If you want easy, painless wireless get the PalmVII (or wait for the newer PalmVIIx - it will have 8MB of RAM instead of just 2MB) If you want fast, truly tcp/ip access, get the Omnisky. I have both a PalmVII and a PalmVx with OmniSky and I love the OmniSky. You can even telnet and irc from the palm (and VNC too). Omnisky is a more expensive initial cash outlay, but right now they have a program where you get a $150 rebate after you have paid for 6 months of service. The service is also cheaper than Palms (if you are talking unlimited bandwidth - which is the only way to fly IMO). You also have the option of waiting for Omnisky's Springboard for Visor's. That will probably yield your best bet if you don't want a PalmV. --b
One of the biggest things holding back quantum cryptography is the fact that you can't go but 30km before you lose the signal. In traditional communications you can just use a booster/repeater....but when we are talking about measuring the spins of photons we run into the heisenburg wall. (can't measure something without disturbing it)
Since repeaters would need to measure a photon to recreate it as a stronger signal, this has always been out of the question. But now if we have this cable that can go great distances without repeaters, then we are one giant step closer to quantum crypto.
If you want more info on the subject, I suggest the book "Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse"
--b
Uh, IRIX was the original....then NT, then MacOS X, then Linux.