I don't think he meant that CSci students were *only* learning Java, or that it was some sort of tech-school "learn Java and be a computer genius" course set.
The first course I took was CSci 1901 -- it used Scheme. The second one, CSci 1902, used Java. In other courses, we've gotten to pick the language we use. I, and most others, choose Java because we're familiar with it. I'm starting a software project for the company I work for in my spare time during the school year and during the summer. I got to pick the language, and naturally, I chose Java. I'm very comfortable with Java in a UNIX environment, and I'm sticking with it whenever I have the choice.
I saw film melt at a drive-in last summer. It only took a couple minutes to fix though -- I'm guessing the proprietors of the drive-in have had a little more experience than the guy in the cineplex projection room.
And yes, the Sky-Vu drive-in is still open: Friday-Sunday at Dusk, from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Broadcast stations are getting bought up left and right, largely by beheamoths like Clear Channel and Capital Cities/ABC (Disney). In the markets I live in, Minneapolis (school year), and Grand Forks (summer), the airwaves are dominated by CRAP, a large portion of which is broadcast by a Clear Channel station (5 in Grand Forks, 7 in Minneapolis). The music choice on these stations seems to be limited to oldies, Britney Spears, and Limp Bizkit. The only alternatives in either market are college radio -- REV 105 used to be a real choice in Minneapolis, but that has been long swallowed up by Disney.
So I'm happy just to see satellite radio for the opportunity for something that's just a little different (granted, there will be Clear Channel and Disney stations on there too).
So maybe we need to start a "pirate radio" station for satellite, or at least get a good net-only station onto satellite.
Does anyone know where to get the Compaq IA-2 for cheap? I like the big monitor it's got, like a 15-incher. Honestly, it looks like an iMac: http://athome.compaq.com/showroom/static/iPAQ/inta ppliance2.asp
It seems like this would make a good kitchen PC (the screen's bigger and much easier to see), or if the processor were powerful enough, a digital TV type thing (playing downloaded music videos of course!)
I didn't get it either, 'til I realized he must be referring to the "Fragile" marking on the box. At least that's the only reason I can think of for needing to know English to toss boxes. Though it seems like you'd learn the word "FRAGILE" eventually if you moved boxes all day.
However:
In French, "Fragile" is spelled "Fragile"
In Spanish and Portuguese, "Fragile" is spelled "Frágil"
Yeah, basically the entire area shown covered on the map is already covered by CableOne cable modem service, and, for a large portion, Qwest DSL. So the usefulness of the service is, for the most part, limited to mobile users (and I suppose for someone who happened to be in a cable and DSL dead zone).
Now in rural areas not far away, companies such as Wiktel (http://www.wiktel.com), who I work for, are installing wireless in smaller towns, with a coverage of 10-20 miles outside of the town. Inside most small towns, people can get cable or DSL, but the rural areas can only get DSL if they happen to be close to town or close to a remote fiber closet.
Between us and a competitor, Rural Access (coverage map: http://www.ruralaccess.net/wireless/map.htm -- for reference, Grand Forks is 70mi north of Fargo) we'll have the border regions of Northwestern Minnesota, Northeastern North Dakota, and Southwestern Manitoba completely covered within a year or two.
You should move farther outstate.:) We have DSL available all the way up to the exchanges along the Canadian Border (Lancaster, Roseau area, etc.) and we're offering wireless in Warroad (which means you could at least theoretically get it out on Lake of the Woods) PLUS we have fiber to four islands out in the lake, which all now have DSL. So yes, there are islands in Lake of the Woods that have fiber to the CO and DSL to homes, and yet some people can't even get it in the city of Minneapolis. Weird.
I was referring more to Compaq's Ipaq line, their response to the iMac craze. Basically any and all cases that try to be innovative, creative, or just otherwise different from the standard have to deal with these problems.
Actually, the iPaq's use standard MicroATX motherboards. You can swap in any standard MicroATX board that has everything you need on board (i.e. there are no slots).
That's not the code red worm, that's the sircam virus. The Code Red worm spread through IIS servers, the sircam virus spread through email with the characteristic lines "I send this file in order to have your advice" and "Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista".
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I've been driving an 88 Ford Bronco II for a few years. I finally decided to get a different car, and I thought I'd say screw the snow and the bad roads, I'll get a VW beetle. So I did. And two days later I bottomed it out on a gravel road and cracked the oil pan. Damn.
It looks like anoter Three Gorges Dam-style massive project. It's interesting what huge projects can be created in a centrally-planned economy, like the BAM in the Soviet Union. China is luckier than the Soviet Union though in that they're actually making lots of money (despite | because of) the way they run their economy. It will be interesting to see if this plan materializes, and what it means for the viability of a (at least somewhat) centrally-planned economy.
Actually, Nikos is just his nickname. His full first name is Nikolaos -- Nikolaus Papanikolopoulos. It goes on every assignment I do for his class -- just so I can remember how to spell it.:)
I like him a lot -- I'm taking Algorithms and Data Structures (CSci 4041) with him right now. He's a great professor. Funny thing is I didn't know he was involved in this until I read it on Slashdot.
One quite possible explanation from the school board will be that they have no choice. E-rate -- federal funding for networking in lower-income schools -- requires that filtering software be installed on any network that e-rate helps fund. (Specifically, the money comes from the FCC Universal Service Fund, one of those lines at the end of your phone bill).
Vice President Al Gore urged Congress on Monday to pass legislation that would require schools and libraries using federal subsidies for Internet access to block inappropriate material from children. "As we connect every school and classroom to the Internet, we must protect our children from the red-light districts of cyberspace," Gore said. http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19980323S0011
Deja-ogle -- that's the service that lets you search the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* archives.
Speaking of... are there any services that actually archive the binaries too? I think I remember that Deja just strips binaries. Are they preserved anywhere, or are they forever lost into the ether? (Or just backed up on tape somewhere on a shelf in a machine room never to be restored again?)
Which brings up another point -- what about completing the archives? Are there enough backups left out there that the contents of usenet could be restored from inception on?
Ah yes, Ann Uumellmahaye. Did you remember how to spell those off the top of your head? I've watched that movie a zillion times (I've got it on DVD now even) but I still don't think I could have remembered how to spell that.
Did anyone else read that wrong? I saw (in my head anyway) ST:TPM and thought Star Trek: The Phantom Menace. What would that be? Jar-jar meets tribbles?
I didn't get any toys with guns or any stuff like that (meaning no transformers at all). My cousins' bedrooms were full of transformers. Like you couldn't even walk in there, you just kind of had to wade through broken transformers and imitations. No, I played with legos (later) and dump drucks (earlier) and stuff.
And about your sig: I have a NO DVD CCA T-shirt. 95% of the people I talk to when I wear that shirt ask me what it is.
Win2K itself doesn't have such fancy features. But you can pick up something like Checkpoint Firewall-1 that provides a very nice firewall for NT or 2000. The ISP I work for when I'm not at college uses it, and works surprisingly well. In fact, it uses a GUI (which helps for the CLI-impared.) And it works a lot better than some of the other stuff they run on 2000 (namely DNS and mail, which tend to choke on themselves daily at least -- Microsoft gave them free copies of 2000 to keep them from using Solaris, basically).
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That's funny, I get the impression now from UMN vadding pages and from vadders I know that the motion sensors are still there but are mostly ignored now. It still makes me hesitant to try though, I haven't been down there yet.
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That reminds me of the old Tuberculosis sanitorium I explored a few years ago. It was torn down recently, so I can do more exploring. It was quite an interesting complex, I wish I had taken pictures of it. It was originally a TB sanitorium, then it lay vacant for a while, became a nursing home, then when the new nursing home was built it lay vacant again. Then for a few years, it was used as dormitories for the local college. I can understand how the buildings would have been pretty creepy. Here's some photos from the local historical society of the original building.
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Morrison & Foerster (MoFo, www.mofo.com) said, "We're Gonna Get These Mofos! Err, not us, MoFo, but those Mofo Spammers..."
Yes, they really call themselves MoFo!
I don't think he meant that CSci students were *only* learning Java, or that it was some sort of tech-school "learn Java and be a computer genius" course set.
The first course I took was CSci 1901 -- it used Scheme. The second one, CSci 1902, used Java. In other courses, we've gotten to pick the language we use. I, and most others, choose Java because we're familiar with it. I'm starting a software project for the company I work for in my spare time during the school year and during the summer. I got to pick the language, and naturally, I chose Java. I'm very comfortable with Java in a UNIX environment, and I'm sticking with it whenever I have the choice.
I saw film melt at a drive-in last summer. It only took a couple minutes to fix though -- I'm guessing the proprietors of the drive-in have had a little more experience than the guy in the cineplex projection room.
And yes, the Sky-Vu drive-in is still open: Friday-Sunday at Dusk, from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Broadcast stations are getting bought up left and right, largely by beheamoths like Clear Channel and Capital Cities/ABC (Disney). In the markets I live in, Minneapolis (school year), and Grand Forks (summer), the airwaves are dominated by CRAP, a large portion of which is broadcast by a Clear Channel station (5 in Grand Forks, 7 in Minneapolis). The music choice on these stations seems to be limited to oldies, Britney Spears, and Limp Bizkit. The only alternatives in either market are college radio -- REV 105 used to be a real choice in Minneapolis, but that has been long swallowed up by Disney.
So I'm happy just to see satellite radio for the opportunity for something that's just a little different (granted, there will be Clear Channel and Disney stations on there too).
So maybe we need to start a "pirate radio" station for satellite, or at least get a good net-only station onto satellite.
Does anyone know where to get the Compaq IA-2 for cheap? I like the big monitor it's got, like a 15-incher. Honestly, it looks like an iMac: http://athome.compaq.com/showroom/static/iPAQ/inta ppliance2.asp
It seems like this would make a good kitchen PC (the screen's bigger and much easier to see), or if the processor were powerful enough, a digital TV type thing (playing downloaded music videos of course!)
I didn't get it either, 'til I realized he must be referring to the "Fragile" marking on the box. At least that's the only reason I can think of for needing to know English to toss boxes. Though it seems like you'd learn the word "FRAGILE" eventually if you moved boxes all day.
However:
In French, "Fragile" is spelled "Fragile"
In Spanish and Portuguese, "Fragile" is spelled "Frágil"
Yeah, basically the entire area shown covered on the map is already covered by CableOne cable modem service, and, for a large portion, Qwest DSL. So the usefulness of the service is, for the most part, limited to mobile users (and I suppose for someone who happened to be in a cable and DSL dead zone).
Now in rural areas not far away, companies such as Wiktel (http://www.wiktel.com), who I work for, are installing wireless in smaller towns, with a coverage of 10-20 miles outside of the town. Inside most small towns, people can get cable or DSL, but the rural areas can only get DSL if they happen to be close to town or close to a remote fiber closet.
Between us and a competitor, Rural Access (coverage map: http://www.ruralaccess.net/wireless/map.htm -- for reference, Grand Forks is 70mi north of Fargo) we'll have the border regions of Northwestern Minnesota, Northeastern North Dakota, and Southwestern Manitoba completely covered within a year or two.
You should move farther outstate. :) We have DSL available all the way up to the exchanges along the Canadian Border (Lancaster, Roseau area, etc.) and we're offering wireless in Warroad (which means you could at least theoretically get it out on Lake of the Woods) PLUS we have fiber to four islands out in the lake, which all now have DSL. So yes, there are islands in Lake of the Woods that have fiber to the CO and DSL to homes, and yet some people can't even get it in the city of Minneapolis. Weird.
Actually, the iPaq's use standard MicroATX motherboards. You can swap in any standard MicroATX board that has everything you need on board (i.e. there are no slots).
That's not the code red worm, that's the sircam virus. The Code Red worm spread through IIS servers, the sircam virus spread through email with the characteristic lines "I send this file in order to have your advice" and "Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista".
I've been driving an 88 Ford Bronco II for a few years. I finally decided to get a different car, and I thought I'd say screw the snow and the bad roads, I'll get a VW beetle. So I did. And two days later I bottomed it out on a gravel road and cracked the oil pan. Damn.
It looks like anoter Three Gorges Dam-style massive project. It's interesting what huge projects can be created in a centrally-planned economy, like the BAM in the Soviet Union. China is luckier than the Soviet Union though in that they're actually making lots of money (despite | because of) the way they run their economy. It will be interesting to see if this plan materializes, and what it means for the viability of a (at least somewhat) centrally-planned economy.
Was that a Monty Python's The Meaning of Life reference, or just a coincidence?
Are you saying you've gotten pulled over because the officer noticed red shift? That's pretty damn fast.
Actually, Nikos is just his nickname. His full first name is Nikolaos -- Nikolaus Papanikolopoulos. It goes on every assignment I do for his class -- just so I can remember how to spell it. :)
I like him a lot -- I'm taking Algorithms and Data Structures (CSci 4041) with him right now. He's a great professor. Funny thing is I didn't know he was involved in this until I read it on Slashdot.
Vice President Al Gore urged Congress on Monday to pass legislation that would require schools and libraries using federal subsidies for Internet access to block inappropriate material from children. "As we connect every school and classroom to the Internet, we must protect our children from the red-light districts of cyberspace," Gore said. http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19980323S0011
And it passed: http://techlawjournal.com/censor/19990624.htm and allowed to stand by the Supreme Court. http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/149865.html. So for many rural and urban school districts, they don't have any choice. Censorship is required by law -- either that or back to a single dialup connection. :)
Of course, the school may not receive e-rate funding, in which case, they may be required by other local/state laws to filter access.
Deja-ogle -- that's the service that lets you search the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* archives.
Speaking of... are there any services that actually archive the binaries too? I think I remember that Deja just strips binaries. Are they preserved anywhere, or are they forever lost into the ether? (Or just backed up on tape somewhere on a shelf in a machine room never to be restored again?)
Which brings up another point -- what about completing the archives? Are there enough backups left out there that the contents of usenet could be restored from inception on?
Ah yes, Ann Uumellmahaye. Did you remember how to spell those off the top of your head? I've watched that movie a zillion times (I've got it on DVD now even) but I still don't think I could have remembered how to spell that.
Did anyone else read that wrong? I saw (in my head anyway) ST:TPM and thought Star Trek: The Phantom Menace. What would that be? Jar-jar meets tribbles?
Wow, they must be well separated. I've never even MET a telephone sanitation person!
I didn't get any toys with guns or any stuff like that (meaning no transformers at all). My cousins' bedrooms were full of transformers. Like you couldn't even walk in there, you just kind of had to wade through broken transformers and imitations. No, I played with legos (later) and dump drucks (earlier) and stuff.
And about your sig: I have a NO DVD CCA T-shirt. 95% of the people I talk to when I wear that shirt ask me what it is.
Win2K itself doesn't have such fancy features. But you can pick up something like Checkpoint Firewall-1 that provides a very nice firewall for NT or 2000. The ISP I work for when I'm not at college uses it, and works surprisingly well. In fact, it uses a GUI (which helps for the CLI-impared.) And it works a lot better than some of the other stuff they run on 2000 (namely DNS and mail, which tend to choke on themselves daily at least -- Microsoft gave them free copies of 2000 to keep them from using Solaris, basically).
That's funny, I get the impression now from UMN vadding pages and from vadders I know that the motion sensors are still there but are mostly ignored now. It still makes me hesitant to try though, I haven't been down there yet.
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