This reminds me of my intro to c++ course at a major research institution. They recently switched the intro course from Solaris/g++ to Windows/Visual C++/.NET. It's a total mess in a very similar way. In one of the first assignments students were required to make use of the math library, which turned into a mess when people passed ints and floats to functions that only accepted doubles. This worked just fine under VC++ but failed on the Solaris machines with g++ where all the grading is done.
Aside from this and other compatibility problems we've had between g++ and VSC++, the profs have no idea what they're doing with VS.NET because they've spent most of their time using the Solaris machines. I'm pretty sure the whole switch was motivated by the CS Department head, who switched Purdue over to M$ products when he worked there. So far he's only got the intro course, but they're looking at using it in higher courses too:(.
If you read the history of RFC 959, it refers to earlier proposed FTP mechanisms and comments pre-TCP in RFCs 114, 141, 265, 281, 294, 385, 414, 430 and 454 (first official FTP standard). There were also more revisions between 454 and 959, but I think the aforementioned RFCs are more than enough to bury it in court:).
A tip: I have an early iMac DV SE (400/128 MB RAM) and it ran excruciatingly slow on my machine too. Yeah, the requirements are low, but I threw another 256 MB in there:) and I haven't heard my machine swap to the hdd since. It's probably the biggest way to increase performance under OS X.
I felt this necessary to point out. If anything, FIRST is the opposite of battlebots. This year, given the game, it's 4 robots on the field working together to get as many points as possible. There was no ramming, smashing, or destruction of any sort. You do -> you lose.
I am also involved with the FIRST program at my high school, and things are starting to even out more. It all depends upon the coaches. Our coach makes an active effort to get more females involved and on the team. Unfortunately, there are very few who gravitate towards the technical aspects, most do "everything but the robot." -------------------- kurdraw
I actually have one of the newer iMac DV's that does not have a fan at all, and another reason they can go fanless is the design of the case. The case is designed so that when it rests on your desk it tilts up a little to allow access to airholes for ventilation underneath, and on the top of the machine it has more airholes. This allows it do ventilate better in a "natural" fashion than most PC's do.
However, it still does make some noise. In particular you can here the HD, and if you put in a CDROM, that also makes a lot of noise.
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds me of my intro to c++ course at a major research institution. They recently switched the intro course from Solaris/g++ to Windows/Visual C++/.NET. It's a total mess in a very similar way. In one of the first assignments students were required to make use of the math library, which turned into a mess when people passed ints and floats to functions that only accepted doubles. This worked just fine under VC++ but failed on the Solaris machines with g++ where all the grading is done.
Aside from this and other compatibility problems we've had between g++ and VSC++, the profs have no idea what they're doing with VS.NET because they've spent most of their time using the Solaris machines. I'm pretty sure the whole switch was motivated by the CS Department head, who switched Purdue over to M$ products when he worked there. So far he's only got the intro course, but they're looking at using it in higher courses too :(.
If you read the history of RFC 959, it refers to earlier proposed FTP mechanisms and comments pre-TCP in RFCs 114, 141, 265, 281, 294, 385, 414, 430 and 454 (first official FTP standard). There were also more revisions between 454 and 959, but I think the aforementioned RFCs are more than enough to bury it in court :).
A tip: I have an early iMac DV SE (400/128 MB RAM) and it ran excruciatingly slow on my machine too. Yeah, the requirements are low, but I threw another 256 MB in there :) and I haven't heard my machine swap to the hdd since. It's probably the biggest way to increase performance under OS X.
I felt this necessary to point out. If anything, FIRST is the opposite of battlebots. This year, given the game, it's 4 robots on the field working together to get as many points as possible. There was no ramming, smashing, or destruction of any sort. You do -> you lose.
I am also involved with the FIRST program at my high school, and things are starting to even out more. It all depends upon the coaches. Our coach makes an active effort to get more females involved and on the team. Unfortunately, there are very few who gravitate towards the technical aspects, most do "everything but the robot."
--------------------
kurdraw
I actually have one of the newer iMac DV's that does not have a fan at all, and another reason they can go fanless is the design of the case. The case is designed so that when it rests on your desk it tilts up a little to allow access to airholes for ventilation underneath, and on the top of the machine it has more airholes. This allows it do ventilate better in a "natural" fashion than most PC's do.
However, it still does make some noise. In particular you can here the HD, and if you put in a CDROM, that also makes a lot of noise.
--------------------
kurdraw