It is supposed to use a lot of RAM, this is also stated on the SETI@Home website. It needs the large amounts of RAM in order to process the data. I wouldn't expect to see the RAM usage drop by very much in future clients, although it would be a welcomed surprise. ---
For anyone from or interested in the beautiful country of Sweden, you may want to consider joining Team Sweden. At the moment I'm the first one registered for the team, but there is a group of us that was already working as a "team" before they setup real teams. Check out the stats for Team Sweden here. There are currently about 80 machines happily processing data. ---
This version causes the delay for each frame to be set correctly. This will help any of you that were having problems with the text just flashing by during certain scenes:
(Note: this version isn't completely correct either. It assumes a value of 0 for the first frame, but in this case it doesn't matter since that frame is blank.) ---
You must live in some obscure corner of the world if you are paying outrageous shipping charges. I actually just ordered a CD from them last week and I found the prices quite reasonable. ---
Can you say Rawhide? RedHat started the Rawhide releases to improve the testing process. I would say that it went much more smoothly with 6.0 than it did with 5.0. ---
They already own bushsucks.com... they didn't purchase www.bushsucks.com, they purchased bushsucks.com. When you purchase a domain, you automatically own all the subdomains. So whoever owns sucks.com can also create bush.sucks.com or george.w.bush.sucks.com, etc. So there is no "trick" to not using the www extension. WWW is just a subdomain or in this case simply a host.
So for domain names we have the following:
Example: omega15.cse.kau.se
.se -> top level domain. In this case it is the domain name for Sweden
.kau -> subdomain. This is the subdomain for Karlstad University
.cse -> another subdomain. This is the subdomain for the computer science department (student segment)
omega15 -> host. This is the name of a specific machine located on the student LAN
That concludes today lecture, expect a pop quiz tomorrow. For extra credit you can consider the following where there is an extra dot at the end of the address:
Example: omega15.cse.kau.se.
For 10 extra points, tell me what the extra dot (.) after.se represents.
This analogy doesn't apply, however, because Slashdot is run by BSI and BSI is a company that exists to make money... now if BSI were a registered non-profit organization then it would be different.
Just for the record, I want to say again that I have no problem with Rob and the rest of the/. crew making money. In fact, hopefully someday I'll be able to make money by doing things that I enjoy as well! ---
Since when did Slashdot become a non-profit organization? I was under the impression that Malda, Hemos, and Jeff did this for a living... wasn't that the whole point of them setting up BSI? If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me. ---
IPv6 does not affect the number of domain name possibilities, just the number of IP addresses that we currently have available. For companies that are using virtual hosting, they do NOT need a seperate IP address for their www.companyname.com address. This was one of the major changes introduced in HTTP 1.1. ---
You know what, I think I really have been over here too long... I just realized that I don't even know when the elections are! I'm moving back to the states in July, am I going to have time to register and vote? ---
And I'll be damned, look where www.microsfot.org takes me too.....
Nowhere...
whois microsfot.org [rs.internic.net] No match for "MICROSFOT.ORG".
You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or modify any of the data presented in response to your search request, or use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior express written permission of Network Solutions.
Now microsfot.com on the other hand points to linux.org... ---
But how do you deal with trademarks from different industries? What if a software company has a trademark X and a clothing brand also has the same trademark? Who should be entitled to the domain name? ---
Of course, I'm stuck in Sweden at the moment, so I don't have a clue about the potential candidates. I know that Gore doesn't have a clue, but what about George, how does he stand up when it comes to technical matters? ---
No not really, I've seen enough projects where you can take a mediocre programmer and still produce excellent code. As long as you give them a well written design document with well defined API's then you really can't go wrong. I'm not saying that there is no difference between good programmers and bad programmers though. I'd take a good programmer any day of the week if I had to choose. A good programmer will be more involved in the entire design process and is likely to produce results more quickly. In addition, a good programmer will require less "hand-holding" to get the job done.
I've seen enough code from students to state with a clear conscience that yes, just about anyone can program. I'm not saying that they will all come up with the most optimal solution on their own, but if you specifically tell them to "do it this way" and then leave them alone, then 99% of the time they can do it. So I still stick to my original thesis that there is a lot more to being a computer scientist that programming. ---
I'd like to address you directly because your assumptions about me are completely wrong. Firstly, computer science is not just a career, it is a _science_ just like the name implies. I agree that computer science and programming are two different things. Anyone can program, but not everyone can be a computer scientist. The latter requires training, experience and the right kind of person. I would say that computer science is a much more academic endeavor than simply programming.
As for your assumption that I'm just interested in using whatever is "trendy" you are once again wrong. As a computer science teacher at a Swedish University I tend to use a lot of languages that are not trendy at all, such as Lisp, prolog, etc. I have nothing against the introduction of a new language, and as I said in my original post, I have not evaluated Rebol so I can not say if it is a "good" language or not. What I was addressing in my initial post was that just because the language appeared simpler did not mean that it was better than what is currently available. The trend that I have been seeing recently on the Internet is that people that have no experience at all with system design, or even programming for that matter, are designing "web applications." This includes everything from simple scripts to attempts at full blown e-commerce sites. I'm all for creating a new language than can help with the these types of applications, but I do NOT think that it is a substitute for the type of experience that is necessary to deal with these situations efficiently.
As for my analogies, I still think they are valid if taken in context. As I said above, the current trend is for non-programmers to attempt to develop Internet applications. So, like I said above, I don't want a non-pilot flying my plane, just like I don't want some graphic designer trying to secure my data on my favorite e-commerce site. ---
Yeah, I know. I already have some interesting plans for it. I will be moving from Sweden back to the US in July and hope to get something going then. If anyone knows of any good co-location options in Dallas/Fort Worth please let me know. I'd like to get things setup ASAP when I get to Dallas. ---
Most spammers use either completely fake addresses, or an actual one where they can be contacted (most are trying to make money from you, after all)
Actually, from my experience with spammers (and believe me, they seem to like me for some reason!), they tend to use email addresses that they don't intend to use after sending the spam. This can be either a real email address or a completely fake one, but most of the mails that are sent out that intend to make money usually include a phone number or a snail mail address to send the response to. ---
Slashdot Mirror
It is supposed to use a lot of RAM, this is also stated on the SETI@Home website. It needs the large amounts of RAM in order to process the data. I wouldn't expect to see the RAM usage drop by very much in future clients, although it would be a welcomed surprise.
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For anyone from or interested in the beautiful country of Sweden, you may want to consider joining Team Sweden. At the moment I'm the first one registered for the team, but there is a group of us that was already working as a "team" before they setup real teams. Check out the stats for Team Sweden here. There are currently about 80 machines happily processing data.
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This version causes the delay for each frame to be set correctly. This will help any of you that were having problems with the text just flashing by during certain scenes:
perl -pe 'if(/^(\d+)\s*$/){select undef,undef,undef,$old/15;$old=$1;$_="\e[H\e[J"}' sw1.txt
(Note: this version isn't completely correct either. It assumes a value of 0 for the first frame, but in this case it doesn't matter since that frame is blank.)
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Hmmm, I wonder why everyone of your posts gets marked down! Even the ones that are on topic.
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And I guess that box costs them nothing? Not to mention the handling costs (packing time, invoicing, etc)?
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You must live in some obscure corner of the world if you are paying outrageous shipping charges. I actually just ordered a CD from them last week and I found the prices quite reasonable.
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Can you say Rawhide? RedHat started the Rawhide releases to improve the testing process. I would say that it went much more smoothly with 6.0 than it did with 5.0.
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Actually, most people call me an American...
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They already own bushsucks.com... they didn't purchase www.bushsucks.com, they purchased bushsucks.com. When you purchase a domain, you automatically own all the subdomains. So whoever owns sucks.com can also create bush.sucks.com or george.w.bush.sucks.com, etc. So there is no "trick" to not using the www extension. WWW is just a subdomain or in this case simply a host.
.se represents.
So for domain names we have the following:
Example: omega15.cse.kau.se
.se -> top level domain. In this case it is the
domain name for Sweden
.kau -> subdomain. This is the subdomain for
Karlstad University
.cse -> another subdomain. This is the subdomain
for the computer science department
(student segment)
omega15 -> host. This is the name of a specific
machine located on the student LAN
That concludes today lecture, expect a pop quiz tomorrow. For extra credit you can consider the following where there is an extra dot at the end of the address:
Example: omega15.cse.kau.se.
For 10 extra points, tell me what the extra dot (.) after
---
This analogy doesn't apply, however, because Slashdot is run by BSI and BSI is a company that exists to make money... now if BSI were a registered non-profit organization then it would be different.
/. crew making money. In fact, hopefully someday I'll be able to make money by doing things that I enjoy as well!
Just for the record, I want to say again that I have no problem with Rob and the rest of the
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Since when did Slashdot become a non-profit organization? I was under the impression that Malda, Hemos, and Jeff did this for a living... wasn't that the whole point of them setting up BSI? If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me.
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ummm, too late, they already point to his website.
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IPv6 does not affect the number of domain name possibilities, just the number of IP addresses that we currently have available. For companies that are using virtual hosting, they do NOT need a seperate IP address for their www.companyname.com address. This was one of the major changes introduced in HTTP 1.1.
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Well, technically we could argue that we are an organization of people that post articles on this site so that we know which servers to try to /.
:o)
That would make us an organization with a specific purpose for having this website
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You know what, I think I really have been over here too long... I just realized that I don't even know when the elections are! I'm moving back to the states in July, am I going to have time to register and vote?
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Actually, AC posts start at 0, so it probably didn't get moderated down at all.
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Nowhere...
whois microsfot.org
[rs.internic.net]
No match for "MICROSFOT.ORG".
You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or
modify any of the data presented in response to your search request, or
use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior
express written permission of Network Solutions.
Now microsfot.com on the other hand points to linux.org...
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But how do you deal with trademarks from different industries? What if a software company has a trademark X and a clothing brand also has the same trademark? Who should be entitled to the domain name?
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blowmegeorge.com
blowmegeorge.net
blowmegeorge.org
Of course, I'm stuck in Sweden at the moment, so I don't have a clue about the potential candidates. I know that Gore doesn't have a clue, but what about George, how does he stand up when it comes to technical matters?
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No not really, I've seen enough projects where you can take a mediocre programmer and still produce excellent code. As long as you give them a well written design document with well defined API's then you really can't go wrong. I'm not saying that there is no difference between good programmers and bad programmers though. I'd take a good programmer any day of the week if I had to choose. A good programmer will be more involved in the entire design process and is likely to produce results more quickly. In addition, a good programmer will require less "hand-holding" to get the job done.
I've seen enough code from students to state with a clear conscience that yes, just about anyone can program. I'm not saying that they will all come up with the most optimal solution on their own, but if you specifically tell them to "do it this way" and then leave them alone, then 99% of the time they can do it. So I still stick to my original thesis that there is a lot more to being a computer scientist that programming.
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I'd like to address you directly because your assumptions about me are completely wrong. Firstly, computer science is not just a career, it is a _science_ just like the name implies. I agree that computer science and programming are two different things. Anyone can program, but not everyone can be a computer scientist. The latter requires training, experience and the right kind of person. I would say that computer science is a much more academic endeavor than simply programming.
As for your assumption that I'm just interested in using whatever is "trendy" you are once again wrong. As a computer science teacher at a Swedish University I tend to use a lot of languages that are not trendy at all, such as Lisp, prolog, etc. I have nothing against the introduction of a new language, and as I said in my original post, I have not evaluated Rebol so I can not say if it is a "good" language or not. What I was addressing in my initial post was that just because the language appeared simpler did not mean that it was better than what is currently available. The trend that I have been seeing recently on the Internet is that people that have no experience at all with system design, or even programming for that matter, are designing "web applications." This includes everything from simple scripts to attempts at full blown e-commerce sites. I'm all for creating a new language than can help with the these types of applications, but I do NOT think that it is a substitute for the type of experience that is necessary to deal with these situations efficiently.
As for my analogies, I still think they are valid if taken in context. As I said above, the current trend is for non-programmers to attempt to develop Internet applications. So, like I said above, I don't want a non-pilot flying my plane, just like I don't want some graphic designer trying to secure my data on my favorite e-commerce site.
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What do you mean by "clean it up"? RedHat goes through an extensive test process before shipping.
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Yeah, I know. I already have some interesting plans for it. I will be moving from Sweden back to the US in July and hope to get something going then. If anyone knows of any good co-location options in Dallas/Fort Worth please let me know. I'd like to get things setup ASAP when I get to Dallas.
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Actually, from my experience with spammers (and believe me, they seem to like me for some reason!), they tend to use email addresses that they don't intend to use after sending the spam. This can be either a real email address or a completely fake one, but most of the mails that are sent out that intend to make money usually include a phone number or a snail mail address to send the response to.
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awful? Since when is making a better compiler a bad thing?
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