Well, the program has a built-in solving routine. I'm not sure if this is simply a memorization function, or if it actually is applying an algorithm to solve the puzzle. Check out the source code to find out how they did it.
If you want a real challenge, check out http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube. htm for a 4D Rubik's Cube. I literally wasted two hours when I should have been working messing with that thing. Each face of the hypercube that you are solving is a cube of 9 colored cubes. Try it out. They have Windows AND Linux binaries, as well as Windows and Unix source code.
If a government is designed by programmers, what structure would a programmer choose?
I would see a programmer designing a dictatorship, since he would have fewer lines of code, a tighter decision-making process, and (in some cases) a very efficient constructor and deconstructor.
My associates, however, insist that an absolute monarchy would be the best, simply because a sucessor is already selected for you once your leader dies.
What we did decide on was that a programmer would NEVER arrive at a presidency.
Bush 2,887,426 49%
Gore 2,876,620 49%
Nader 95,076 2%
The margin between Bush and Gore is 11029 votes, which I would not say is a victory. I personally am not going to decide a winner until all votes have been counted in Florida, which may take much more time.
My friends and I have been watching the election for seven hours. The past four have been the most interesting, especially if you look at the G vs. B numbers from Florida as they tallied votes.
At one point, Bush lead by 100000+ votes. However, that narrowed to 20,000 an hour ago, to rise to 55,000 a paltry 45 minutes ago, to fall to 11,000 in the past few minutes. Keep this in mind as you gloat (or mourn) for the next few hours.
To all of the Canadians out there: "I'm SO sorry you had to watch this."
The OU College of Engineering has required laptops for its students for several years. We actually have a (growing) wireless network spreading across campus, where students can access all of our servers and their data files, as well as the WWW. On a nice day, you can walk by Engineers' Court and see students sitting outside by the fountains or under the trees working on projects or just surfing the web.
We use the system for more than e-mail, however. Several courses use a BlackBoard collabaration website to work on projects, turn in and grade daily grades, and supplement the classroom lectures.
If you are interested in learning more, check out The Engineering Computer Network's Website, or our laptop requirements for the past year at this page from the FAQ.
My PCG-F580K can do this while driving the 15" active matrix display at full brightness. I admit that I clock down to 500Mhz from 650, but it does it, and it does it well. I love the stares I get on Airplanes when I'm watching movies on it.
I do have two batteries, however.
Actually, I remember seeing a very similar novelty device in some gift store. It was a want that you waved to get the time. It activated off of the motion of the wand, and would blink out the time in a short burst.
It's possible, but I seem to remember it being quite expensive for its value. I mean, how do you set that kind of thing?
I certainly hope that Sony isn't moving their entire line to the silver cases or black cases. I _like_ the subtle violet in my VAIO. It's a tremendously elegant choice. Not only that, but the machine is quite well engineered. Also, the keyboard colors in the new box are, well, not a good color. I, for one, surf while eating lunch (wireless card). I know for a fact that I build up a bit of grime on the keyquad, but I can't see it b/c of the dark keys. Also, did they mention the size of that thing? I'll be willing to bet that this is going to be some sort of mid-priced (low priced for Sony) iBook Competition. I own an iBook as well, and, well, the handle is useful, but it looks like you're carrying around a large lunchbox, and this one is no different.
Finally, I'll bet that finish scratches and tarnishes easily. Who puts a gloss on a machine that's supposed to travel? I understand doing something like that on the inner casing, but not on the outside!
Sony, please don't let me be right!
P.S. If there is a Sony tech reading this, add 3D to the computers, dammit! What's the use of my $3700 F580K if you can't play OpenGL games, or use OpenGL apps? I love the machine except for that oversight on your part.
I forgot to mention something. For about a year, our PIX has been runnning VERRY SLOWLY. We believe it was due to the damn fan being unplugged on the CPU and the chip getting clocked down automatically to avoid damage.
OK. I've been waiting to post this for a few weeks.
We have one of the older, boxy Cisco PIX 50x firewalls. We have three ethernet ports on the box, and originally, 32 meg RAM. We had never opened the box for any reason before. Who knew what we could screw up on such an expensive piece of equipment? One day, we were messing around with the thing via telnet, and I discovered that the machine is actually an Intel P2-266 box! We immediately cracked the box open, to discover that there really was a full-size pentium II chip in the damn thing! What's even funnier is that the fan on the chip was Unplugged! The heatsink was burning hot to touch, since the machine had been running like this for approximately four months with no downtime. Needless to say, I reconnected the fan to the mobo.
Let's describe the interior. We have a standard Intel motherboard, cicso-labed RAM, no HD, a floppy plugged into the floppy controller, two NIC's, and the PIX card itself. All of the "special" pix IOS resides on this single ISA card. If this wasn't so damn expensive, I would have plugged the card into one of our older servers to see if what would happen. has anyone tried this? Also, there is the standard monitor port, etc. etc. on the mobo. I didn't try plugging in a display, because that would have involved dismounting the board from the box, and I don't think Cisco would have liked that. Anyway, the serial ports on the unit are actually routed into the COM ports on the mainboard via cables routed around the inside of the case.
Now, have any of you ever seen the price of a RAM upgrade for one of these? Cisco wanted $900 for an upgrade to 128. Taking a leap of faith, I grabbed two dimms out of a box I had lying around in the office, and stuck them in the PIX. These were, by the way, cheap kingston, run-of-the-mill dimms that cost maybe $60 each. We restarted the monster, and waited about a minute for a telnet connection. Nothing happened. We powered it down, and removed the new RAM and rebooted. We timed the startup, and added the new RAM in again. It turns out that the delay was due to the BIOS POSTing the new RAM! The machine came up with no problems at all, and identified its new total amount of RAM with no problems.
Has anyone tried anything more daring with a PIX?
Also, if anyone has a broken pix, please e-mail me! gunnar@midsouth.rr.com.nospam
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ePeople Mentor and Support Provider
Please see my certifications at http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=74170 2
Anyone heard anything about the two new movies? Mainframe's site says that there will be two movies released on YTV, a Canadian TV network. Will these be released in DVD or VHS format as well, or, for that matter, will they be shown on Cartoon Network?
Well, is there actual, physical proof that the system exists? I remeber reading about it some time ago on/., but I don't have the time (or the patience) right now to look it up.
I've played this, and I must say that I have several complaints right off the bat: 1. The guns are WAYYYYY to powerful and not properly balanced. One should not have the ability to kill an entire room (albeit a small room) of people with one shot from a particular weapon. 2. Its graphics were nice, but things were too snazzy, zippy, flashy. 3. The first 30 minutes of gameplay are way too abstract for most people to grasp. It took me that long to figure out if I was the agressor or "lone survivor" (read HalfLife).
Well, the catch with G4 processors is that you can't compare them clock cycle for clock cycle with intel or AMD processors. They perform multiple operations per clock, so you really can't compare properly. The best comparison is something like Photoshop, where the only components really tested are on the mainboard itself, not the graphics or hard drive.
My problem with the episode is that they never even bothered to explain where Mulder actually went when he disappeared out of the game room. In retrospect, he could have (possibly) been in the entry-way box or whatver the portals were, but I don't think that fits within the scope of the plot.
Also, How on earth did the Game Guru Guy get his head and hands cut off? The Gunshot wounds I can strech mentally from the suit providing too much "tactile feedback," but decapitation?
07:30AM - 12:30PM Work / School 12:30PM - 01:30PM Lunch / News / CNBC Midday report 01:30PM - 03:30PM More Work 5:00PM (or so) to 10:00PM with a 20 minute dinner somewhere in there (different job. Freelance Graphic Design. Go by my site for more info about that.
Netware 5, IMHO, is a very good alternative to all of the above options. Novell has done an extremely good job with the Netware 5 "dot" release, and promptly fixed a few minor mistakes with 5.1, raising above the competition just a little more. I'm willing to recommend Novell to ANYONE that does not have the patience to set up Linux / Unix / BSD or NT. The beauty of Netware is that it has backing that exceeds the linux community, and quality that exceeds that of both unix and NT. Michael C. Hollinger
Well, you do have the process manager. It won't give you the same level of control that you may be used to, but you can get rid of all the default things that start when the system comes up for the first time.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, the program has a built-in solving routine. I'm not sure if this is simply a memorization function, or if it actually is applying an algorithm to solve the puzzle. Check out the source code to find out how they did it.
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Mike Hollinger
Oops. Bit of a blunder of my part. Each colored face-cube is 27, a 3x3x3 cube. Duh. My error. Download this and try it out.
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Mike Hollinger
If you want a real challenge, check out http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube. htm for a 4D Rubik's Cube. I literally wasted two hours when I should have been working messing with that thing. Each face of the hypercube that you are solving is a cube of 9 colored cubes. Try it out. They have Windows AND Linux binaries, as well as Windows and Unix source code.
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Mike Hollinger
If a government is designed by programmers, what structure would a programmer choose?
I would see a programmer designing a dictatorship, since he would have fewer lines of code, a tighter decision-making process, and (in some cases) a very efficient constructor and deconstructor.
My associates, however, insist that an absolute monarchy would be the best, simply because a sucessor is already selected for you once your leader dies.
What we did decide on was that a programmer would NEVER arrive at a presidency.
What do you think?
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Mike Hollinger
Bush 2,887,426 49%
Gore 2,876,620 49%
Nader 95,076 2%
The margin between Bush and Gore is 11029 votes, which I would not say is a victory. I personally am not going to decide a winner until all votes have been counted in Florida, which may take much more time.
My friends and I have been watching the election for seven hours. The past four have been the most interesting, especially if you look at the G vs. B numbers from Florida as they tallied votes. At one point, Bush lead by 100000+ votes. However, that narrowed to 20,000 an hour ago, to rise to 55,000 a paltry 45 minutes ago, to fall to 11,000 in the past few minutes. Keep this in mind as you gloat (or mourn) for the next few hours.
To all of the Canadians out there: "I'm SO sorry you had to watch this."
--
Mike Hollinger
The OU College of Engineering has required laptops for its students for several years. We actually have a (growing) wireless network spreading across campus, where students can access all of our servers and their data files, as well as the WWW. On a nice day, you can walk by Engineers' Court and see students sitting outside by the fountains or under the trees working on projects or just surfing the web.
We use the system for more than e-mail, however. Several courses use a BlackBoard collabaration website to work on projects, turn in and grade daily grades, and supplement the classroom lectures.
If you are interested in learning more, check out The Engineering Computer Network's Website, or our laptop requirements for the past year at this page from the FAQ.
Go Sooners!
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Mike Hollinger
dammit! want --> wand.
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Mike Hollinger
My PCG-F580K can do this while driving the 15" active matrix display at full brightness. I admit that I clock down to 500Mhz from 650, but it does it, and it does it well. I love the stares I get on Airplanes when I'm watching movies on it. I do have two batteries, however.
--
Mike Hollinger
Actually, I remember seeing a very similar novelty device in some gift store. It was a want that you waved to get the time. It activated off of the motion of the wand, and would blink out the time in a short burst.
It's possible, but I seem to remember it being quite expensive for its value. I mean, how do you set that kind of thing?
--
Mike Hollinger
I certainly hope that Sony isn't moving their entire line to the silver cases or black cases. I _like_ the subtle violet in my VAIO. It's a tremendously elegant choice. Not only that, but the machine is quite well engineered. Also, the keyboard colors in the new box are, well, not a good color. I, for one, surf while eating lunch (wireless card). I know for a fact that I build up a bit of grime on the keyquad, but I can't see it b/c of the dark keys. Also, did they mention the size of that thing? I'll be willing to bet that this is going to be some sort of mid-priced (low priced for Sony) iBook Competition. I own an iBook as well, and, well, the handle is useful, but it looks like you're carrying around a large lunchbox, and this one is no different.
Finally, I'll bet that finish scratches and tarnishes easily. Who puts a gloss on a machine that's supposed to travel? I understand doing something like that on the inner casing, but not on the outside!
Sony, please don't let me be right!
P.S. If there is a Sony tech reading this, add 3D to the computers, dammit! What's the use of my $3700 F580K if you can't play OpenGL games, or use OpenGL apps? I love the machine except for that oversight on your part.
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Mike Hollinger
WorldCom I know for a fact is looking for a strong background in Unix. 3M and Lucent are some others.
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Mike Hollinger
I forgot to mention something. For about a year, our PIX has been runnning VERRY SLOWLY. We believe it was due to the damn fan being unplugged on the CPU and the chip getting clocked down automatically to avoid damage.
OK. I've been waiting to post this for a few weeks.
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We have one of the older, boxy Cisco PIX 50x firewalls. We have three ethernet ports on the box, and originally, 32 meg RAM. We had never opened the box for any reason before. Who knew what we could screw up on such an expensive piece of equipment? One day, we were messing around with the thing via telnet, and I discovered that the machine is actually an Intel P2-266 box! We immediately cracked the box open, to discover that there really was a full-size pentium II chip in the damn thing! What's even funnier is that the fan on the chip was Unplugged! The heatsink was burning hot to touch, since the machine had been running like this for approximately four months with no downtime. Needless to say, I reconnected the fan to the mobo.
Let's describe the interior. We have a standard Intel motherboard, cicso-labed RAM, no HD, a floppy plugged into the floppy controller, two NIC's, and the PIX card itself. All of the "special" pix IOS resides on this single ISA card. If this wasn't so damn expensive, I would have plugged the card into one of our older servers to see if what would happen. has anyone tried this? Also, there is the standard monitor port, etc. etc. on the mobo. I didn't try plugging in a display, because that would have involved dismounting the board from the box, and I don't think Cisco would have liked that. Anyway, the serial ports on the unit are actually routed into the COM ports on the mainboard via cables routed around the inside of the case.
Now, have any of you ever seen the price of a RAM upgrade for one of these? Cisco wanted $900 for an upgrade to 128. Taking a leap of faith, I grabbed two dimms out of a box I had lying around in the office, and stuck them in the PIX. These were, by the way, cheap kingston, run-of-the-mill dimms that cost maybe $60 each. We restarted the monster, and waited about a minute for a telnet connection. Nothing happened. We powered it down, and removed the new RAM and rebooted. We timed the startup, and added the new RAM in again. It turns out that the delay was due to the BIOS POSTing the new RAM! The machine came up with no problems at all, and identified its new total amount of RAM with no problems.
Has anyone tried anything more daring with a PIX?
Also, if anyone has a broken pix, please e-mail me! gunnar@midsouth.rr.com.nospam
--
Michael C. Hollinger
ePeople Mentor and Support Provider
Please see my certifications at http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=7417
Anyone heard anything about the two new movies? Mainframe's site says that there will be two movies released on YTV, a Canadian TV network. Will these be released in DVD or VHS format as well, or, for that matter, will they be shown on Cartoon Network?
Mike Hollinger.
Well, is there actual, physical proof that the system exists? I remeber reading about it some time ago on /., but I don't have the time (or the patience) right now to look it up.
I've played this, and I must say that I have several complaints right off the bat:
1. The guns are WAYYYYY to powerful and not properly balanced. One should not have the ability to kill an entire room (albeit a small room) of people with one shot from a particular weapon.
2. Its graphics were nice, but things were too snazzy, zippy, flashy.
3. The first 30 minutes of gameplay are way too abstract for most people to grasp. It took me that long to figure out if I was the agressor or "lone survivor" (read HalfLife).
All in all, it was a bad game.
Well, the catch with G4 processors is that you can't compare them clock cycle for clock cycle with intel or AMD processors. They perform multiple operations per clock, so you really can't compare properly. The best comparison is something like Photoshop, where the only components really tested are on the mainboard itself, not the graphics or hard drive.
My problem with the episode is that they never even bothered to explain where Mulder actually went when he disappeared out of the game room. In retrospect, he could have (possibly) been in the entry-way box or whatver the portals were, but I don't think that fits within the scope of the plot.
Also, How on earth did the Game Guru Guy get his head and hands cut off? The Gunshot wounds I can strech mentally from the suit providing too much "tactile feedback," but decapitation?
Mike Hollinger
I stand corrected. 'scue me while I go stand in the corner.
Mike Hollinger
They should have at least accused the proper agency. The CIA is the agency that has a world-wide reach. NSA is concerned with internal matters ONLY.
07:30AM - 12:30PM Work / School
12:30PM - 01:30PM Lunch / News / CNBC Midday report
01:30PM - 03:30PM More Work
5:00PM (or so) to 10:00PM with a 20 minute dinner somewhere in there (different job. Freelance Graphic Design. Go by my site for more info about that.
Michael C. Hollinger
This server acts as the backend for our student database, (blackbaud), as well as the file server for our administrative staff.
Netware 5, IMHO, is a very good alternative to all of the above options. Novell has done an extremely good job with the Netware 5 "dot" release, and promptly fixed a few minor mistakes with 5.1, raising above the competition just a little more. I'm willing to recommend Novell to ANYONE that does not have the patience to set up Linux / Unix / BSD or NT. The beauty of Netware is that it has backing that exceeds the linux community, and quality that exceeds that of both unix and NT.
Michael C. Hollinger
Well, you do have the process manager. It won't give you the same level of control that you may be used to, but you can get rid of all the default things that start when the system comes up for the first time.
IBM Netfinity 5500, NT4. Uptime? 383 Days.