When he says "in control" he really means "I'm an unpaid volunteer with slightly better than normal user but less than janitor access".
This is pretty sad - pretty much every college with residence hall networking has at least some sort of ResNet help desk. Considering that the school only pays 1/3 of the money for a workstudy student & can always find somebody willing to work for minimum wage, we're only talking about something on the order of a dollar per month per user to have an actual paid helpdesk person on duty 10hr/day.
In all - unless he gets some access, some control, some authority (which he's not going to see until after he manages to pull in a paycheck), it's a waste of time to even try solving anything through technological means - he's better off posting fliers and organizing meetings to educate students - possibly organizing a volunteer "Geek Brigade" to help clean infected machines.
Of course, a quick way to knock a problem user off the network is to assign their IP to another device. Set up a Linux/BSD box and start packing on the aliases +)
Why not compare the latest revision of a chip line to the first one on the market? There's a whole lot more to a CPU than just the ammount of cache it has onboard.
It doesn't look like it's intended for anyone to run an entire system on but for people to pick specific packages out of. It lets package maintainers know about problems ahead of time and it lets those who want to be early adopters run the 0-day version & contribute bug reports. What's wrong with a few more people testing code?
The problem is that by going to trade school you are locking yourself into doing network admin - most places aren't even going to look twice at somebody with a tech school diploma and networking experience to even go into system administration until they go get more certs. The tech school training is always going to leave you marked as a person that knows how to do specific things, things that are indicated by the title of your degree & the certifications you have. With a BA/BS employers (remember - management is primarily college educated) are more likely to assume you're capable of working without those certs.
Set up one machine with some sort of filesharing & VNC & big HDDs and make that everyone's central torrent location. Have it set with reasonable bandwith limitations & go from there.
Ideally, you could have a BT proxy that everyone would share but I know of no such projects.
Even better than that - a friend of mine, who lives in Washington, was visiting California a few years back and went into a bar and was carded. At the time WA still used printed & laminated cards while CA had switched over to newer cards where the info was actually printed onto a plastic card. The bartender insisted that his ID was fake and proceded to cut it up.
Fortunately for my friend, a vacationing Washington State Trooper was in the bar and convinced the bartender to pay for the replacement card -and- cover my friend's party's tab for the evening.
I'd gladly welcome a different billing to mmorpg's. billing which allowed you to play 1/3th of the days in the month(and be cheaper).
The thing is, most MMORPGS are basing their subscription fees on the assumption that most players are relatively casual and only putting in this much time anyways...
With cable, you're correct. With DSL, it's generally split between the line itself and the ISP. The telco cares not what you do with the line - in their eyes, you only talk to the ISP with it. It's the ISP that may or may not have an AUP that involves being a server. AFAIK, almost every market has competition for DSL ISPs and switching ISPs, while a minor hassle, is not too complex of a process.
Beyond that, you could argue the semantics of calling a BT client a 'server'. It is no more a server than an IM client that handles file transfers. While it does accept incoming connections, all connections are being managed by the tracker. If it's really an issue, BT clients can work just fine when firewalled & unable to accept incomming connects (if at a potentially reduced speed).
Two other systems are Otter a resolution-based theorem prover and the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover - the classic Lisp-based inductive reasoning tool. Honestly, I find the inference-based reasoning of Otter to be a lot more straighforward and intuitive.
Having done a bit of graduate study on the subject, let me tell you that using automated theorem proving tools still has a lot of room for problem-solving and creativity. As of now, there aren't yet theorem provers that can take the contents of basic algebra text (groups, rings, etc) and spit out those proofs without human intervention - there's still a trick to setting up the problems such that the computer can solve the problem in a feasable amount of time/memory.
I'm not saying that automated reasoning tools aren't amazingly powerful & useful tools, in the right hands, just that they're not some magical source of all mathematics like the original poster suggested. Just as the calculator doesn't magically get rid of the need to know arithmetic, automated provers aren't going to do away with mathematicians any time soon.
We have this Sun Ultra Enterprise 4500 (14 CPU, 14GB of RAM) at work. It takes 10-15 from the time it gets power to even start displaying boot messages. It's just black, doing self-tests and whatnot the whole time.
What are you expecting? Community colleges are 2 yr colleges and only really going to offer classes you'd take in the first 2 yr of university. If you look at 100 and 200 level courses in most university CS departments, there's not a lot of material there. Essentially you're looking at introductory programming classes and maybe a little bit of basic theory.
While I'm suprised that there's nothing you can take that will transfer over, you shouldn't be suprised that you're not getting much CS-specific stuff. In most places, geting your asociates degree from a CC doesn't really 'transfer' credits, it simply waives the university's general requirements - that core set of classess that all students must take.
Beyond that, if you're transfering credits between any two schools, you're going to get screwed. It's never 100%. On top of courses not transfering, things that were requirements at one school might not be required at another and things like that. Based on my experience & people I've talked to, you're generally looking at around 80% of credits transfering over - less if, like in your case, you're taking non-academic classes.
The important question is - is this actually a policy or just some low-level employee making decisions on his own? I've seen the later on several educations in academic IT.
Windows XP also burns CDs natively (they licensed Roxio's technology for this.) Sure, it's a piece of crap, but it *does something* right out of the box -- and many times that's been just what I needed to get out of a sticky tech-support situation.
I've heard rumors, but I've never actually seen this function work. I've installed XP on something like a dozen different systems and it's never actually identified my burners as such. Maybe it'd work if they licenced the tech from Nero instead...
It's great when a guy who talks about "internet street cred" but still doesn't understand how ProTools works and doesn't know WTF iTMS is is labeled as being the rapper for the/. crowd.
The closest thing he says to being a nerd/geek is "and pc's are lame." which, IMHO, is more fanboy than nerd/geek. At least at he comes clean and says "I'm not as hardcore a nerd as people want to think I am. I'm much more of a loser.". I don't think I'd disagree.
Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III have all been based on the same core. The PPro was ridiculously expensive to produce at the time because of the on-die cache so they moved to the P2 with separate cache chips on the board the slotted chip was on. As they got the process down, they went to the P3 which returned to the on-die cache. Orginally the P3 was slotted for compatability reasons but they went to a socketed chip for cost purposes later in production.
The P4 was a completely different architecture (NetBurst) which was intended, from the ground up, to hit high clock speeds, without concern for actual performance (granted, once they hit 800MHz FSBs, the P4 finally started showing its stuff). This was one of the biggest mass-market counterexamples to the MHz Myth, with first generation P4s (1.5-1.7GHz) getting solidly beaten by cheaper, lower-powered, lower-clocked P3s (1GHz-ish).
Granted, the P4 wasn't a complete waste - there were some very good technological advancements in it. The Pentium-M is essntially a P3ish core that has some of the enhancements from the P4 (quad-pumped bus, SSE2, awesome branch prediction) added to it but retained the P3's lower power consumption & clock-efficiency. Not to mention that a 3+GHz P4 with an 800MHz FSB is going to be an absolute monster at number crunching, given software that properly uses the SSE/SSE2 (vector math) extensions.
For the most part, however, the launch of the P4 was a disappointing event that helped AMD grab mindshare & marketshare in the CPU market, particularly with those who actually care about more than cute commericials and buying the cheapest thing Dell is pushing out the door.
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Yes. Christianity has a monopoly on this - it's not like anyone else cares.
When he says "in control" he really means "I'm an unpaid volunteer with slightly better than normal user but less than janitor access".
This is pretty sad - pretty much every college with residence hall networking has at least some sort of ResNet help desk. Considering that the school only pays 1/3 of the money for a workstudy student & can always find somebody willing to work for minimum wage, we're only talking about something on the order of a dollar per month per user to have an actual paid helpdesk person on duty 10hr/day.
In all - unless he gets some access, some control, some authority (which he's not going to see until after he manages to pull in a paycheck), it's a waste of time to even try solving anything through technological means - he's better off posting fliers and organizing meetings to educate students - possibly organizing a volunteer "Geek Brigade" to help clean infected machines.
Pretty much it.
Of course, a quick way to knock a problem user off the network is to assign their IP to another device. Set up a Linux/BSD box and start packing on the aliases +)
Why not compare the latest revision of a chip line to the first one on the market? There's a whole lot more to a CPU than just the ammount of cache it has onboard.
Technically, you would only need one time traveller convention
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention
It doesn't look like it's intended for anyone to run an entire system on but for people to pick specific packages out of. It lets package maintainers know about problems ahead of time and it lets those who want to be early adopters run the 0-day version & contribute bug reports. What's wrong with a few more people testing code?
The problem is that by going to trade school you are locking yourself into doing network admin - most places aren't even going to look twice at somebody with a tech school diploma and networking experience to even go into system administration until they go get more certs. The tech school training is always going to leave you marked as a person that knows how to do specific things, things that are indicated by the title of your degree & the certifications you have. With a BA/BS employers (remember - management is primarily college educated) are more likely to assume you're capable of working without those certs.
This is all that needs to be said - the discussion can stop here.
Set up one machine with some sort of filesharing & VNC & big HDDs and make that everyone's central torrent location. Have it set with reasonable bandwith limitations & go from there.
Ideally, you could have a BT proxy that everyone would share but I know of no such projects.
I've been in NM for the last 2 years and I can safely tell you that there is no enlightenment here.
Even better than that - a friend of mine, who lives in Washington, was visiting California a few years back and went into a bar and was carded. At the time WA still used printed & laminated cards while CA had switched over to newer cards where the info was actually printed onto a plastic card. The bartender insisted that his ID was fake and proceded to cut it up.
Fortunately for my friend, a vacationing Washington State Trooper was in the bar and convinced the bartender to pay for the replacement card -and- cover my friend's party's tab for the evening.
The thing is, most MMORPGS are basing their subscription fees on the assumption that most players are relatively casual and only putting in this much time anyways...
With cable, you're correct. With DSL, it's generally split between the line itself and the ISP. The telco cares not what you do with the line - in their eyes, you only talk to the ISP with it. It's the ISP that may or may not have an AUP that involves being a server. AFAIK, almost every market has competition for DSL ISPs and switching ISPs, while a minor hassle, is not too complex of a process.
Beyond that, you could argue the semantics of calling a BT client a 'server'. It is no more a server than an IM client that handles file transfers. While it does accept incoming connections, all connections are being managed by the tracker. If it's really an issue, BT clients can work just fine when firewalled & unable to accept incomming connects (if at a potentially reduced speed).
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Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
Two other systems are Otter a resolution-based theorem prover and the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover - the classic Lisp-based inductive reasoning tool. Honestly, I find the inference-based reasoning of Otter to be a lot more straighforward and intuitive.
Having done a bit of graduate study on the subject, let me tell you that using automated theorem proving tools still has a lot of room for problem-solving and creativity. As of now, there aren't yet theorem provers that can take the contents of basic algebra text (groups, rings, etc) and spit out those proofs without human intervention - there's still a trick to setting up the problems such that the computer can solve the problem in a feasable amount of time/memory.
I'm not saying that automated reasoning tools aren't amazingly powerful & useful tools, in the right hands, just that they're not some magical source of all mathematics like the original poster suggested. Just as the calculator doesn't magically get rid of the need to know arithmetic, automated provers aren't going to do away with mathematicians any time soon.
Example :
We have this Sun Ultra Enterprise 4500 (14 CPU, 14GB of RAM) at work. It takes 10-15 from the time it gets power to even start displaying boot messages. It's just black, doing self-tests and whatnot the whole time.
...and they some how manage to get computer lab monitors that aren't clueless stoners that only have the job because they're workstudy qualified?
What are you expecting? Community colleges are 2 yr colleges and only really going to offer classes you'd take in the first 2 yr of university. If you look at 100 and 200 level courses in most university CS departments, there's not a lot of material there. Essentially you're looking at introductory programming classes and maybe a little bit of basic theory.
While I'm suprised that there's nothing you can take that will transfer over, you shouldn't be suprised that you're not getting much CS-specific stuff. In most places, geting your asociates degree from a CC doesn't really 'transfer' credits, it simply waives the university's general requirements - that core set of classess that all students must take.
Beyond that, if you're transfering credits between any two schools, you're going to get screwed. It's never 100%. On top of courses not transfering, things that were requirements at one school might not be required at another and things like that. Based on my experience & people I've talked to, you're generally looking at around 80% of credits transfering over - less if, like in your case, you're taking non-academic classes.
The important question is - is this actually a policy or just some low-level employee making decisions on his own? I've seen the later on several educations in academic IT.
I've heard rumors, but I've never actually seen this function work. I've installed XP on something like a dozen different systems and it's never actually identified my burners as such. Maybe it'd work if they licenced the tech from Nero instead...
Bias or no, it's pretty hard to talk about a country being modern & civilized when the penalties for murder vary based on the religion of the victim.
Because your neighbor molests his children does not make it OK for you to 'merely' beat them.
It's great when a guy who talks about "internet street cred" but still doesn't understand how ProTools works and doesn't know WTF iTMS is is labeled as being the rapper for the /. crowd.
The closest thing he says to being a nerd/geek is "and pc's are lame." which, IMHO, is more fanboy than nerd/geek. At least at he comes clean and says "I'm not as hardcore a nerd as people want to think I am. I'm much more of a loser.". I don't think I'd disagree.
Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III have all been based on the same core. The PPro was ridiculously expensive to produce at the time because of the on-die cache so they moved to the P2 with separate cache chips on the board the slotted chip was on. As they got the process down, they went to the P3 which returned to the on-die cache. Orginally the P3 was slotted for compatability reasons but they went to a socketed chip for cost purposes later in production.
The P4 was a completely different architecture (NetBurst) which was intended, from the ground up, to hit high clock speeds, without concern for actual performance (granted, once they hit 800MHz FSBs, the P4 finally started showing its stuff). This was one of the biggest mass-market counterexamples to the MHz Myth, with first generation P4s (1.5-1.7GHz) getting solidly beaten by cheaper, lower-powered, lower-clocked P3s (1GHz-ish).
Granted, the P4 wasn't a complete waste - there were some very good technological advancements in it. The Pentium-M is essntially a P3ish core that has some of the enhancements from the P4 (quad-pumped bus, SSE2, awesome branch prediction) added to it but retained the P3's lower power consumption & clock-efficiency. Not to mention that a 3+GHz P4 with an 800MHz FSB is going to be an absolute monster at number crunching, given software that properly uses the SSE/SSE2 (vector math) extensions.
For the most part, however, the launch of the P4 was a disappointing event that helped AMD grab mindshare & marketshare in the CPU market, particularly with those who actually care about more than cute commericials and buying the cheapest thing Dell is pushing out the door.