You're such a moron...The correct term is IUD = Intrauterine Device. These were around in the 1970s and you can even see a reference to it in the old "Saturday Night Fever" movie from that era. These things weren't 100% effective and there were problems with them.
But how about being able to patch an application whiles it's running or being able to field debug an application without degrading performance while its running in production? That's why we need a CGE of Linux. Monte Vista Linux has had a CGE of Linux out for a while now but it's not a free distro. It will be interesting to see if Debian can provide the same features that Monte Vista CGE provides expect at no cost.
Turbo Pascal takes me back...I had a version of it for CP/M-80 and it was a a great advancement. It would stop at the first compile error but it was so darn fast to compile it didn't really matter that I had to recompile after I corrected an error. I was still way more productive compared to having edit code, exit the editor, run the compiler and capture the output into a another file. Then fire up the editor again and then have to try to fix the errors based upon the output in the compiler listing. To do that meant going back and forth between the source code and the compiler listing in the editor (since the environment did have windows) which got to be a pain.
It was actually easier to get a printout of the compiler listing and then check off each fix with a red pen on the paper as I fixed it in the code. Once I checked off all of the errors I'd restart the compiler and see if there were any more errors. Compilers generatlly had pretty good error recovery to try to get past syntax errors in code so they didn't incorrectly flag correct code as having syntax errors as well. I think that probably was an artifact of the old batch days where you didn't have the luxury to keep having to submit your compile job over and over again to flesh out syntax errors. I know I was shocked once I started doing C programming under Unix and one syntax error in a program could cause the compiler to flag syntax errors on other lines of the program that were actually correct.
I'm not sure if younger developers that missed those old days realize how great they have it now with multi-windowed IDE's which make doing development so much easier. I knew even when I first started programming that I was lucky that punch-cards were dying and I was darn lucky to have a line editor on a glass CRT.
You must not have been around that long then as the development tools from the early 1980s were pretty primative by today's standards. I started working with computers in the early 1980's and we used primative line editors to write code. It was terrible as the editor forced you to relist your program over and over again. Making code changes like deletions, or insertions was very clunky and you could easly remove the wrong line or group of lines with an errant editor command.
I never saw a full screen editor until I started working on a DEC VAX system running VMS. It was the same thing with microcomputers like the Apple II or 8080 or Z80-based CP/M-80 systems. I was using a line editor until I got a copy of WordStar for CP/M-80 which gave me some full screen editing capabilites. The microcomputers were 8bit with a maximum of 64K of memory and there wasn't any memory protection. So an errant program could lockup a microcomputer very quickly.
I even managed to damage a few floppy disks in my Apple II when I was working on 6502 assembly code. My code went through and poked Apple DOS somewhere and the floppy drive unit turned on and did something bad to the floppy disk inside. The disk failed all attempts at reformating and so I just had to throw the disk out. The only fullscreen editor I ever saw for programming on the Apple II was the full screen editor in their Apple Pascal environment which was based on the UCD Pascal environment. The compiler generated pCode and was executed by a pCode interpreter written in 6502 assembly language.
I've had this automatic reboot issue happen in WinXP several times. The first time I wasn't able to get into the system at all but the workaround is once the system starts to boot, press the F8 key once every second. Eventually an advanced boot menu will appear and it's then possible to boot XP and not have it automatically reboot when it encounters a problem. Without the system automatically rebooting itself I found that one of the registry files had been corrupted. I had to play some games copying "repair" versions of registry files in place and then reboot and then do some other file copying and finally have a running system again in which I was able to do a system restore from a earlier checkpoint. I don't know how common it is to have a WinXP system corrupt its registry but if it's common enough of a problem it would be nice to do an auto recovery from a bootup screen that would show a list of checkpoints and allow a user to restore to a previous checkpoint to fix the corrupted registry problem.
As a longtime Unix and Linux user that prefers a command-line for most of my tasks I found the Windows recovery console rather clumsy since I was limited to a few crappy DOS commands. I was happy I was able to get my wife's XP system running again without a reinstall but it felt like jumping through hoops sometimes.
Not only that but here in the US you cannot even carry a cigarette lighter on board an airliner and so I really doubt they're going to allow someone to carry a fuel cell powered laptop on board.
How many years could one expect lashed together wood to survive the elements? For this DIY project you want something solid that's going to last for many years exposed to the elements (rain,snow,ice,wind,and sun) and not fall down and destory property, or kill somebody,
What do you do if you go into a parking garage that goes below ground where there is usually no cell phone service once you go below a certain level?. You'll sue the company that built the parking garage, the company that manages the parking garage, the company that manages the building the parking garage is in and so forth? It's unrealistic to expect that a cell phone will always work everywhere you go.
From reading some of the postings here it sounds reasonable that GPS is just one of a number of navigation instruments available to the flight crew and that they cross reference multiple instruments. As long as cell phones don't cause all available navigation instruments to fail I don't know how much there is to worry about. I'd be more worried if alot of people using their cell phones on a flight can cause uncommanded movement of flight controls on airliners that use a fly-by-wire system. With that I've read about the possibility of using a cell phone inflight by the intruction of a pico cell network on ane airplane. The distance between the cell and phone is very short and so the cell phone would only need to use a low power signal to allow a person to make calls from within the airplane.
Yes and we even have a mix of companies in our office right now since our current project has a number of contractors that have their own laptops (not supplied by us that are mostly from Dell from what I've seen).
I don't really know if it's the marketing by Intel but the Pentium M is very good in a laptop. It runs cool and the battery life is quite good IMHO. When I look around the office every laptop I see is a Pentium M based one. At one time I had a laptop with a 3.06GhZ P4 and it ran so hot I went through 3 mobos in 2 years. I was real happy when I finally got a laptop with a Pentium M in it instead as my laptop is no longer cooking itself in its own juices.
I've seen numerous postings regarding the GOF Patterns book which no programmer's bookshelf should be without. One book I've also enjoyed reading and might be useful for other developers especially if you inherit someone's else's programming mess is "AntiPatterns".
I feel the same way as I have a P4 system with 2GB of PC3200 memory and have an AGP slot on my Asus mobo. I got an XFX GeForce 6600GT card w/256MB of memory and I couldn't be happier. I installed SuSE 9.3 and downloaded the nVIDIA accelerated drivers for it. I then downloaded Doom 3 demo for Linux. The demo ran great and so I downloaded the Linux version of Doom 3 and bought the Doom 3 Windows CD set and loaded the data files from the CDs to my Linux system. I have been enjoying some great Doom 3 game play with this video card.
Last time I checked the price for the video card I got at newegg.com it was $119.00.
At least for now it's possible to get a relatively inexpensive AGP video card but I'm worried that eventually I will have to get a mobo with PCI-E. For now I'm happy to be able to at least have a system and video card that lets me play Doom 3 under Linux.
Make your own bootable CD then...
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I've used instructions similar to this to make my own bootable CD for OpenBSD before. These instructions were for OpenBSD 3.4 but they've worked for me for both OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.7. The package names for OpenBSD 3.8 will have a "38" in them rather than 34.
As I remember it the plane that Boeing was trying to get off the ground was called the "Sonic Cruiser". It wasn't supersonic but it did fly very close to the the speed of sound so over long distances it would take less time than the widebody airliners of today.
I put together a 3GhZ P4 system and got a Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480w PSU which allows the RPMs of one of the cooling fans to be adjusted. I also didn't want a high RPM CPU cooler so I got a huge Zalman CNPS7700-CU copper heatsink that uses a 120mm fan. Overall this system is much quieter than my old 900MhZ Athlon system I replaced it with. I built my system into a Lian Li PC-60 Plus aluminum case and it draws air into the front of the case with a 120MM fan which is very quiet. The fan that seems to be making most of the noise is the 80mm fan that is at the top of the case. I guess I need to see if there is a more quiet 80mm fan I could replace it with and see if it makes any difference. The PSU fan is very loud if I run the variable speed fan at 100% but I'm finding that I can run it at about 50% which is enough of a speed reduction that I cannot hear the PSU fans over the 80mm fan at the top of the case.
I live in the Seattle area and I worked a job that basically had me living in downtown Chicago for a year. All I can say is you know nothing about how loud steel wheels on steel rails are. I'd take living under or near the monorail in Seattle anyday. If you ever have the chance to visit Chicago try walking under the tracks of the "El" in the loop downtown. Even when a slow moving train goes by above it's absolutely deafening to be near. Even worse if you go outside of downtown where there are long straighaways so the train can pickup more speed and make even more noise.
For the record when I worked right in downtown Seattle I used to walk along 5th avenue from work up to 4th & Lenora so I could pickup a bus from in front of Cinerama Theatre. I see and hear the monorail trains running to/from Seattle Center and they are not even close the the train noise I experienced in Chicago.
For a small SATA RAID setup for a small server I've been very happy running a system with a 4 port, SATA-150 LSI MegaRAID card. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 in hardware. It's not the cheapest way to go but with some OEM SATA drives the card shipped with its own SATA cables so I was good to go. I've run both SuSE Linux 9.2 and 9.3 on my server and the LSI controller was supported out of the box. My needs were pretty simple and so I've been using two SATA drives in a RAID 1 (mirrored) setup. I guess I regret I didn't fork out a bit more money and get a 3rd SATA drive so I could do hardware RAID 5 instead and have more disk space available.
So where does one go for food like what Malay Satay Hut has around Redmond that's better? I've traveled to Singapore and Malaysia and the food here in Redmond doesn't compare but it does remind me some of the food I had there in Asia.
I traveled to Singapore last Christmas time and when I was visiting a friends home I met many of their relatives. One question I was asked quite a bit was why are most Americans so fat? At least that is the perception of many Singaporeans I spoke with. Some had taken cruises here in the States and they were asking me how such large people could even fit into the shower stall on the cruiseship. I'm not overweight and so I couldn't really given them a good answer. I do stay away from all of the sugary and high-carb snacks that many people like to eat. I also find the food portions most restaurants service here in the states to be huge and so I'm always taking quite a bit of food home. I also tend to avoid driving my car when I can and tend to walk if possible.
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Download the appropriate files from a trusted source and make an ISO yourself. I would never download a premade ISO without knowing who created it.
There was a movie from the mid-1970s directed by and starring Clint Eastwood called "The Eiger Sanction.". Had a number of people falling to their death, etc.
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You're such a moron...The correct term is IUD = Intrauterine Device. These were around in the 1970s and you can even see a reference to it in the old "Saturday Night Fever" movie from that era. These things weren't 100% effective and there were problems with them.
But how about being able to patch an application whiles it's running or being able to field debug an application without degrading performance while its running in production? That's why we need a CGE of Linux. Monte Vista Linux has had a CGE of Linux out for a while now but it's not a free distro. It will be interesting to see if Debian can provide the same features that Monte Vista CGE provides expect at no cost.
Turbo Pascal takes me back...I had a version of it for CP/M-80 and it was a a great advancement. It would stop at the first compile error but it was so darn fast to compile it didn't really matter that I had to recompile after I corrected an error. I was still way more productive compared to having edit code, exit the editor, run the compiler and capture the output into a another file. Then fire up the editor again and then have to try to fix the errors based upon the output in the compiler listing. To do that meant going back and forth between the source code and the compiler listing in the editor (since the environment did have windows) which got to be a pain.
It was actually easier to get a printout of the compiler listing and then check off each fix with a red pen on the paper as I fixed it in the code. Once I checked off all of the errors I'd restart the compiler and see if there were any more errors. Compilers generatlly had pretty good error recovery to try to get past syntax errors in code so they didn't incorrectly flag correct code as having syntax errors as well. I think that probably was an artifact of the old batch days where you didn't have the luxury to keep having to submit your compile job over and over again to flesh out syntax errors. I know I was shocked once I started doing C programming under Unix and one syntax error in a program could cause the compiler to flag syntax errors on other lines of the program that were actually correct.
I'm not sure if younger developers that missed those old days realize how great they have it now with multi-windowed IDE's which make doing development so much easier. I knew even when I first started programming that I was lucky that punch-cards were dying and I was darn lucky to have a line editor on a glass CRT.
You must not have been around that long then as the development tools from the early 1980s were pretty primative by today's standards. I started working with computers in the early 1980's and we used primative line editors to write code. It was terrible as the editor forced you to relist your program over and over again. Making code changes like deletions, or insertions was very clunky and you could easly remove the wrong line or group of lines with an errant editor command.
I never saw a full screen editor until I started working on a DEC VAX system running VMS. It was the same thing with microcomputers like the Apple II or 8080 or Z80-based CP/M-80 systems. I was using a line editor until I got a copy of WordStar for CP/M-80 which gave me some full screen editing capabilites. The microcomputers were 8bit with a maximum of 64K of memory and there wasn't any memory protection. So an errant program could lockup a microcomputer very quickly.
I even managed to damage a few floppy disks in my Apple II when I was working on 6502 assembly code. My code went through and poked Apple DOS somewhere and the floppy drive unit turned on and did something bad to the floppy disk inside. The disk failed all attempts at reformating and so I just had to throw the disk out. The only fullscreen editor I ever saw for programming on the Apple II was the full screen editor in their Apple Pascal environment which was based on the UCD Pascal environment. The compiler generated pCode and was executed by a pCode interpreter written in 6502 assembly language.
I've had this automatic reboot issue happen in WinXP several times. The first time I wasn't able to get into the system at all but the workaround is once the system starts to boot, press the F8 key once every second. Eventually an advanced boot menu will appear and it's then possible to boot XP and not have it automatically reboot when it encounters a problem. Without the system automatically rebooting itself I found that one of the registry files had been corrupted. I had to play some games copying "repair" versions of registry files in place and then reboot and then do some other file copying and finally have a running system again in which I was able to do a system restore from a earlier checkpoint. I don't know how common it is to have a WinXP system corrupt its registry but if it's common enough of a problem it would be nice to do an auto recovery from a bootup screen that would show a list of checkpoints and allow a user to restore to a previous checkpoint to fix the corrupted registry problem.
As a longtime Unix and Linux user that prefers a command-line for most of my tasks I found the Windows recovery console rather clumsy since I was limited to a few crappy DOS commands. I was happy I was able to get my wife's XP system running again without a reinstall but it felt like jumping through hoops sometimes.
Not only that but here in the US you cannot even carry a cigarette lighter on board an airliner and so I really doubt they're going to allow someone to carry a fuel cell powered laptop on board.
How many years could one expect lashed together wood to survive the elements? For this DIY project you want something solid that's going to last for many years exposed to the elements (rain,snow,ice,wind,and sun) and not fall down and destory property, or kill somebody,
What do you do if you go into a parking garage that goes below ground where there is usually no cell phone service once you go below a certain level?. You'll sue the company that built the parking garage, the company that manages the parking garage, the company that manages the building the parking garage is in and so forth? It's unrealistic to expect that a cell phone will always work everywhere you go.
From reading some of the postings here it sounds reasonable that GPS is just one of a number of navigation instruments available to the flight crew and that they cross reference multiple instruments. As long as cell phones don't cause all available navigation instruments to fail I don't know how much there is to worry about. I'd be more worried if alot of people using their cell phones on a flight can cause uncommanded movement of flight controls on airliners that use a fly-by-wire system. With that I've read about the possibility of using a cell phone inflight by the intruction of a pico cell network on ane airplane. The distance between the cell and phone is very short and so the cell phone would only need to use a low power signal to allow a person to make calls from within the airplane.
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Yes and we even have a mix of companies in our office right now since our current project has a number of contractors that have their own laptops (not supplied by us that are mostly from Dell from what I've seen).
I don't really know if it's the marketing by Intel but the Pentium M is very good in a laptop. It runs cool and the battery life is quite good IMHO. When I look around the office every laptop I see is a Pentium M based one. At one time I had a laptop with a 3.06GhZ P4 and it ran so hot I went through 3 mobos in 2 years. I was real happy when I finally got a laptop with a Pentium M in it instead as my laptop is no longer cooking itself in its own juices.
I've seen numerous postings regarding the GOF Patterns book which no programmer's bookshelf should be without. One book I've also enjoyed reading and might be useful for other developers especially if you inherit someone's else's programming mess is "AntiPatterns".
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471197130
I feel the same way as I have a P4 system with 2GB of PC3200 memory and have an AGP slot on my Asus mobo. I got an XFX GeForce 6600GT card w/256MB of memory and I couldn't be happier. I installed SuSE 9.3 and downloaded the nVIDIA accelerated drivers for it. I then downloaded Doom 3 demo for Linux. The demo ran great and so I downloaded the Linux version of Doom 3 and bought the Doom 3 Windows CD set and loaded the data files from the CDs to my Linux system. I have been enjoying some great Doom 3 game play with this video card.
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Last time I checked the price for the video card I got at newegg.com it was $119.00.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N8
At least for now it's possible to get a relatively inexpensive AGP video card but I'm worried that eventually I will have to get a mobo with PCI-E. For now I'm happy to be able to at least have a system and video card that lets me play Doom 3 under Linux.
I've used instructions similar to this to make my own bootable CD for OpenBSD before. These instructions were for OpenBSD 3.4 but they've worked for me for both OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.7. The package names for OpenBSD 3.8 will have a "38" in them rather than 34.
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http://www.pantz.org/os/openbsd/makingaopenbsdcd.
If you don't like these instructions do a quick Google search or something and you'll probably find a few more URLs showing the same thing.
So even Tux is getting more action now than most people on /.
As I remember it the plane that Boeing was trying to get off the ground was called the "Sonic Cruiser". It wasn't supersonic but it did fly very close to the the speed of sound so over long distances it would take less time than the widebody airliners of today.
I put together a 3GhZ P4 system and got a Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480w PSU which allows the RPMs of one of the cooling fans to be adjusted. I also didn't want a high RPM CPU cooler so I got a huge Zalman CNPS7700-CU copper heatsink that uses a 120mm fan. Overall this system is much quieter than my old 900MhZ Athlon system I replaced it with. I built my system into a Lian Li PC-60 Plus aluminum case and it draws air into the front of the case with a 120MM fan which is very quiet. The fan that seems to be making most of the noise is the 80mm fan that is at the top of the case. I guess I need to see if there is a more quiet 80mm fan I could replace it with and see if it makes any difference. The PSU fan is very loud if I run the variable speed fan at 100% but I'm finding that I can run it at about 50% which is enough of a speed reduction that I cannot hear the PSU fans over the 80mm fan at the top of the case.
I live in the Seattle area and I worked a job that basically had me living in downtown Chicago for a year. All I can say is you know nothing about how loud steel wheels on steel rails are. I'd take living under or near the monorail in Seattle anyday. If you ever have the chance to visit Chicago try walking under the tracks of the "El" in the loop downtown. Even when a slow moving train goes by above it's absolutely deafening to be near. Even worse if you go outside of downtown where there are long straighaways so the train can pickup more speed and make even more noise.
For the record when I worked right in downtown Seattle I used to walk along 5th avenue from work up to 4th & Lenora so I could pickup a bus from in front of Cinerama Theatre. I see and hear the monorail trains running to/from Seattle Center and they are not even close the the train noise I experienced in Chicago.
For a small SATA RAID setup for a small server I've been very happy running a system with a 4 port, SATA-150 LSI MegaRAID card. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 in hardware. It's not the cheapest way to go but with some OEM SATA drives the card shipped with its own SATA cables so I was good to go. I've run both SuSE Linux 9.2 and 9.3 on my server and the LSI controller was supported out of the box. My needs were pretty simple and so I've been using two SATA drives in a RAID 1 (mirrored) setup. I guess I regret I didn't fork out a bit more money and get a 3rd SATA drive so I could do hardware RAID 5 instead and have more disk space available.
And one ring to rule them all...
So where does one go for food like what Malay Satay Hut has around Redmond that's better? I've traveled to Singapore and Malaysia and the food here in Redmond doesn't compare but it does remind me some of the food I had there in Asia.
Obesity?
I traveled to Singapore last Christmas time and when I was visiting a friends home I met many of their relatives. One question I was asked quite a bit was why are most Americans so fat? At least that is the perception of many Singaporeans I spoke with. Some had taken cruises here in the States and they were asking me how such large people could even fit into the shower stall on the cruiseship. I'm not overweight and so I couldn't really given them a good answer. I do stay away from all of the sugary and high-carb snacks that many people like to eat. I also find the food portions most restaurants service here in the states to be huge and so I'm always taking quite a bit of food home. I also tend to avoid driving my car when I can and tend to walk if possible.
Download the appropriate files from a trusted source and make an ISO yourself. I would never download a premade ISO without knowing who created it.
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http://www.webengr.com/development/tools/openbsd/
There was a movie from the mid-1970s directed by and starring Clint Eastwood called "The Eiger Sanction.". Had a number of people falling to their death, etc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/
If that thing hits anytime before 2038 we don't have to worry about upgrading any of those 32 bit Unix systems right?