I'd love to see a company come out with a digital camera that could take some of the fancier lenses that are available out there... who needs digital zoom when you can have the real thing!?
That's why I'm waiting for the Canon D30. It's going to take the regular EF mount EOS lenses and flash. It's uses CMOS instead of CCD though so I'm going to wait for the reviews. (I'm also going to wait for the price to come down, it's going to start at $4000CDN.)
Here are some of the things I've enjoyed doing as school here at Concordia (the university in Montreal)
Writing a simple shell with support for pipes and i/o redirection.
Writing a simple server-client applications (some kind of echo or file transfer client)
Writing a program to dump a file to stdout by reading the disk blocks directly.
Writing a rudimentary undelete for ext2.
Using semaphores to solve simple multi-thread problems (one writer-may readers, cars on a bridge etc)
IMHO, a number of smaller projects is more useful than one large one because the students can find what they like and then can maybe expand on it later when they become open source contributors.:)
Just look at any part of the system and ask "I wonder how that works" and voila, a project will hatch out of that slowly.
I concur - there is nothing to indicate that this is for real.
I was able to confirm that Heavy Gear II is in the works (from an interview at linuxpower.org) but other than that, there is no official word on the Loki site.
For what it's worth, I hope it is, but I'm not rejoicing yet.:)
It is truly a Good Thing(tm), partially because it's solved a domestic problem for me and my SO. I have the more powerful computer and every time my SO wanted to play Quake he'd have to reboot the machine. But I don't like that 'cause I have my X all set up and what not. Now, he just walks up to my machines, su's to himself and voila. There is peace once again.:):):) I'd love to see the code involving the female models though: if (object == boobs) laws_of_physics = non_applicable; How does the Lucy model _run_ with those???:) Dana
Aw, fess up, you just want an excuse to buy them yourself.;) Ha ha, that's about right on.:):) It's my ulterior motive in general. Lego will be much more fun play with then dolls.:):) D.
I actually had my (female) guidance counselor say to me "But physics is so hard...and so is calculus"
Ow, that just kills me. When I had one of these talks with my counselor in gr. 7 he said "Dana, you can do _anything_ you want."
And in highschool, both my calculus and finite math teachers were female. (As were two of my science teachers) And 4 of our 6 of my english teachers were male.
I guess it _really_ depends where you grow up. And I guess I got pretty lucky.
D.
Oh and I work in a group of 6 unix admins - 4 women and 2 men. Maybe my entire life is a statistical anomaly.;-)
Agreed. IMHO, just like with sex education, just like with anything else, this has to start in the home. Don't limit your daughter's choices by continuously buying her dolls and little vacuum cleaners. Buy her a doll and some lego and watch and see which she prefers. Spend time with her playing with the doll, then spend time with her playing with lego and doing simple math puzzles. When she grows up she will choose her own way, without any pre-conceived ideas about what she _should_ do.
Perhaps this is being done more now then it was 20 years ago. If this is the case (and I hope it is!) then in 20 years things should balance out more. (I'm buying my kid lego mindstorms as soon as (s)he can understand any of it);-)
Females certainly aren't encouraged to become CompSci majors
That's a pretty big generalization. I have been encouraged to go into a scientific field since.. well, since gr. 7 at least... I'm sure that this varies greatly from region to region, from school to school. As far as being intimidated by a male-dominated group - it depends on the person. I, personally, don't mind. (Though that's not to say that I don't want to see more women around me, I do!)
Our university also hosted a "Women in Engineering" day. We invited representatives from all the local highshools and we talked to them about taking Comp. Sci. and Engineering at university. Some of the girls looked quite interested, and a lot of them asked very good questions. If you really care, organize such a day at your college/university.
Ahh, sorry, I read your comment backwards. (As in "too much KDE") (Which is why I was confused)
You're right about that. Why don't you e-mail Andrew Hutton and suggest that he invite a KDE speaker for next year? (his address is on the OLS web site)
The extension number is not burned in, it's set in the software PBX. And most of the phone models (the better ones) already have a little two-port hub which gives you the equivalent of a pass-through. The only disadvantage of that is that if your phone loses power your PC ethernet gets cut off. Not a huge deal.
The compay they acquired is called Selsius. But you're quite right in that security is a huge issue. We've been working closely with the network group and the phone group here to make sure we implement this whole IP phone network as safely as possible. (a task of some size!)
Oh and the Call Manager (the software that runs the phones) runs only on NT. So as much as would recommend the hardware, the software leaves a lot to be desired.
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That's why I'm waiting for the Canon D30. It's going to take the regular EF mount EOS lenses and flash. It's uses CMOS instead of CCD though so I'm going to wait for the reviews. (I'm also going to wait for the price to come down, it's going to start at $4000CDN.)
Check out a nice review at: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canond30/
Ah, you could still get your T-shirts if you were willing to fight off 5 other people on the abovementioned inflatable arena. :-P
D.
Here are some of the things I've enjoyed doing
:)
as school here at Concordia (the university in
Montreal)
Writing a simple shell with support for pipes
and i/o redirection.
Writing a simple server-client applications (some
kind of echo or file transfer client)
Writing a program to dump a file to stdout by
reading the disk blocks directly.
Writing a rudimentary undelete for ext2.
Using semaphores to solve simple multi-thread
problems (one writer-may readers, cars on a bridge
etc)
IMHO, a number of smaller projects is more useful
than one large one because the students can find
what they like and then can maybe expand on it later when they become open source contributors.
Just look at any part of the system and ask "I
wonder how that works" and voila, a project will
hatch out of that slowly.
Good luck!
Dana
I was able to confirm that Heavy Gear II is in the works (from an interview at linuxpower.org) but other than that, there is no official word on the Loki site.
For what it's worth, I hope it is, but I'm not rejoicing yet. :)
Dana
It is truly a Good Thing(tm), partially because it's solved a domestic problem for me and my SO. I have the more powerful computer and every time my SO wanted to play Quake he'd have to reboot the machine. But I don't like that 'cause I have my X all set up and what not. Now, he just walks up to my machines, su's to himself and voila. There is peace once again. :) :) :) I'd love to see the code involving the female models though: if (object == boobs) laws_of_physics = non_applicable; How does the Lucy model _run_ with those??? :) Dana
Aw, fess up, you just want an excuse to buy them yourself. ;) Ha ha, that's about right on. :) :) It's my ulterior motive in general. Lego will be much more fun play with then dolls. :) :) D.
Ow, that just kills me. When I had one of these talks with my counselor in gr. 7 he said "Dana, you can do _anything_ you want."
And in highschool, both my calculus and finite math teachers were female. (As were two of my science teachers) And 4 of our 6 of my english teachers were male.
I guess it _really_ depends where you grow up. And I guess I got pretty lucky.
D.
Oh and I work in a group of 6 unix admins - 4 women and 2 men. Maybe my entire life is a statistical anomaly. ;-)
Agreed. IMHO, just like with sex education, just like with anything else, this has to start in the home. Don't limit your daughter's choices by continuously buying her dolls and little vacuum cleaners. Buy her a doll and some lego and watch and see which she prefers. Spend time with her playing with the doll, then spend time with her playing with lego and doing simple math puzzles. When she grows up she will choose her own way, without any pre-conceived ideas about what she _should_ do.
Perhaps this is being done more now then it was 20 years ago. If this is the case (and I hope it is!) then in 20 years things should balance out more. (I'm buying my kid lego mindstorms as soon as (s)he can understand any of it) ;-)
Females certainly aren't encouraged to become CompSci majors
That's a pretty big generalization. I have been encouraged to go into a scientific field since.. well, since gr. 7 at least... I'm sure that this varies greatly from region to region, from school to school. As far as being intimidated by a male-dominated group - it depends on the person. I, personally, don't mind. (Though that's not to say that I don't want to see more women around me, I do!)
Our university also hosted a "Women in Engineering" day. We invited representatives from all the local highshools and we talked to them about taking Comp. Sci. and Engineering at university. Some of the girls looked quite interested, and a lot of them asked very good questions. If you really care, organize such a day at your college/university.
D.
Ahh, sorry, I read your comment backwards. (As in "too much KDE") (Which is why I was confused)
You're right about that. Why don't you e-mail Andrew Hutton and suggest that he invite a KDE speaker for next year? (his address is on the OLS web site)
Hmm, could you elaborate on that? What gave you that impression? I didn't hear anything about KDE
while I was there...
Dana
Just a couple of corrections... :)
The extension number is not burned in, it's set in the software PBX. And most of the phone models (the better ones) already have a little two-port hub which gives you the equivalent of a pass-through. The only disadvantage of that is that if your phone loses power your PC ethernet gets cut off. Not a huge deal.
The compay they acquired is called Selsius. But you're quite right in that security is a huge issue. We've been working closely with the network group and the phone group here to make sure we implement this whole IP phone network as safely as possible. (a task of some size!)
Oh and the Call Manager (the software that runs the phones) runs only on NT. So as much as would recommend the hardware, the software leaves a lot to be desired.
Dana