Only problem would be figuring out how to get a urine sample from a super computer
maybe they wouldn't use urine for testing supercomputers...perhaps faeces. this toshiba tecra 750DVD that i'm typing this post on wouldn't ever qualify to play olympic chess if faced with a faecal test, because lord knows, it's a disgusting steaming pile of shit.
Do you mean something like Clippy for PCI?
It looks like you're installing a new PCI card! Would you like me to:
Crawl around under the desk with a screwdriver and a flashlight, with your butt sticking out and your ass-crack showing while the cute company secretary walks by?
Spend 30 minutes swapping around all your other PCI cards to get it to work with your wierdo Abit BP-6 board?
Fuck off and just keep jamming the damn thing in until the motherboard cracks?
most scientist took for granted that life needed oxygen, and a narrow range of pressure and temperature.
err...scientists (and wine makers) have known about anaerobic microorganisms for a long long time. the process of fermentation is caused by microorganisms gaining energy from carbohydrates without using oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor. and you don't need to go to the bottom of the atlantic to find thermophilic bacteria either...you can find them in geothermal springs, where the water temperature can be routinely as high as 95 degrees celcius.
no big surprises there...guess i've been trolled, haven't i?
NuSphere has extended MySQL with the very cool, but not open source Gemini table type
I thought the Gemini table type was included in the MySQL source package from MySQL.com? Gemini is mentioned in the docs. Maybe I'm confused with Innobase support, which is definitely included in the regular MySQL source distribution (and in the binary MySQL-max package). Innobase also supports row-level locking and transactional commit/rollback...we've been using it for about 3 months now and it works great.
(whoops...just checked the release docs for MySQL 3.23.40...it mentions that all references to GEMINI tables have been removed due to licensing).
I thought the first Australia Starbucks was in Sydney, rather than Melbourne...on the corner of Castlereagh and Park streets. There's at least 2 more that I know of in Sydney...one at Wynyard station, and another at Central station...and they're always *packed* whenever I go past them.
Seems all those reports in the media about Australians having a 'coffee culture' that couldn't be displaced by a US import were as shitty as our apparent taste in coffee.
Broadband has been available for a while out here in Aussieland
Sure...just as long as you can get cable TV, and Telstra has decided to install ADSL in your local exchange. I live right next to the University of Sydney (only 2-3km from the centre of Sydney), and I can't get either Optus or Telstra cable to my apartment building. Telstra ADSL only became available in December 2000, and as you mention, this is now limited to 3GB a month.
Broadband is by no means widespread, and certainly not in Australia (at least while companies like Telstra hold the reigns). Thank god for places like Everything Linux and Linux System Labs for making cheap CD-Rs available of new release distros.
Another good book around which focusses on Silicon Valley culture (although it's starting to look a little dated now, since it was written before the dot.com crash) is Po Bronson's The Nudist on the Late Shift.
Now that I think about it, it may no longer do such a good job of describing SV culture anymore, since most of the people in the book seemed to be rolling in millions of $$$ in a relatively short period of time. Ahh the good 'ol days.
Does Compaq produce a similar migration kit for moving from Solaris to Tru64? They really don't seem to give a crap about Tru64...hardly any mentions of it in the media or around the Compaq site.
Quitting because of a disagreement is just giving up
Sometimes, but other times the frequency and intensity of technically-related flamage gets too much. You spend all your time either arguing, preparing for the next argument, lobbying on the side to bring influential managers or staff onto your 'team', or losing sleep worrying about a combination of all of the above.
This happened where I work...having to deal with the emotional stress of constantly having to deal with flaming and dissent from the leader of another development group within the company has basically lead to our group refusing to engage in any discussion with them at all. This was tacitly supported by management, as they knew they would probably lose a large chunk of our group if the relentless 'technical' infighting continued.
It's a shitty compromise...things don't work as well with the 2 teams in virtual isolation from each other, but it's preferable to having one whole team walk. I guess the point is that too much 'technically' related flaming really does get you down after a while, and I can understand why someone would want to resign a position over it. It's not 'just giving up'...it's finally deciding that having to deal with egomaniacs with poor social skills and a hair-trigger e-mail client just isn't worth the personal cost.
Richard Chambers, the Inspector General of the Tennessee Valley Authority, has declared that employee use of SETI@Home on TVA computers compromises computer security
This guy has just gone out and blown a phat wad of $$$ on one of those new dual AMD 760MP motherboards and a pair of 1.2GHz Athlon 4 chips. There's no way he's going to let any of his employees crunch more SETI@Home work units than him...and what better way to ensure that than by banning the client in the office?
BOSTON: Free software stalwart and anti-closed source crusader Richard Stallman today played down allegations that he had betrayed his loyal followers by using Microsoft's closed source Internet Explorer 5.0 browser.
"Have you ever tried to get at any of that really hot porn using Netscape or Mozilla?!?", Stallman commented, whilst simultaneously trying to prevent several enraged Debian developers from smashing his favourite set of pan pipes. "I mean, I'm all for free software and all that, but seriously...how the hell am I going to shoot my wad of creamy GNU-custard with one hand on my meat flute, with the other trying to navigate fucking Lynx commands on the keyboard?!? Ever since I tried out ESR's 'Sex Tips for Geeks', closed-source spanking has been my only form of sexual relief. And you guys thought I got carpal tunnel syndrome from coding!! Hah!! I'm down with Bill G and his horny homiez on this one!"
But other luminaries in the free software community weren't in agreement with Stallman's flirtation with the dark side of software engineering.
"I've been spanking off with Konquerer for 6 months with no problems", reported KDE developer Matthias Welk. "What a hyprocrite...I mean after all that fuss about the Qt license, and now we find out that Stallman has been using closed-source all along. What a fucking wanker!!"
Open source browser Mozilla developer Christopher Blizzard chimed in. "Stallman has no reason for choosing the closed source, satanic M$ IE 5.0 for his porn surfing needs. There are a wealth of quality free software browser/masturbatory aids available right now out there in the community. I mean...sure...previous releases of Mozilla might have sucked for those tricky Javascript-laded teen sites, but dude, have you tried last night's build? It totally rocks. Now if only we could figure out some way of watching all those hot streaming videos in Microsoft Media Player format....hmmm...maybe I'll drop over to Richard's place and see how the HURD is going...excuse me"
Errr..whoops! that's what i meant (not workbench). i never actually owned an Amiga...just tooled around with the ones they had on display at the local KMart store. those bastards never did anything except turn them on...so they were always displaying the Kickstart screen.
I tried out the palm-top version of the AmigaOS a few days ago, only to be frustrated at boot time by a chunky, low-res image of a hand holding a Workbench floppy disk. Palmtops don't have floppy drives!! Until this is fixed, I don't see much future for AmigaOS on hand held platforms.
So basically, it's more effective for the document author to provide a Smart Tag parser for the user to download and install, than it is to simply put the links in the document in the first place?
not necessarily. i was thinking of subject-specific Smart Tag libraries, say for biological sciences. that way, any technical biological paper could be linked against the biologically specific library (which could be provided by a journal publisher, a university department, or a community effort), and terms and phrases automatically hyperlinked to the dictionary.
writing scientific papers is onerous enough without having to hyperlink through a few hundred specialist terms in every report you write.
Perhaps this information is somewhere on a Microsoft developers site, but does anyone know if it might be possible to include your own Smart Tag interpreter/renderer/library?
Think of how useful something like a really tough, technical document (like a scientific or engineering paper) could become if your own Smart Tag parser could rip through it, and add hyperlinks to pre-defined words and phrases to, say, an online technical dictionary, or textbook? If there's a phrase or word you don't understand, a link through to an explanatory site is only a click away
I think customised, user defined or 3rd party Smart Tag libraries could really supercharge the web...making a lot of documents even more useful and accessible.
I don't know how these companies can patent a 'Brain Shield'. Rob Malda's slashcode quite obviously contains such a device already...it screens out up to 99% of intellect or rational thought from any posting or comment travelling through it.
I don't know what the fuss is about. I use KMail for e-mail, and it already has a filter for dealing with.DOC attachments. It's activated via the 'Delete' button...
But have any of those other projects had a 400 M$ budget.
maybe it's just having been reading slashdot for too long, but i instinctively read the 'M$' in your comment as 'Micro$oft'. what would you do with a budget of 400 microsofts? that's a hell of a lot of low-slung, seafoam green buildings on well manicured lawns to fill. you might be able to use one of these airships to build them.
There's only one way to effectively protest this kind of stuff... vote with your dollars
I would, except that a lot of Telstra ADSL users are on a fixed contract, with penalties for an early opt-out (just like a mobile phone contract). For instance, I'm on a 12 month contract...If I don't like it, I'm more than welcome to leave. I'm also more than welcome to pay Telstra a whole bunch of $$$ in penalties. They've got their DSL users bent over a barrel....
dude, a fistful of worthless options in a dead dot.com do not a well moneyed nerd make. and don't be fooled into accepting them as
unemployment benefits either.
The PPC is a great architecture, powering the RS/6000 AIX machines for years
The POWER chips that are in AIX machines aren't quite the same architecture as the PowerPC chips in Macs. They've got bigger busses, bigger caches, and some extra instructions i think. IBM only puts PowerPC chips into their low-end RS/60000 workstations (604e chips i think). They don't use them in the server range.
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and that, my friend, is what you use an Athlon for.
maybe they wouldn't use urine for testing supercomputers...perhaps faeces. this toshiba tecra 750DVD that i'm typing this post on wouldn't ever qualify to play olympic chess if faced with a faecal test, because lord knows, it's a disgusting steaming pile of shit.
Put them in a decent system with 66MHz PCI slots and/or multiple PCI busses and the computer will keep up.
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err...scientists (and wine makers) have known about anaerobic microorganisms for a long long time. the process of fermentation is caused by microorganisms gaining energy from carbohydrates without using oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor. and you don't need to go to the bottom of the atlantic to find thermophilic bacteria either...you can find them in geothermal springs, where the water temperature can be routinely as high as 95 degrees celcius.
no big surprises there...guess i've been trolled, haven't i?
I thought the Gemini table type was included in the MySQL source package from MySQL.com? Gemini is mentioned in the docs. Maybe I'm confused with Innobase support, which is definitely included in the regular MySQL source distribution (and in the binary MySQL-max package). Innobase also supports row-level locking and transactional commit/rollback...we've been using it for about 3 months now and it works great.
(whoops...just checked the release docs for MySQL 3.23.40...it mentions that all references to GEMINI tables have been removed due to licensing).
Seems all those reports in the media about Australians having a 'coffee culture' that couldn't be displaced by a US import were as shitty as our apparent taste in coffee.
Sure...just as long as you can get cable TV, and Telstra has decided to install ADSL in your local exchange. I live right next to the University of Sydney (only 2-3km from the centre of Sydney), and I can't get either Optus or Telstra cable to my apartment building. Telstra ADSL only became available in December 2000, and as you mention, this is now limited to 3GB a month.
Broadband is by no means widespread, and certainly not in Australia (at least while companies like Telstra hold the reigns). Thank god for places like Everything Linux and Linux System Labs for making cheap CD-Rs available of new release distros.
Another good book around which focusses on Silicon Valley culture (although it's starting to look a little dated now, since it was written before the dot.com crash) is Po Bronson's The Nudist on the Late Shift.
Now that I think about it, it may no longer do such a good job of describing SV culture anymore, since most of the people in the book seemed to be rolling in millions of $$$ in a relatively short period of time. Ahh the good 'ol days.
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Does Compaq produce a similar migration kit for moving from Solaris to Tru64? They really don't seem to give a crap about Tru64...hardly any mentions of it in the media or around the Compaq site.
Sometimes, but other times the frequency and intensity of technically-related flamage gets too much. You spend all your time either arguing, preparing for the next argument, lobbying on the side to bring influential managers or staff onto your 'team', or losing sleep worrying about a combination of all of the above.
This happened where I work...having to deal with the emotional stress of constantly having to deal with flaming and dissent from the leader of another development group within the company has basically lead to our group refusing to engage in any discussion with them at all. This was tacitly supported by management, as they knew they would probably lose a large chunk of our group if the relentless 'technical' infighting continued.
It's a shitty compromise...things don't work as well with the 2 teams in virtual isolation from each other, but it's preferable to having one whole team walk. I guess the point is that too much 'technically' related flaming really does get you down after a while, and I can understand why someone would want to resign a position over it. It's not 'just giving up'...it's finally deciding that having to deal with egomaniacs with poor social skills and a hair-trigger e-mail client just isn't worth the personal cost.
This guy has just gone out and blown a phat wad of $$$ on one of those new dual AMD 760MP motherboards and a pair of 1.2GHz Athlon 4 chips. There's no way he's going to let any of his employees crunch more SETI@Home work units than him...and what better way to ensure that than by banning the client in the office?
"Have you ever tried to get at any of that really hot porn using Netscape or Mozilla?!?", Stallman commented, whilst simultaneously trying to prevent several enraged Debian developers from smashing his favourite set of pan pipes. "I mean, I'm all for free software and all that, but seriously...how the hell am I going to shoot my wad of creamy GNU-custard with one hand on my meat flute, with the other trying to navigate fucking Lynx commands on the keyboard?!? Ever since I tried out ESR's 'Sex Tips for Geeks', closed-source spanking has been my only form of sexual relief. And you guys thought I got carpal tunnel syndrome from coding!! Hah!! I'm down with Bill G and his horny homiez on this one!"
But other luminaries in the free software community weren't in agreement with Stallman's flirtation with the dark side of software engineering.
"I've been spanking off with Konquerer for 6 months with no problems", reported KDE developer Matthias Welk. "What a hyprocrite...I mean after all that fuss about the Qt license, and now we find out that Stallman has been using closed-source all along. What a fucking wanker!!"
Open source browser Mozilla developer Christopher Blizzard chimed in. "Stallman has no reason for choosing the closed source, satanic M$ IE 5.0 for his porn surfing needs. There are a wealth of quality free software browser/masturbatory aids available right now out there in the community. I mean...sure...previous releases of Mozilla might have sucked for those tricky Javascript-laded teen sites, but dude, have you tried last night's build? It totally rocks. Now if only we could figure out some way of watching all those hot streaming videos in Microsoft Media Player format....hmmm...maybe I'll drop over to Richard's place and see how the HURD is going...excuse me"
Errr..whoops! that's what i meant (not workbench). i never actually owned an Amiga...just tooled around with the ones they had on display at the local KMart store. those bastards never did anything except turn them on...so they were always displaying the Kickstart screen.
I tried out the palm-top version of the AmigaOS a few days ago, only to be frustrated at boot time by a chunky, low-res image of a hand holding a Workbench floppy disk. Palmtops don't have floppy drives!! Until this is fixed, I don't see much future for AmigaOS on hand held platforms.
not necessarily. i was thinking of subject-specific Smart Tag libraries, say for biological sciences. that way, any technical biological paper could be linked against the biologically specific library (which could be provided by a journal publisher, a university department, or a community effort), and terms and phrases automatically hyperlinked to the dictionary.
writing scientific papers is onerous enough without having to hyperlink through a few hundred specialist terms in every report you write.
Think of how useful something like a really tough, technical document (like a scientific or engineering paper) could become if your own Smart Tag parser could rip through it, and add hyperlinks to pre-defined words and phrases to, say, an online technical dictionary, or textbook? If there's a phrase or word you don't understand, a link through to an explanatory site is only a click away
I think customised, user defined or 3rd party Smart Tag libraries could really supercharge the web...making a lot of documents even more useful and accessible.
Take this post for example...
I don't know what the fuss is about. I use KMail for e-mail, and it already has a filter for dealing with .DOC attachments. It's activated via the 'Delete' button...
maybe it's just having been reading slashdot for too long, but i instinctively read the 'M$' in your comment as 'Micro$oft'. what would you do with a budget of 400 microsofts? that's a hell of a lot of low-slung, seafoam green buildings on well manicured lawns to fill. you might be able to use one of these airships to build them.
I would, except that a lot of Telstra ADSL users are on a fixed contract, with penalties for an early opt-out (just like a mobile phone contract). For instance, I'm on a 12 month contract...If I don't like it, I'm more than welcome to leave. I'm also more than welcome to pay Telstra a whole bunch of $$$ in penalties. They've got their DSL users bent over a barrel....
Except that Telstra's terms of service prohibit you from running any servers on their network.
dude, a fistful of worthless options in a dead dot.com do not a well moneyed nerd make. and don't be fooled into accepting them as unemployment benefits either.
The POWER chips that are in AIX machines aren't quite the same architecture as the PowerPC chips in Macs. They've got bigger busses, bigger caches, and some extra instructions i think. IBM only puts PowerPC chips into their low-end RS/60000 workstations (604e chips i think). They don't use them in the server range.