The American Physical Society (aps.org) accepts all talks. And posters. I gave a poster near a guy who was asking physicists to design a helmet to block mind control rays (he got many times more interest than my poster, of course.) I've attended a talk about developing an expression for bringing the magnetic field into relativistic frames (which is silly, as in relativistic frames it's just the electric field). These talks get moved to sessions of their own, where they don't impede talks that make a even a little sense.
I got their starter pack a month or so before they started the pop-unders. I would have ordered some appliance switches, except for those ads. Their web site was already sleazy with pseudo porn when I ordered, but the home automation stuff is *neat*- so I ordered from them anyway. It's very nice being able to start the coffee machine from bed...
I find it a bit rude when people I don't know start using my first name. I find it humorous when people attempt to pronounce my last name. It's best to call me "sir" or even just come up and start talking...
With people I know, excessive use of my name jars- I find it distracting. It's not as bad as if they tapped me on the shoulder after every sentence, but it's the same kind of thing.
And besides, _How to Lose Friends and Alienate People_ by somebody other than Dale Carnegie (dedicated to Adolf Hitler, and the book came out around 1937...) was much better than Carnegie's book.
This isn't exactly the same thing, but I was using a Kodak Picture Maker kiosk the other day- and it had a history button! I saw the pictures I had just printed, the pictures my brother-in-law had printed a couple hours before, and somebody's wedding photo.
There was an option for deleting the pictures (which I did, even the wedding photo) but I had had no idea that the stuff was there in the first place. That's a bad feature... I'll still use the kiosks, though-- the pictures turn out much nicer than any inkjet.
Steel has some definite advantages- it can be safely bent (which I've had to do a couple of times to get modern wider hubs into my nifty older frames), better notch resistance, and, unlike aluminum, if the strain cycles are low enough it won't fatigue. I haven't liked the feel of the three Al bikes I've had too much- I prefer Reynold 531 steel, and Columbus SP. Could be luck of the draw, and I got good steel bikes.
I also wonder about the smaller selection of sizes of new bikes, and I haven't heard of any custom Al bikes (though I haven't looked in a couple of years). I have the impression that steel tubing is easier to set up.
I've been using Clic for a while on some old diskless PIIIs- too old for PXE- but it wasn't hard to just clone a system and send it out over netboot. If I make major changes to the setup I have to make a new boot image, but that's easy.
It's an old system, but it still gets used (mostly Monte Carlo simulations, a few molecular dynamics, and some other home brewed science type codes).
The nodes (and now even the head!) don't have cd drives, because I'm too lazy to go to re-app and get some...
Well, *most* of the vampires on the shows are pretty evil. Angel has a special exemption (he's been cursed with humanity). I think transforming Spike into touchy-feely Spike was a little... irritating? His character worked well when he was bad. I haven't read any Anne Rice books, and my vampire movie experience is limited to the Nosferatus and Love At First Bite, so I can't comment there.
BTW, the Angel "excuse" resulted in some very good storylines.
I use dvd-ram to store some of my data-- since I generate data in chunks of less than a gig, the fact that it isn't session based is a real advantage-- I've been using ext2 formatted dvd-ram disks.
That said, I'm a little scared of losing the supply of dvd-ram disks, and I've been thinking of trying to get an extra drive.
I used to work with an old RS/6000 in a smallish office with a few other computers. In the winter, it was nice- in the summer, it was heck. The power used has to go somewhere, and it goes to heating the office. If an electric heater is on, then there's no point I can see in using energy efficient computers. If an air conditioner is on, then energy efficiency is *good*.
Actually, my office has an AlphaServer that we're shoving to another department just because we don't have a space with enough air conditioning to keep it cool, so there's infrastructure advantages to low power equipment.
The physics department at NMT has a couple of really cool toys for being so small... They're also about 60 miles from the Very Large Array, a collection of radio telescopes. (Oh yeah, some of the movie "Contact" was filmed there)
Last semester, my school started providing insurance for us grad research assistants... I decided to look at the insurance company web site ( http://www.gmsouthwest.com/eligibility/ )...
Gee, it looks swell. It doesn't even say you can't look at other peoples' records, all you need is their social security number and their last name. I suppose it was a nice gesture, the school providing health insurance, but I don't think I'll be using it.
It seems that something like demolinux would be better to try out than tomsrtb. I believe I've also seen something about putting MkLinux on a zip disk.
One thing to note, though-- early powermacs (the ones with nubus) need to use MkLinux.
I don't know who MoooKow is, but s/he claims to know the owner of the seized equipment. Perhaps MoooKow is posting because the story hits close to home?
I've bought textbooks with floppies and CDs included, usually with some lame little DOS or Windows *-based program. The CDs usually have a bunch of extra material not in the book.
I have no strong objections to this, as long as the classes associated do not assume that the stuff is accessible-- I had a class where I was expected to run a dos-based curve fitting program, so I had to build a machine specially for the class. I was pretty irritated (especially since the machine was a 16 MHz 386-- and the coprocessor went out). I've also received homework assignments through email, in unhandy to use Microsoft Office format.
It's a bad idea to assume that students have anything that isn't required!
the n-cube is (was?) a massively parallel superdupercomputer at Sandia National Labs. I think the nodes were m68040's or maybe 030's. I ran some simulations on it a few years ago.
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The American Physical Society (aps.org) accepts all talks. And posters. I gave a poster near a guy who was asking physicists to design a helmet to block mind control rays (he got many times more interest than my poster, of course.) I've attended a talk about developing an expression for bringing the magnetic field into relativistic frames (which is silly, as in relativistic frames it's just the electric field). These talks get moved to sessions of their own, where they don't impede talks that make a even a little sense.
Why not GIS for "DMCA" I guess it's appropriate, given the steganography work he's done...
I got their starter pack a month or so before they started the pop-unders. I would have ordered some appliance switches, except for those ads. Their web site was already sleazy with pseudo porn when I ordered, but the home automation stuff is *neat*- so I ordered from them anyway.
It's very nice being able to start the coffee machine from bed...
If it's running, ssh -v to it and the version will be printed.
I'd be more concerned if *sshd* were 3.6. Unless I've missed something, the client's fine- at least for ssh v2.
(Why do these things always break when the real sysadmin's in classes? Well, I didn't feel like doing any of my research now anyway.)
I find it a bit rude when people I don't know start using my first name. I find it humorous when people attempt to pronounce my last name. It's best to call me "sir" or even just come up and start talking...
With people I know, excessive use of my name jars- I find it distracting. It's not as bad as if they tapped me on the shoulder after every sentence, but it's the same kind of thing.
And besides, _How to Lose Friends and Alienate People_ by somebody other than Dale Carnegie (dedicated to Adolf Hitler, and the book came out around 1937...) was much better than Carnegie's book.
My DVD-RAM drive won't burn DVD-R, and I suspect that most won't.
It's really a shame that DVD-RAM hasn't taken off. It seems a much better solution than the other formats
This isn't exactly the same thing, but I was using a Kodak Picture Maker kiosk the other day- and it had a history button! I saw the pictures I had just printed, the pictures my brother-in-law had printed a couple hours before, and somebody's wedding photo.
There was an option for deleting the pictures (which I did, even the wedding photo) but I had had no idea that the stuff was there in the first place. That's a bad feature... I'll still use the kiosks, though-- the pictures turn out much nicer than any inkjet.
Steel has some definite advantages- it can be safely bent (which I've had to do a couple of times to get modern wider hubs into my nifty older frames), better notch resistance, and, unlike aluminum, if the strain cycles are low enough it won't fatigue. I haven't liked the feel of the three Al bikes I've had too much- I prefer Reynold 531 steel, and Columbus SP. Could be luck of the draw, and I got good steel bikes.
I also wonder about the smaller selection of sizes of new bikes, and I haven't heard of any custom Al bikes (though I haven't looked in a couple of years). I have the impression that steel tubing is easier to set up.
I've been using Clic for a while on some old diskless PIIIs- too old for PXE- but it wasn't hard to just clone a system and send it out over netboot. If I make major changes to the setup I have to make a new boot image, but that's easy.
It's an old system, but it still gets used (mostly Monte Carlo simulations, a few molecular dynamics, and some other home brewed science type codes).
The nodes (and now even the head!) don't have cd drives, because I'm too lazy to go to re-app and get some...
Well, *most* of the vampires on the shows are pretty evil. Angel has a special exemption (he's been cursed with humanity). I think transforming Spike into touchy-feely Spike was a little... irritating? His character worked well when he was bad. I haven't read any Anne Rice books, and my vampire movie experience is limited to the Nosferatus and Love At First Bite, so I can't comment there.
BTW, the Angel "excuse" resulted in some very good storylines.
I use dvd-ram to store some of my data-- since I generate data in chunks of less than a gig, the fact that it isn't session based is a real advantage-- I've been using ext2 formatted dvd-ram disks.
That said, I'm a little scared of losing the supply of dvd-ram disks, and I've been thinking of trying to get an extra drive.
I used to work with an old RS/6000 in a smallish office with a few other computers. In the winter, it was nice- in the summer, it was heck. The power used has to go somewhere, and it goes to heating the office. If an electric heater is on, then there's no point I can see in using energy efficient computers. If an air conditioner is on, then energy efficiency is *good*.
Actually, my office has an AlphaServer that we're shoving to another department just because we don't have a space with enough air conditioning to keep it cool, so there's infrastructure advantages to low power equipment.
I believe the 20th Anniversary Mac also used an external power supply, packaged with the woofer if I remember right.
That was one attractive Mac... too bad the processor was dated by the time the machine came out.
A couple of years ago, I brought a rotary phone into my office at my last college, and the phone system accepted my long distance authorization code!
The physics department at NMT has a couple of really cool toys for being so small... They're also about 60 miles from the Very Large Array, a collection of radio telescopes. (Oh yeah, some of the movie "Contact" was filmed there)
I was really hoping for a series based on the lizard babies the cap'n and the pilot had in an episode of Voyager...
Last semester, my school started providing insurance for us grad research assistants... I decided to look at the insurance company web site ( http://www.gmsouthwest.com/eligibility/ )... Gee, it looks swell. It doesn't even say you can't look at other peoples' records, all you need is their social security number and their last name. I suppose it was a nice gesture, the school providing health insurance, but I don't think I'll be using it.
It seems that something like demolinux would be better to try out than tomsrtb. I believe I've also seen something about putting MkLinux on a zip disk. One thing to note, though-- early powermacs (the ones with nubus) need to use MkLinux.
If I wrote fiction, I'd never pass up the chance to include crackpot science. It would be as fun as lying to babies!
(Excuse me, I have to go mumble dog-face to the banana patch)
I don't know who MoooKow is, but s/he claims to know the owner of the seized equipment. Perhaps MoooKow is posting because the story hits close to home?
I've bought textbooks with floppies and CDs included, usually with some lame little DOS or Windows *-based program. The CDs usually have a bunch of extra material not in the book.
I have no strong objections to this, as long as the classes associated do not assume that the stuff is accessible-- I had a class where I was expected to run a dos-based curve fitting program, so I had to build a machine specially for the class. I was pretty irritated (especially since the machine was a 16 MHz 386-- and the coprocessor went out). I've also received homework assignments through email, in unhandy to use Microsoft Office format.
It's a bad idea to assume that students have anything that isn't required!
They're really the same car.
the n-cube is (was?) a massively parallel superdupercomputer at Sandia National Labs. I think the nodes were m68040's or maybe 030's. I ran some simulations on it a few years ago.