When I took AP CS, we had a couple of weeks of class to kill after the AP exam, and our teacher had us all split up into groups and create a battleship game that would play against the other groups' programs. We didn't get graded on it, but had to spend class time working on it, so there wan't any pressure and the whole thing turned out to be a lot of fun.
One of the most important skills we took out of it was experience programming in a group; something which we hadn't really done before. Also, some of the more advanced groups really went all out and added AI to learn the strategy of the opposing program, movies and sounds for hits and sinks, etc.
Your G3 has the newer (good) firmware. Check out this page for a list of the versions in Power Computing computers. I'm sure there is more info at the apple tech info library about other computers.
(When you're looking at the chart, version 1.0.5 is the "broken" one. 2.0 should work fine.)
Also, as a general rule, anything after (or at least as recent as) the G3 will boot without problems through OF.
My school (Johns Hopkins) is part of the internet 2, and unlike what a previous poster said, all computers have automatic access to it. I don't have access to my computer at school now (the school shut down the network for y2k...) but if I traceroute a host on any member network, for example www.mit.edu, traffic goes through through vbns.net routers (the i2 routers). (Normal traffic doesn't go through the vbns.net routers.) I haven't done much with it, but friends have reported rates of almost 1MB/sec to other member schools.
Remember Bud, from the beginning of the Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)? He had pretty much the same thing:
"On a previous visit to the mod parlor, two years ago, he had paid to have a bunch of 'sites implanted in his muscles--little critters, too small to see or feel, that twitched Bud's muscle fibers electrically according to a program that was supposed to maximize bulk."
It's good to see more and more of these things coming true!
Although this could be interperted at least a fairly good thing for Intel, this is pretty bad for other architectures that rely on Blackdown's port. I use their port on my LinuxPPC box, and as LinuxPPC isn't as popular as Intel linux, there is only one Blackdown porter, who is pretty angry:
Hi,
I thought you might like to know that Sun is now officially supporting x86 Linux and didn't bother to inform their porting partners after using their efforts. There is no planned support for Sparc, PowerPC, arm, alpha, etc.
Needless to say, the Blackdown porting effort is in serious jeopardy.
My efforts for Java on Linux PowerPC will cease unless Sun makes a "*public*" change asap.
If you use the JDK and want support to continue (at all for powerpc based machines) you might want to (politely) express your displeasure with Sun.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:39:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin_Hendricks Subject: Sun / Imprise Announcement: A Blackdown Porter's ViewPoint To: java-linux@java.blackdown.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-MD5: jfrc0hb9tf/kXVy1gfHb0g==
Hi,
I just wanted the list to know that although we (Blackdown) knew Sun was going to make some release we had no idea it would not even mention the 4 years of work the Blackdown porters have contributed to this effort.
I truly believe that the Sun / Imprise effort is based on an earlier Blackdown tree.
If so, why has Sun not even acknowledged the existence of this second tree to us.
If so, why hasn't Sun given credit to Blackdown where credit is due?
Needless to say the people who have contributed their personal time and effort to the Blackdown project are *NOT* happy.
I don't mind donating my time and effort to help Java on Linux.
I *do* mind not having that effort recognized especially when it is used as the basis of a someone else's tree.
Frankly, Sun's conduct here stinks.
Unless Sun makes some public change crediting Blackdown where credit is due in a prominent place in their announcements / press releases/ web-page, I am finished as a Blackdown porter and the future of the entire Blackdown project is seriously at risk (most of us feel this way).
If you have benefited in any way from the efforts of the Blackdown porting group over the last 4 years, please (politely) express your displeasure at Sun.
Thanks,
Kevin B. Hendricks (possibly former member of the Blackdown porting group!).
-- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
This was posted to the linuxppc-dev list a few days ago. Today, he posted to the list again, saying he had left Blackdown and asked if anyone wanted to take his place. For LinuxPPC users, this just plain sucks, as there is now no active jdk development for the platform. We can't blame Kevin, and I see this as a bad move by Sun all around.
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Or you can just install linux on it ;-).
I'm currently using my old Centris 610 (with an upgraded processor to fix the faulty LC040 chip) as my NAT/ipmasq box, and everything works fine.
I have used IPNetRouter before though, and it's a very good product.
links:
maclinuxstatus.sourceforge.net
When I took AP CS, we had a couple of weeks of class to kill after the AP exam, and our teacher had us all split up into groups and create a battleship game that would play against the other groups' programs. We didn't get graded on it, but had to spend class time working on it, so there wan't any pressure and the whole thing turned out to be a lot of fun.
One of the most important skills we took out of it was experience programming in a group; something which we hadn't really done before. Also, some of the more advanced groups really went all out and added AI to learn the strategy of the opposing program, movies and sounds for hits and sinks, etc.
Your G3 has the newer (good) firmware. Check out this page for a list of the versions in Power Computing computers. I'm sure there is more info at the apple tech info library about other computers.
(When you're looking at the chart, version 1.0.5 is the "broken" one. 2.0 should work fine.)
Also, as a general rule, anything after (or at least as recent as) the G3 will boot without problems through OF.
My school (Johns Hopkins) is part of the internet 2, and unlike what a previous poster said, all computers have automatic access to it. I don't have access to my computer at school now (the school shut down the network for y2k...) but if I traceroute a host on any member network, for example www.mit.edu, traffic goes through through vbns.net routers (the i2 routers). (Normal traffic doesn't go through the vbns.net routers.) I haven't done much with it, but friends have reported rates of almost 1MB/sec to other member schools.
Some links:
vbns network map
Internet 2 connected schools
It's good to see more and more of these things coming true!
This was posted to the linuxppc-dev list a few days ago. Today, he posted to the list again, saying he had left Blackdown and asked if anyone wanted to take his place. For LinuxPPC users, this just plain sucks, as there is now no active jdk development for the platform. We can't blame Kevin, and I see this as a bad move by Sun all around.