I used it to look for a job...which I got. I was a cabler (installed CAT5 cable) on my college campus. That job helped me get a job in the computer repair shop on campus which helped me get a job as a custom computer assembly tech at a local computer store which helped me get a job in an IT department at a larger corporation which helped me get a job as a programmer where I am today. So you could say that gopher is responsible for my entire career:)
Possession of any amount of marijuana (even hemp with no narcotic effects) in Nevada, for instance, results in a manditory 25 year jail term - FOR FIRST OFFENSES! There's something seriously wrong with that. Your life is over because some prick cop notices you're wearing a hemp necklace.
Umm, no. Posession of narcotic marijuana used to be a felony, but first-timers always got it knocked down to a misdemeanor. Now, your first time for simple posession is always a misdemeanor. And hemp is totally legal. There are shops right here in downtown Reno that sell a variety of hemp products. Also, Nevada is one of the few states that has legalized medical marijuana.
Does anyone else get the feeling that McVoy has most of the kernel developers wrapped around his little finger? Notice how so many post to defend McVoy after RMS makes a fairly benign statement about creating a free BK client. Notice McVoy's tone: "Fuck with me and I'll sink you all!" And the kernel developers (with the exception of Alan Cox) come rushing to his side!! Have they forgotten that they are working on a Free Software project??? Why are they so complacent with this kind of behavior??? When McVoy says jump, they don't even ask how high...they just jump as high as they can. Incredibly sad. I just hope this gets some people motivated to make something better than BK so McVoy can become irrelevant.
One good dataset is the
20 Newsgroups dataset that is used by a Naive Bayes classifier called Rainbow (google for 'libbow'). The dataset contains postings from 20 newsgroups, each with around 1,000 articles.
Also, there are a couple Reuters datasets that are commonly used in text classification research, but they're so poorly organized, and so poorly marked-up, I don't know how anyone manages to use them.
Register a company called "Secure Products Inc.", and make a quick website, fake some letterhead, etc. Then, tell your boss you found a great SSH product from Secure Products for only $50 per seat. Then, download the newest version of OpenSSH, change the name to SPISSH and watch the $$$$ roll in!
The article says Oracle is seeing a downturn in sales. Is any of this due to people switching to the open-source alternatives? I'm not a database geek, but from what I understand, the open-source stuff is getting more and more full-featured. Of course a fortune-500 company doesn't care about the extra $$ for Oracle, but I wonder if they're losing out on the lower end...
No, it's because everyone bought a metric assload of database software when they had the money a few years ago. People don't buy all new database systems every couple years like they do with office suites and other crap. Databases tend to stick around a while. Combine that with tightening budgets right now, and Oracle isn't doing as well as they were a few years ago. That's why they're real big on the "software as a service/pay for something you already bought every year" garbage.
But open source databases are getting better. Slowly, but surely.
Because, like it or not, high school is, for most, valuable job training before they leave high school and enter the work force, be that as secretaries using MS Office or accountants using Excel, etc.
How horribly untrue. For many, if not most, high school is a path to college. We shouldn't be teaching kids the ins and outs of whatever is the hot topic of today, because that can change quickly. When I started high school (1992), we were still using DOS. Not terribly valuable today. We should be teaching them how to learn. This would involve exposing them to as many computer interfaces as possible (Win, Mac, Linux), so that they learn the basin functionality of an interface and can learn a new interface relatively quickly. By limiting them to one single interface style, they have trouble understanding the difference between the operating system, the interface to that system, and the software that runs on it.
Not to mention the numerous administration headaches that would result from your everyday highschool computer teacher trying to figure out Linux, let alone teach it. I personally could not imagine my glorified typing teacher in high school comprehending file permissions, much less understanding something as arcane as TeX or vi.
There's no reason a teacher would have to use TeX or vi. StarOffice would do quite nicely as a word processor/spreadsheet combo. It has all the functionality a school could want.
All in all, its probably a better idea to stick with something like Macs which have a proven track record in education as well as most of the common office applications that can be found on Windows computers as well.
It's that kind of attitude that keeps our schools impoverished and our kids learning-impaired. If we showed them three different word processors, they would realize that they all do pretty much the same thing. Suddenly, they learn that change isn't scary. They learn how to adapt, and become more dynamic students. They learn that computers are just machines that follow instructions, and can be changed to suite the user's need. Those skills are way more important than knowing how to set a page break in Word XP.
Some people build model airplanes, some people fix up old cars, and some people write software. Some people don't see it as work, they enjoy it...just like any other hobbiest.
While Fahrenheit is officially dead, there are alternatives. Open Inventor was the predecessor to Fahrenheit and is now available under the GPL. It has been ported to Linux, Windows, and of course runs on Irix. It's good stuff. And the people on the mailing list (very low volume) are quick to respond and very helpful.
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Somewhere out there, Tommy Tutone is laughing his ass off!
I used it to look for a job...which I got. I was a cabler (installed CAT5 cable) on my college campus. That job helped me get a job in the computer repair shop on campus which helped me get a job as a custom computer assembly tech at a local computer store which helped me get a job in an IT department at a larger corporation which helped me get a job as a programmer where I am today. So you could say that gopher is responsible for my entire career :)
Possession of any amount of marijuana (even hemp with no narcotic effects) in Nevada, for instance, results in a manditory 25 year jail term - FOR FIRST OFFENSES! There's something seriously wrong with that. Your life is over because some prick cop notices you're wearing a hemp necklace.
Umm, no. Posession of narcotic marijuana used to be a felony, but first-timers always got it knocked down to a misdemeanor. Now, your first time for simple posession is always a misdemeanor. And hemp is totally legal. There are shops right here in downtown Reno that sell a variety of hemp products. Also, Nevada is one of the few states that has legalized medical marijuana.
Does anyone else get the feeling that McVoy has most of the kernel developers wrapped around his little finger? Notice how so many post to defend McVoy after RMS makes a fairly benign statement about creating a free BK client. Notice McVoy's tone: "Fuck with me and I'll sink you all!" And the kernel developers (with the exception of Alan Cox) come rushing to his side!! Have they forgotten that they are working on a Free Software project??? Why are they so complacent with this kind of behavior??? When McVoy says jump, they don't even ask how high...they just jump as high as they can. Incredibly sad. I just hope this gets some people motivated to make something better than BK so McVoy can become irrelevant.
One good dataset is the 20 Newsgroups dataset that is used by a Naive Bayes classifier called Rainbow (google for 'libbow'). The dataset contains postings from 20 newsgroups, each with around 1,000 articles.
Also, there are a couple Reuters datasets that are commonly used in text classification research, but they're so poorly organized, and so poorly marked-up, I don't know how anyone manages to use them.
Ok, this is what you do:
Register a company called "Secure Products Inc.", and make a quick website, fake some letterhead, etc. Then, tell your boss you found a great SSH product from Secure Products for only $50 per seat. Then, download the newest version of OpenSSH, change the name to SPISSH and watch the $$$$ roll in!
Word.
The article says Oracle is seeing a downturn in sales. Is any of this due to people switching to the open-source alternatives? I'm not a database geek, but from what I understand, the open-source stuff is getting more and more full-featured. Of course a fortune-500 company doesn't care about the extra $$ for Oracle, but I wonder if they're losing out on the lower end...
No, it's because everyone bought a metric assload of database software when they had the money a few years ago. People don't buy all new database systems every couple years like they do with office suites and other crap. Databases tend to stick around a while. Combine that with tightening budgets right now, and Oracle isn't doing as well as they were a few years ago. That's why they're real big on the "software as a service/pay for something you already bought every year" garbage.
But open source databases are getting better. Slowly, but surely.
How horribly untrue. For many, if not most, high school is a path to college. We shouldn't be teaching kids the ins and outs of whatever is the hot topic of today, because that can change quickly. When I started high school (1992), we were still using DOS. Not terribly valuable today. We should be teaching them how to learn. This would involve exposing them to as many computer interfaces as possible (Win, Mac, Linux), so that they learn the basin functionality of an interface and can learn a new interface relatively quickly. By limiting them to one single interface style, they have trouble understanding the difference between the operating system, the interface to that system, and the software that runs on it. Not to mention the numerous administration headaches that would result from your everyday highschool computer teacher trying to figure out Linux, let alone teach it. I personally could not imagine my glorified typing teacher in high school comprehending file permissions, much less understanding something as arcane as TeX or vi.
There's no reason a teacher would have to use TeX or vi. StarOffice would do quite nicely as a word processor/spreadsheet combo. It has all the functionality a school could want. All in all, its probably a better idea to stick with something like Macs which have a proven track record in education as well as most of the common office applications that can be found on Windows computers as well.
It's that kind of attitude that keeps our schools impoverished and our kids learning-impaired. If we showed them three different word processors, they would realize that they all do pretty much the same thing. Suddenly, they learn that change isn't scary. They learn how to adapt, and become more dynamic students. They learn that computers are just machines that follow instructions, and can be changed to suite the user's need. Those skills are way more important than knowing how to set a page break in Word XP.
root@chrome:/home/me > nslookup drexelsucks.org
Server: ns1.greatbasin.net
Address: 207.228.35.42
*** ns1.greatbasin.net can't find drexelsucks.org: Non-existent host/domain
root@chrome:/home/me >
Whoever can hack into the ad server (they say it's a network-based screen saver) and change the ads into some anti-ads will be my hero.
Some people build model airplanes, some people fix up old cars, and some people write software. Some people don't see it as work, they enjoy it...just like any other hobbiest.
While Fahrenheit is officially dead, there are alternatives. Open Inventor was the predecessor to Fahrenheit and is now available under the GPL. It has been ported to Linux, Windows, and of course runs on Irix. It's good stuff. And the people on the mailing list (very low volume) are quick to respond and very helpful.