Why do providers usually use PPPoE for DSL connections? The system cable modem users usually get is DHCP, which works a lot nicer. You plug in your cable modem, they talk, and it brings up a live line to you house. Then you plug in your computer, it goes, "ah an IP address and a domain name server, how nice!" But this damn PPPoE thing, you have to dial in, then your modem actually gets your IP and it gives the computer 10.0.0.x. then if you masquerade you are under two psudo ip's. What is the advantage of doing PPPoE? It seems it makes it more difficult for both ends.
My girlfriend got my one of those cool windows and blue neon lights from think geek for my computer. Now at night the whole corner of the room just glows blue. I recomend getting one of these for every computer...
That and I have 6 fans in the case, and one of them has a bad bearing I think.
I'm still not exactly sure what Computer Engineering is. It's getting to the point that it's synonymous with Electrical Engineering.
At my school Computer Science and Computer Engineering are both controlled majors, meaning you need to take certain classes by a certain time and maintain a certain GPA to be accepted into them. A lot of people don't make that cut. They end up in Electrical Engineering. It seems to be very close to Computer Engineering, and there are a lot of classes they can take like C++ for Electrical Engineers.
So anybody who gets out of this University with any of those 3 degrees basically can all go after the same job. Which seems kind of crazy to me, but that's how they do it here.
Aside from all that, what everyone else has been saying about Engineering being more hardware, and Science being more theory and programming is about right. Although I'm sure you'll take classes that overlap. I've had several Digital design courses, and worked with VHDL and I am a Computer Science Major.
So the easiest way to answer this is, do you want to build IC's and expension cards, or do you want to hack on the Linux kernel:) Either way you are set.
True, it does help with small fonts. And rendering pretty 3D scenes too. I'm not saying it's not worth it period. but for someone running linux on an old system, I think it'd be more practical for them to just increase or change font. That's all.
Besides all those hard core Linux guru's are at the CLI anyway;-) hehe
It's to take those ugly jagged edges off your fonts and stuff. It takes edges that jump from black to white (or any one color to another) and makes a gradients, to fool the eye into thinking there are many more pixels there than actually are. looking from far away it apears to be a very smooth curve, but as you know pixels are in a square grid, and don't really make nice circles. it's all about looks. not really worth a performance hit.
It's probably more a matter of experience. The old folks know you have the inteligence, but experience is a big factor. They like it without the learning curve.
I'm so glad that the patent and trademark office doesn't even stop multiple people from trademarking the same thing. You'd think they'd have some kind of system for picking stuff like that out. but you stiff the government a few dollars on your taxes and they are all over you...go figure.
ports or no ports there were still compatability issues. I installed my ports right from the ftp site and they were still outdated. not light years, but enough to make a difference when i couldn't do the same things as i could under linux. and i'm not about to go rewriting apps for bsd, at least at that time i wasn't.
ports or no ports there were still compatability issues. I installed my ports right from the ftp site and they were still outdated. not light years, but enough to make a difference when i couldn't do the same things as i could under linux. and i'm not about to go rewriting apps for bsd, at least at that time i wasn't.
I used to use BSD. I loved it, still do. There's just one problem with it. Software! All you Linux lovers (one of which I too have become) write for Linux. Sometimes as an afterthought you'll port to BSD. Granted BSD does have an awesome ports collection, it's just a tad outdated. Plus lots of stuff will compile on BSD and on Linux, but a lot of software won't. That's the sole reason I switched over. Software...
With a lot of new Linux 2.4 kernel improvments taken directly from BSD, Linux is shaping up to be as good a bet as BSD with the added benfit of all the programmers writing Linux code. But I still think the Daemon is cooler than Tux.;-)
I'm am taking a OS course now and the professor made a point in class of telling us the reason why our class won't delve to much into Windows is because they would have to buy rights to the source for every single student in the class. Microsoft is out to make a buck off of everyhting they can. Most likely if they were going over the NT source, you either had to pay extra money to take that class, or they went over OpenVMS which is what the NT kernel is based on. Microsoft is gonna lose in a big way when all these CS majors graduate and know all about UNIX, and don't wanna take jobs with them and relearn everything they know. I know wherever I get a job I am gonna try my hardest to either find a UNIX/Linux office, or try to convert whomever I go to to UNIX/Linux.
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Why do providers usually use PPPoE for DSL connections? The system cable modem users usually get is DHCP, which works a lot nicer. You plug in your cable modem, they talk, and it brings up a live line to you house. Then you plug in your computer, it goes, "ah an IP address and a domain name server, how nice!" But this damn PPPoE thing, you have to dial in, then your modem actually gets your IP and it gives the computer 10.0.0.x. then if you masquerade you are under two psudo ip's. What is the advantage of doing PPPoE? It seems it makes it more difficult for both ends.
My girlfriend got my one of those cool windows and blue neon lights from think geek for my computer. Now at night the whole corner of the room just glows blue. I recomend getting one of these for every computer...
That and I have 6 fans in the case, and one of them has a bad bearing I think.
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Didn't the grow an ear on a mouses back once? Isn't that cartilage? If so, then what is so new about this?
I'm still not exactly sure what Computer Engineering is. It's getting to the point that it's synonymous with Electrical Engineering.
:) Either way you are set.
At my school Computer Science and Computer Engineering are both controlled majors, meaning you need to take certain classes by a certain time and maintain a certain GPA to be accepted into them. A lot of people don't make that cut. They end up in Electrical Engineering. It seems to be very close to Computer Engineering, and there are a lot of classes they can take like C++ for Electrical Engineers.
So anybody who gets out of this University with any of those 3 degrees basically can all go after the same job. Which seems kind of crazy to me, but that's how they do it here.
Aside from all that, what everyone else has been saying about Engineering being more hardware, and Science being more theory and programming is about right. Although I'm sure you'll take classes that overlap. I've had several Digital design courses, and worked with VHDL and I am a Computer Science Major.
So the easiest way to answer this is, do you want to build IC's and expension cards, or do you want to hack on the Linux kernel
True, it does help with small fonts. And rendering pretty 3D scenes too. I'm not saying it's not worth it period. but for someone running linux on an old system, I think it'd be more practical for them to just increase or change font. That's all.
;-) hehe
Besides all those hard core Linux guru's are at the CLI anyway
It's to take those ugly jagged edges off your fonts and stuff. It takes edges that jump from black to white (or any one color to another) and makes a gradients, to fool the eye into thinking there are many more pixels there than actually are. looking from far away it apears to be a very smooth curve, but as you know pixels are in a square grid, and don't really make nice circles. it's all about looks. not really worth a performance hit.
It's probably more a matter of experience. The old folks know you have the inteligence, but experience is a big factor. They like it without the learning curve.
I'm so glad that the patent and trademark office doesn't even stop multiple people from trademarking the same thing. You'd think they'd have some kind of system for picking stuff like that out. but you stiff the government a few dollars on your taxes and they are all over you...go figure.
I'm not talking about building from source, i'm talking about building source.
this is the same as above...
ports or no ports there were still compatability issues. I installed my ports right from the ftp site and they were still outdated. not light years, but enough to make a difference when i couldn't do the same things as i could under linux. and i'm not about to go rewriting apps for bsd, at least at that time i wasn't.
ports or no ports there were still compatability issues. I installed my ports right from the ftp site and they were still outdated. not light years, but enough to make a difference when i couldn't do the same things as i could under linux. and i'm not about to go rewriting apps for bsd, at least at that time i wasn't.
I used to use BSD. I loved it, still do. There's just one problem with it. Software! All you Linux lovers (one of which I too have become) write for Linux. Sometimes as an afterthought you'll port to BSD. Granted BSD does have an awesome ports collection, it's just a tad outdated. Plus lots of stuff will compile on BSD and on Linux, but a lot of software won't. That's the sole reason I switched over. Software...
;-)
With a lot of new Linux 2.4 kernel improvments taken directly from BSD, Linux is shaping up to be as good a bet as BSD with the added benfit of all the programmers writing Linux code. But I still think the Daemon is cooler than Tux.
I'm am taking a OS course now and the professor made a point in class of telling us the reason why our class won't delve to much into Windows is because they would have to buy rights to the source for every single student in the class. Microsoft is out to make a buck off of everyhting they can. Most likely if they were going over the NT source, you either had to pay extra money to take that class, or they went over OpenVMS which is what the NT kernel is based on. Microsoft is gonna lose in a big way when all these CS majors graduate and know all about UNIX, and don't wanna take jobs with them and relearn everything they know. I know wherever I get a job I am gonna try my hardest to either find a UNIX/Linux office, or try to convert whomever I go to to UNIX/Linux.