You could use the ftp -in command in a shell. Like this. This at least gets you a list of rpm files to stdout; with a little tweaking you could run the rpm program directly or work in some kind of filter.
Recently-obsoleted 3d cards are cheap. Go for a 3dfx or RIVA TNT card, or maybe a Matrox card. I think the Viper is a Riva TNT or TNT2 card. I am in the same boat for ram (4mb).
BTW - My video card is a 4mb riva128 and I drive it at 1280x1024x16 - which I find very likeable. If I want 32bpp I drive it 1152x900 which is also nice. You have to generate the modelines but there is a web page here that makes this a little easier. After generating the modelines, I used xvidtune to fine tune them so I could maximize the painted region on screen.
I have been thinking along these lines for some time. If World Domination (tm) is truly a goal, we have to recognize that a lot of users will never, ever, have the inclination of imaginative horsepower to understand administration activities. Not everybody likes recompiling their kernels or editing/etc/inetd.conf or...
What to do? Give them a secure, stable, preconfigured setup they can browse the net and send mail from. Something you can set up for your grandmother, and it will just plain work. I am wondering who will get there first.
I like Matlab but it's a great math language, not a great general purpose one. For example: the way it handles strings as arrays is not nice. I haven't got into the 5.x constructs though.
One thing I always loved about matlab was multiple return values from functions. Are there other languages that do this? (I know, call by reference will do this).
One thing I find sorely lacking in many books on algorithms is any discussion of why you would select one over another
Do you mean GA versus say a Newton search method? GA is sometimes referred to as a method of last resort. This may be unfair, because many practical problems are not mathematically "nice". I am just getting into GA and I have very complicated simulations underlying my objective functions. We previously computed derivatives for these; it was a huge effort both computationally and for the programmer. One thing that I like about GA is that wrapping the optimizer around an arbitrarily complex objective function is really easy. Also, the parallelism is really good ("embarassing"), especially for distributed computing with message-passing (think beowulf).
For me, the bad thing is that convergence isn't nice and quadratic like some derivative based methods out there. On the other hand, quadratic convergence generally works only near the optimum and derivative based optimizers really only find local minimums (no guarantees about the optimum being globally optimal). Derivative based methods can blow up if you pick a bad guess objective too. Perhaps a good strategy is a combination -- use GA to get into the neighborhood of the global optimum and then use derivative based methods to find it.
I should stress that all this is for my particular application (groundwater). YMMV. Others with different objectives living in differently constrained control spaces will have different experiences. Also, to be fair I should point out that programs like ADIFOR make derivative computations easy to program.
Is this really true? Can somebody provide a news link for any stories? I don't think posting a link to the h4x0r www entry page is a good idea, though.
FTP install at 56k is not going to be any fun. Try getting a $2 RH6 cdrom delivered. I got mine at cheapbytes.com; you will pay more in postage to NZ than the disk costs, but it will be the easiest thing.
The 48gx is a bad candidate. Last time I checked the Saturn was a real slow old CPU, and the hardware has problems accessing 1MB as a contiguous space (they use 128k bank switching).
But if you're looking for a semi-gui OS calculator, maybe you're thinking of the hp49g -- same processor, just everything written in ML and a different Ram/Rom setup. (1mb ram?)
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One mouse button? This is the thing that most annoys me about a mac, too.
Question: Is it possible to buy a three button mouse for a mac? Or a wheel mouse?
Question2: IF it is possible, do any programs take advantage of enhanced mice?
Question3: Why doesn't apple abandon its only-one-button-for-everybody mouse strategy. After all, they've dropped a lot of the cruft from the original mac (M68k, black and white only, no internal expansion)...
1) Do you live near power lines? Would you want people to stop using electrical power because there may be a link between magnetic fields induced by these and birth defects?
The researcher who did this study faked his data. There is no link. This was big news a month or so ago.
Matlab (Mathworks) does this already with their Unix software.
I used to use matlab at Cornell, because Cornell had a site licence. But to have it on a workstation outside school running Linux? Thousands of dollars, depending on the toolboxes. And this every year!
I discovered Octave, the GNU workalike, and that makes me happy. It can't do all that the matlab toolboxes can (not by a long shot), but to be honest I never used them unless it was during a course that specifically required some special toolbox.
I did not understand the strange language of your post. Was it encrypted english? I assumed it was so I tried using some translators:
using rot13 :
Nyy cbffvoyr pbzovangvbaf bs raretl sbezvat znggre. Raretl vf n svavgr pbzzbqvgl va gur havirefr. Jr ner zbivat gbjneq rdhnyvoevhz, ohg zber vzcbegnagyl, gurer ner n svangr ahzore bs fgngrf gung yvsr pna rkvfg va. V fhttrfg zbfg bs lbh gnxr n ybbx ng "inevngvba jvguva xvaq" ybtvp sbe n orggre gnxr ba jub/jung jr ner. Pbhyq fhccbeg perngvbavfz, naq vf zhpu zber fbhaq ybtvp guna ribyhgvba jvgubhg
using travesty.pl:
sound logic than evolution "variation is find finite for in finate universe. we are Could toward creationism, cut you is importantly, are look of life exist much more sound logic than evolution I most of you take a look at "variation within find logic for a better take on who/what we are.
(1) Radioactivity is not the only procedure by which we may date rocks. Anomalous periods of high radioactivity will stand out in a fossil record drill core and can be corrected for. Also, a volcanic eruption will present a very thin layer of airborne sediment.(2) Error of +/-10000 is not a big deal when referring to 1e6+/-10000. (3) The speed of light is not an issue here. And FYI, it's a constant, and has not been in dispute since Michelson-Morley. I never made any claims about the depth of dust on the moon, but errors of science are quickly caught, if this is what you were trying to say. Finally, you say
If the solar system came out of collisions and explosions, there would have been more dust in the past than currently.
Your free ride is now over. Please quantify and explain your contention. Are you even aware of modern planetary theory?
ObAdvice:
Just because you believe in god doesn't mean you have to take all that biblical stuff literally. If you eat pork, you are breaking those literal rules. I always thought Christianity was robust enough to get along with science, but your attitude suggests the opposite.
I agree with you on the foolishness of "Young Earth" studies. (Young Earthers believe all geology was a result of a biblical flood and the world is as old as the bible seems to say, and look for "science" that supports this view). But just calling the "Young-earth" crowd foolish doesn't necessarily convince anyone. You need proof. Here is a brief history of the universe that must all be argued away by the young-earthers.
A brief history of the world:
The universe itself is about 14 billion years old, give or take a billion.
The world is about 4.55 billion years old. This date is probably when the moon was created by a large impact with the earth. The oldest rocks we can find are about 3.8 billion years ago. Primitive lifeforms exist from this era. Until 2 billion years ago the earth was an inhospitable place, basically devoid of oxygen. During the paleozoic era, from 540 million years ago, to 250 million years ago, complex life evolved in the sea and plants formed on land. The first reptiles evolved. A number of mass extinctions occur in this time, but 250 million years ago, a really big mass extinction happens. Was it volcanism? More than 90% of existing species become extinct.
The Mesozoic era, from 250 million years ago, to 65 million years ago, is the age of reptiles. Dinosaurs appear. 65 Million years ago, something big hit the earth and caused a huge round of mass extinctions known as the kt event. The dinosaurs disappeared. This is the "big break" for the mammals that became eventually our species. Between 65 million years ago and 4-5 million years ago, really ugly mammal forms evolved into things that look like people. 4-5 million years ago, we have evidence of some of our first recognizable forerunners. A. Afarensis ("Lucy") is between 3 and 4 million years old. 400,000 years ago we find Homo Sapiens. 200,000 years ago we find evidence of Homo Sapiens Sapiens -- modern man.
By contrast, civilization with recorded history only begins 10,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern-day Iraq.
Axe, please adjust the trigger on your flame thrower. Did you think I was defending creationism? I was stating common creationist arguments, and then I said they were proven wrong. I don't have any more respect for "creation science" than you do.
Thanks for the t.o. link. The two creationist arguments I discussed are conventially debunked here and here. On the paucity of fossil evidence for missing links I offer Darwin:
...Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the gravest objection which can be urged against my theory... (
On the Origin of Species, 1859, p310)
He was right, this is indeed one of the arguments creationists use. Was I wrong to offer an explanation of why gaps are not really that big of a deal? How gaps will always exist? How gaps are a silly non-proof for creationism? For examples of the "two gaps from one gap" creationist argument, please see page 149 of Why people believe weird things.
I can only conclude that we have nothing to argue with each other about. Time to get back to bashing microsoft.
Recent fossils == Mummies. The meat on those frozen mammoths is still edible (it has been fed to dogs, although whether they like dry leathery meat is another question). These things are young, you're missing the point.
There is no guarantee these will not be wiped out in some geologic turn of fate, glaciers, erosion, subduction (okay, long shot) or whatever. Geological times are LONG, and glaciers move like lightning in comparison. Will all those mummies be around in 60 million years? Will future species be able to find them?
It's too bad to hear you brag that the freshmen you taught at Stanford were dummies. The ones I taught at Cornell were pretty bright. Maybe the bright ones avoided your classes.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry. The double arrows (lt lt) got munged by slashdot. Prog looks like:
/mirrors/redhat/updates/current/i386
#!/bin/csh
#setenv RHUPDATE updates.redhat.com
setenv RHUPDATE ftp.lame.org
setenv RHUPDATEDIR
ftp -in <<EOF | awk '{print $9}' | grep "\.rpm"
open $RHUPDATE
user anonymous drunk@www.istar.ca
ls $RHUPDATEDIR
EOF
You could use the ftp -in command in a shell. Like this. This at least gets you a list of rpm files to stdout; with a little tweaking you could run the rpm program directly or work in some kind of filter.
/mirrors/redhat/updates/current/i386
#!/bin/csh
#setenv RHUPDATE updates.redhat.com
setenv RHUPDATE ftp.lame.org
setenv RHUPDATEDIR
ftp -in EOF | awk '{print $9}' | grep "\.rpm"
open $RHUPDATE
user anonymous drunk@www.istar.ca
ls $RHUPDATEDIR
EOF
Hold on folks, this isn't necessarily a beowulf. I could not find the word "Beowulf" on the HPTi page. (Maybe I didn't look hard enough though).
Not every Linux cluster is a Beowulf. The fastest alpha Linux cluster in existence is not a Beowulf.
Anyone know what they plan to use?
Recently-obsoleted 3d cards are cheap. Go for a 3dfx or RIVA TNT card, or maybe a Matrox card. I think the Viper is a Riva TNT or TNT2 card. I am in the same boat for ram (4mb).
BTW - My video card is a 4mb riva128 and I drive it at 1280x1024x16 - which I find very likeable. If I want 32bpp I drive it 1152x900 which is also nice. You have to generate the modelines but there is a web page here that makes this a little easier. After generating the modelines, I used xvidtune to fine tune them so I could maximize the painted region on screen.
I have been thinking along these lines for some time. If World Domination (tm) is truly a goal, we have to recognize that a lot of users will never, ever, have the inclination of imaginative horsepower to understand administration activities. Not everybody likes recompiling their kernels or editing /etc/inetd.conf or...
What to do? Give them a secure, stable, preconfigured setup they can browse the net and send mail from. Something you can set up for your grandmother, and it will just plain work. I am wondering who will get there first.
I like Matlab but it's a great math language, not a great general purpose one. For example: the way it handles strings as arrays is not nice. I haven't got into the 5.x constructs though.
One thing I always loved about matlab was multiple return values from functions. Are there other languages that do this? (I know, call by reference will do this).
Rather than recompile - just hexedit the NSAKEY to something of your choosing. I think the Cryptonym folks refer to this as "removing the NSA".
One thing I find sorely lacking in many books on algorithms is any discussion of why you would select one over another
Do you mean GA versus say a Newton search method? GA is sometimes referred to as a method of last resort. This may be unfair, because many practical problems are not mathematically "nice". I am just getting into GA and I have very complicated simulations underlying my objective functions. We previously computed derivatives for these; it was a huge effort both computationally and for the programmer. One thing that I like about GA is that wrapping the optimizer around an arbitrarily complex objective function is really easy. Also, the parallelism is really good ("embarassing"), especially for distributed computing with message-passing (think beowulf).
For me, the bad thing is that convergence isn't nice and quadratic like some derivative based methods out there. On the other hand, quadratic convergence generally works only near the optimum and derivative based optimizers really only find local minimums (no guarantees about the optimum being globally optimal). Derivative based methods can blow up if you pick a bad guess objective too. Perhaps a good strategy is a combination -- use GA to get into the neighborhood of the global optimum and then use derivative based methods to find it.
I should stress that all this is for my particular application (groundwater). YMMV. Others with different objectives living in differently constrained control spaces will have different experiences. Also, to be fair I should point out that programs like ADIFOR make derivative computations easy to program.
Some helpful optimization links:
Decision Tree for Optimization Software
GA Archives
Will DVD manufacturers every support Linux?
This is a backdoor, not a crack of the password files. Changing your password does not protect you here.
Is this really true? Can somebody provide a news link for any stories? I don't think posting a link to the h4x0r www entry page is a good idea, though.
FTP install at 56k is not going to be any fun. Try getting a $2 RH6 cdrom delivered. I got mine at cheapbytes.com; you will pay more in postage to NZ than the disk costs, but it will be the easiest thing.
The 48gx is a bad candidate. Last time I checked the Saturn was a real slow old CPU, and the hardware has problems accessing 1MB as a contiguous space (they use 128k bank switching).
But if you're looking for a semi-gui OS calculator, maybe you're thinking of the hp49g -- same processor, just everything written in ML and a different Ram/Rom setup. (1mb ram?)
One mouse button? This is the thing that most annoys me about a mac, too.
Question: Is it possible to buy a three button mouse for a mac? Or a wheel mouse?
Question2: IF it is possible, do any programs take advantage of enhanced mice?
Question3: Why doesn't apple abandon its only-one-button-for-everybody mouse strategy. After all, they've dropped a lot of the cruft from the original mac (M68k, black and white only, no internal expansion)...
1) Do you live near power lines? Would you want people to stop using electrical power because there may be a link between magnetic fields induced by these and birth defects?
The researcher who did this study faked his data. There is no link. This was big news a month or so ago.
"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me."
What colors can you get astroturf in?
I used to use matlab at Cornell, because Cornell had a site licence. But to have it on a workstation outside school running Linux? Thousands of dollars, depending on the toolboxes. And this every year!
I discovered Octave, the GNU workalike, and that makes me happy. It can't do all that the matlab toolboxes can (not by a long shot), but to be honest I never used them unless it was during a course that specifically required some special toolbox.
One less customer for Matlab.
using rot13 :
Nyy cbffvoyr pbzovangvbaf bs raretl sbezvat znggre. Raretl vf n svavgr pbzzbqvgl va gur havirefr. Jr ner zbivat gbjneq rdhnyvoevhz, ohg zber vzcbegnagyl, gurer ner n svangr ahzore bs fgngrf gung yvsr pna rkvfg va. V fhttrfg zbfg bs lbh gnxr n ybbx ng "inevngvba jvguva xvaq" ybtvp sbe n orggre gnxr ba jub/jung jr ner. Pbhyq fhccbeg perngvbavfz, naq vf zhpu zber fbhaq ybtvp guna ribyhgvba jvgubhg
using travesty.pl:
sound logic than evolution "variation is find finite for in finate universe. we are Could toward creationism, cut you is importantly, are look of life exist much more sound logic than evolution I most of you take a look at "variation within find logic for a better take on who/what we are.
I don't think I figured out your code.
What about the crusades?
(1) Radioactivity is not the only procedure by which we may date rocks. Anomalous periods of high radioactivity will stand out in a fossil record drill core and can be corrected for. Also, a volcanic eruption will present a very thin layer of airborne sediment.(2) Error of +/-10000 is not a big deal when referring to 1e6+/-10000. (3) The speed of light is not an issue here. And FYI, it's a constant, and has not been in dispute since Michelson-Morley. I never made any claims about the depth of dust on the moon, but errors of science are quickly caught, if this is what you were trying to say. Finally, you say
Your free ride is now over. Please quantify and explain your contention. Are you even aware of modern planetary theory?
ObAdvice:
Just because you believe in god doesn't mean you have to take all that biblical stuff literally. If you eat pork, you are breaking those literal rules. I always thought Christianity was robust enough to get along with science, but your attitude suggests the opposite.
I have my win keys set up under X as "hyper". I never ever use this feature.
I agree with you on the foolishness of "Young
Earth" studies. (Young Earthers believe all geology was a result
of a biblical flood and the world is as old as the bible seems to say,
and look for "science" that supports this view). But just calling the
"Young-earth" crowd foolish doesn't necessarily convince anyone. You
need proof. Here is a brief history of the universe that must all be
argued away by the young-earthers.
A brief history of the world:
The universe itself is about 14 billion years old, give or take a billion.
The world is about 4.55 billion years old. This date
is probably when the moon was created by a large impact with
the earth. The oldest rocks we can find are about 3.8 billion years
ago. Primitive lifeforms exist from this era. Until 2 billion years ago the
earth was an inhospitable place, basically devoid of oxygen.
During the paleozoic era, from 540 million years ago, to 250
million years ago, complex life evolved in the sea and plants formed on
land. The first reptiles evolved. A number of mass extinctions occur in
this time, but 250 million years ago, a really big mass extinction
happens. Was it volcanism? More than 90% of existing species become
extinct.
The Mesozoic era, from 250 million years ago, to 65 million years
ago, is the age of reptiles. Dinosaurs appear. 65 Million years ago,
something big hit the earth and caused a huge round of mass extinctions
known as the kt
event. The dinosaurs disappeared. This is the "big break" for the
mammals that became eventually our species. Between 65 million years
ago and 4-5 million years ago, really ugly mammal forms evolved into
things that look like people. 4-5 million years ago, we have evidence
of some of our first recognizable forerunners. A. Afarensis ("Lucy")
is between 3 and 4 million years old. 400,000 years ago we find Homo
Sapiens. 200,000 years ago we find evidence of Homo Sapiens Sapiens
-- modern man.
By contrast, civilization with recorded history only begins 10,000
years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern-day
Iraq.
Thanks for the t.o. link. The two creationist arguments I discussed are conventially debunked here and here. On the paucity of fossil evidence for missing links I offer Darwin:
He was right, this is indeed one of the arguments creationists use. Was I wrong to offer an explanation of why gaps are not really that big of a deal? How gaps will always exist? How gaps are a silly non-proof for creationism? For examples of the "two gaps from one gap" creationist argument, please see page 149 of Why people believe weird things.I can only conclude that we have nothing to argue with each other about. Time to get back to bashing microsoft.
Recent fossils == Mummies. The meat on those frozen mammoths is still edible (it has been fed to dogs, although whether they like dry leathery meat is another question). These things are young, you're missing the point.
There is no guarantee these will not be wiped out in some geologic turn of fate, glaciers, erosion, subduction (okay, long shot) or whatever. Geological times are LONG, and glaciers move like lightning in comparison. Will all those mummies be around in 60 million years? Will future species be able to find them?
It's too bad to hear you brag that the freshmen you taught at Stanford were dummies. The ones I taught at Cornell were pretty bright. Maybe the bright ones avoided your classes.