Yes.
I graduated from University of Wisconsin with a Bachelors degree in Computer Sciences. I had internships for two summers before graduating. I had five interviews with top tier software companies, and got five offers, ranging from $65k to $85k, and all including excellent benefits.
Do your homework. Do well in classes. Do well in an algorithms class since it gives you one of the most useful skills you'll need in an interview. Get an internship. Practice interviews with friends and share your experiences. Interview often, you have little to lose. Get a job on campus if you can't get an internship, so you can get a reference from a PhD the next year. Those references go a very long way.
Oh yea, and make sure you learn about parallel programming. It's important these days.
Maybe the question you need to be asking is what qualifications employers prefer to see in their candidates? Perhaps you have the qualifications they are looking for but have not presented them effectively? Keep in mind that it is a competetive marketplace and the employer will chose the best candidate they can get.
Know your competition. The other candidates may have industry experience in the form of one or two summer internships. They may have experience working on campus, perhaps in a lab, which, while not necessarily applicable to the desired job, gets them a reference with a PhD. Maybe they have participated in extra-curricular programming competitions, like the ICPC or other regional competition. Perhaps they worked tech support in high school? I guess the point is that tech support really isn't the sort of experience that one wants to display their skills from a computer engineering degree.
How do you proceed? You can probably find employment on campus sufficient to leverage your new skills. Do you have any friends working for one of the places you'd like to work? Are you close enough to list them as a reference? I have helped several friends get jobs by offering to be their references, but I don't do it unless I really beleive they are qualified for the position. Maybe you are making an error during the interview and could benefit from a workshop.
Googling "BSL4 wisconsin" will reveal many articles claiming that the university violated NIH guidelines to do this research, though it was authorized by the UW Institutional Biosafety Committee. Clearly, they have an interest in enabling research of this type at more institutions, given the great cost of operating a BSL4 facility. UW Madison lacks such a facility, yet has remained at the forefront of biotechnology research (having done pioneering work in the area of stem cells).
I have a friend in the civil engineering major who used to do HVAC work on campus. He told me "horror stories" about HVAC systems that vented air from a basement BSL3 lab into a third floor corridor because an uninformed contractor tapped into the wrong vent. Another time, he was evaluating the HVAC needs in a building and walked through an unmarked door, looked around, then exited, only to be told by a TA in the hall that he was not supposed to be in that room... that it was a BLS3 hot room.
The difference between a BSL2 and a BSL3 infectious agent could be a single mutation. One must ask... what is the probability of a mutation in this engineered virus causing it to return to its original form? Given the way virii replicate, it's certainly plausible that it could happen.
What is the "acceptable" risk? Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the biosafety levels? Now, with our greater understanding of genetics and mutation, we can classify things based upon current risk, and mutation risk?
I'm certain this will be a topic of much debate.
- John (hyperbolix)
I'm a CS student at UW Madison.
Google recruiters! My soul is available for purchase.
The problem faced when developing multi-threaded applications has two fundamental parts: safety and liveness.
Safety is ensuring one thread does not clobber some other thread, while liveness is ensuring the threads do not cause each other to lock.
The classic example is Dijksta's dining philosophers problem. In this problem you have a set of five philosophers seated around a circular table. Between each pair of philosophers is a single fork, but each philosopher needs both the fork to his right and the fork to his left to eat. Being philosophers, each can either eat or think. To facilitate safety, one must ensure that when a philosopher wants to eat, he cannot use a fork that is already in use. To facilitate liveness, one must ensure that if a philosopher wants to eat, and it is safe, then he/she can eat.
Clearly, one cannot compromise safety, as this will cause fundamental problems with the software. A programmer must deal with liveness in at least a minimal manner to prevent deadlock, that is, the case wherein every philosopher, in order around the table, picks up his right fork and sits waiting for the left to become available - which will never happen, and execution stops. One solution prevents this by numbering the forks, ensuring that each philosopher picks up the lower numbered fork first, and as such, in this case, the final philosopher would attempt to pick up the lower number fork, already held by the first, and not do so as it is locked, thus allowing the fourth philosopher a chance to eat, though in this case only one philosopher can eat at a time. A better solution involves having each philosopher pick up the even numbered fork, ensuring the maximum number of philosophers that want to eat, can eat.
As you can see, there are two major issues to deal with, and only one offers any flexibility. In choosing how to implement liveness, that is, how to dealing conflicts in locking, we find added complication that must be overcome to maximize efficiency. In reality, this is a question of finding your critical sections of code and using fine locking, wherein you hold only the mutex of the data structure you are modifying. This is significantly more difficult that holding the mutex on the entire thing. To draw a correlation, the first solution to liveness in the dining philosophers problem can be achieved with a single mutex on the table. The second solution requires one mutex per fork (or, for another way to think about it, one mutex per philosopher.)
Luckily, there are scientists who are concerned about global warming, and its effects are making frontpage news.
Lake Mendota, in Madison, WI, usually freezes over around December 28th.
It hasn't frozen yet. In fact, there isn't any ice on it at all.
The shortest ice season on Lake Mendota was the winter of 2001-02, when the ice lasted only 21 days.
That contrasts with the long icy winters documented in more than 150 years of lake observation records. In 1880-81, for example, Lake Mendota was frozen for 161 days.
hyperbolix
I think this could be a really interesting way to optimize keyboard sizes.
OK, with the given 3-key keyboard, one has up to 8 possible modes, with [0,0,0] being the default mode with which no action is assigned. With a 2-key chording configuration, one can generate 6 distinct modes: 0+1, 0+2, 1+0, 1+2, 2+0, 2+1. With 1-key chording configuration, one can generate only 3 distinct modes: 0, 1, 2. Three-key chording would provide the same result as two key chording (for obvious reasons.)
Suppose this chording were applied to a full size keyboard? On my mac, when using the "Keyboard Viewer" (as I sometimes do for international characters), depressing the shift and option keys updates the display with the new possible outputs. What if this were applied to a normal keyboard, to generate an easier to learn full size keyboard? Or a keyboard with easily accessed international character sets? Or with a modal key that can be depressed to make every key into a hot key, with, perhaps, an icon associated with each key and with each action?
The applicability of this is extensive, but the lifetime and framerate (and presumably response time) leaves something to be desired.
Anyone else get the reference to Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn" in that article:
"In Brandenburg did Colin Au his stately pleasure dome decree."
Interestingly, "Kubla Kahn" can be interpretted as a description of an unacceptable affair between two individuals, or, possibly as a description of the sexual act itself. It describes unattainable pleasure, or pleasure, that, once attained, carries with it a burden.
One must also note the described context of the poem:
It is the first part of a description of an opium enduced dream enjoyed by Kubla Kahn while undergoing medical treatment.
I wonder if the proprietor of this indoor island had similar inspiration.
Does anyone forsee copyright issues with this? What happens if I get two cats, a male and female, and they breed. Suppose the babies are also hypoallergenic. Suppose I cannot keep the litter of kittens and wish to sell them. I'd undercut the price of the original kitten in the interest of selling them quickly, but what happens if the cats copy themselves without my knowledge? I can't stop the cats from screwing... God knows they want to. Will I be liable for patent or copyright violation of the cat's reproduce naturally, or if I say it was natural?
FYI, this is also offered with touchscreen and an 8 inch version is also available. Also, its important to mention a few things:
- The display uses OLED technology, which has a shorter lifetime than certain other LCD panel technologies.
- The viewing angle is 40/60(Up/Down), 60/60(Left/Right).
- This is not a flip up, but I thought it was cool cause its touchscreen and is inexpensive.
- It's made in China.
I'm looking at a similar project, and I had decided on using a touchscreen on a small arm like this. So I can grab it and move it around and tap it... like in the matrix (not really).
I was not able to acquire the information about viewing angle any way but by emailing the manufacturer. That information is valuable.
I'm pretty sure that if you were to drop both Linux and Windows from a two story building at the same instant, they would also land at the same instant, assuming equal friction due to the resistance of the air. In other words..
Accelleration due to gravity is independant of the accellerated object's mass.
I hope I'm not the only one who caught this, but it appears the MEncoder version number used in the tests, 3.3.1 doesn't exist.
Anandtech page: http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2114&p=3
I've used mencoder a lot with Linux, and I know the latest version, other than the CVS, is 1.0pre4. When the version is custom compiled, it appends your gcc-version number to the end of the version, so it could become 1.0pre4-3.3.1.
MPlayer/MEncoder page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
Curiously, the next page of the Anandtech article shows rendering tests with Mental Ray version 3.3.1.
Second Anandtech page:http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=211 4&p=4
Interesting! The very same version specified incorrectly for MEncoder! I think we may be dealing with a minor mistake in this article, though frankly, I can't imagine getting those kinds of speeds from MEncoder with decent quality and bitrate. My AMD Athlon XP 2100+ only gets 13 FPS, and I know that mencoder doesn't take advantage of the x86-64 instruction set.
Oh well, just thought I'd bring this to/.'s attention.
Having worked for an ISP for some time now, I have grown accustomed to using vim, sed, awk, grep, and a variety of other tools. I utilize command shells for practically everything (force of habit,) and I am actually more error prone in a drag/drop environment than using a command line. I'm extremely unhappy with the quality of the Windows 'cmd' command line interface. At this point, the only use I have for Windows is to play the everpopular first person shooters, for which I dual boot. I dislike the lack of remote control in windows. I'd really like to be able to SSH in and do everything from a command prompt that I could do with the normal interface, but the Windows XP Telnet interface is crippling. There is something quite inflexible about Windows, and I find it disturbing. When I leave home, I must check to make sure my dual booting system is running in Linux (the default,) or I won't be able to access it from elsewhere. Diverse filesystem access is also lacking, as I can access my NTFS partition read-only from Linux, but I cannot access my EXT3 partition at all from Windows. I think that just about sums it up.
Pharmaceutical Industry?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Maybe this is due to the growth in the Pharmaceutical industry in the United States. With advertisements on TV for drugs to cure diseases people haven't even heard of, its logical that consumers will respond. The wealth of information that is available on the internet is mind boggling to most, and I was not surprised to hear about this.
I'm awefully distressed that Apple's music player isn't getting more recognition in consumer electronics houses. I went to Best Buy recently to pick up a much needed case fan, and was surprised to see that they carry iPods. Unfortunately, they have all their iPods in a locked transparant glass case at floor level, making it very difficult to look inside. Additionally, all the iPod boxes are oriented in such a way that the size is the only visible part of the box. On top of this case is the latest offering from Creative Labs, in a nice clear plastic case, showing off the (rather bulky) HDD MP3 player. It is impossible see what the iPod even looks like in the display. As I was doing my Christmas shopping at the time, I had my own iPod with me. I was asked about it by two moderately interested individuals, who were complete unaware of the presence of the product in the store. It's really too bad that the bottom line plays such a big role in the way these products are marketted. Best Buy has a much more significant markup on the other MP3 players, but its a little deceiteful to tuck the good stuff away like that. OK, enough of my griping.
- J. B.
There is actually a way to block this kind of thing using procmail and a copy of a valid message sent by the user or some information from their mail program settings. Here is why:
- The bounce back messages will always contain an SMTP status code like 5.1.1 (for user unknown).
- If the message that caused the bounce back really originated from the user, then the bounce back message will contain the user's Display Name as set in his or her email program (often Outlook Express). The display name can also be found in the "From" line next to the real email address, if you only have a legit message from the user and don't have access to information from his or her settings.
- If the message that caused the bounceback did not originate from the user, then that Display Name will not be present in the bounce back message.
Therefore, if a user's Display Name is "Foo Bar", and their email address is not the same as the Display Name (for example farboo@some.place), the following procmail script will stop most bounce back messages triggered by messages that did not originate from the user's computer, and should allow those that did:
This would be placed in a.procmailrc file in the user's home directory and would only work if your mail server uses procmail for delivery. Also, I must mention that no content based filtering (such as this) can be 100% accurate.
Am I good? Am I good? I'm good. (Does a little dance).
For me as well, the concept of Mass versus Weight was the first thing to come to mind in reading this article.
The article compares the weight of a cloud in the sky to the weight of an elephant on earth. Unfortunately, this is fundamentaly flawed in that the weight of any mass varies based upon the distance to the source of gravity. Therefore, a cloud at 10000 ft would have a different weight than a cloud of the same mass at 20000 ft.
Therefore, this article is unclear at best.
It would be more clear to mention the mass, calculate weight based on an average altitude, then further impress us by explaining what counters that weight (since weight is force) to keep the clouds in the sky.
This is what we get from the media tailoring the lower common demoninator.
Hey, you know with a phone booth, mounting the antenna on top of it would probably help prevent loss of signal. When I'm far away from my WAP, if I sit directly between my PowerBook and my WAP, the PowerBook looses its connection. Elevating the antenna may help prevent that from occuring, and I do beleive phone booths are tall enough to have some effect.
Nobody here seem's to realize how much CPU time spamassassin uses. Can you imagine running spamassassin on a server with 10,000 users? Even on my 1.73Ghz Athlon XP w/ RAID striping, spamassassin still takes considerable CPU time, and I'm only serving five email addresses. It pushes my CPU to 100% for a good second or two each time I get an email, and that just will not scale. The solution is not to reduce the volume of received spam by technical means, as we'll be fighting forever with the spammers. As soon as we upgrade, they will. The solution is to reduce the volume of incoming (not recieved) spam. Lawsuits work. Any way that makes sending spam costly will do the trick. They won't send it if the business model doesn't hold up.
Yes! And did you notice how I even typo'ed the end of the url? It's cause I had slashdot up on my PC and had the ars technica article on my mac. I knew time was of the essence as someone else was bound to say it later. So I typed it in and put an extra \ by accident. I added the 's during the preview stage so it would look decent.:) No shame in a little Karma whoring...
I hate to say it, but your statement that Star Trek is no longer geeky is actually somewhat true. There is a growing trend amoung 15 to 25 year old hicks who are into country music to watch ST:TNG episodes, and said market has been eagerly captured by TNN, who have rebranded themselves as the "New" TNN. It seems now that whenever there isn't anything good on, I come crawling back to the old episodes that got me through so many lonely nights in junior high... when all the normal, "popular" people were off wasting there money at the movies and at the mall. Fortunately, having not wasted my money on such silly things, I have enough money to buy such an item... oh wait... I forgot... I didn't save it, I bought RAM instead.:( - Hyperbolix
I'm willing to bet that mastercard is asking for additional information about the credit card holder and paypal doesn't want to disclose such information.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. I graduated from University of Wisconsin with a Bachelors degree in Computer Sciences. I had internships for two summers before graduating. I had five interviews with top tier software companies, and got five offers, ranging from $65k to $85k, and all including excellent benefits. Do your homework. Do well in classes. Do well in an algorithms class since it gives you one of the most useful skills you'll need in an interview. Get an internship. Practice interviews with friends and share your experiences. Interview often, you have little to lose. Get a job on campus if you can't get an internship, so you can get a reference from a PhD the next year. Those references go a very long way. Oh yea, and make sure you learn about parallel programming. It's important these days.
Maybe the question you need to be asking is what qualifications employers prefer to see in their candidates? Perhaps you have the qualifications they are looking for but have not presented them effectively? Keep in mind that it is a competetive marketplace and the employer will chose the best candidate they can get.
Know your competition. The other candidates may have industry experience in the form of one or two summer internships. They may have experience working on campus, perhaps in a lab, which, while not necessarily applicable to the desired job, gets them a reference with a PhD. Maybe they have participated in extra-curricular programming competitions, like the ICPC or other regional competition. Perhaps they worked tech support in high school? I guess the point is that tech support really isn't the sort of experience that one wants to display their skills from a computer engineering degree.
How do you proceed? You can probably find employment on campus sufficient to leverage your new skills. Do you have any friends working for one of the places you'd like to work? Are you close enough to list them as a reference? I have helped several friends get jobs by offering to be their references, but I don't do it unless I really beleive they are qualified for the position. Maybe you are making an error during the interview and could benefit from a workshop.
Good luck.
There is no BSL4 Lab at UW Madison.
Googling "BSL4 wisconsin" will reveal many articles claiming that the university violated NIH guidelines to do this research, though it was authorized by the UW Institutional Biosafety Committee. Clearly, they have an interest in enabling research of this type at more institutions, given the great cost of operating a BSL4 facility. UW Madison lacks such a facility, yet has remained at the forefront of biotechnology research (having done pioneering work in the area of stem cells).
I have a friend in the civil engineering major who used to do HVAC work on campus. He told me "horror stories" about HVAC systems that vented air from a basement BSL3 lab into a third floor corridor because an uninformed contractor tapped into the wrong vent. Another time, he was evaluating the HVAC needs in a building and walked through an unmarked door, looked around, then exited, only to be told by a TA in the hall that he was not supposed to be in that room... that it was a BLS3 hot room.
The difference between a BSL2 and a BSL3 infectious agent could be a single mutation. One must ask... what is the probability of a mutation in this engineered virus causing it to return to its original form? Given the way virii replicate, it's certainly plausible that it could happen.
What is the "acceptable" risk? Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the biosafety levels? Now, with our greater understanding of genetics and mutation, we can classify things based upon current risk, and mutation risk?
I'm certain this will be a topic of much debate.
- John (hyperbolix)
I'm a CS student at UW Madison.
Google recruiters! My soul is available for purchase.
The problem faced when developing multi-threaded applications has two fundamental parts: safety and liveness.
Safety is ensuring one thread does not clobber some other thread, while liveness is ensuring the threads do not cause each other to lock.
The classic example is Dijksta's dining philosophers problem. In this problem you have a set of five philosophers seated around a circular table. Between each pair of philosophers is a single fork, but each philosopher needs both the fork to his right and the fork to his left to eat. Being philosophers, each can either eat or think. To facilitate safety, one must ensure that when a philosopher wants to eat, he cannot use a fork that is already in use. To facilitate liveness, one must ensure that if a philosopher wants to eat, and it is safe, then he/she can eat.
Clearly, one cannot compromise safety, as this will cause fundamental problems with the software. A programmer must deal with liveness in at least a minimal manner to prevent deadlock, that is, the case wherein every philosopher, in order around the table, picks up his right fork and sits waiting for the left to become available - which will never happen, and execution stops. One solution prevents this by numbering the forks, ensuring that each philosopher picks up the lower numbered fork first, and as such, in this case, the final philosopher would attempt to pick up the lower number fork, already held by the first, and not do so as it is locked, thus allowing the fourth philosopher a chance to eat, though in this case only one philosopher can eat at a time. A better solution involves having each philosopher pick up the even numbered fork, ensuring the maximum number of philosophers that want to eat, can eat.
As you can see, there are two major issues to deal with, and only one offers any flexibility. In choosing how to implement liveness, that is, how to dealing conflicts in locking, we find added complication that must be overcome to maximize efficiency. In reality, this is a question of finding your critical sections of code and using fine locking, wherein you hold only the mutex of the data structure you are modifying. This is significantly more difficult that holding the mutex on the entire thing. To draw a correlation, the first solution to liveness in the dining philosophers problem can be achieved with a single mutex on the table. The second solution requires one mutex per fork (or, for another way to think about it, one mutex per philosopher.)
This article in the Capitol Times is also relevant:? ntid=113651
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php
- hyperbolix
Lake Mendota, in Madison, WI, usually freezes over around December 28th. It hasn't frozen yet. In fact, there isn't any ice on it at all.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/index.php?ntid
If you want Calculon to race to the laser gun battle in his hover-Ferrari, press 1.
...
...
If you want Calculon to doublecheck his paperwork, press 2.
1) Violent Lasergun Battle
2) Tedious Paperwork
Enter now.
- You have pressed 2.
- No I didn't!
- I'm almost positive you did.
- Add in the carryover from form 16A, then deduct line 2B.
I think this could be a really interesting way to optimize keyboard sizes.
OK, with the given 3-key keyboard, one has up to 8 possible modes, with [0,0,0] being the default mode with which no action is assigned. With a 2-key chording configuration, one can generate 6 distinct modes: 0+1, 0+2, 1+0, 1+2, 2+0, 2+1. With 1-key chording configuration, one can generate only 3 distinct modes: 0, 1, 2. Three-key chording would provide the same result as two key chording (for obvious reasons.)
Suppose this chording were applied to a full size keyboard? On my mac, when using the "Keyboard Viewer" (as I sometimes do for international characters), depressing the shift and option keys updates the display with the new possible outputs. What if this were applied to a normal keyboard, to generate an easier to learn full size keyboard? Or a keyboard with easily accessed international character sets? Or with a modal key that can be depressed to make every key into a hot key, with, perhaps, an icon associated with each key and with each action?
The applicability of this is extensive, but the lifetime and framerate (and presumably response time) leaves something to be desired.
My only question: Where is the API?
Anyone else get the reference to Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn" in that article:
"In Brandenburg did Colin Au his stately pleasure dome decree."
Interestingly, "Kubla Kahn" can be interpretted as a description of an unacceptable affair between two individuals, or, possibly as a description of the sexual act itself. It describes unattainable pleasure, or pleasure, that, once attained, carries with it a burden.
One must also note the described context of the poem:
It is the first part of a description of an opium enduced dream enjoyed by Kubla Kahn while undergoing medical treatment.
I wonder if the proprietor of this indoor island had similar inspiration.
Does anyone forsee copyright issues with this? What happens if I get two cats, a male and female, and they breed. Suppose the babies are also hypoallergenic. Suppose I cannot keep the litter of kittens and wish to sell them. I'd undercut the price of the original kitten in the interest of selling them quickly, but what happens if the cats copy themselves without my knowledge? I can't stop the cats from screwing... God knows they want to. Will I be liable for patent or copyright violation of the cat's reproduce naturally, or if I say it was natural?
Advocating the Devil,
John B.
- The display uses OLED technology, which has a shorter lifetime than certain other LCD panel technologies.
- The viewing angle is 40/60(Up/Down), 60/60(Left/Right).
- This is not a flip up, but I thought it was cool cause its touchscreen and is inexpensive.
- It's made in China.
I'm looking at a similar project, and I had decided on using a touchscreen on a small arm like this. So I can grab it and move it around and tap it... like in the matrix (not really).
I was not able to acquire the information about viewing angle any way but by emailing the manufacturer. That information is valuable.
JB
Definitely true, but...
I'm pretty sure that if you were to drop both Linux and Windows from a two story building at the same instant, they would also land at the same instant, assuming equal friction due to the resistance of the air. In other words..
Accelleration due to gravity is independant of the accellerated object's mass.
Doesn't that just say it all?
I hope I'm not the only one who caught this, but it appears the MEncoder version number used in the tests, 3.3.1 doesn't exist.
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1 4&p=4 /.'s attention.
Anandtech page: http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2114&p=
I've used mencoder a lot with Linux, and I know the latest version, other than the CVS, is 1.0pre4. When the version is custom compiled, it appends your gcc-version number to the end of the version, so it could become 1.0pre4-3.3.1.
MPlayer/MEncoder page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.htm
Curiously, the next page of the Anandtech article shows rendering tests with Mental Ray version 3.3.1.
Second Anandtech page:http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=21
Interesting! The very same version specified incorrectly for MEncoder! I think we may be dealing with a minor mistake in this article, though frankly, I can't imagine getting those kinds of speeds from MEncoder with decent quality and bitrate. My AMD Athlon XP 2100+ only gets 13 FPS, and I know that mencoder doesn't take advantage of the x86-64 instruction set.
Oh well, just thought I'd bring this to
Having worked for an ISP for some time now, I have grown accustomed to using vim, sed, awk, grep, and a variety of other tools. I utilize command shells for practically everything (force of habit,) and I am actually more error prone in a drag/drop environment than using a command line. I'm extremely unhappy with the quality of the Windows 'cmd' command line interface. At this point, the only use I have for Windows is to play the everpopular first person shooters, for which I dual boot. I dislike the lack of remote control in windows. I'd really like to be able to SSH in and do everything from a command prompt that I could do with the normal interface, but the Windows XP Telnet interface is crippling. There is something quite inflexible about Windows, and I find it disturbing. When I leave home, I must check to make sure my dual booting system is running in Linux (the default,) or I won't be able to access it from elsewhere. Diverse filesystem access is also lacking, as I can access my NTFS partition read-only from Linux, but I cannot access my EXT3 partition at all from Windows. I think that just about sums it up.
Maybe this is due to the growth in the Pharmaceutical industry in the United States. With advertisements on TV for drugs to cure diseases people haven't even heard of, its logical that consumers will respond. The wealth of information that is available on the internet is mind boggling to most, and I was not surprised to hear about this.
I'm awefully distressed that Apple's music player isn't getting more recognition in consumer electronics houses. I went to Best Buy recently to pick up a much needed case fan, and was surprised to see that they carry iPods. Unfortunately, they have all their iPods in a locked transparant glass case at floor level, making it very difficult to look inside. Additionally, all the iPod boxes are oriented in such a way that the size is the only visible part of the box. On top of this case is the latest offering from Creative Labs, in a nice clear plastic case, showing off the (rather bulky) HDD MP3 player. It is impossible see what the iPod even looks like in the display. As I was doing my Christmas shopping at the time, I had my own iPod with me. I was asked about it by two moderately interested individuals, who were complete unaware of the presence of the product in the store. It's really too bad that the bottom line plays such a big role in the way these products are marketted. Best Buy has a much more significant markup on the other MP3 players, but its a little deceiteful to tuck the good stuff away like that. OK, enough of my griping. - J. B.
- The bounce back messages will always contain an SMTP status code like 5.1.1 (for user unknown).
- If the message that caused the bounce back really originated from the user, then the bounce back message will contain the user's Display Name as set in his or her email program (often Outlook Express). The display name can also be found in the "From" line next to the real email address, if you only have a legit message from the user and don't have access to information from his or her settings.
- If the message that caused the bounceback did not originate from the user, then that Display Name will not be present in the bounce back message.
Therefore, if a user's Display Name is "Foo Bar", and their email address is not the same as the Display Name (for example farboo@some.place), the following procmail script will stop most bounce back messages triggered by messages that did not originate from the user's computer, and should allow those that did:
* ^FROM_MAILER
* Status: 5.1.1
* ! Foo Bar
This would be placed in a .procmailrc file in the user's home directory and would only work if your mail server uses procmail for delivery. Also, I must mention that no content based filtering (such as this) can be 100% accurate.
Am I good? Am I good? I'm good. (Does a little dance).
- J. B.
The article compares the weight of a cloud in the sky to the weight of an elephant on earth. Unfortunately, this is fundamentaly flawed in that the weight of any mass varies based upon the distance to the source of gravity. Therefore, a cloud at 10000 ft would have a different weight than a cloud of the same mass at 20000 ft.
Therefore, this article is unclear at best.
It would be more clear to mention the mass, calculate weight based on an average altitude, then further impress us by explaining what counters that weight (since weight is force) to keep the clouds in the sky.
This is what we get from the media tailoring the lower common demoninator.
Hey, you know with a phone booth, mounting the antenna on top of it would probably help prevent loss of signal. When I'm far away from my WAP, if I sit directly between my PowerBook and my WAP, the PowerBook looses its connection. Elevating the antenna may help prevent that from occuring, and I do beleive phone booths are tall enough to have some effect.
Nobody here seem's to realize how much CPU time spamassassin uses. Can you imagine running spamassassin on a server with 10,000 users? Even on my 1.73Ghz Athlon XP w/ RAID striping, spamassassin still takes considerable CPU time, and I'm only serving five email addresses. It pushes my CPU to 100% for a good second or two each time I get an email, and that just will not scale. The solution is not to reduce the volume of received spam by technical means, as we'll be fighting forever with the spammers. As soon as we upgrade, they will. The solution is to reduce the volume of incoming (not recieved) spam. Lawsuits work. Any way that makes sending spam costly will do the trick. They won't send it if the business model doesn't hold up.
And now Mr. G W's plan comes into site...
But I thought he was in with big oil?
Yes! And did you notice how I even typo'ed the end of the url? It's cause I had slashdot up on my PC and had the ars technica article on my mac. I knew time was of the essence as someone else was bound to say it later. So I typed it in and put an extra \ by accident. I added the :) No shame in a little Karma whoring...
's during the preview stage so it would look decent.
This was on Ars Technica today. Check it out:m l
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1046147898.ht
A somewhat different interpretation of the meaning?
I hate to say it, but your statement that Star Trek is no longer geeky is actually somewhat true. There is a growing trend amoung 15 to 25 year old hicks who are into country music to watch ST:TNG episodes, and said market has been eagerly captured by TNN, who have rebranded themselves as the "New" TNN. It seems now that whenever there isn't anything good on, I come crawling back to the old episodes that got me through so many lonely nights in junior high... when all the normal, "popular" people were off wasting there money at the movies and at the mall. Fortunately, having not wasted my money on such silly things, I have enough money to buy such an item... oh wait... I forgot... I didn't save it, I bought RAM instead. :(
- Hyperbolix
I'm willing to bet that mastercard is asking for additional information about the credit card holder and paypal doesn't want to disclose such information.