A friend's friend, who was on work term somewhere on the west coast, got an email from the *lovely* lady (not), ORDERING him to see her at her office the next day to discuss some "academic offense". Of course he wasn't going to shell out a couple hundred of bucks to pay her a visit. It turns out this person kept his assignments on the server, and someone taking the course that term went into his directory--which was set to r-- permission for others--and grab the files by name. The cheater probably didn't change the files at all and got caught.
I remember seeing something called PerlScript a few years ago, which was created by ActiveState. It is now part of the ActivePerl distribution, from the ActivePerl documentation:
What is PerlScript?
PerlScript is an ActiveX scripting engine that allows you to use Perl with any ActiveX scripting host. At this time, ActiveX scripting hosts include:
Internet Information Server 3.0/4.0
Peer Web Services 3.0/4.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0x
Windows Scripting Host
... OK, it's ActiveX and it's evil...
BTW, there has been Tcl/Tk browser plug-in for ages. If Tcl tickles your fancy, that is.
Toronto has shut down CN Tower. Words of highrises in Toronto denying entry and exit circulating. Flights have been landing in Canada, Toronto and Vancouver particularly busy.
Phone Center number 1-800-387-3624. Not sure if that's just for Canadian or for generally anyone in NYC.
Try GSView + GhostScript. GhostScript is an open source PostScript interpreter. GSView is a (shareware) GUI for GhostScript. Both are available on Windows and Linux.
Even though we're more or less stuck with 2.5G while making the move to 3G right now, I don't recall SMG/ETSI coming up with 4G in the near future.
Hate it when marketing people says "Oh, the current standard is 3G/MP3. Let's just call our technology 4G/MP4 just to trick clueless people to think ours is a whole generation ahead!"
OK, let's face it. Before PDA arrived, there were things called databank. And long before databank, there were things called pen and paper. The same people using PDA now would be using either of them to take notes, people's names and phone numbers, etc., if Palm never was successful. Now why should be blame the lowly PDA and computer for memory loss?
Our brains only have so much capacity; we're bound to forget some things when we have to memorize not only people's name and phone number, but home fax number, office phone number, office fax number, cell phone number, pager, office e-mail, personal e-mail, ICQ UIN, personal home page URL.. gosh, I can't even count the number of e-mail addresses I have!
Before everyone forgets, Japanese working in Tokyo area spend hours commuting because of traffic jam. In those cases, a DVD player would actually keep the driver from thinking, "damn, I'm stuck again! Look at that car next to me! It's moving an inch ahead now!"
My cousin is a computer engineering undergrad student, but he's definitely not a geek. About 2 years ago, he somehow met a girl online. Things have gone pretty well online, so they started sending each other ground mail, photos, gifts, etc., and talked on the phone all night (and all day sometimes), which made the phone bill looking pretty bad--the girl lived in Vancouver, while our big family settled in Toronto. (My cousin's ex-roommate told me their monthly phone bill would have been over (CAD)$3000 if they didn't enroll in a special long distance plan.)
Later, he flew to Vancouver to meet her in real life for a few times. Even though they had quite a few ups and downs, they are still together. Now she's going to a university close enough to Toronto that she stays at his place over the weekend (although their intimate behaviour in front of everyone is making my granny shakes head--we're Chinese Canadian, and family tend to have tighter control than our white neighbour.)
One of the reason his mom didn't stop him early on was, they later find out the girl's parent was a co-worker of her, so she felt (or rather, had higher hopes) the girl is "safe" enough for her precious son.
As for myself, I'm a com sci major and my bf is com eng major. We met when we were still in high school, in a situation where many find not very romantic--a one-week invitational seminar on mathematics. He was (and still is) a math geek, while I decided to go just to skip school.;) He respect my intelligence (well, at least I was good enough to be invited, he thought, so I would be pretty hard working--which turned out to be a dead wrong assumption), and don't mind me turning into a computer geek. Since we're physically apart fairly often, email and ICQ became a very important part of our relationship when we don't see each other. The internet works really well also, partly because I'm so attached to my computer. =)
I think the main point is, just treat the internet as yet another medium, not the only way, to start and maintain a relationship. However, getting in touch with the person in some other form, preferrably in real life, is alway better.
The general undergrad servers in our faculty (mathematics) are Sparc named after mathematicians. There are some named after spices, some named after chemicals (methane, butane, octane, and the like), which are for specific senior computer courses. The computers of the other faculties are a little.. um... uninteresting though--artsmail, engmail, artsu1 (Arts), electrical, elecom2 (both for elec. eng. and com. eng.)... In my house (with 5 other fellow students), we simply name the computers after our nicknames or school userid (jsmith, for example). I use the same scheme for the workstations on my home LAN. The servers are named after famous musicians and artists. If I ever run out, I'll use characters from my favourite animes. =) The company I'm currently working for uses userids for machine names (again), but the previous one uses color names for Windows workstations--I got darkgreen.
I was raised by a math-loving mother. She started to give me many math exercises even before I was sent to kindergarten. She gradually stopped doing that when I was in junior high. I spent a year in an all-girl junior high. The most hated subject of the class was, as predicted, math. However, where my classmates found struggle, I found enjoyment. I ended up getting the highest mark in the math class. It was then I discovered that the exercises paid off.
In my high school years, I continued to find enjoyment math and science classes, but not all my female classmates did. My high school had a pretty good science program (i.e., more challenging == more difficult), but many girls decided not take them. They have been raised in a totally different world--their view of better life was to find a handsome and rich man. Any study and work was done because of this ultimate goal, so, they think, "why bother with all these difficult courses when I can easily get into arts?" (Not to offend anyone in arts; that's just the way they think/thought.) I'm not sure if that has anything to do with how they were raised by their parents, but I've seen a strong tie in many cases.
There was a smaller group of girls who had passion for sciences and math. So of them chose to go into nursing, others in pure sciences. Engineering and/or computer didn't fit into the picture. I had the same feeling that "engineering and computers are for men." I didn't know why back then. Probably has something to do with the strong association with geekiness. Today, I still don't know why.
As for computers, I remembered my first programming experience was moving the turtle around in LOGO, when I was around 10. Then I had a taste of BASIC a year or two later. I took two computer courses in high school, taught in QBASIC and HyperCard, and that was about all the programming experiences I had before I got into University of Waterloo--doing CS. However, the lack of programming experiences was never a problem in my first year. In fact, I enjoyed all my CS courses just like I enjoyed my first junior high math class.
I can't really imagine being the only female student in a CS class, because to me, it doesn't matter. I've worked in a few high-tech companies, worked in engineering environment with virtually no female engineers, and I had no problem with that. However, sometimes it feels lonely when I'm hanging out with a group of female friends. Even though we could talk about their favorite actor or the latest fastion, I can't tell them how excited I am when I fixed a bug, nor how I think ___ is a great Linux distro (name taken off to avoid distro war). That's when I turn to male friends. But then, I couldn't talk about the handsome guy I met last night, or how I found that lovely skirt at a bargain price. (I'd stay away from a man if he shows great interest in these 'girly' topics tho.) Hence, I'd really like to find some close female friends who are about as comfortable with and literate in computers and programming as I am, yet still has a Real Life(TM).
To wrap things up, I'm really grateful that I have a good mother. When I become a mother later in my life, I'll try very hard to teach my kids that female can be as competent as male (and vice versa) in almost any field. I know it can be done, because I have a role model.
The author failed to mention it's a guide for Linux distro for x86-based computers only. Otherwise Yellow Dog, LinuxPPC, mklinux, etc should be mentioned also./* rant */ Why did the author say SuSE the only distro with "live" CD? I remember seeing that on Slackware 3.4 (my first Linux CD), which was released long before we have this Linux hype. Also, Slackware deserve to be mentioned for the UMSDOS system and ZipSlack alone.
... then Beethoven is definitely a slacker, when comparing to Mozart. Afterall, Beethoven only wrote 9 symphonies, Mozart wrote over 40.
However, both Beethoven and Mozart are considered to be masters of all Ages, with equal fame and respect. Yet, nobody ever would say Beethoven is a slacker. One of the underlying reason is, Beethoven carefully crafted and tweaked his work to make sure they're Perfect. I'm not saying Mozart does not care about the quality, it's just that Beethoven spent much more time on that.
One may argue that things are different in the programming world. Yes, indeed. Here, "laziness" is actually considered a skill to master by many programmers. (Most of the time this has to do with Perl.) Often, it is the lazy nature of many programmers to motivate them into code reuse and optimization (and debugging and testing also, in some extent, to save their lives before the software crashes in front of the customers and get fired). I mean, who would like to type a 200-line code block over and over in the code base, each block only slightly different than others? We probably wouldn't have programming languages, and continue to program in 1's and 0's only, if we're not lazy, let alone the stdio.h, or even gcc itself!
Using LOC to measure productivity is then essentially as effective as measuring time spent sitting in the cubicle, which, as we all know, is useless. Just as useless as measuring MIPS of the CPU (as seen in Ars Technica's article about benchmarking).
That said, if LOC is used as "THE" measure of productivity... I guess many people are more "productive" in email + newsgroup +/. than in code. And, if it's actually considered the measure of productivity, I'll put in snipplets of "Hello World!" program -- 500-line version -- in my current code (it's just a matter of cut and paste).
I have problem with this new layout -- when I click on a message's subject in index mode, the message doesn't show. Instead, it jumps to the next page of comments...
I have to confess that I've never been a real linux user, but I've tried slack 3.4 & 3.6, as well as RedHat 4.2 & 5.0, and I think slack is way better than RedHat -- even tho I'm not a linux user, I'm the kind who like to compile everything from source. Now only if someone can give me pointers to how do to tis 'n tat on slack, I'll run slack as my main OS (and Win98 for gaming -- there's no simcity3k on linux yet)
I've found that I can reading from a book/newspaper or any printed material at a faster pace and have a much better understanding than reading from a monitor -- not to mention that eyes start to get weary much sooner. And I know I'm not alone, coz many people told me that's the case for them also. Does anyone know if that has to do with the way we were taught to read or is it a natural thing?
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A friend's friend, who was on work term somewhere on the west coast, got an email from the *lovely* lady (not), ORDERING him to see her at her office the next day to discuss some "academic offense". Of course he wasn't going to shell out a couple hundred of bucks to pay her a visit. It turns out this person kept his assignments on the server, and someone taking the course that term went into his directory--which was set to r-- permission for others--and grab the files by name. The cheater probably didn't change the files at all and got caught.
BTW, there has been Tcl/Tk browser plug-in for ages. If Tcl tickles your fancy, that is.
Canadian-US border not sealed; some parts of the border is still open, but all cars going into the States are searched pretty throughly.
Phone Center number 1-800-387-3624. Not sure if that's just for Canadian or for generally anyone in NYC.
Try GSView + GhostScript. GhostScript is an open source PostScript interpreter. GSView is a (shareware) GUI for GhostScript. Both are available on Windows and Linux.
Hate it when marketing people says "Oh, the current standard is 3G/MP3. Let's just call our technology 4G/MP4 just to trick clueless people to think ours is a whole generation ahead!"
Proof is a noun. Prove is a verb. Keep that in mind, will ya?
OK, let's face it. Before PDA arrived, there were things called databank. And long before databank, there were things called pen and paper. The same people using PDA now would be using either of them to take notes, people's names and phone numbers, etc., if Palm never was successful. Now why should be blame the lowly PDA and computer for memory loss? Our brains only have so much capacity; we're bound to forget some things when we have to memorize not only people's name and phone number, but home fax number, office phone number, office fax number, cell phone number, pager, office e-mail, personal e-mail, ICQ UIN, personal home page URL.. gosh, I can't even count the number of e-mail addresses I have!
Later, he flew to Vancouver to meet her in real life for a few times. Even though they had quite a few ups and downs, they are still together. Now she's going to a university close enough to Toronto that she stays at his place over the weekend (although their intimate behaviour in front of everyone is making my granny shakes head--we're Chinese Canadian, and family tend to have tighter control than our white neighbour.)
One of the reason his mom didn't stop him early on was, they later find out the girl's parent was a co-worker of her, so she felt (or rather, had higher hopes) the girl is "safe" enough for her precious son.
As for myself, I'm a com sci major and my bf is com eng major. We met when we were still in high school, in a situation where many find not very romantic--a one-week invitational seminar on mathematics. He was (and still is) a math geek, while I decided to go just to skip school. ;) He respect my intelligence (well, at least I was good enough to be invited, he thought, so I would be pretty hard working--which turned out to be a dead wrong assumption), and don't mind me turning into a computer geek. Since we're physically apart fairly often, email and ICQ became a very important part of our relationship when we don't see each other. The internet works really well also, partly because I'm so attached to my computer. =)
I think the main point is, just treat the internet as yet another medium, not the only way, to start and maintain a relationship. However, getting in touch with the person in some other form, preferrably in real life, is alway better.
The general undergrad servers in our faculty (mathematics) are Sparc named after mathematicians. There are some named after spices, some named after chemicals (methane, butane, octane, and the like), which are for specific senior computer courses. ...
The computers of the other faculties are a little.. um... uninteresting though--artsmail, engmail, artsu1 (Arts), electrical, elecom2 (both for elec. eng. and com. eng.)
In my house (with 5 other fellow students), we simply name the computers after our nicknames or school userid (jsmith, for example). I use the same scheme for the workstations on my home LAN. The servers are named after famous musicians and artists. If I ever run out, I'll use characters from my favourite animes. =)
The company I'm currently working for uses userids for machine names (again), but the previous one uses color names for Windows workstations--I got darkgreen.
In my high school years, I continued to find enjoyment math and science classes, but not all my female classmates did. My high school had a pretty good science program (i.e., more challenging == more difficult), but many girls decided not take them. They have been raised in a totally different world--their view of better life was to find a handsome and rich man. Any study and work was done because of this ultimate goal, so, they think, "why bother with all these difficult courses when I can easily get into arts?" (Not to offend anyone in arts; that's just the way they think/thought.) I'm not sure if that has anything to do with how they were raised by their parents, but I've seen a strong tie in many cases.
There was a smaller group of girls who had passion for sciences and math. So of them chose to go into nursing, others in pure sciences. Engineering and/or computer didn't fit into the picture. I had the same feeling that "engineering and computers are for men." I didn't know why back then. Probably has something to do with the strong association with geekiness. Today, I still don't know why.
As for computers, I remembered my first programming experience was moving the turtle around in LOGO, when I was around 10. Then I had a taste of BASIC a year or two later. I took two computer courses in high school, taught in QBASIC and HyperCard, and that was about all the programming experiences I had before I got into University of Waterloo--doing CS. However, the lack of programming experiences was never a problem in my first year. In fact, I enjoyed all my CS courses just like I enjoyed my first junior high math class.
I can't really imagine being the only female student in a CS class, because to me, it doesn't matter. I've worked in a few high-tech companies, worked in engineering environment with virtually no female engineers, and I had no problem with that. However, sometimes it feels lonely when I'm hanging out with a group of female friends. Even though we could talk about their favorite actor or the latest fastion, I can't tell them how excited I am when I fixed a bug, nor how I think ___ is a great Linux distro (name taken off to avoid distro war). That's when I turn to male friends. But then, I couldn't talk about the handsome guy I met last night, or how I found that lovely skirt at a bargain price. (I'd stay away from a man if he shows great interest in these 'girly' topics tho.) Hence, I'd really like to find some close female friends who are about as comfortable with and literate in computers and programming as I am, yet still has a Real Life(TM).
To wrap things up, I'm really grateful that I have a good mother. When I become a mother later in my life, I'll try very hard to teach my kids that female can be as competent as male (and vice versa) in almost any field. I know it can be done, because I have a role model.
Thanks Mom! (Too bad she doesn't read /.)
The author failed to mention it's a guide for Linux distro for x86-based computers only. Otherwise Yellow Dog, LinuxPPC, mklinux, etc should be mentioned also. /* rant */ Why did the author say SuSE the only distro with "live" CD? I remember seeing that on Slackware 3.4 (my first Linux CD), which was released long before we have this Linux hype. Also, Slackware deserve to be mentioned for the UMSDOS system and ZipSlack alone.
Now I wonder if they're going to make a infrared version after that...
Vancouver is still too far away from Toronto... better yet, does anyone know of stores selling this beauty, preferrably SCSI version?
However, both Beethoven and Mozart are considered to be masters of all Ages, with equal fame and respect. Yet, nobody ever would say Beethoven is a slacker. One of the underlying reason is, Beethoven carefully crafted and tweaked his work to make sure they're Perfect. I'm not saying Mozart does not care about the quality, it's just that Beethoven spent much more time on that.
One may argue that things are different in the programming world. Yes, indeed. Here, "laziness" is actually considered a skill to master by many programmers. (Most of the time this has to do with Perl.) Often, it is the lazy nature of many programmers to motivate them into code reuse and optimization (and debugging and testing also, in some extent, to save their lives before the software crashes in front of the customers and get fired). I mean, who would like to type a 200-line code block over and over in the code base, each block only slightly different than others? We probably wouldn't have programming languages, and continue to program in 1's and 0's only, if we're not lazy, let alone the stdio.h, or even gcc itself!
Using LOC to measure productivity is then essentially as effective as measuring time spent sitting in the cubicle, which, as we all know, is useless. Just as useless as measuring MIPS of the CPU (as seen in Ars Technica's article about benchmarking).
That said, if LOC is used as "THE" measure of productivity... I guess many people are more "productive" in email + newsgroup + /. than in code. And, if it's actually considered the measure of productivity, I'll put in snipplets of "Hello World!" program -- 500-line version -- in my current code (it's just a matter of cut and paste).
But sure, this thing is sweet when it works. =)
I have to confess that I've never been a real linux user, but I've tried slack 3.4 & 3.6, as well as RedHat 4.2 & 5.0, and I think slack is way better than RedHat -- even tho I'm not a linux user, I'm the kind who like to compile everything from source. Now only if someone can give me pointers to how do to tis 'n tat on slack, I'll run slack as my main OS (and Win98 for gaming -- there's no simcity3k on linux yet)
That's called "Jerri's game" (or something like that), isn't it?
I've found that I can reading from a book/newspaper or any printed material at a faster pace and have a much better understanding than reading from a monitor -- not to mention that eyes start to get weary much sooner. And I know I'm not alone, coz many people told me that's the case for them also. Does anyone know if that has to do with the way we were taught to read or is it a natural thing?