I suspect they plan to push additional updates as they release more cables. That means a remote connection (secured with a secret: SSH key or similar) and something like rsync to update the files. There is no standard and reliable way to do that in Windows (as far as I know).
I just looked around the Ubuntu repositories for nostalgia's sake and found Fraqtive (http://fraqtive.mimec.org/). It looks pretty slick, uses multiple cores and SSE instructions to get you there faster, Win/Mac/Linux.
The last 3 minutes of exploring would have taken weeks on my Apple II.
I'm a big fan of CS Unplugged. It's generally aimed at a slightly older age range, I think, but you can probably adapt some of their demos quite easily.
There's a reasonable chance that there's somebody at your local university that would be interested in working with some interested high school students. Finding that person could be the tricky part: I'd suggest going to the relevant department's web site and see if you can find somebody who does outreach/recruiting/admissions.
You could also try fiddling with the browser.cache.check_doc_frequency in your about:config. I haven't tried it, but setting it to 2 might yield good results.
I'm using JFS on my mythtv box, but as a previous commenter said, it's not shrinkable, so it doesn't meet your requirements.
The GParted docs have a list of filesystem features that it can handle. That's probably standard across Linux tools, so it might be a good starting point to narrow things down.
In the current Vancouver tech job market? Show up with a resume and some skills.
The BCTIA (British Columbia Tech Industry Association) has a magazine-like publication with lists of members. If you can get your hands on a copy, it would probably provide some inspiration for places to apply.
This still doesn't help in the event of catastrophe: fire, flood, etc. The backup has to go off-site. Some suggestions: parents' house, the office, a friend's.
I keep an up-to-date backup in my office, and drop a DVD or two in a drawer at my parents' every year or so.
Their servers can keep up just fine, or at least the one I run can. My stats show 1GB per month traffic and the ntpd process taking about 1 minute/day of processor time. That has been relatively constant over the year or so the server has been in the pool.
I think this is just a case of more==better. A bigger pool means more people can use their local zone instead of the global zone, the whole system can handle more clients, less load on servers means even more may be willing to join,...
Seriously, it's not that big a deal. Just thow your server into the pool and forget about it.
Those aren't just "politically incorrect observations". They're just incorrect observations.
It's a poor "mix-and-match" mixture of poorly carried out studies, wrong assumptions, "facts" pulled out of thin air, and just plain pseudo-science.
Do you have any evidence or argument that these are incorrect assertions, or are you just pulling that out of thin air?
Unfortunately, none of the reproductive biologists I know are awake at the moment. What I have manged learned from them is that there is a lost of subtlety in the reproductive process. There are species where the female can choose (in a physiological, not concious way) whether or not to fertilize, species where a fraction of a degree temperature in the womb skews sex ratio,...
I don't have evidence that the assertions in the article are true, but I do know there's a lot of details about reproduction and evolution that I don't understand. The two authors are both well qualified academics, so I tend to believe them over the Slashdot crowd when it comes to the psychology of reproduction.
I just did a fresh MythTV install with Feisty a few weeks ago, and that was it exactly. It automatically recognized my Hauppauge 250, and all was good.
I had to edit a couple of lines in the LIRC config for the remote, but that was all.
In most courses, there are several ways for you to learn the material (assignments, readings, lectures, study groups). Figure out which one works best for you (sooner rather than later). A study skills evaluation might be worthwhile to start. A lot of people don't figure these things out quickly enough and end up banging their heads against ineffective study habits.
Your school likely has some course like "comparative programming languages" where you're exposed to functional and logic programming. Take it. If you know only OO/imperative programming, you're missing out. Even if you don't end up a LISP programmer, it will help you think differently about programming problems.
You'll likely be required to take an "algorithms and data structures" course. Pay attention. That's the kind of thing that separates a computer scientist from a programmer. A lot of more practical students hate that course, but it's like making a kids eat their vegetables: it really is good for you.
If it's not required, make sure to go out of your way to learn about concurrency and threads. This can be subtle stuff, so it's best to be taught the basics. Somebody's going to have to use the power of these multi-core processors. It might as well be you.
Or, perhaps Google has decided it's cheaper to pay for bandwidth and save on the datacenters.
If they build in a rural area near a power station, they save on land/rent and it would be a lot cheaper to add more power capacity when necessary. Employees have a lower cost of living, so may be willing to accept lower pay.
They only need to bandwidth to carry the data from there to the urban centers where the requests come from. Maybe on the scale of Google, it's cheaper to do things that way?
Your University will almost certainly hve some kind of Heath/Counselling services on-campus. Go and talk to them.
Seriously. I have tried to convice a lot of students to do so--those that do at least end up taking some positive steps. Many have an "I'm not crazy" reaction to the idea which is unfortunate. You aren't crazy, but they can help in ways that others cannot.
These people spend their days dealing with students and related problems--they should have something useful to say. I generally advise students to go to them over outside counsellors because of their expertise and narrower focus.
Your CS department or University may have academic advisors who can be of some help too. Particularly if they are full-time advisors (as opposed to faculty members who advise as part of their duties).
A CIRA news release on the subject contains some non-rumour info. Basically: it was the register, not CIRA; the domain was cancelled because it wasn't properly registered.
after the semester gets over, am planning to write to the authors of the text book to look into the matter.
I recently had words with one of the publishers reps that come around every so often (I assume they do for you as well). My issue was edition churn (e.g. Lewis & Loftus' Java text is in its third edition in ~3 years). I made it very clear that I didn't appreciate them squeezing my students for every cent and making me be the bad guy (by telling them they had to buy the book).
The rep did seem to take my tirade seriously. I don't know that it will do any good, but if we all put a little pressure on the publishers, it might help them find a slightly more student-friendly attitude. After all, the publishers do rely on course instructors to require their books--they can't alienate us too much.
A lab at SFU is just starting a joint venture with the RCMP. It's in the early stages and is still ramping up. I believe projects with Criminology have begun.
If you're interested, drop me an email, or contact the head of the lab.
Slashdot Mirror
As a meta-comment, I'll offer "Reddit's Favourite Books": http://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/
It happens to include several of my favourites, and a lot more.
Slashdot has been my first click every morning since the fall of 1998. Thanks for everything, Rob.
Slashdot has been my first click every morning since the fall of 1998. Thanks for everything, Rob.
Forgive my ignorance, but can anybody explain why my window manager needs to interface with my bootloader?
I suspect they plan to push additional updates as they release more cables. That means a remote connection (secured with a secret: SSH key or similar) and something like rsync to update the files. There is no standard and reliable way to do that in Windows (as far as I know).
I just looked around the Ubuntu repositories for nostalgia's sake and found Fraqtive (http://fraqtive.mimec.org/). It looks pretty slick, uses multiple cores and SSE instructions to get you there faster, Win/Mac/Linux.
The last 3 minutes of exploring would have taken weeks on my Apple II.
I'm a big fan of CS Unplugged. It's generally aimed at a slightly older age range, I think, but you can probably adapt some of their demos quite easily.
There's a reasonable chance that there's somebody at your local university that would be interested in working with some interested high school students. Finding that person could be the tricky part: I'd suggest going to the relevant department's web site and see if you can find somebody who does outreach/recruiting/admissions.
I have a couple of suggestions for Firefox...
Don't load images: Preferences -> Content and uncheck "Load images automatically".
Block other media you don't want: FlashBlock, AdBlock, QuickJava (for Java and JavaScript)
You could also try fiddling with the browser.cache.check_doc_frequency in your about:config. I haven't tried it, but setting it to 2 might yield good results.
I'm using JFS on my mythtv box, but as a previous commenter said, it's not shrinkable, so it doesn't meet your requirements.
The GParted docs have a list of filesystem features that it can handle. That's probably standard across Linux tools, so it might be a good starting point to narrow things down.
Right... The Ars Buyer's Guide.
I'm reminded of Sharky Extreme's Value and High-end Gaming Buyers' Guides. If you're buying, it would probably be interesting to compare them.
I'm sure I have seen other similar guides, but can't find them now.
Yes. It's called XeTeX, and it's brilliant.
In the current Vancouver tech job market? Show up with a resume and some skills.
The BCTIA (British Columbia Tech Industry Association) has a magazine-like publication with lists of members. If you can get your hands on a copy, it would probably provide some inspiration for places to apply.
This still doesn't help in the event of catastrophe: fire, flood, etc. The backup has to go off-site. Some suggestions: parents' house, the office, a friend's.
I keep an up-to-date backup in my office, and drop a DVD or two in a drawer at my parents' every year or so.
Their servers can keep up just fine, or at least the one I run can. My stats show 1GB per month traffic and the ntpd process taking about 1 minute/day of processor time. That has been relatively constant over the year or so the server has been in the pool.
...
I think this is just a case of more==better. A bigger pool means more people can use their local zone instead of the global zone, the whole system can handle more clients, less load on servers means even more may be willing to join,
Seriously, it's not that big a deal. Just thow your server into the pool and forget about it.
Do you have any evidence or argument that these are incorrect assertions, or are you just pulling that out of thin air?
Unfortunately, none of the reproductive biologists I know are awake at the moment. What I have manged learned from them is that there is a lost of subtlety in the reproductive process. There are species where the female can choose (in a physiological, not concious way) whether or not to fertilize, species where a fraction of a degree temperature in the womb skews sex ratio, ...
I don't have evidence that the assertions in the article are true, but I do know there's a lot of details about reproduction and evolution that I don't understand. The two authors are both well qualified academics, so I tend to believe them over the Slashdot crowd when it comes to the psychology of reproduction.
I just did a fresh MythTV install with Feisty a few weeks ago, and that was it exactly. It automatically recognized my Hauppauge 250, and all was good.
I had to edit a couple of lines in the LIRC config for the remote, but that was all.
In most courses, there are several ways for you to learn the material (assignments, readings, lectures, study groups). Figure out which one works best for you (sooner rather than later). A study skills evaluation might be worthwhile to start. A lot of people don't figure these things out quickly enough and end up banging their heads against ineffective study habits.
Your school likely has some course like "comparative programming languages" where you're exposed to functional and logic programming. Take it. If you know only OO/imperative programming, you're missing out. Even if you don't end up a LISP programmer, it will help you think differently about programming problems.
You'll likely be required to take an "algorithms and data structures" course. Pay attention. That's the kind of thing that separates a computer scientist from a programmer. A lot of more practical students hate that course, but it's like making a kids eat their vegetables: it really is good for you.
If it's not required, make sure to go out of your way to learn about concurrency and threads. This can be subtle stuff, so it's best to be taught the basics. Somebody's going to have to use the power of these multi-core processors. It might as well be you.
Or, perhaps Google has decided it's cheaper to pay for bandwidth and save on the datacenters.
If they build in a rural area near a power station, they save on land/rent and it would be a lot cheaper to add more power capacity when necessary. Employees have a lower cost of living, so may be willing to accept lower pay.
They only need to bandwidth to carry the data from there to the urban centers where the requests come from. Maybe on the scale of Google, it's cheaper to do things that way?
Your University will almost certainly hve some kind of Heath/Counselling services on-campus. Go and talk to them.
Seriously. I have tried to convice a lot of students to do so--those that do at least end up taking some positive steps. Many have an "I'm not crazy" reaction to the idea which is unfortunate. You aren't crazy, but they can help in ways that others cannot.
These people spend their days dealing with students and related problems--they should have something useful to say. I generally advise students to go to them over outside counsellors because of their expertise and narrower focus.
Your CS department or University may have academic advisors who can be of some help too. Particularly if they are full-time advisors (as opposed to faculty members who advise as part of their duties).
A CIRA news release on the subject contains some non-rumour info. Basically: it was the register, not CIRA; the domain was cancelled because it wasn't properly registered.
I recently had words with one of the publishers reps that come around every so often (I assume they do for you as well). My issue was edition churn (e.g. Lewis & Loftus' Java text is in its third edition in ~3 years). I made it very clear that I didn't appreciate them squeezing my students for every cent and making me be the bad guy (by telling them they had to buy the book).
The rep did seem to take my tirade seriously. I don't know that it will do any good, but if we all put a little pressure on the publishers, it might help them find a slightly more student-friendly attitude. After all, the publishers do rely on course instructors to require their books--they can't alienate us too much.
If you're interested, drop me an email, or contact the head of the lab.
I have a "Minstrel Copper" from Milieris' Watchcraft. Very cool stuff in their catalogue.