I remember back in the day, probably 3 or 4 years ago, when gaim was a much smaller but up and coming project, I had a stupid issue involving my password not working.
It turned out that the developer's either forgot to include a key, or there was a little kink left in the reverse engineering procedure. In particular, some code listed all the acceptable characters for passwords, i.e., AOL's protocol accepted the _ (underscore) key, but gaim didn't.
Conclusion? My password didn't work. I was quite confused. Then something magical happened- I looked at the code, and found the list of accepted symbols. I added my key of interest (although it turned out there were others too), and tada, my first patch at the age of 19. A couples year later and I have one of my own opensource projects (http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/). The point? Gaim will always be a fond memory for me because it was my first blood helping the free software world, and in some way it contributed to my desire to write my own project.
Do you feel that the voting system is inherently crippling the strength of 3rd parties such as yours? Do you think implementing a preference voting system would significantly increase the number of votes for 3rd parties?
For slashdot readers:
Preference voting is a sytem where you rank each candidate by whom you would prefer to win most.
Example:
A ballot might like look this:
1. Cobb
2. Bush
3. Kerry
Suppose that the ballots were collected and they count all the votes in the number one slot. The candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated from the list. Now we have:
1. Bush
2. Kerry
The process is repeated until one name is left on the list. It is clear that this voting system reduces down to our current one, save that there is no "throwing away of the vote".
(1) The Why of Fry - Fry is the most important person in the universe. He was actually sent to the future on purpose to stop the evil brains from destroying the universe after they know everything about it. How sweet is that?
(2) The episode where the professor creates a mutant superhuman basketball team to compete with the space traveling globe trotters. Because he created the superhuman team by accelerating time with some chronotron, time slips started occuring during the viewing of the cartoon.
(3) Captain Brannagon, Bender, Zoidberg?
(4) The giant squid everyone ignores at the dinner table...oh wait, thats Family Guy.
Anyway, Futurama is an excellent blend of cartoon scifi / boozing / geek jokes. It has a much bigger world than The Simpsons (any time period, really, and the whole space that is the universe), and Matt Groening definitely wants to write for it, and has fresh ideas for episodes. Also, what about the star trek Futurama episode? I hate star trek, and it was still hilarious.
I know that reiser primarily uses balanced trees to store data, which I think is great. I decided to make my inodes structured this way for an operating system course. Kudos to an excellent file system!
However, how does reiser's algorithms deal with the dynamic allocation problem? What scheduling algorithm does it use to queue jobs? What replacement policies does the cache use? And finally, have you ever considered writing a file system in a functional language, such as ML (I think its a great idea)?
I tried it, suprisingly alot faster than I thought it would be. Granted there is many missing features that may add more bloat later, but this thing looks like it will have great potential for embedded devices.
Hmmm..think It's about time to start up "funzilla", a mozilla browser ported to a functional language like Concurrent ML. Who's with me?
In an ideal democratic government, one should be able to vote for somebody / something that closely represents his or her own view.
Suppose there are 3 issues that concern citizens. Then there are 2^3 = 8 different views a voter can have. This means that to represent everyone, you need also need at least 8 candidates. In the real world there are virtually hundreds of important issues, yielding 2^N possibilities. In a two party system such as the US, our freedom is severely limited
Another problem is the belief that majority is always correct. This is clearly false, and basically follows a sort of line of thought "Well if everyone else is doing it, it must be good...". No group of people are always correct, not the minority or majority. A less mathematically naive approach would be to use properties such as magnitude of votes simply as a weighted average among many other properties.
Finally, one last big problem of democracy is the inherent idea that people who run for office want to represent what they believe in, not what the people believe in. A pure democracy would have people in office who exact no will except the will of the people. In truth however, the opposite occurs. In order to become president of the United States, you have to be an arrogant, conceited person to even believe you deserve the position. The "will of the people" is only a method obtaining votes or credibility
What is your current status with the mode series? There are many eager fans awaiting a conclusion to the provocative story line you started and left hanging (including my sister and I). You can't let an older man fall in love with a 14 year old and call it a day...
Use hdparm to make your hard drive load faster. This is one of the most common problems. hdparm -d 1 turns on dma which is the most important. also fool with the -m parameter. so man hdparm for details
64 megs of ram isn't that wonderful for KDE or GNOME, but i suppose there isn't much to do about that...
I compiled KDE2/QT with -O6 -mpentiumpro and QT with -threads option. Also, recompiling X with -O6 -mpentiumpro makes a big difference too. KDE2 is pretty damn fast for me this way. (Granted I have 128 MB RAM and Dual Celeron 533)
I did a symbolic link of/usr/src/linux-2.4-test10/usr/src/linux-2.2.14, but it wasn't fooled. It checked the version.h header in the kernel source to verify the correct kernel version. Maybe if I edit the version header manually to 2.2.14...hmmmmmm
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Wow, I am surprised you remembered! Gaim has come a long way since then, thats for sure. Keep up the good work, Rob.
Carmelo
I remember back in the day, probably 3 or 4 years ago, when gaim was a much smaller but up and coming project, I had a stupid issue involving my password not working.
It turned out that the developer's either forgot to include a key, or there was a little kink left in the reverse engineering procedure. In particular, some code listed all the acceptable characters for passwords, i.e., AOL's protocol accepted the _ (underscore) key, but gaim didn't.
Conclusion? My password didn't work. I was quite confused. Then something magical happened- I looked at the code, and found the list of accepted symbols. I added my key of interest (although it turned out there were others too), and tada, my first patch at the age of 19. A couples year later and I have one of my own opensource projects (http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/). The point? Gaim will always be a fond memory for me because it was my first blood helping the free software world, and in some way it contributed to my desire to write my own project.
Thanks Gaim!
Carmelo
Do you feel that the voting system is inherently crippling the strength of 3rd parties such as yours? Do you think implementing a preference voting system would significantly increase the number of votes for 3rd parties?
For slashdot readers:
Preference voting is a sytem where you rank each candidate by whom you would prefer to win most.
Example:
A ballot might like look this:
1. Cobb
2. Bush
3. Kerry
Suppose that the ballots were collected and they count all the votes in the number one slot. The candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated from the list. Now we have:
1. Bush
2. Kerry
The process is repeated until one name is left on the list. It is clear that this voting system reduces down to our current one, save that there is no "throwing away of the vote".
Reasons why:
(1) The Why of Fry - Fry is the most important person in the universe. He was actually sent to the future on purpose to stop the evil brains from destroying the universe after they know everything about it. How sweet is that?
(2) The episode where the professor creates a mutant superhuman basketball team to compete with the space traveling globe trotters. Because he created the superhuman team by accelerating time with some chronotron, time slips started occuring during the viewing of the cartoon.
(3) Captain Brannagon, Bender, Zoidberg?
(4) The giant squid everyone ignores at the dinner table...oh wait, thats Family Guy.
Anyway, Futurama is an excellent blend of cartoon scifi / boozing / geek jokes. It has a much bigger world than The Simpsons (any time period, really, and the whole space that is the universe), and Matt Groening definitely wants to write for it, and has fresh ideas for episodes. Also, what about the star trek Futurama episode? I hate star trek, and it was still hilarious.
I know that reiser primarily uses balanced trees to store data, which I think is great. I decided to make my inodes structured this way for an operating system course. Kudos to an excellent file system!
However, how does reiser's algorithms deal with the dynamic allocation problem? What scheduling algorithm does it use to queue jobs? What replacement policies does the cache use? And finally, have you ever considered writing a file system in a functional language, such as ML (I think its a great idea)?Keep up the good work!
CarmeloI tried it, suprisingly alot faster than I thought it would be. Granted there is many missing features that may add more bloat later, but this thing looks like it will have great potential for embedded devices.
Hmmm..think It's about time to start up "funzilla", a mozilla browser ported to a functional language like Concurrent ML. Who's with me?
In an ideal democratic government, one should be able to vote for somebody / something that closely represents his or her own view.
Suppose there are 3 issues that concern citizens. Then there are 2^3 = 8 different views a voter can have. This means that to represent everyone, you need also need at least 8 candidates. In the real world there are virtually hundreds of important issues, yielding 2^N possibilities. In a two party system such as the US, our freedom is severely limited
Another problem is the belief that majority is always correct. This is clearly false, and basically follows a sort of line of thought "Well if everyone else is doing it, it must be good...". No group of people are always correct, not the minority or majority. A less mathematically naive approach would be to use properties such as magnitude of votes simply as a weighted average among many other properties.
Finally, one last big problem of democracy is the inherent idea that people who run for office want to represent what they believe in, not what the people believe in. A pure democracy would have people in office who exact no will except the will of the people. In truth however, the opposite occurs. In order to become president of the United States, you have to be an arrogant, conceited person to even believe you deserve the position. The "will of the people" is only a method obtaining votes or credibility
(END OF RANT)What is your current status with the mode series? There are many eager fans awaiting a conclusion to the provocative story line you started and left hanging (including my sister and I). You can't let an older man fall in love with a 14 year old and call it a day...
the w1z7ard
PS: Stile rules!!!Ensure that the kernel was compiled for i686.
Use hdparm to make your hard drive load faster. This is one of the most common problems. hdparm -d 1 turns on dma which is the most important. also fool with the -m parameter. so man hdparm for details
64 megs of ram isn't that wonderful for KDE or GNOME, but i suppose there isn't much to do about that...
I compiled KDE2/QT with -O6 -mpentiumpro and QT with -threads option. Also, recompiling X with -O6 -mpentiumpro makes a big difference too. KDE2 is pretty damn fast for me this way. (Granted I have 128 MB RAM and Dual Celeron 533)
I did a symbolic link of /usr/src/linux-2.4-test10 /usr/src/linux-2.2.14, but it wasn't fooled. It checked the version.h header in the kernel source to verify the correct kernel version. Maybe if I edit the version header manually to 2.2.14...hmmmmmm
whats up fellow cmu student?