But what do Microsoft developers need to read from samba code for.. don't they have the SPECS for the protocol?? I mean, how much harder would it be to read the samba code and develop your own implentation of the protocol without duplicating samba code line for line, then it would be to read the stinking SPEC and write an implemtation?? I sure hope they know how to program with specs, but I guess that could explain all the holes in MS's implentation
Well.. then you'd be flying on a prop plane with standard non-jet engines.. which, would be very loud, and I doubt you'd be able to hear the person that you would be talking to on your phone..
(FYI: jet engines just dump the fuel strait into the engine and it burns cause it gets very hot and very compressed by the spinning engine - pump more fuel, engine spins faster and produces more thrust, - so if you managed to make the enine run rich, you'd just get to where your goin a little faster)
This reminds me of a true story I've heard about a city in the US in the 1800's (Kansas City I believe).. well they wanted to build a Bank, but of course it was way to expensive to have the bricks shipped ($3/pound), so they checked out the rates of the US post office, and low and belhold, they were lower.. ($2/pound) but there was a limit, so every person in the town got 70 pounds of bricks delivered to thier house, and everyone helped build the bank (in a way)..
This just continues to empasize how cheap the US post office is.. I could get over 120 GB mailed somewhere overnight for $15, while the bandwidth charges would be used to get that much transfered that fast..
at my school, our lab is equiped with a stand alone ID card reader that reads the bar code on the back of all student IDs, those that don't have them (fac/staff) etc have a key to the room. Overall the system works fairly well, except when the batteries in the reader die, so make sure there is an alternate method to get the door open. One thing about this though, is that the allowed times are set per user, and from what I know there aren't any group capabilities, which makes it a pain to change allowed access times. Also make sure with whatever system you go with that you install a closer on the door so it won't get left open (a big problem here when they first installed the readers on some doors).
I know how you feel.. I started thinking about what distro I was going to run because I dispise RPM's... and of course it doesn't hit me that it's April 1st seeing as how I just got off about 30 minutes ago (12:15 EST) and I was writing 03/31/03 all the time.. and to the days don't change until I go to bed (to many overseas trips) oh well..
Actually there's more than that, my university (Cedarville University) is connected, and it's not included in that list, possibly because we get our connection through our upstream provider as opposed to having a direct connection.
I'm not sure what the I/O specs are, but I know you can get laptops with 2 RAM slots and it shouldn't be hard to get a Gig of RAM for those.. for Processor, I know my brother has a 1.7GHz P4 in his new Toshiba, along with a 15" UXGA screen and a GeForce4 video card (not sure exact model).. all for around $2,000, too, so it won't break the bank.
1. Usually all teachers give out contact info besides email and ICQ. Telephones and such.
Yeh, that contact info is usually on the syllabus at my school.. but I tend to loose those very quickly, and How are you supposed to know if the prof is even going to be in? Voice Mail you say? what's that?
2.University Telephone Directory? Call information?
I happen to know how the Campus Information gets it's phone numbers.. you guessed it.. The IntrAnet
3.Good old fashioned book learning?
Not if the only copy of the assignment was on the server.
4. Dont trust computers to keep vaulabe stuff you need for exams, copies should have been made at least 3 weeks before exam.
How can you make copies 3 weeks before the exam when you don't even get the what's going to be on the exam till the class day before the exam or at best 2 class days before.
It is true, you never know how much you take for granted till it's not there. Take High-Speed 'net access.. (like my university provides). When I go home, all we can get is Dial-Up, I never realized how much I use the internet like my book-shelf until I can't get my "books" as fast as I usually can (SGI STL reference for one.. no I'm not printing it out - and after buying required course books, I'm not spending more money on a book where I can access the info for free)
Yes, I too, am a CS major, I get out, I interact with my professors, I do other stuff.. but e-mail is a lot easier then looking for a professor when I have a question, I can shoot an e-mail off, go on to another assignment, and when I get a reply continue.
Well, I just started my junior year. I went into college right after high school. It was my only real option, considering my dad is in the Air Force stationed in Japan, so I wouldn't have much of a chance to get any other job then lifeguarding or a cashier.
Here's some things that I've noticed the past few years:
One of my friends dropped out half-way through his sophmore year of college because he wasn't exactly sure of what he wanted to be doing. I think he would have been better off not going to school for a year to have that time to decide
If your not sure of what you want to do - go to college or just into the work force (sounds like you want to go), take a year off and try and figure out what it is you want to do.
If your not sure of your major, consider taking classes at a community college - your wallet will thank you.
I also know a few people that have taken a few years off and they were still able to get into school with no problem. just be warned though, that you will tend to forget what you learned in High School if you wait too long.. I know taking AP Physics and AP Calc in High School sure helped me when taking Physics and Calc in college... especially on those weeks that I "forgot" to go to class..
They also have that.. I've only seen one or 2 original pinbal machines.. Most of the pachinko machine are in buildings with nothing but pachinko machines.. and those are even more common then the arcades.
My dad is stationed in Japan, and I've never seen more video arcades in my life.. in downtown Tokyo there is one like every other block.. the one I've visited before doesn't have any pinball machines. They tend to have more video games - as most of them are owned/sponsered by guilty.
Kenny
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Actually it's not that hard.. You just need to have a boot disk that will allow you network support and some file transfer protocol. tomsrtbt and mulinux come to mind.
Instructions:
Mount the CD on some computer with a cd-rom and network support.
Follow boot disk instructions to get the computer that Gentoo Linux is going to be installed on running and the network up.
Look at Normal Instructions and Skip steps 1 - 5; Follow step 6 (partitions) and 7 (mounting); skip 8; and for step 9, instead of copying from cd-rom, copy stages from the network (using whatever protocol meets your fancy); then continue on with the rest of the instructions.
From working with linux and dealing with fellow students that need to use it when doing programming assignments, I have noticed that a lot of them do not know anything about background processes and how to start a process in the background, especially when using X Windows programs on a Windows 2K based X server.. Most just have a shell and run the program they are going to run (xedit) in that shell and forget about it until they have to compile thier program, in which case they clost thier xedit window and compile thier program. Another thing that I have noticed is a big help to me is just the fact that the shell is a POWERFUL scripting language and if you ever want to do a set of commands on a list of files, you can do so quickly.
They'd better be toughbooks or the like, cause they will be broken within a month if they aren't.. I should know, I was in 7th grade not too long ago (7 years), and I know how they treat their backpacks. I'm in college and I broke my LCD screen cause it was in my backpack.. (fell off a bike)
You know, they could've at least included some clasics like PONG or some text based RPG's that came out before graphics that paved the way for the games we have to day.. and as another person mentioned, isn't one or two FPS enough? and in all honesty, Half Life was a cross between Quake and an RPG..
Kenny
I've been hearing about "Delphi" for linux for over a year now, and it's great to hear that it's finally out.. I haven't read all the comments on this list, but most seem to be dealing with the required GPL issue.. as a student with no money, i would love to be able to develop programs that i can sell for free.. but I don't think that the developers that put many man hours into this program would appreciate me getting money and them not. Besides, most programs i've made with delphi 3 (bought Legally) haven't left my hard drive or my brothers.. and most probably won't..
This is also a good thing cause I've been working on a remote PPP dialer control (not diald cause we only have one phone line and the time is limited..) and the client has been only windows, written in Delphi, and now this will allow me to Port it to linux.
I'm just glad I don't run IIS.. Just Imagine if a whole this big was discovered in Apache.. I'm just glad there's people out there that look at Apache source just to make sure this doesn't happen.
As someone who tried writing a game for windows, it's hard for without a big budget to pay experience people. Every little book will help... especially when Linux is trying to get into the consumer market. many people use windows just for the games, and this might help get some games on linux.
Kenny
Hi,
My school doesn't quite have a set in stone policy about censorship and the like, basically most of their choices about rules tend to fall under "Institutional Preference." But I was wondering, with Colleges you reference/write about in your books, what is the average policy and How far have these college's actually gone with reading e-mail and monitoring web Pages? I understand that there is only a certain amount of Bandwith available, (my school only has 3 T1 lines for about 2500 on campus students), but what would be a resonable limit for denial of services by bandwith. (eg. Napster, and mIRC).
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But what do Microsoft developers need to read from samba code for.. don't they have the SPECS for the protocol?? I mean, how much harder would it be to read the samba code and develop your own implentation of the protocol without duplicating samba code line for line, then it would be to read the stinking SPEC and write an implemtation?? I sure hope they know how to program with specs, but I guess that could explain all the holes in MS's implentation
Kenny
Well.. then you'd be flying on a prop plane with standard non-jet engines.. which, would be very loud, and I doubt you'd be able to hear the person that you would be talking to on your phone..
(FYI: jet engines just dump the fuel strait into the engine and it burns cause it gets very hot and very compressed by the spinning engine - pump more fuel, engine spins faster and produces more thrust, - so if you managed to make the enine run rich, you'd just get to where your goin a little faster)
Kenny
Yes my friend, you can.. especially if you type 60-100 WPM..
This reminds me of a true story I've heard about a city in the US in the 1800's (Kansas City I believe).. well they wanted to build a Bank, but of course it was way to expensive to have the bricks shipped ($3/pound), so they checked out the rates of the US post office, and low and belhold, they were lower.. ($2/pound) but there was a limit, so every person in the town got 70 pounds of bricks delivered to thier house, and everyone helped build the bank (in a way)..
This just continues to empasize how cheap the US post office is.. I could get over 120 GB mailed somewhere overnight for $15, while the bandwidth charges would be used to get that much transfered that fast..
just my $0.02
Kenny
at my school, our lab is equiped with a stand alone ID card reader that reads the bar code on the back of all student IDs, those that don't have them (fac/staff) etc have a key to the room. Overall the system works fairly well, except when the batteries in the reader die, so make sure there is an alternate method to get the door open. One thing about this though, is that the allowed times are set per user, and from what I know there aren't any group capabilities, which makes it a pain to change allowed access times. Also make sure with whatever system you go with that you install a closer on the door so it won't get left open (a big problem here when they first installed the readers on some doors).
Kenny
Happy April Fool's Day Everyone!!
Kenny
Actually there's more than that, my university (Cedarville University) is connected, and it's not included in that list, possibly because we get our connection through our upstream provider as opposed to having a direct connection.
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I'm not sure what the I/O specs are, but I know you can get laptops with 2 RAM slots and it shouldn't be hard to get a Gig of RAM for those.. for Processor, I know my brother has a 1.7GHz P4 in his new Toshiba, along with a 15" UXGA screen and a GeForce4 video card (not sure exact model).. all for around $2,000, too, so it won't break the bank.
Yeh, that contact info is usually on the syllabus at my school.. but I tend to loose those very quickly, and How are you supposed to know if the prof is even going to be in? Voice Mail you say? what's that?
2.University Telephone Directory? Call information?
I happen to know how the Campus Information gets it's phone numbers.. you guessed it.. The IntrAnet
3.Good old fashioned book learning?
Not if the only copy of the assignment was on the server.
4. Dont trust computers to keep vaulabe stuff you need for exams, copies should have been made at least 3 weeks before exam.
How can you make copies 3 weeks before the exam when you don't even get the what's going to be on the exam till the class day before the exam or at best 2 class days before.
It is true, you never know how much you take for granted till it's not there. Take High-Speed 'net access.. (like my university provides). When I go home, all we can get is Dial-Up, I never realized how much I use the internet like my book-shelf until I can't get my "books" as fast as I usually can (SGI STL reference for one.. no I'm not printing it out - and after buying required course books, I'm not spending more money on a book where I can access the info for free)
Yes, I too, am a CS major, I get out, I interact with my professors, I do other stuff.. but e-mail is a lot easier then looking for a professor when I have a question, I can shoot an e-mail off, go on to another assignment, and when I get a reply continue.
Here's some things that I've noticed the past few years:
They also have that.. I've only seen one or 2 original pinbal machines.. Most of the pachinko machine are in buildings with nothing but pachinko machines.. and those are even more common then the arcades.
Kenny
My dad is stationed in Japan, and I've never seen more video arcades in my life.. in downtown Tokyo there is one like every other block.. the one I've visited before doesn't have any pinball machines. They tend to have more video games - as most of them are owned/sponsered by guilty.
Kenny
Actually it's not that hard.. You just need to have a boot disk that will allow you network support and some file transfer protocol. tomsrtbt and mulinux come to mind.
Instructions:
Mount the CD on some computer with a cd-rom and network support.
Follow boot disk instructions to get the computer that Gentoo Linux is going to be installed on running and the network up.
Look at Normal Instructions and Skip steps 1 - 5; Follow step 6 (partitions) and 7 (mounting); skip 8; and for step 9, instead of copying from cd-rom, copy stages from the network (using whatever protocol meets your fancy); then continue on with the rest of the instructions.
From working with linux and dealing with fellow students that need to use it when doing programming assignments, I have noticed that a lot of them do not know anything about background processes and how to start a process in the background, especially when using X Windows programs on a Windows 2K based X server.. Most just have a shell and run the program they are going to run (xedit) in that shell and forget about it until they have to compile thier program, in which case they clost thier xedit window and compile thier program.
Another thing that I have noticed is a big help to me is just the fact that the shell is a POWERFUL scripting language and if you ever want to do a set of commands on a list of files, you can do so quickly.
Kenny
Got this from someone else's mirror.. i tried to get the actuall page, but mozilla cache's funny and I lost the pictures.
Kenny
if i could get the pages.. i'd mirror...
They'd better be toughbooks or the like, cause they will be broken within a month if they aren't.. I should know, I was in 7th grade not too long ago (7 years), and I know how they treat their backpacks. I'm in college and I broke my LCD screen cause it was in my backpack.. (fell off a bike)
Kenny
With Loki and now Covald filing for Bankruptcy protection, is this goin to affect how companies look at linux? Especially for the server market?
You know, they could've at least included some clasics like PONG or some text based RPG's that came out before graphics that paved the way for the games we have to day.. and as another person mentioned, isn't one or two FPS enough? and in all honesty, Half Life was a cross between Quake and an RPG.. Kenny
I've been hearing about "Delphi" for linux for over a year now, and it's great to hear that it's finally out.. I haven't read all the comments on this list, but most seem to be dealing with the required GPL issue.. as a student with no money, i would love to be able to develop programs that i can sell for free.. but I don't think that the developers that put many man hours into this program would appreciate me getting money and them not. Besides, most programs i've made with delphi 3 (bought Legally) haven't left my hard drive or my brothers.. and most probably won't..
This is also a good thing cause I've been working on a remote PPP dialer control (not diald cause we only have one phone line and the time is limited..) and the client has been only windows, written in Delphi, and now this will allow me to Port it to linux.
Kenny
I'm just glad I don't run IIS.. Just Imagine if a whole this big was discovered in Apache.. I'm just glad there's people out there that look at Apache source just to make sure this doesn't happen.
As someone who tried writing a game for windows, it's hard for without a big budget to pay experience people. Every little book will help... especially when Linux is trying to get into the consumer market. many people use windows just for the games, and this might help get some games on linux. Kenny
Kenneth F. Keslar II