Egads, what's keeping you on that old a version of solaris, I know there are legacy apps out there but the only thing that's holding us back from all modern (2.8) versions is stupid Ciscoworks 2000 and it gets a fat ultra 80 that would make a fine workstation for me, stupid ciscoworks
Actually, we're running fairly recent versions of Apache, MySQL and various development environments. The problem is the lack of Solaris 2.6+ support for the 4x125 Mhz 670 MP that we're running as a server for students to develop projects on.
Now if I could just get MySQL 4.Anything to compile and run correctly on Solaris 2.5.1.. Most attempts thus far have ended in failure of libraries to link correctly or binaries that segfault...
All the time. For example, Medicare/Medicaid is far more efficient than just about any privately run health plan, and government research is highly efficient and has been responsible for most of the real innovations over the last 50 years.
Please justify that statement. Seriously, Medicare, Medicaid is cheaper, but thats because the government dictates that they will only pay so much. Hence, many doctors don't take medicaid patients if they can help it. Medicare/medicaid is fraught with massive inefficiencies and fraud.
Woods? Which Dakotas was this you visited? I'm sitting in Grand Forks and have driven through much of North and South Dakota, and the only tress I see up here are the ones planted as wind breaks...
Queers. Not Aliens. Queers.Have we gotten so jadded that critizing someone in a public forum is no longer acceptable?
I'm curious in what way his sig constitutes gay-bashing. I'd always considered the sig a moderately amusing mockery of conspiracy nuts. Granted "queer" isn't the preferred form of reference for those who date their own gender, but it goes better with the general cant of the sig.
Bob Young gave out 23 free red velvet fedoras. He commented that he would have liked to have given out more but being that RedHat only made $300K last year "times were rough".
Well, at a time that many computer companies were losing money....Well, except for Microsoft.
You realized that if you're close enough to detect the RFID, you're probably close enough to read a serial number? These aren't long range transmitters. They're a very close range device. And a barcode on a tire isn't going to last very long, not to mention being distorted every time your tires a bit low...
If you, as an end user, can overclock the 9500 to the 9700 pro for little money, then what the hell are they charging so much more money for the 9700? It would be hard for me, if I cared, to know that those pixel pipelines were sitting there, unused. You know, "because they were there." It looks fun to do, regardless of whether you need it or not.
Well, in answer to your first question, most likely they're charging more for the top of the line product to help make up for R&D costs. "But that same R&D made both boards, so why shouldn't the 9500 pay the same amount for it?" Cause then they get undercut on the low end. Welcome to how the computer business works. The early adopters who absolutely gotta have the latest greatest toy end up subsidizing R&D.
As for the second part of your post, it's worth noting that it's not unusual in cases like this where you have two different levels of chips, that the chips used in the lower level are actually defectives from the premiere chip - in other words, they tested it, found out some of the pipelines didn't work and sold it as a 4 pipeline 9500. Intel used to do the same thing with non-math coprocessor chips and AMD has done the same thing with the Athlon MP's.
Do you really think that it costs Amazon more in S&H charge to deliver a book to your house than it costs Barnes & Nobles? B&N has to deliver the items from their warehouses, stock the shelves, etc. Amazon ships stuff to the warehouse. When you order, they they don't ship it right away with free shipping. Instead, they probably move items by the truckload to enable them to send things in smaller batches.
It's quite a lot cheaper to ship a pallet of books using freight shipping than one book using FedEx. And the pallet can take two weeks to get there, and noone nessecarily cares. So yes, it does cost quite a bit more for Amazon to ship you one book than it does B&N to ship it to a store and put it on the shelf. Although one would expect some of this to be offset by the cost of maintaining the location.
Some are just plain creeps, some are always trying to upstage them, some seem convinced that women in CS get through just because they're given preferential treatment.
On the other hand, I (Senior in CompSci) can think of at least one girl in CompSci who essentially slept her way through most of the program. Every couple of semesters she had some new schmuck to do her homework for her. Not that this is in anyway restricted to Compsci - Every program has some guy whos so desperate to get some that he'll let him self be used in this way. I in no way mean to imply that all girls in CompSci are doing this, nor that this phenomenon is restricted to girls - my first year roommate leeched off his girlfriend in a similar way. It's just easier for girls, and there are lots more desperate guys.
How about releasing the drivers as open source? Then you'll have a lot of support from the Linux community. (see previous thread about the linux kernel)
I don't really see this happening soon. Video cards, more than other types of hardware tend to include a fair amount of nifty technology in the drivers.
And the funny thing is that the average failure time per CPU is 30 years. That means if you start today, you will run each instruction twice (once in each pipeline) and in 2032 you can expect your CPU to fail to the alternate.
Now, since we're talking about big systems, extrapolate to 32, 64, or 96 processors and we're up to two or three a year.....
All of the politicians and most of what they stand for are completely hated (that's too strong a word, but it will do). Australians have accepted that they care for nothing more than the next election and protecting their massive superannuation payouts. Whenever a politician speaks, they are just dribbling the same bullshit (read the interview carefully - is any of the questions actually answered?) and lies, and nothing worthwhile is actually going to happen.
Funny, this is how quite a few Americans feel about our politics, particularly after the last election...
Propose a business model that pays for repairing pipe that will supercede the current model, and we have no argument. We are going to pay for it one way or another, period. Higher telephone, cable bills will be the likely result, but there is no free lunch. Beer is free, but not the beer nuts.
Hmmm...Lets see..Oh yeah, I have one - paying for internet service. I pay ISP, ISP maintains their pipes or pays telco to do it.
Ok, someone needs to prove this, otherwise I get the highly suspect that it's some government propaganda. Honestly, who pays a script kiddie to remove the pr0n and racist/anti-gay shit from their site?
While I'm not up for offering proof, I'm thinking a slightly more plausible scenario would be "Oh, Mr. CIO....I've got this database of customer information, some of it quite sensitive. Would you like to give me some money, or would you like me to publish it (and where I got it) all over the Internet? That would do wonders for your customer relations, wouldn't it?"
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Universities are supposed to keep pace--not have the attitude of "let's worry about all that new-fangled stuff later." If it means refreshing their curriculum every two years, then so be it.
Why? I'm a senior at the University of North Dakota. I keep hearing similar complaints from a number of people. The only really fundamental programming change in the last 25 years has been the introduction of objects. Stacks, Queues, Lists, Trees, networking fundamentals, storage and database fundamentals - the specific technology changes, but the fundamental computer science principles remain the same. Why should you get an education in whatever the technology of the moment is when it's probably going to be dead in five years anyway? A better education in the math and engineering principles behind these(and whatever the new technology is and whatever the old technology is) will serve you far better in the long run.
ICANN is like the US Government: Give it jurisdiction over something and it appoints a commity to discuss the feasability of appointing a subcommity to plan the eventual migration to a senate panel on how to properly disperse the powers to multiple groups and organizations that should control the board that appoints the group.....
ICANN is pretty much devolved from a branch of the US government, but this isn't surprising. However, I suspect that if you look closely, this is a characteristic of buerocracy around the world throughout history. Certain as death and taxes.
But how many game owners make backup copies of his game CDs ? And do people really want to argue that the majority of game CDs burned are for legitimate reasons ?
I make legit copies of everything I buy. I do a lot of my gaming in the university computer lab (lan parties) and in such a situation CD's have a tendancy to get beaten to crap, so I prefer to use a copy while the originals stay safe in the case.
Lived there for 3 years and attended UND back in the early '90s.
Did they have to completely gut the downtown after '97?
Yeah, pretty much although I'm not that sure about what it looked like before (I'm also a UND Student from the cities. Started here in fall of 99). Mid April is really only an estimate...We got snowed on twice during finals week last year. (The one in May...)
The mini ice age is expected to arrive within the next 3 months. But, don't panic. It's a mini ice age and is only expected to last for, perhaps, 4 months.
Alas, I live in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Mini Ice age is scheduled to start in about 2 weeks or so and scheduled to end some time around mid-april...
I believe that you are missing the point. The fact is that the Patriot Act is in direct violation of the First Amendment. The college is being forced to stifle free speeach in order to comply with the law. So yes, whether or not you agree with the Patriot Act IS relevent, and the issue IS free speech.
Of course, the other spin on this is that the University is way off on their interpretation of said law and don't provide them with communications equipment means "Don't give them field radios" not "Don't link to their web site". The purpose of the law was to keep people from giving terrorist groups money and equipment, not to keep them from being mentioned on the web.
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Actually, we're running fairly recent versions of Apache, MySQL and various development environments. The problem is the lack of Solaris 2.6+ support for the 4x125 Mhz 670 MP that we're running as a server for students to develop projects on.
Now if I could just get MySQL 4.Anything to compile and run correctly on Solaris 2.5.1..
Most attempts thus far have ended in failure of libraries to link correctly or binaries that segfault...
Please justify that statement. Seriously, Medicare, Medicaid is cheaper, but thats because the government dictates that they will only pay so much. Hence, many doctors don't take medicaid patients if they can help it. Medicare/medicaid is fraught with massive inefficiencies and fraud.
Woods? Which Dakotas was this you visited? I'm sitting in Grand Forks and have driven through much of North and South Dakota, and the only tress I see up here are the ones planted as wind breaks...
I'm curious in what way his sig constitutes gay-bashing. I'd always considered the sig a moderately amusing mockery of conspiracy nuts. Granted "queer" isn't the preferred form of reference for those who date their own gender, but it goes better with the general cant of the sig.
Yeah, but most of these worms hit Microsoft Servers lately - Slammer, Code Red, Nimda. Very few desktops are running IIS and MsSQL.
Well, at a time that many computer companies were losing money....Well, except for Microsoft.
You realized that if you're close enough to detect the RFID, you're probably close enough to read a serial number? These aren't long range transmitters. They're a very close range device. And a barcode on a tire isn't going to last very long, not to mention being distorted every time your tires a bit low...
It would be hard for me, if I cared, to know that those pixel pipelines were sitting there, unused. You know, "because they were there." It looks fun to do, regardless of whether you need it or not.
Well, in answer to your first question, most likely they're charging more for the top of the line product to help make up for R&D costs. "But that same R&D made both boards, so why shouldn't the 9500 pay the same amount for it?" Cause then they get undercut on the low end. Welcome to how the computer business works. The early adopters who absolutely gotta have the latest greatest toy end up subsidizing R&D.
As for the second part of your post, it's worth noting that it's not unusual in cases like this where you have two different levels of chips, that the chips used in the lower level are actually defectives from the premiere chip - in other words, they tested it, found out some of the pipelines didn't work and sold it as a 4 pipeline 9500. Intel used to do the same thing with non-math coprocessor chips and AMD has done the same thing with the Athlon MP's.
It's quite a lot cheaper to ship a pallet of books using freight shipping than one book using FedEx. And the pallet can take two weeks to get there, and noone nessecarily cares. So yes, it does cost quite a bit more for Amazon to ship you one book than it does B&N to ship it to a store and put it on the shelf. Although one would expect some of this to be offset by the cost of maintaining the location.
On the other hand, I (Senior in CompSci) can think of at least one girl in CompSci who essentially slept her way through most of the program. Every couple of semesters she had some new schmuck to do her homework for her. Not that this is in anyway restricted to Compsci - Every program has some guy whos so desperate to get some that he'll let him self be used in this way. I in no way mean to imply that all girls in CompSci are doing this, nor that this phenomenon is restricted to girls - my first year roommate leeched off his girlfriend in a similar way. It's just easier for girls, and there are lots more desperate guys.
I don't really see this happening soon. Video cards, more than other types of hardware tend to include a fair amount of nifty technology in the drivers.
Now, since we're talking about big systems, extrapolate to 32, 64, or 96 processors and we're up to two or three a year.....
Funny, this is how quite a few Americans feel about our politics, particularly after the last election...
I had no idea MIT offered courses in trolling....Nice piece of work though.
Err....You mean something like this?
Hmmm...Lets see..Oh yeah, I have one - paying for internet service. I pay ISP, ISP maintains their pipes or pays telco to do it.
While I'm not up for offering proof, I'm thinking a slightly more plausible scenario would be "Oh, Mr. CIO....I've got this database of customer information, some of it quite sensitive. Would you like to give me some money, or would you like me to publish it (and where I got it) all over the Internet? That would do wonders for your customer relations, wouldn't it?"
Why? I'm a senior at the University of North Dakota. I keep hearing similar complaints from a number of people. The only really fundamental programming change in the last 25 years has been the introduction of objects. Stacks, Queues, Lists, Trees, networking fundamentals, storage and database fundamentals - the specific technology changes, but the fundamental computer science principles remain the same. Why should you get an education in whatever the technology of the moment is when it's probably going to be dead in five years anyway? A better education in the math and engineering principles behind these(and whatever the new technology is and whatever the old technology is) will serve you far better in the long run.
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ICANN is pretty much devolved from a branch of the US government, but this isn't surprising. However, I suspect that if you look closely, this is a characteristic of buerocracy around the world throughout history. Certain as death and taxes.
I make legit copies of everything I buy. I do a lot of my gaming in the university computer lab (lan parties) and in such a situation CD's have a tendancy to get beaten to crap, so I prefer to use a copy while the originals stay safe in the case.
Lived there for 3 years and attended UND back in the early
'90s.
Did they have to completely gut the downtown after '97?
Yeah, pretty much although I'm not that sure about what it looked like before (I'm also a UND Student from the cities. Started here in fall of 99). Mid April is really only an estimate...We got snowed on twice during finals week last year. (The one in May...)
Alas, I live in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Mini Ice age is scheduled to start in about 2 weeks or so and scheduled to end some time around mid-april...
Of course, the other spin on this is that the University is way off on their interpretation of said law and don't provide them with communications equipment means "Don't give them field radios" not "Don't link to their web site". The purpose of the law was to keep people from giving terrorist groups money and equipment, not to keep them from being mentioned on the web.