In this case, 1996 was the year of Linux. My department (Aerodynamics, TU-Darmstadt) ordered a DUAL Pentium 200 pro with a whopping 128MB of RAM (in order to replace the expensive SGI "Pizza boxes", aka SGI Indy). It outpaced the existing workstations by a factor of five, costing half. This is when commodity hardware started to do number crunching on Linux (preliminary Navier-Stokes stuff for the Airbus 3XX, now known as the Airbus 380). This was home-grown Fortran code, the kernel was 2.0.twentiiesh, and it already did SMP. By the way, this was *my* year of Linux, I threw Windows 3.1 off my HD, installed (Debian)-Linux and never looked back. Ever.
That's what I do. Put something like "ssh -oBatchMode=yes phonehome@myhomeserver.selfip.org" into your crontab and trigger every minute. You can then monitor/var/log/auth.log (the ssh damon's log) on myhomeserver for the IP of your laptop each time it connects to the web. Of course that's a kludge, but better than nothing...
Amen anonymous brother, you took the words right out of my mouth. In 1996 we've had a Schleicher ASK 13 (the most popular training plane ever) made of *wood*, *steel tubes* and *cotton*. It was build in 1969, had no less than about 13000 (!) take-offs and, to my knowledge still flies today. Glass-planes being build in the late 60's still trade for up to 20000 Euros. We all know the ASK 13's successor, the ASK 21, entirely glass, which gets equally bad treatment from beginner pilots. To sum it up, composite is a matter of price, not of reliability or security, be it a sailplane or a commercial plane. Mod anon parent up!
Oh Dear, here we go again... Carbon fibre, Aramid and glass fiber are the predominant construction materials in sailplanes. They all have a long, proven track record of reliability and endurance. When a plane crashes, toxic fumes (emitted mostly by the material's matrix, usually epoxy raisin) will probably be the least of your problems. Carbon fibre will burn to C02, because, as the name implies, it consists of carbon.
PS: I know what I'm talking about, because we build sailplane prototypes at the University of Darmstadt (the kind where you can actually sit in and fly).
If you connect to another computer remotely, it doesn't really matter whether your system is windows or *nix. Under *nix you use ssh, under win you use putty. For graphics you use Exceed or xming under win, xdmcp under *nix. Lots of people don't know a VERY handy tool called "screen" ("man screen") which is available for most any *nix. You log onto a *nix box (be it via ssh or putty) and start screen. Screen allows you to easily open, and switch between as many shell instances you need/want. Check it out, it's great for remote administration!
Hi rhythmx, Hummingbird's OK, and I used it extensively to run Fluent, Gambit (preprocessing) and also graphically intensive postprocessing on a Linux number cruncher, my "workstation" being a PII with W2K. BUT Hummingbird means big bucks (some 500$ last I checked). I've had very good experience with Xming, which is compiled with cygwin I think, but is available as a standalone windows exe. Putty is GREAT for console stuff, and cygwin can be a pita but I still like it for some stuff.
Amen, brother. Parent is a troll or doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a "test system", AMD K6 @350MHz, 320MB RAM and some crappy 8MB Graphics which I keep around for "vintage purposes". Dapper Drake doesn't exactly *fly*, but it's very workable (boot:2 minutes, konq:10 secs., OOo 30: secs.) Funny thing is, those dists (be it ubuntu, deb or SUSE) are getting *faster* instead of slowing down which each release (same observation with kernel 2.6 as opposed to 2.4) on the same hardware. I'm amazed what all these open source developers have achieved and that's why my PC, and, for that matter, all of our maybe 16 PCs in our business run open source exclusively (since 1998).
"Oh, and you could probably dip it in motor oil, and it would still work" Don't know about your HP-48 (which I own too, by the way), but one day the tomcat puked right onto my old HP-32S, which it didn't appreciate at all. I had to disassemble it (try that with the tank-like construction of HPs, took me me 2 hours) in order to clean it and make it work again.
and cut it to lambda or lambda half (2.4 GHz --> either 6 or 12 cm). Put it in Microwave. Turn it on. Watch the wooden shell disintegrate as the graphite starts to glow with a bright white you'll never forget:-)
"Rust" has been in use as a catalyser in chemical reactions for ages. One of the better known ones is probably the synthesis of ammonia on an industrial scale aka "Haber-Bosch-synthesis", developed in the early 20th century. And this new application has promise.
but keep in mind that people (even very the very intelligent kind) are reluctant to change. Not to sound like some typical pimply faced youth slashdotter, but I've been on Linux exclusively for ten years (my birthday's soon and I got my first SuSE 4.4 box around that time, dumping Windows 3.1). I'm on Dapper now of course and frankly, it's a beauty. A Linux install will be a hard thing for the so called "Windows power user". Avoid these people like the plague. They know as much about PeeCees as your average Granma' but insist on using every piece of shitty spyware, because that's what they know. If someone approaches you, suggest to install Dapper, and take some time to explain the philosophy and technology behind if they're willing to listen (they usually don't). Don't bother forcing anything upon anybody. I stopped trying to convince people long ago, let them have the shit they deserve. I don't do Windows repairs, not because I don't want to help but because I'm actually mostly incapable of disinfecting spy-spam-zombie-virus machines. Don't EVER try to convince people unless they're really ready to listen. My 0.02 Euros.
In my brother's surgery we've been on Linux ever since and the system runs smoothly with 16 diskless fat clients (http://132.230.4.73/trac/dxs). That being said, I'm kind of clueless when it comes to Windows administration. At my workplace however, I had to "take over" system administration of a seriously broken W2K setup. One W2K pro license and one Office 2003 license for 10 PCs. No server license although the "server" (no PDC, just a workgroup config) runs W2K server. I told my boss over and over again, that if someone digruntled about the company would run to the police or the BSA, he'd be in big trouble. This is simply being ignored. They'll tell me that it'd be too hard to switch to Openoffice because it's "too different". They won't let me buy a couple of Office and W2K licenses on ebay for maybe 1500 in order to save their arse. A Linux setup is completely out of question. The fact is, people don't have a clue, and never will - if I'd setup a system with a properly configured Samba-server, LDAP, Kerberos and imap, they'd still complain and blame me if the slightest thing broke (i.e. they had to learn a couple of new things). So I basically gave up and don't care any more if they lose data or get fucked by the prosecutor.
If people are willing to listen to you, or respect your technical expertise (our Linux system) it's relatively easy going. If they don't, don't waste your time. Let them have a very bad awakening one day (after all, you tried to explain...)
Disclaimer: I'm pretty much a Linux only user. But this must be a new all time low as far as/. moderators are concerned. Moderating the parent Flamebait for his comment is nothing but ridiculous and chilidsh. His comment is reasonably well tempered and I actually agree to some of his points. So puhleease....
Correct, it's about the existence of a solution for certain boundary / initial conditions of the NSEs. This is still a very big deal because you can now expect correct results when doing numerical calculations. By the way you probably meant FEM (Finite Element Method), not "fractional element methods". FEM is rarely, if not at all used for solving the NSEs, you'd rather use Finite Volume Methods (applicable for structured and unstructured grids, as are FEM).
I never understood why textbooks have to change content every two years. Methods for solving differential eqs. or teaching history is kind of static really, nothing ever changes. The profs at my uni (mechanical engineering, Darmstadt, Germany) either provide affordable self authored scripts in dead tree form or, even better, pdfs. The only time I actually did buy a textbook was for fliud dynamics and this one was worth every penny (I keep it under my pillow).
"I think within five years, we'll see a huge market shift," Huffman said. "But the Linux community really has to come together. They do have to have a common API; they've got to have a common installer. If those things don't exist, it will not be a competitive market again. If they do exist, I think it will."
Like libc? I mean, seriously, I want some of the stuff that guy's smoking. First they go to great length explaining how they diversify on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu and (sigh) Linspire and then he asks for a common API and installer? Like one kid stated when asked which system it preferres, either Linux or Windows the reply was:"Who cares?" Same thing here: who cares for a "common installer" (technically impossible) or a "common API" (it's there: libc, GTK, Qt, etc.). As a user you either see a Gnome or a KDE desktop anyway. "Mike Huffman, special assistant for technology at the Indiana Department of Education", gimme a break!
Yeah, I can install SUSE, Ubuntu or FreeBSD on any fuckin laptop. Do they actually support all the hardware and, more importantly, do they deliver specs accordingly? Until then it's nothing but a nice try of the spin doctor's dpt. (TM). I mean, come on.
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In this case, 1996 was the year of Linux. My department (Aerodynamics, TU-Darmstadt) ordered a DUAL Pentium 200 pro with a whopping 128MB of RAM (in order to replace the expensive SGI "Pizza boxes", aka SGI Indy). It outpaced the existing workstations by a factor of five, costing half. This is when commodity hardware started to do number crunching on Linux (preliminary Navier-Stokes stuff for the Airbus 3XX, now known as the Airbus 380). This was home-grown Fortran code, the kernel was 2.0.twentiiesh, and it already did SMP.
By the way, this was *my* year of Linux, I threw Windows 3.1 off my HD, installed (Debian)-Linux and never looked back. Ever.
That's what I do. Put something like "ssh -oBatchMode=yes phonehome@myhomeserver.selfip.org" into your crontab and trigger every minute. You can then monitor /var/log/auth.log (the ssh damon's log) on myhomeserver for the IP of your laptop each time it connects to the web. ...
Of course that's a kludge, but better than nothing
Right, I'll comment. Not mod.
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Parent has it correctly, they're scums.
For further, "official" information see: http://www.odfalliance.org/
Yet another slow day on
Amen anonymous brother,
you took the words right out of my mouth. In 1996 we've had a Schleicher ASK 13 (the most popular training plane ever) made of *wood*, *steel tubes* and *cotton*. It was build in 1969, had no less than about 13000 (!) take-offs and, to my knowledge still flies today. Glass-planes being build in the late 60's still trade for up to 20000 Euros. We all know the ASK 13's successor, the ASK 21, entirely glass, which gets equally bad treatment from beginner pilots.
To sum it up, composite is a matter of price, not of reliability or security, be it a sailplane or a commercial plane.
Mod anon parent up!
Oh Dear, here we go again ...
Carbon fibre, Aramid and glass fiber are the predominant construction materials in sailplanes. They all have a long, proven track record of reliability and endurance.
When a plane crashes, toxic fumes (emitted mostly by the material's matrix, usually epoxy raisin) will probably be the least of your problems.
Carbon fibre will burn to C02, because, as the name implies, it consists of carbon.
PS: I know what I'm talking about, because we build sailplane prototypes at the University of Darmstadt (the kind where you can actually sit in and fly).
Amen sister/brother. Mod parent up. I'm serious.
If you connect to another computer remotely, it doesn't really matter whether your system is windows or *nix. Under *nix you use ssh, under win you use putty. For graphics you use Exceed or xming under win, xdmcp under *nix.
Lots of people don't know a VERY handy tool called "screen" ("man screen") which is available for most any *nix. You log onto a *nix box (be it via ssh or putty) and start screen. Screen allows you to easily open, and switch between as many shell instances you need/want. Check it out, it's great for remote administration!
Hi rhythmx,
Hummingbird's OK, and I used it extensively to run Fluent, Gambit (preprocessing) and also graphically intensive postprocessing on a Linux number cruncher, my "workstation" being a PII with W2K. BUT Hummingbird means big bucks (some 500$ last I checked).
I've had very good experience with Xming, which is compiled with cygwin I think, but is available as a standalone windows exe.
Putty is GREAT for console stuff, and cygwin can be a pita but I still like it for some stuff.
Amen, brother.
Parent is a troll or doesn't know what he's talking about.
I have a "test system", AMD K6 @350MHz, 320MB RAM and some crappy 8MB Graphics which I keep around for "vintage purposes". Dapper Drake doesn't exactly *fly*, but it's very workable (boot:2 minutes, konq:10 secs., OOo 30: secs.)
Funny thing is, those dists (be it ubuntu, deb or SUSE) are getting *faster* instead of slowing down which each release (same observation with kernel 2.6 as opposed to 2.4) on the same hardware.
I'm amazed what all these open source developers have achieved and that's why my PC, and, for that matter, all of our maybe 16 PCs in our business run open source exclusively (since 1998).
"Oh, and you could probably dip it in motor oil, and it would still work"
Don't know about your HP-48 (which I own too, by the way), but one day the tomcat puked right onto my old HP-32S, which it didn't appreciate at all. I had to disassemble it (try that with the tank-like construction of HPs, took me me 2 hours) in order to clean it and make it work again.
... any self respecting nerd uses an HP-67. Get one while you still can. Those newfangled "graphic calculators" are for pussies ;-)
Bending backwards sure feels OK sometimes. But how the fuck do I reach my keyboard? ;-)
and cut it to lambda or lambda half (2.4 GHz --> either 6 or 12 cm). Put it in Microwave. Turn it on. Watch the wooden shell disintegrate as the graphite starts to glow with a bright white you'll never forget :-)
"Rust" has been in use as a catalyser in chemical reactions for ages. One of the better known ones is probably the synthesis of ammonia on an industrial scale aka "Haber-Bosch-synthesis", developed in the early 20th century. And this new application has promise.
Oh, ...... never mind.
but keep in mind that people (even very the very intelligent kind) are reluctant to change. Not to sound like some typical pimply faced youth slashdotter, but I've been on Linux exclusively for ten years (my birthday's soon and I got my first SuSE 4.4 box around that time, dumping Windows 3.1). I'm on Dapper now of course and frankly, it's a beauty.
A Linux install will be a hard thing for the so called "Windows power user". Avoid these people like the plague. They know as much about PeeCees as your average Granma' but insist on using every piece of shitty spyware, because that's what they know. If someone approaches you, suggest to install Dapper, and take some time to explain the philosophy and technology behind if they're willing to listen (they usually don't).
Don't bother forcing anything upon anybody. I stopped trying to convince people long ago, let them have the shit they deserve. I don't do Windows repairs, not because I don't want to help but because I'm actually mostly incapable of disinfecting spy-spam-zombie-virus machines. Don't EVER try to convince people unless they're really ready to listen.
My 0.02 Euros.
In my brother's surgery we've been on Linux ever since and the system runs smoothly with 16 diskless fat clients (http://132.230.4.73/trac/dxs). That being said, I'm kind of clueless when it comes to Windows administration. At my workplace however, I had to "take over" system administration of a seriously broken W2K setup. One W2K pro license and one Office 2003 license for 10 PCs. No server license although the "server" (no PDC, just a workgroup config) runs W2K server. I told my boss over and over again, that if someone digruntled about the company would run to the police or the BSA, he'd be in big trouble. This is simply being ignored. They'll tell me that it'd be too hard to switch to Openoffice because it's "too different". They won't let me buy a couple of Office and W2K licenses on ebay for maybe 1500 in order to save their arse. A Linux setup is completely out of question.
...)
The fact is, people don't have a clue, and never will - if I'd setup a system with a properly configured Samba-server, LDAP, Kerberos and imap, they'd still complain and blame me if the slightest thing broke (i.e. they had to learn a couple of new things). So I basically gave up and don't care any more if they lose data or get fucked by the prosecutor.
If people are willing to listen to you, or respect your technical expertise (our Linux system) it's relatively easy going. If they don't, don't waste your time. Let them have a very bad awakening one day (after all, you tried to explain
Disclaimer: I'm pretty much a Linux only user. But this must be a new all time low as far as /. moderators are concerned. Moderating the parent Flamebait for his comment is nothing but ridiculous and chilidsh. His comment is reasonably well tempered and I actually agree to some of his points. ....
So puhleease
Correct,
it's about the existence of a solution for certain boundary / initial conditions of the NSEs. This is still a very big deal because you can now expect correct results when doing numerical calculations. By the way you probably meant FEM (Finite Element Method), not "fractional element methods". FEM is rarely, if not at all used for solving the NSEs, you'd rather use Finite Volume Methods (applicable for structured and unstructured grids, as are FEM).
I never understood why textbooks have to change content every two years. Methods for solving differential eqs. or teaching history is kind of static really, nothing ever changes. The profs at my uni (mechanical engineering, Darmstadt, Germany) either provide affordable self authored scripts in dead tree form or, even better, pdfs. The only time I actually did buy a textbook was for fliud dynamics and this one was worth every penny (I keep it under my pillow).
"I think within five years, we'll see a huge market shift," Huffman said. "But the Linux community really has to come together. They do have to have a common API; they've got to have a common installer. If those things don't exist, it will not be a competitive market again. If they do exist, I think it will."
Like libc? I mean, seriously, I want some of the stuff that guy's smoking. First they go to great length explaining how they diversify on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu and (sigh) Linspire and then he asks for a common API and installer? Like one kid stated when asked which system it preferres, either Linux or Windows the reply was:"Who cares?" Same thing here: who cares for a "common installer" (technically impossible) or a "common API" (it's there: libc, GTK, Qt, etc.). As a user you either see a Gnome or a KDE desktop anyway.
"Mike Huffman, special assistant for technology at the Indiana Department of Education", gimme a break!
but "LCD displays"? Like "Liquid Crystal Display displays"?
I mean come on, this is supposed to be a site for techno nerds.
Yeah, I can install SUSE, Ubuntu or FreeBSD on any fuckin laptop.
Do they actually support all the hardware and, more importantly, do they deliver specs accordingly?
Until then it's nothing but a nice try of the spin doctor's dpt. (TM).
I mean, come on.
Yes, but this is how many LoCpf (Library of Congress per fortnight)?
" ... including the ability to lower the landing gear".
You know you're landing gear up when it takes full throttle to taxi.