Even cooler is when I forward Windows programs (running in Linux via Wine) over ssh onto unusual clients, such as handheld Linux devices. Suddenly, there's full Microsoft Word, on my handheld device!
I use a single copy of GAIM on all my computers. The actual program runs on an old PIII 900 I keep in the basement at home, and I use SSH on my Linux machines at home and at the office, and Cygwin SSH on my Windows machines, then I X-Forward GAIM to whatever computer I'm working on. This way I keep all of my chat logs in one place and I have a unified experience across all platforms. Works well, except on a slow Internet connection; but those are getting increasingly rare...
I discovered recently that electric cars produce less total pollution than conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars even when the electricity comes from (current technology, dirty) coal-fired power plants!
While I agree with you that upgrading the infrastructure is the obvious solution, it certainly is a whole lot more expensive than simply throttling traffic. And what incentive does anyone have to upgrade infrastructure, when you can just say that users get X mbps even if that's only true for a tiny fraction of the traffic during off-peak hours?
If I want to buy something, I'll come to you. Spend your marketing budget on search engine placement, AdSense, etc., so that when I go out looking for something, you'll be at the top of the list.
"I started reading/. very early on when it and the web were new."
I'm glad you've started contributing! You have a very interesting story. Why didn't you sign up earlier? There's nothing like the cred you earn with a 4 or 5 digit Slashdot number;-)
The days when the Internet was new were definitely not the Golden Years. Remember Mosaic? Heck, remember Lynx? Man, I'm glad those days are gone. I still think the pre-Net BBS years were pretty cool, though. I felt so connected with my C64 and 300 baud modem...
So where do I go to read an interactive discussion about this product? I scrolled to the bottom of the page, expecting to find a comments section, but... nothing! And nothing in the "test cases" section either!
My city (Vancouver, BC) has recently been flooded by several free dailynewspapers and tabloids. I ride the bus for a half hour to the big university in town, and everyone is reading these papers, including university students and profs.
I really think the future of newspapers is in giving them away for free on busy street corners like they're doing here (with people in branded aprons handing out the papers!). It obviously is working for these publications.
The interesting thing about these free daily papers is that, even though they are in colour and fairly professional, they don't have any more ads than your average newspaper or magazine.
How, in this era of "newspapers are dying!" can these daily papers not only exist, but thrive? They're obviously doing something right.
The name ammonia comes from Jupiter Ammon, whose temple in Libya was famous for producing sal ammoniac [Ammonium chloride, NH4Cl] from camel dung, noted from the 8th century.
A product of protein metabolism is urea, CO(NH2)2. This was the first "organic" compound artificially synthesized, by Wöhler in 1828. It probably occurs significantly in camel dung, since camels are noted water conservers. The rest of us excrete urea in urine. Heated, it gives off ammonia by pyrolysis.
In fact, the reaction of ammonia and carbon dioxide to form urea and water is reversible, pressure favoring the production of urea, heat the production of ammonia. This reaction is used commercially to make urea fertilizer from ammonia. An early source of ammonia was pyrolysis of hoofs and horns, giving spirits of hartshorn.
Too bad that the survey is purely for US campuses, despite the misleading Slashdot headline.
Canadian schools are very unwired. The campus upon which I work, UBC, has a strong wireless net, free to use for anybody with laptop and an antenna.
It's so good that, despite the fact that my building is on one distant corner of the huge campus, you have to consciously choose our internal network over the campus network when connecting from within our lab!
I hope NASA has all the units right on this one, and they don't get all excited when it hits 5000 KPH.
Wouldn't be the first time they'd gotten confused between metric and that kludgy old British system that the rest of the US uses.
I always find it funny that the US made such a stink about getting out from under British rule, but they continue to use their measurement system long after everyone else has moved on...
they outsource for profit. it's totally dependant on cheap labor.
This is obvious.
Of course companies want to increase their profit. That is the stated or implied motivation behind all corporate activity. And that's how it should be.
Any smokescreen about schools not teaching the right things is total crap. If a company can get cheaper labour then it will do so.
I also agree with the supply and demand comments made elsewhere. Too many graduates who signed up during the dotcom craze, not enough jobs (or at least not enough offering the dotcom wages the grads were expecting).
If you don't get the "digiticians = morlocks" joke, I urge you to read The Time Machine! It was a scathing social commentary at the time, and society has come full circle, with a real Eloi / Morlock separation...
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Where did you see that programmer competence is a non-bellcurve distribution? I would really, sincerely appreciate a citation of that!
You can run full Debian on it. It is trivial to write a script that tunnels any kind of linux remote control app through SSH, like VNC or rdesktop...
Even cooler is when I forward Windows programs (running in Linux via Wine) over ssh onto unusual clients, such as handheld Linux devices. Suddenly, there's full Microsoft Word, on my handheld device!
"But how... how..."
I use a single copy of GAIM on all my computers. The actual program runs on an old PIII 900 I keep in the basement at home, and I use SSH on my Linux machines at home and at the office, and Cygwin SSH on my Windows machines, then I X-Forward GAIM to whatever computer I'm working on. This way I keep all of my chat logs in one place and I have a unified experience across all platforms. Works well, except on a slow Internet connection; but those are getting increasingly rare...
You're right that it would reduce pollution.
I discovered recently that electric cars produce less total pollution than conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars even when the electricity comes from (current technology, dirty) coal-fired power plants!
While I agree with you that upgrading the infrastructure is the obvious solution, it certainly is a whole lot more expensive than simply throttling traffic. And what incentive does anyone have to upgrade infrastructure, when you can just say that users get X mbps even if that's only true for a tiny fraction of the traffic during off-peak hours?
Rule #1: Don't use e-mail for marketing.
If I want to buy something, I'll come to you. Spend your marketing budget on search engine placement, AdSense, etc., so that when I go out looking for something, you'll be at the top of the list.
If you come to me, off to the Spam Bin you go.
The jury said the patents are valid, just not enforceable.
You wrote:
/. very early on when it and the web were new."
;-)
"I started reading
I'm glad you've started contributing! You have a very interesting story. Why didn't you sign up earlier? There's nothing like the cred you earn with a 4 or 5 digit Slashdot number
The days when the Internet was new were definitely not the Golden Years. Remember Mosaic? Heck, remember Lynx? Man, I'm glad those days are gone. I still think the pre-Net BBS years were pretty cool, though. I felt so connected with my C64 and 300 baud modem...
Very insightful comment.
Yes. FTP is old and ugly. SCP or some other secure system is much better. But then the Original Parent probably doesn't know what I'm talking about ;-)
But then... they had been drinking.
This Band-Aid Battery strikes me as a really temporary, stop-gap solution.
Slashdot *did* link to the Grid website. Maybe the grid was simply Slashdotted!
That's a fine logo they have there. One guy jumping on another one, the prone guy's head bobbing as the other guy's weight lands on his chest...
And the tag line! "For those about to polka, we salute you!"
So where do I go to read an interactive discussion about this product? I scrolled to the bottom of the page, expecting to find a comments section, but... nothing! And nothing in the "test cases" section either!
My city (Vancouver, BC) has recently been flooded by several free daily newspapers and tabloids. I ride the bus for a half hour to the big university in town, and everyone is reading these papers, including university students and profs.
I really think the future of newspapers is in giving them away for free on busy street corners like they're doing here (with people in branded aprons handing out the papers!). It obviously is working for these publications.
The interesting thing about these free daily papers is that, even though they are in colour and fairly professional, they don't have any more ads than your average newspaper or magazine.
How, in this era of "newspapers are dying!" can these daily papers not only exist, but thrive? They're obviously doing something right.
I think Google will make a wonderful, beneficent God King.
I for one welcome our new search-engine overlord.
From a web page about ammonia:
The name ammonia comes from Jupiter Ammon, whose temple in Libya was famous for producing sal ammoniac [Ammonium chloride, NH4Cl] from camel dung, noted from the 8th century.
A product of protein metabolism is urea, CO(NH2)2. This was the first "organic" compound artificially synthesized, by Wöhler in 1828. It probably occurs significantly in camel dung, since camels are noted water conservers. The rest of us excrete urea in urine. Heated, it gives off ammonia by pyrolysis.
In fact, the reaction of ammonia and carbon dioxide to form urea and water is reversible, pressure favoring the production of urea, heat the production of ammonia. This reaction is used commercially to make urea fertilizer from ammonia. An early source of ammonia was pyrolysis of hoofs and horns, giving spirits of hartshorn.
Too bad that the survey is purely for US campuses, despite the misleading Slashdot headline.
Canadian schools are very unwired. The campus upon which I work, UBC, has a strong wireless net, free to use for anybody with laptop and an antenna.
It's so good that, despite the fact that my building is on one distant corner of the huge campus, you have to consciously choose our internal network over the campus network when connecting from within our lab!
I hope NASA has all the units right on this one, and they don't get all excited when it hits 5000 KPH.
Wouldn't be the first time they'd gotten confused between metric and that kludgy old British system that the rest of the US uses.
I always find it funny that the US made such a stink about getting out from under British rule, but they continue to use their measurement system long after everyone else has moved on...
but it saves people who build clusters a heck of a lot of money
Ya! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of computers running this BIOS!!
Moderators: (tired-old-running-joke-sigh)
they outsource for profit. it's totally dependant on cheap labor.
This is obvious.
Of course companies want to increase their profit. That is the stated or implied motivation behind all corporate activity. And that's how it should be.
Any smokescreen about schools not teaching the right things is total crap. If a company can get cheaper labour then it will do so.
I also agree with the supply and demand comments made elsewhere. Too many graduates who signed up during the dotcom craze, not enough jobs (or at least not enough offering the dotcom wages the grads were expecting).
Aw, now you've just gone and made me hungry.
Mmmm, Eloi...
If you don't get the "digiticians = morlocks" joke, I urge you to read The Time Machine! It was a scathing social commentary at the time, and society has come full circle, with a real Eloi / Morlock separation...