Like in John Carmack Testarossa, why don't you just manage to wire a plug on the dashboard to connect your laptop when you are bored ? Then you can have all the information you want, without making your car too illegal at first look. On the top side, you could change motor management "on the fly", when you want performance or economy, etc...A friend of mine is modifying previous models for export to Iran, where the fuel is of low quality, and test-drives the car this way. With certain settings he can outaccelerate Porsches at the red lights (which is obviously not very good for the engine...)
On my previous car, the odometer broke at 85000 km...the mechanic was quite surprised that I ask for the new one to be set at the same value that the old one...
Starsky and Hutch are real ! Archeologists have found a city by the name of "San Francisco" which seems to have a police force, and Ford has actually produced a "Gran Torino" model for several years in the timeframe of the alleged avents !
I have read that some people now make a living by buying Porsches in the US and reselling them used in Europe ; the price tag in the US hasn't changed in three years to preserve market share, when there was a 60% change in currency. The article even said that if you have $200,000 in cash and can pay for insurance, you can get a basic 911 or Boxster for free by buying a top of the range Cayenne or GT3 in the US and reselling it in Euro area.
I didn't know that ; this of course doesn't make mayans horoscopes more reliable, but maybe we could generate some by computerizing garbage, and from the equinox precession argument they could be sold to women magazines like the chinese and lunar ones which appeared a few years ago ? Or am I late also on this ? I do not push a Cartman like business plan, since there are no ???? there...
This map also reminds us that astrology is complete bullshit since due to equinox precession ("wobbling" in the article) zodiac signs have changed once since the Romans and twice since the Egyptians devised occidental astrology. Makes the system of prediction wrong in principle...
I heard that french stewards refer to the passengers as "geese" (waiting to be force-fed as for "foie gras" ! ). When hearing that, I replied that I do not see the difference between a commercial airline pilot and a bus driver.
putty is good ; I also use TeraTerm pro with secure extensions (ttsf has my trust). I was able to demonstrate remote graphics on a slow modem thanks to it, using the vt220 emulation mode. WinScp is also very convenient (and free).
I see the point for portables computers with WiFi or GPRS Internet access, which can be a pain (or simply impossible) to setup under Linux. Imagine that you can borrow a laptop from time to time at work to go on the road, and cannot afford to take hours to install cygwin, but with this solution instead you can in seconds connect to your remote Unix server.
we built one of those last year
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Inspired by the discussions on the Beowulf mailing list we built in March 2003 a Beowulf of bare motherboards. You can see it (with text in French) on this site
Everything is made of metal, using ready-made beams to which we attached the motherboards with integrated Broadcom NICs. The cluster (diskless, headless) has been running fine since then. We have one power supply per node in order to maximize cooling and avoid wiring errors if adding motherboard plugs to power supplies : design was made with CATIA V5R6, calculations were done by graduate students in engineering using Flo Therm, and they predicted the temperature inside the cluster within 1 degree C : 27 degrees at steady state for 19 ambient.
The only detail we had forgotten was to make buttons for power and reset, since they are only to be found in ready-made cases ; we lost hours to find the proper socket size on Radiospares.
The design took about 20 hours, the fabrication about one week, software installation (having to find the proper driver for the NICs for clustermatic, setting up PXE) two days, we saved maybe 30 % of the total cost (here about 4000 euros for 8 Athlon 2400 nodes with 1 Gb RAM), had a lot of fun and learning.
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I either correct mistakes on sight on wikipedia taking directly from my brain and check afterwards if I was right and if the pages are corrected back, or try to introduce realistic looking fake data and check if I was spotted or not...those are games I can play alone !
on the one hand, the US just wasted about 200 billions dollars in Iraq for some oil, and on the other hand, millions of euros is no small change : given that I could easily retire to a nice sunny island and spend my days in between champagne and women.
seriously, why not make sunglasses with a non-linear coating which becomes opaque (like a fuse) when light intensity is too strong ? Fighter pilots have such visors on their helmets in case of a nuclear flash. Some of them are even reversible (back to transparent after a while).
they drop it on the floor. Activists also hide tons of them in the voting booth in case you are a closet nazi and don't want to pick up the bulletin in front of people you know (ie you pick up only the one of the mayor in case you want social housing or whatever favor and in the booth drop it and change it for the nazi one)
"les français sont des singes capitulards mangeurs de fromages".
As Dave Berry said, the French on the opposite think that the Americans are overweight burger munching trigger happy ignorant religious zealots driving gas-guzzling SUVs, and like all nationalistic clichés, this is also true.
According to "the Economist", however, Kerry is already "kebabized" over Vietnam and his changing mind over the Iraq war, while Bush is very hard to kebabize about his military record the silver spoon he had in his mouth when he was born, and "probably up his nose", and also because he is constantly underestimated.
People have already started voting thanks to loose absentee rules in several states, electronic voting machines are everywhere, districts are gerrymandered, the vote is amplified by the electoral colleges, and everyone has already accepted the result thanks to biased polls.
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Like in John Carmack Testarossa, why don't you just manage to wire a plug on the dashboard to connect your laptop when you are bored ? Then you can have all the information you want, without making your car too illegal at first look. On the top side, you could change motor management "on the fly", when you want performance or economy, etc...A friend of mine is modifying previous models for export to Iran, where the fuel is of low quality, and test-drives the car this way. With certain settings he can outaccelerate Porsches at the red lights (which is obviously not very good for the engine...)
On my previous car, the odometer broke at 85000 km...the mechanic was quite surprised that I ask for the new one to be set at the same value that the old one...
Starsky and Hutch are real ! Archeologists have found a city by the name of "San Francisco" which seems to have a police force, and Ford has actually produced a "Gran Torino" model for several years in the timeframe of the alleged avents !
I have read that some people now make a living by buying Porsches in the US and reselling them used in Europe ; the price tag in the US hasn't changed in three years to preserve market share, when there was a 60% change in currency. The article even said that if you have $200,000 in cash and can pay for insurance, you can get a basic 911 or Boxster for free by buying a top of the range Cayenne or GT3 in the US and reselling it in Euro area.
I didn't know that ; this of course doesn't make mayans horoscopes more reliable, but maybe we could generate some by computerizing garbage, and from the equinox precession argument they could be sold to women magazines like the chinese and lunar ones which appeared a few years ago ? Or am I late also on this ? I do not push a Cartman like business plan, since there are no ???? there...
This map also reminds us that astrology is complete bullshit since due to equinox precession ("wobbling" in the article) zodiac signs have changed once since the Romans and twice since the Egyptians devised occidental astrology. Makes the system of prediction wrong in principle...
I heard that french stewards refer to the passengers as "geese" (waiting to be force-fed as for "foie gras" ! ). When hearing that, I replied that I do not see the difference between a commercial airline pilot and a bus driver.
putty is good ; I also use TeraTerm pro with secure extensions (ttsf has my trust). I was able to demonstrate remote graphics on a slow modem thanks to it, using the vt220 emulation mode. WinScp is also very convenient (and free).
I see the point for portables computers with WiFi or GPRS Internet access, which can be a pain (or simply impossible) to setup under Linux. Imagine that you can borrow a laptop from time to time at work to go on the road, and cannot afford to take hours to install cygwin, but with this solution instead you can in seconds connect to your remote Unix server.
that's why it is recommended to put only one instruction per line and a lot of comments ! The number of bugs per line of code tends to go down !
two great computer scientists from the 60's : Djikstra and Amdahl. Amdahl's law is the basis of parallel programming.
If you send me the complete credit card details by simple e-mails, I will quickly tell you if they work or not !
I fear the bacterias coming from Uranus !
Inspired by the discussions on the Beowulf mailing list we built in March 2003 a Beowulf of bare motherboards. You can see it (with text in French) on this site
Everything is made of metal, using ready-made beams to which we attached the motherboards with integrated Broadcom NICs. The cluster (diskless, headless) has been running fine since then. We have one power supply per node in order to maximize cooling and avoid wiring errors if adding motherboard plugs to power supplies : design was made with CATIA V5R6, calculations were done by graduate students in engineering using Flo Therm, and they predicted the temperature inside the cluster within 1 degree C : 27 degrees at steady state for 19 ambient.
The only detail we had forgotten was to make buttons for power and reset, since they are only to be found in ready-made cases ; we lost hours to find the proper socket size on Radiospares.
The design took about 20 hours, the fabrication about one week, software installation (having to find the proper driver for the NICs for clustermatic, setting up PXE) two days, we saved maybe 30 % of the total cost (here about 4000 euros for 8 Athlon 2400 nodes with 1 Gb RAM), had a lot of fun and learning.
I either correct mistakes on sight on wikipedia taking directly from my brain and check afterwards if I was right and if the pages are corrected back, or try to introduce realistic looking fake data and check if I was spotted or not...those are games I can play alone !
on the one hand, the US just wasted about 200 billions dollars in Iraq for some oil, and on the other hand, millions of euros is no small change : given that I could easily retire to a nice sunny island and spend my days in between champagne and women.
well, but North Korea has no oil.
that is time for you to learn Chisene ?
that is, depending on the whim of the Diebold machine operator, of course.
seriously, why not make sunglasses with a non-linear coating which becomes opaque (like a fuse) when light intensity is too strong ? Fighter pilots have such visors on their helmets in case of a nuclear flash. Some of them are even reversible (back to transparent after a while).
but gave up because the polls showed that the bill would not pass.
they drop it on the floor. Activists also hide tons of them in the voting booth in case you are a closet nazi and don't want to pick up the bulletin in front of people you know (ie you pick up only the one of the mayor in case you want social housing or whatever favor and in the booth drop it and change it for the nazi one)
at least get your sentence in french correctly
"les français sont des singes capitulards mangeurs de fromages".
As Dave Berry said, the French on the opposite think that the Americans are overweight burger munching trigger happy ignorant religious zealots driving gas-guzzling SUVs, and like all nationalistic clichés, this is also true.
According to "the Economist", however, Kerry is already "kebabized" over Vietnam and his changing mind over the Iraq war, while Bush is very hard to kebabize about his military record the silver spoon he had in his mouth when he was born, and "probably up his nose", and also because he is constantly underestimated.
People have already started voting thanks to loose absentee rules in several states, electronic voting machines are everywhere, districts are gerrymandered, the vote is amplified by the electoral colleges, and everyone has already accepted the result thanks to biased polls.
about 1 minute and 10 requests...
who the hell is Tony Benn by the way ?