When you run your own mail server, or administrate a mail server for a large number of people, server-side anti-spam filters and countermeasures start making a lot more sense. Do the math on a company with 100 employees (at $25/hr) who check mail twice a day and spend 5 minutes each time hassling with anti-spam measures in client-side mail apps. In this scenario, a seamless anti-spam solution is worth conservatively $400 per day, or $100k/year not counting bandwidth savings. There are definitely cases when client-side filtering makes sense, but if you can handle it at the server, email-based business methods scale better.
Banias - place in Syria where Jesus traveled with his disciples to examine their understanding of who he was. Dothan - town in Alabama, USA or A place to the North of Shechem whither Jacob's sons went for pasture for the flocks Grantsdale - town in Massachusetts, USA Alderwood - dunno? Caswell - dunno? Tejas - eclectic ecofeminist Witchcraft community Merced- river in California, USA Klamath - river in Oregon, USA Willamette - river in Oregon, USA Coppermine - river in Canada Katmai - Alaskan river Deschutes - river in Oregon, USA Deerfield - river in Massachusetts, USA Foster - river in Saskatchewan, Canada Northwood - city in Ohio, USA? Tualatin - river in Oregon, USA Gallatin - river in Montana, USA McKinley - river in Alaska Madison - river in Montana, USA Potomac - river in Maryland, USA Bulverde - city in Texas, USA Tulsa - river in Arkansas, USA Whitefield - industrial township on the edge of Bangalore, India Yamhill - river in Oregon, USA Tukwila - city in Washington, USA Lindenhurst - town in New York , USA Prescott - town in Wisconsin, USA Springdale - city in Utah, USA Jayhawk - a mythical bird? Tonga - small Pacific nation Tanner - trail in Arizona, USA? Dixon - small town in Wyoming, USA Cascades - dunno? Katmocino - dunno?
MacGIMP approach is to minimize comparisons with Photoshop because the two pieces of software are just very different animals. As far as interface goes, once you get used to the GIMP way of doing things, Photoshop feels awkward, and since most Americans have prior experience with Photoshop, the accusation that the GIMP feels awkward seems to dominate the discussion. Outcomes of interface quality comparisons have a lot to do with what you first learned, and what you've gotten used to. So any balanced interface comparison should keep the inherent bias of familiarity in mind. Windows versus Linux-based desktops will face a similar challenge.
It wasn't mentioned which version the Web Page Design for Designers review used. Recent builds are now making use of GIMP Freetype plugin which has excellent support for anti-aliasing. For the record, Archei LLC does provide support (by a toll free number too) for anyone who purchases the MacGIMP product. Not sure how that support request slipped through the cracks, but the offer to help still stands: support@archei.com While we're on the topic, the MacGIMP forum is another alternative to getting questions answered.
Finally, even though a certain amount of disagreement will likely occur, discussions about open graphics software, especially when open and patent unencumbered file formats are promoted, are always to be encouraged. Hopefully this Slashdot article will have the net positive effect of making more people aware of the GIMP who had never heard of it before.
Very rare today to hear of a major company throwing money at a research project since the '80s.
Ummm, maybe you should take a look at the pharmaceutical or biotech industries. They have a long and storied history of throwing cash at well qualified researchers to solve major problems.
2. ethanol from food crops like corn used at least as much energy to create as they released when burned.
I think the point of the research is to attempt to solve problems such as those. If you knew what the answer was before you began, it wouldn't be called research, would it? I wish that biodiesel would get some funding, as it really stands a chance at providing an alternative fuel and could minimize the effects of cracking plants that are needed to produce lower molecular weight fuels such as gasoline.
Seriously, after the major press outlets all covered this non-story, I'm beginning to think that RMS, ESR, Bruce, and the rest of the Linux Headline Team might not have a chance against these guys. Redmond spin control is nearing gravitational proportions.
What are some good PoE [power over ethernet] power sources? Soekris has some similar boards and I remember wondering when I read about them about how you'd go about setting up the "P" part of PoE. Wiring diagrams would be helpful too, as it would really suck to send 12V down the wire into these devices.
Face it: most business problems have a striking similarity, especially when opposed to handling binary data types such as in image processing. Error handling for basic text and numeric data constructs is something that should be mastered within a few years. The difference between someone ten years into IT and someone just two years in is that they know the whole stack better: from operating system to database setups to application layer design. Odds are that they'll be more adept at building more secure systems if they've been around longer too, meaning systems that are more robust/reliable, better prepared to handle growth (scaling up AND scaling out), more highly available, etc.
Structuring data and networked systems for the long haul is and will remain a valuable skill. Particular languages, while important skillsets, are just one piece of that puzzle. Have your boss investigate the candidates' proficiency with the security professional's Common Body of Knowledge (www.isc2.org) and I'll doubt the 10 year coder and 2 year coder will rate the same on it.
They have good coverage in the libraries, the technology building (PKI), and all around the student hall and decent coverage in the dorms. I get the strongest signals right near the main administration building though, where the IT staff works. They must have carpet-bombed that area with access points, you can go almost an entire city block with strong signal from that place. (Must be nice to work in IT there.) U.N.Omaha didn't make the Intel list, I wonder if that's because they're mostly (exclusively?) building their wifi network on Cisco APs.
In 1999, Walukiewicz and others at Berkeley Lab were working with solar-cell designers at DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who were trying to build a three-junction cell. The NREL researchers inadvertently created the first photovoltaic semiconductor with a split band gap. But at first they didn't realize it.
"They needed a new material with a 1-eV band gap and a crystal lattice structure that matched the other layers of the cell," Walukiewicz explains. "They used gallium indium arsenide nitride alloys in which just a little nitrogen could achieve the desired band gap, and an almost perfect lattice match."
Since the band-gap reduction was unexpected, Walukiewicz set out to find out how it worked. The answer, it developed, was that the few atoms of nitrogen, which are much more electronegative than the host atoms (much more strongly attractive to electrons) produced a narrow energy band of their own, splitting the GaInAs conduction band into two parts. The gap to the lower of the two conduction bands was the desired 1 eV.
In the case of GaInAs, other characteristics of the split bands made for a poor solar cell material. Nevertheless, Walukiewicz and his colleagues continued to investigate the phenomenon and developed a model of the split-band phenomenon known as "band anticrossing."
...
Yu admits that forming highly mismatched alloys is "challenging from a crystal-growth point of view," but there is hope that crystals can be grown epitaxially (the growth on a crystalline substrate of a crystalline substance that mimics the orientation of the substrate). One good sign, he says, is that Japanese researchers have already grown thick oxygen-doped crystals of a related material, zinc selenium.
Yes, after the installers run they typically update prebinding. From the update_prebinding man page:
update_prebinding tries to synchronize prebinding information for
libraries and executables when new files are added to a system. Prebind-
ing information is pre-calculated address information for libraries used
by a given executable or library. By pre-determining where a function in
another library is destined to be placed, the dynamic linker does not
have to resolve symbols at application startup time, and the application
can launch faster.
Although there are differences between templating and theming, PHPWebSite, Geeklog, and the Nuke-a-likes all provide functionalities that can loosely be described as a template system. Although this might seem off-topic at first glance, if you take a look at how the themes in geeklog and phpwebsite work, you might be suprised at how similar they are, in concept, to smarty (think square brackets versus curly braces). So these links are intended to give someone who is looking into html presentation-layer manipulation a more complete idea about the options out there.
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The upcoming release of PHP5 will create a wave of comparisons to Java. When that happens, remember that it isn't a zero sum game. The two languages work reasonably well side by side. There will come a point when the industry pundit ashclowns start repeating what you're about to read to the enterprise upper echelons. When that happens, it will get really interesting.
PHP has two primary strengths: architecture and standards. The majority of java webspace applications were written before css and xhtml were mainstream. I predict that there will be a need for css and xhtml conversions among the big java web apps and this will be readily delegated to PHP. PHP handles "the presentation layer" meaning the application layer that actually integrates what's necessary for your browser to present a nice page (cross-platform, cross-browser) better than any tool out there. That's why Sun wanted to partner with PHP-creator-company Zend.
So architecture-wise, PHP is at the heart of the presentation layer. Standards-wise, PHP will help to bring about what CSS and XHTML promise.
Oracle is aware of PHP, IBM is aware of PHP, Macromedia is aware of PHP. Now the hiring managers get to start looking for PHP coders.
The rule of 72 helps to figure out how long it takes for something to double or halve. Divide 72 by the percentage rate of growth or decrease and you'll get the number of time periods in which something will double or halve. For example, let's assume Moore's law says double CPU speeds every 18 months. 72/18=4. So CPU speeds increase by 4% every month. Or another example: your phat mutual fund gets 12% per year, so 72/12=6. So your money will double in 6 years.
This trick is so simple that even the finance guys always know it.:) Anyone else have logarithm tricks to share?
catheter, n. a hollow flexible tube for insertion into a body cavity, duct, or vessel to allow the passage of fluids or distend a passageway. Uses include the drainage of urine from the bladder through the urethra or insertion through a blood vessel into the heart for diagnostic purposes.
:: Originality is to the meme pool as random mutation is to the gene pool. Insight.:: Echoing is valuable because it filters out bad originality. Here I have to disagree. This implies that good is what is easily repeated, i.e. good ideas and powerful ideas are synonymous. Sometimes the minority is right. Often the weak are correct. You cannot expect the truth to always be the stronger.
That's not to say that echoing isn't valuable, just that good and bad originality are not determined by it.
I wonder how much different blogs are in this respect than "traditional" journalism. Newspapers have to make efforts at times to ensure that they don't have the exact same headline. Also, it probably isn't too terribly suprising that in a world of mass-media, the collective consciousness is a bit hard to redirect. Mass-originality and memes are opposite concepts.
Here's my advice to high-school students looking to be entrepreneurial during a summer: find a way to make or import something interesting and sell it on eBay. You don't have a lot of overhead and actually wind up with real-world experience of building and/or supporting a product.
I would have respect for PhD's if the system didn't depend so much on slave wage conditions for those who do the bulk of the experiments and labwork. The promise of an academic career and the light at the end of the tunnel is that you get your own slave wage earners to do your bidding when you get your own grant. It's kind of sick when you stop and think about how the academic system works.
These days, it seems, the brightest and more self-motivated people have gone on to run their own companies. All too often, success in academia is determined by a silly puerile contest of wills. It isn't that there aren't really bright well-motivated academic researchers, but these are rare in comparison to the politically-minded opportunists who found that obtaining grants was an easier way to slide through life than the application of their skillset in open market competition. Well, that's my two cents. I don't know the individual situation of the mobio-researcher-turned-plumber in the U.K. but surely the direct and honest activity of fixing sinks, faucets and installing pipework for people at large beats brutal grant-money competition and having to cowtow to the same academic snobs for years on end. In one case, at the end of the day, you have actually accomplished something.
Maybe the reason the book didn't cover package management is that the world of Mac OS X software installation is in flux and it would outdate the book before it hit shelves. Fink has its advantages, so does Darwinports. An explanation of both in sufficient detail is a topic that really deserves its own book.
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When you run your own mail server, or administrate a mail server for a large number of people, server-side anti-spam filters and countermeasures start making a lot more sense. Do the math on a company with 100 employees (at $25/hr) who check mail twice a day and spend 5 minutes each time hassling with anti-spam measures in client-side mail apps. In this scenario, a seamless anti-spam solution is worth conservatively $400 per day, or $100k/year not counting bandwidth savings. There are definitely cases when client-side filtering makes sense, but if you can handle it at the server, email-based business methods scale better.
Call.
Trust and license poker are mutually exclusive.
Banias - place in Syria where Jesus traveled with his disciples to examine their understanding of who he was.
Dothan - town in Alabama, USA or A place to the North of Shechem whither Jacob's sons went for pasture for the flocks
Grantsdale - town in Massachusetts, USA
Alderwood - dunno?
Caswell - dunno?
Tejas - eclectic ecofeminist Witchcraft community
Merced- river in California, USA
Klamath - river in Oregon, USA
Willamette - river in Oregon, USA
Coppermine - river in Canada
Katmai - Alaskan river
Deschutes - river in Oregon, USA
Deerfield - river in Massachusetts, USA
Foster - river in Saskatchewan, Canada
Northwood - city in Ohio, USA?
Tualatin - river in Oregon, USA
Gallatin - river in Montana, USA
McKinley - river in Alaska
Madison - river in Montana, USA
Potomac - river in Maryland, USA
Bulverde - city in Texas, USA
Tulsa - river in Arkansas, USA
Whitefield - industrial township on the edge of Bangalore, India
Yamhill - river in Oregon, USA
Tukwila - city in Washington, USA
Lindenhurst - town in New York , USA
Prescott - town in Wisconsin, USA
Springdale - city in Utah, USA
Jayhawk - a mythical bird?
Tonga - small Pacific nation
Tanner - trail in Arizona, USA?
Dixon - small town in Wyoming, USA
Cascades - dunno?
Katmocino - dunno?
MacGIMP approach is to minimize comparisons with Photoshop because the two pieces of software are just very different animals. As far as interface goes, once you get used to the GIMP way of doing things, Photoshop feels awkward, and since most Americans have prior experience with Photoshop, the accusation that the GIMP feels awkward seems to dominate the discussion. Outcomes of interface quality comparisons have a lot to do with what you first learned, and what you've gotten used to. So any balanced interface comparison should keep the inherent bias of familiarity in mind. Windows versus Linux-based desktops will face a similar challenge.
It wasn't mentioned which version the Web Page Design for Designers review used. Recent builds are now making use of GIMP Freetype plugin which has excellent support for anti-aliasing. For the record, Archei LLC does provide support (by a toll free number too) for anyone who purchases the MacGIMP product. Not sure how that support request slipped through the cracks, but the offer to help still stands: support@archei.com While we're on the topic, the MacGIMP forum is another alternative to getting questions answered.
Finally, even though a certain amount of disagreement will likely occur, discussions about open graphics software, especially when open and patent unencumbered file formats are promoted, are always to be encouraged. Hopefully this Slashdot article will have the net positive effect of making more people aware of the GIMP who had never heard of it before.
Very rare today to hear of a major company throwing money at a research project since the '80s.
Ummm, maybe you should take a look at the pharmaceutical or biotech industries. They have a long and storied history of throwing cash at well qualified researchers to solve major problems.
2. ethanol from food crops like corn used at least as much energy to create as they released when burned.
I think the point of the research is to attempt to solve problems such as those. If you knew what the answer was before you began, it wouldn't be called research, would it? I wish that biodiesel would get some funding, as it really stands a chance at providing an alternative fuel and could minimize the effects of cracking plants that are needed to produce lower molecular weight fuels such as gasoline.
Seriously, after the major press outlets all covered this non-story, I'm beginning to think that RMS, ESR, Bruce, and the rest of the Linux Headline Team might not have a chance against these guys. Redmond spin control is nearing gravitational proportions.
What are some good PoE [power over ethernet] power sources? Soekris has some similar boards and I remember wondering when I read about them about how you'd go about setting up the "P" part of PoE. Wiring diagrams would be helpful too, as it would really suck to send 12V down the wire into these devices.
Face it: most business problems have a striking similarity, especially when opposed to handling binary data types such as in image processing. Error handling for basic text and numeric data constructs is something that should be mastered within a few years. The difference between someone ten years into IT and someone just two years in is that they know the whole stack better: from operating system to database setups to application layer design. Odds are that they'll be more adept at building more secure systems if they've been around longer too, meaning systems that are more robust/reliable, better prepared to handle growth (scaling up AND scaling out), more highly available, etc.
Structuring data and networked systems for the long haul is and will remain a valuable skill. Particular languages, while important skillsets, are just one piece of that puzzle. Have your boss investigate the candidates' proficiency with the security professional's Common Body of Knowledge (www.isc2.org) and I'll doubt the 10 year coder and 2 year coder will rate the same on it.
They have good coverage in the libraries, the technology building (PKI), and all around the student hall and decent coverage in the dorms. I get the strongest signals right near the main administration building though, where the IT staff works. They must have carpet-bombed that area with access points, you can go almost an entire city block with strong signal from that place. (Must be nice to work in IT there.) U.N.Omaha didn't make the Intel list, I wonder if that's because they're mostly (exclusively?) building their wifi network on Cisco APs.
My friend Thom Harrison at the Omaha Linux Users Group has posted some scripts which do port knocking and have the following CPAN dependencies:
|use File::Tail;
|use Crypt::CBC;
|use Schedule::At;
|use Math::VecStat qw(sum);
|use POSIX qw(strftime);
|use Pod::Usage;
In 1999, Walukiewicz and others at Berkeley Lab were working with solar-cell designers at DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who were trying to build a three-junction cell. The NREL researchers inadvertently created the first photovoltaic semiconductor with a split band gap. But at first they didn't realize it.
...
"They needed a new material with a 1-eV band gap and a crystal lattice structure that matched the other layers of the cell," Walukiewicz explains. "They used gallium indium arsenide nitride alloys in which just a little nitrogen could achieve the desired band gap, and an almost perfect lattice match."
Since the band-gap reduction was unexpected, Walukiewicz set out to find out how it worked. The answer, it developed, was that the few atoms of nitrogen, which are much more electronegative than the host atoms (much more strongly attractive to electrons) produced a narrow energy band of their own, splitting the GaInAs conduction band into two parts. The gap to the lower of the two conduction bands was the desired 1 eV.
In the case of GaInAs, other characteristics of the split bands made for a poor solar cell material. Nevertheless, Walukiewicz and his colleagues continued to investigate the phenomenon and developed a model of the split-band phenomenon known as "band anticrossing."
Yu admits that forming highly mismatched alloys is "challenging from a crystal-growth point of view," but there is hope that crystals can be grown epitaxially (the growth on a crystalline substrate of a crystalline substance that mimics the orientation of the substrate). One good sign, he says, is that Japanese researchers have already grown thick oxygen-doped crystals of a related material, zinc selenium.
Yes, after the installers run they typically update prebinding. From the update_prebinding man page:
update_prebinding tries to synchronize prebinding information for
libraries and executables when new files are added to a system. Prebind-
ing information is pre-calculated address information for libraries used
by a given executable or library. By pre-determining where a function in
another library is destined to be placed, the dynamic linker does not
have to resolve symbols at application startup time, and the application
can launch faster.
Although there are differences between templating and theming, PHPWebSite, Geeklog, and the Nuke-a-likes all provide functionalities that can loosely be described as a template system. Although this might seem off-topic at first glance, if you take a look at how the themes in geeklog and phpwebsite work, you might be suprised at how similar they are, in concept, to smarty (think square brackets versus curly braces). So these links are intended to give someone who is looking into html presentation-layer manipulation a more complete idea about the options out there.
The gentleman who wrote sjeng also wrote prototype Vorbis 1.0 encoder that can go down to bitrates of 4kbps that he claims can give a listenable stereo stream. IMHO that's bigger news than source to Chess.app 2.0.
Yes, I've run php5 and php4 on the same box for almost a year. There are a handful of howto's for running two modules under apache, for examplea quickl Google gives me: www.schlitt.info/applications/blog/archives/83_How _to_run_PHP4_and_PHP_5_parallel.html
The upcoming release of PHP5 will create a wave of comparisons to Java. When that happens, remember that it isn't a zero sum game. The two languages work reasonably well side by side. There will come a point when the industry pundit ashclowns start repeating what you're about to read to the enterprise upper echelons. When that happens, it will get really interesting.
PHP has two primary strengths: architecture and standards. The majority of java webspace applications were written before css and xhtml were mainstream. I predict that there will be a need for css and xhtml conversions among the big java web apps and this will be readily delegated to PHP. PHP handles "the presentation layer" meaning the application layer that actually integrates what's necessary for your browser to present a nice page (cross-platform, cross-browser) better than any tool out there. That's why Sun wanted to partner with PHP-creator-company Zend.
So architecture-wise, PHP is at the heart of the presentation layer. Standards-wise, PHP will help to bring about what CSS and XHTML promise.
Oracle is aware of PHP, IBM is aware of PHP, Macromedia is aware of PHP. Now the hiring managers get to start looking for PHP coders.
I like estimating tricks.
:) Anyone else have logarithm tricks to share?
The rule of 72 helps to figure out how long it takes for something to double or halve. Divide 72 by the percentage rate of growth or decrease and you'll get the number of time periods in which something will double or halve. For example, let's assume Moore's law says double CPU speeds every 18 months. 72/18=4. So CPU speeds increase by 4% every month. Or another example: your phat mutual fund gets 12% per year, so 72/12=6. So your money will double in 6 years.
This trick is so simple that even the finance guys always know it.
catheter, n. a hollow flexible tube for insertion into a body cavity, duct, or vessel to allow the passage of fluids or distend a passageway. Uses include the drainage of urine from the bladder through the urethra or insertion through a blood vessel into the heart for diagnostic purposes.
For further meanings, see here.
Insight.
Here I have to disagree. This implies that good is what is easily repeated, i.e. good ideas and powerful ideas are synonymous. Sometimes the minority is right. Often the weak are correct. You cannot expect the truth to always be the stronger.
That's not to say that echoing isn't valuable, just that good and bad originality are not determined by it.
I wonder how much different blogs are in this respect than "traditional" journalism. Newspapers have to make efforts at times to ensure that they don't have the exact same headline. Also, it probably isn't too terribly suprising that in a world of mass-media, the collective consciousness is a bit hard to redirect. Mass-originality and memes are opposite concepts.
Here's my advice to high-school students looking to be entrepreneurial during a summer: find a way to make or import something interesting and sell it on eBay. You don't have a lot of overhead and actually wind up with real-world experience of building and/or supporting a product.
"Hope this is helpful!"
Actually, your comments are both helpful and hopeful.
Take care.
I would have respect for PhD's if the system didn't depend so much on slave wage conditions for those who do the bulk of the experiments and labwork. The promise of an academic career and the light at the end of the tunnel is that you get your own slave wage earners to do your bidding when you get your own grant. It's kind of sick when you stop and think about how the academic system works.
These days, it seems, the brightest and more self-motivated people have gone on to run their own companies. All too often, success in academia is determined by a silly puerile contest of wills. It isn't that there aren't really bright well-motivated academic researchers, but these are rare in comparison to the politically-minded opportunists who found that obtaining grants was an easier way to slide through life than the application of their skillset in open market competition. Well, that's my two cents. I don't know the individual situation of the mobio-researcher-turned-plumber in the U.K. but surely the direct and honest activity of fixing sinks, faucets and installing pipework for people at large beats brutal grant-money competition and having to cowtow to the same academic snobs for years on end. In one case, at the end of the day, you have actually accomplished something.
Maybe the reason the book didn't cover package management is that the world of Mac OS X software installation is in flux and it would outdate the book before it hit shelves. Fink has its advantages, so does Darwinports. An explanation of both in sufficient detail is a topic that really deserves its own book.
Just don't forget the cover sheet on your TPS report.