I was the president of the Sydney Linux Users Group for about five years. http://www.slug.org.au
What I did was ask local people to speak. Sometimes I had to ask pretty directly, but once we got rolling people would often volunteer. We have a mailing list, which helps to organise this.
You'd be surprised at the talent you have locally. You don't need big names. The strength of Linux comes from Joe Blow saying, 'I can do that', taking up the challenge and giving it a go.
The other thing to be aware of is that a good speaker needn't be a good hacker.
Someone else made the point about courtesy. I'd put it more that you should be organised. Try to start on time, try to keep the same format, try to keep things moving.
LUG - the U means users - sharing, helping, discussing, having fun. Keep it about USERS and you can't go wrong.
Are there instances when making information public furthers state security better than keeping it secret?
Just as you probably have large numbers of people devoted to protecting secrets, do you have people whose role is to promote the dissemination of information (I mean for non public relations reasons, for the furthering of state security)
Capable of doing FFT. Thus signal processing. Probably things like Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) thus mpeg encoding movies, encoding MP3 files on the fly....
This kind of cynical writing gets on my goat
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There are precisely two ways in which space rockets are incredibly cool....
(blah blah blah deleted)
This kind of cynical writing gets on my goat.
the glamour of technical accomplishment is fiercely valued over any hint of earthly practicality
Yes, 5 billion dollars was wasted.
Therefore space research, the efforts of NASA, the Soviet Union's space agencies, the Motorola engineers is merely
rocket prestige.
This kind of article leads to this kind of thinking: Let's not every go forward, lets not ever do anything new because we might make mistakes. I prefer to sit back, glibly critise, because if I never try, I'll never make a mistake.
That attitude, that's the real crash and burn. The few flares over the ocean would be nothing if we all followed that line.
I strikes me that the Crusoe could have have effectively two complete cpu's inside. One to do code morphing / JIT, the other to do VLIW processing. They could have entirely different instruction sets. The jit cpu could be working independantly of the VLIW cpu, without 'stealing' it's cycles, and feeding it. The VLIW cpu may not need external bus connexions. Otherwise I'm puzzled about how you you would get the performance claimed. Jamie
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I've often thought that we might find messages in our DNA.
If a 'sentient being' wanted to send a message, why take
the risk that a receiver isn't listening when sending?
Why not leave a message in our DNA for when we're ready
to 'pick up'?
Hence, we could use this to look at all the 'useless' stuff
in our genes.
Jamie
I was the president of the Sydney Linux Users Group for about
five years. http://www.slug.org.au
What I did was ask local people to speak. Sometimes I had to ask
pretty directly, but once we got rolling people would often
volunteer. We have a mailing list, which helps to organise this.
You'd be surprised at the talent you have locally. You don't
need big names. The strength of Linux comes from Joe Blow
saying, 'I can do that', taking up the challenge and giving
it a go.
The other thing to be aware of is that a good speaker needn't
be a good hacker.
Someone else made the point about courtesy. I'd put it more
that you should be organised. Try to start on time, try to
keep the same format, try to keep things moving.
LUG - the U means users - sharing, helping, discussing, having fun.
Keep it about USERS and you can't go wrong.
Jamie
Are there instances when making information public furthers state security
better than keeping it secret?
Just as you probably have large numbers of people devoted to
protecting secrets, do you have people whose role is to promote
the dissemination of information (I mean for non public relations reasons,
for the furthering of state security)
Or international, inter-museum loans ?
Jamie
Capable of doing FFT. Thus signal processing. ....
Probably things like Discrete Cosine Transform
(DCT) thus mpeg encoding movies, encoding MP3
files on the fly
(blah blah blah deleted)
This kind of cynical writing gets on my goat.
the glamour of technical accomplishment is fiercely valued over any hint of earthly practicality
Yes, 5 billion dollars was wasted.
Therefore space research, the efforts of NASA, the Soviet Union's space agencies, the Motorola engineers is merely
rocket prestige.
This kind of article leads to this kind of thinking:
Let's not every go forward, lets not ever do anything new because we might make mistakes. I prefer to sit back, glibly critise, because if I never try, I'll never make a mistake.
That attitude, that's the real crash and burn. The few flares over the ocean would be nothing if we all followed that line.
Jamie
I strikes me that the Crusoe could have have effectively two
complete cpu's inside. One to do code morphing / JIT, the
other to do VLIW processing. They could have entirely
different instruction sets.
The jit cpu could be working independantly of the VLIW cpu,
without 'stealing' it's cycles, and feeding it.
The VLIW cpu may not need external bus connexions.
Otherwise I'm puzzled about how you you would get the
performance claimed.
Jamie