Exactly. Why compromise a superior system to make it compatible w/ an inferior closed-source, buggy PoS. If we dont stop putting so much krap in the kernel, Linux will become a bigger kludge of inter-dependent modules than M$FT. Already, try to upgrade a RH Linux box, you need like 1000 RPMs to be installed as a batch. And if any of those phak up your comp, good luck finding the perp.
SkewlD00d
~
Newsflash: M$FT supports Linux Kernel Dev to make it just as slow as theirs.
Why spend time & enegry open-sourcing a closed-source commercial products that are huge, unwieldly and poorly designed? "Yeah, lets make an exact clone of Internet Exploiter to run on Linux, even though Mozilla is faster, cheaper and better." When will these MicroSerfs cum Linux N00bies learn that Micro$oft Monolithic Design Philosophy (TM) is fundamentally flawed?!?!?!
About a year or so ago, "The Wave Scrambler" was hawked on some infomercial. Supposedly, by sticking the adhesive device over the speaker on your cell phone it bounces all waves away from your head. This is dumb, useless, etc. because it is not the source of any real radiation, the antenna is!!!
I know for a fact however, you can DEFINITE BE BURNED by radio frequencies
Also, I remember that you should get a cell-phone w/ a <1 Watt/Kg emission rating. Motorola Star-Tac phones seem to be the lowest overall of all popular brands. Analog emits much more power than digital phones do.
How about this other stupid product, the "Internal Antenna" it supposedly boost reception too. This thing cannot possibly improve reception due to the fact it does not even attach to the antenna!!! It is simply a clone of an inventory control sticker you see on stuff at the store that is supposed to be placed between the battery and the back of the phone. It looks all cute and intricate to make it appear to have been engineered to do something usefull. If you're trying to talk on a toliet in a bathroom on submarine 10000 leagues under the sea, FORGET IT, this PoS wont help!! Try quantum communication or ELF instead. =)
"Go forth and use marketing to confuse and mislead, be sure to get their money first!"
Umm... no. There should be no confusion about the difference between permutations of the following (CS degree/no degree | hacker/cracker | self-taught/schooled). Just because people gravitate toward where the money is doesn't mean all geeks are equal. CS degreed geeks are certified geeks! CS degreed geeks are assumed to have intimate knowledge of computers at every level of detail; down to where the Physicists and Material Scientists take over. That's the whole idea behind accredited engineering degree programs. That's why I switched majors from CS to CSE
That's Computer Science.
NOT:
Do you think a CompSci degree is easy? I'm busting my ass; not taking the quick&ez route of profit now w/o a degree. I don't plan on falling into a job, that's what this magical piece of paper called a "degree" is for! Look at a degree as an investment.
I know that people need something to pay the bills; so IT/Computer-related work seems to be the quick and easy solution. Pretty soon, geek jobs won't be cool and the mainstream (and money) will shift. I don't care, I'm in for the long-haul.
School is really my plan to avoid work. Maybe I should get into research! Then, I won't have to produce anything of marketable value!
I'm currently a soon-to-be-graduating fifth-year senior CS&E major at a UCD. I might be an exception, but prior to college I had extensive experience; however I do believe that many programmers in practice do not have CS degrees, and the ones that do are business oriented (only want to code). Coding to solve a math problem is cool, I've had a few classes where such is the case: in networks class we had to build a model and plot the result of a packet-based communication channel with noise, attenuation, inertia, buffering, and packet-loss; and in a statistics class, we had to run various Monte-Carlo methods on different distribution functions and plot the results. Fun stuff. Yeah, so, I'd like to not program *all* the time.
ProblemSolving = Good = Fun++;
Gimme a break, I'm taking modern physics and chemistry soon:)
(Maybe this is a bad place to do this, but I really need a job for the summer.)
Sounds cool. I'm here at UC Davis; that's about 20 minutes away by car for you non-locals;), and the only 802.11b we have is in the library. That's changing. The Mech/Aero Engr bldg is getting 802.11 and all the profs are getting laptops. It'd be even more cool if UCD/City of Davis were to install some 802.11 routers and repeaters throughout the city. That would be bad-ass. Since my SDSL is getting turned off due to the NorthPoint thing.
My dad lives in South San Jose, CA and can't get xDSL or cable-modem service! So, he just got signed up w/ Sprint's wireless thing. It uses a small, diamond-shaped antenna for a line-of-sight, two-way comm. Also, it's supposedly 2Mb or so both ways, under low network load; and 500k/s both ways most of the time. I wonder if this is the service that works at the high GHz range and performs poorer during rain? Oh well, too bad it's not offered here near Davis.
I'll miss my 9ms ping to Palo Alto, and 15ms ping to skool.:(
Verio seems to be giving up on my service, but NorthPoint says it will try to funding from other ISP's to keep it going
Why don't the ISPs buy them out and make a cooperative, similar to thing planned for Iridium satellites?
Look like fun, the kids and adults appeared to be having a good time. There was one test were a robot has a grab dolly with a PVC "bucket", take it to one side of the arena and the kids fill it with beach balls, then grab another empty dolly on the other side and try to balance on a rocking platform, all by remote control (R/C). Neat stuff.
As an aside, I think that the flying autonomous robots, such as MIT and others participate in, are really tough challenges. They have to use sensors, etc. to carry/move/push/navigate/hover under/above walls and stuff in 3D maze, where wind, etc. may tip or blow away either a helicopter or helium balloon implementation.
As 'root,' of course:
# echo spamnets | xargs -I/sbin/route add -net '{}' reject
Here's some spam and ad nets I reject at my router:
205.188.140.0/24
207.46.188.0/24
208.32.211.0/24
207.68.180.0/24
206.41.20.0/24
207.211.106.0/24
204.253.104.0/24
152.163.180.0/24
208.48.126.0/24
199.172.144.0/24
63.210.68.0/24
208.184.29.0/24
Just don't do this!
0.0.0.0/0:P
Follow this link to check out a class offered at UC Davis. Btw, my roommate is an undergrad research assistant to Prof. Chong. I've seen some of the lectures, pretty crazy stuff. My advise is to take lots of EE, CS, math and physics coursed, esp. Quantum.
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>> just run Windows!
Exactly. Why compromise a superior system to make it compatible w/ an inferior closed-source, buggy PoS. If we dont stop putting so much krap in the kernel, Linux will become a bigger kludge of inter-dependent modules than M$FT. Already, try to upgrade a RH Linux box, you need like 1000 RPMs to be installed as a batch. And if any of those phak up your comp, good luck finding the perp.
SkewlD00d
~
Newsflash: M$FT supports Linux Kernel Dev to make it just as slow as theirs.
Why spend time & enegry open-sourcing a closed-source commercial products that are huge, unwieldly and poorly designed? "Yeah, lets make an exact clone of Internet Exploiter to run on Linux, even though Mozilla is faster, cheaper and better." When will these MicroSerfs cum Linux N00bies learn that Micro$oft Monolithic Design Philosophy (TM) is fundamentally flawed?!?!?!
"YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!"
Btw, I'm not against free software.
It should be called "Kill US Trator"
About a year or so ago, "The Wave Scrambler" was hawked on some infomercial. Supposedly, by sticking the adhesive device over the speaker on your cell phone it bounces all waves away from your head. This is dumb, useless, etc. because it is not the source of any real radiation, the antenna is!!!
I know for a fact however, you can DEFINITE BE BURNED by radio frequencies
Also, I remember that you should get a cell-phone w/ a <1 Watt/Kg emission rating. Motorola Star-Tac phones seem to be the lowest overall of all popular brands. Analog emits much more power than digital phones do.
How about this other stupid product, the "Internal Antenna" it supposedly boost reception too. This thing cannot possibly improve reception due to the fact it does not even attach to the antenna!!! It is simply a clone of an inventory control sticker you see on stuff at the store that is supposed to be placed between the battery and the back of the phone. It looks all cute and intricate to make it appear to have been engineered to do something usefull. If you're trying to talk on a toliet in a bathroom on submarine 10000 leagues under the sea, FORGET IT, this PoS wont help!! Try quantum communication or ELF instead. =)
"Go forth and use marketing to confuse and mislead, be sure to get their money first!"
Umm... no. There should be no confusion about the difference between permutations of the following (CS degree/no degree | hacker/cracker | self-taught/schooled). Just because people gravitate toward where the money is doesn't mean all geeks are equal. CS degreed geeks are certified geeks! CS degreed geeks are assumed to have intimate knowledge of computers at every level of detail; down to where the Physicists and Material Scientists take over. That's the whole idea behind accredited engineering degree programs. That's why I switched majors from CS to CSE
That's Computer Science.
NOT:
- CounterStrike
- a 6-week seminar, were everyone gets an "A"
- a For-Dummies (TM) book
- something you can find in a cereal box
- a Napster(TM) download
Do you think a CompSci degree is easy? I'm busting my ass; not taking the quick&ez route of profit now w/o a degree. I don't plan on falling into a job, that's what this magical piece of paper called a "degree" is for! Look at a degree as an investment.I know that people need something to pay the bills; so IT/Computer-related work seems to be the quick and easy solution. Pretty soon, geek jobs won't be cool and the mainstream (and money) will shift. I don't care, I'm in for the long-haul.
School is really my plan to avoid work. Maybe I should get into research! Then, I won't have to produce anything of marketable value!
I'm currently a soon-to-be-graduating fifth-year senior CS&E major at a UCD. I might be an exception, but prior to college I had extensive experience; however I do believe that many programmers in practice do not have CS degrees, and the ones that do are business oriented (only want to code). Coding to solve a math problem is cool, I've had a few classes where such is the case: in networks class we had to build a model and plot the result of a packet-based communication channel with noise, attenuation, inertia, buffering, and packet-loss; and in a statistics class, we had to run various Monte-Carlo methods on different distribution functions and plot the results. Fun stuff. Yeah, so, I'd like to not program *all* the time.
ProblemSolving = Good = Fun++;
Gimme a break, I'm taking modern physics and chemistry soon :)
(Maybe this is a bad place to do this, but I really need a job for the summer.)
Sounds cool. I'm here at UC Davis; that's about 20 minutes away by car for you non-locals ;), and the only 802.11b we have is in the library. That's changing. The Mech/Aero Engr bldg is getting 802.11 and all the profs are getting laptops. It'd be even more cool if UCD/City of Davis were to install some 802.11 routers and repeaters throughout the city. That would be bad-ass. Since my SDSL is getting turned off due to the NorthPoint thing.
My dad lives in South San Jose, CA and can't get xDSL or cable-modem service! So, he just got signed up w/ Sprint's wireless thing. It uses a small, diamond-shaped antenna for a line-of-sight, two-way comm. Also, it's supposedly 2Mb or so both ways, under low network load; and 500k/s both ways most of the time. I wonder if this is the service that works at the high GHz range and performs poorer during rain? Oh well, too bad it's not offered here near Davis.
Time to look at dslreports.com to find another ISP...
I'll miss my 9ms ping to Palo Alto, and 15ms ping to skool. :(
Verio seems to be giving up on my service, but NorthPoint says it will try to funding from other ISP's to keep it going
Why don't the ISPs buy them out and make a cooperative, similar to thing planned for Iridium satellites?
Here's my 2 cents. 1, 2.
Look like fun, the kids and adults appeared to be having a good time. There was one test were a robot has a grab dolly with a PVC "bucket", take it to one side of the arena and the kids fill it with beach balls, then grab another empty dolly on the other side and try to balance on a rocking platform, all by remote control (R/C). Neat stuff.
As an aside, I think that the flying autonomous robots, such as MIT and others participate in, are really tough challenges. They have to use sensors, etc. to carry/move/push/navigate/hover under/above walls and stuff in 3D maze, where wind, etc. may tip or blow away either a helicopter or helium balloon implementation.
As 'root,' of course: # echo spamnets | xargs -I /sbin/route add -net '{}' reject
Here's some spam and ad nets I reject at my router:
205.188.140.0/24
207.46.188.0/24
208.32.211.0/24
207.68.180.0/24
206.41.20.0/24
207.211.106.0/24
204.253.104.0/24
152.163.180.0/24
208.48.126.0/24
199.172.144.0/24
63.210.68.0/24
208.184.29.0/24
Just don't do this!
0.0.0.0/0 :P
Follow this link to check out a class offered at UC Davis. Btw, my roommate is an undergrad research assistant to Prof. Chong. I've seen some of the lectures, pretty crazy stuff. My advise is to take lots of EE, CS, math and physics coursed, esp. Quantum.
That's my 2x10-2 [USD]