Try Canada.. I can't get *any* cool gadgets here. I mean we're still *years* behind the States in respects to gadgets. The UK kicks all of our ass in wireless technology/cool stuff to have. And I'm not even going to talk about Japan, that stuff makes me want to cry...
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Compaq is also in bed with and the University of Western Ontario building a 48 processor beowulf (alpha+Linux) . Compaq seems to be all hot and bothered about supercomputing as of late.
Now the *exciting news* is that they are teaming together with upto three other university's and build a "Beowulf of Beowulf's" (think 4 of these babys Connected together through *very* fast network connections, so you can submit your job and "it" would decide if there's too much going on at Western it can queue part of your job up at another university. Thus creating a beowulf of beowulf's
Baldric the student run beowulf is also (read hopefully) going to be a part of this with our donation of 50 some nodes (just off the truck) from Sprint Canada. (ok that was a blatent plug;)
"However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself... KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed."
That's quite a blow to GTK and really sounds like a biased opinion to me. Or is there truth behind this blatent "slap in face" type statement? If it's faster and better I'll run it, but I need some conrete proof inorder to make an educated decision on the matter.
True at first glance things seem this way but according to consumer report: (Taken from a random Anti-SUV page.)
According to Consumer Reports (CR): "SUVs tend to be tall and massive. Judging by looks alone, they should be safer than most other types of vehicle -- but looks can deceive. The safety record of SUVs has been spotty at best." It is SUV's high center of gravity, according to CR, that make them less stable as a class than cars. In particular, says CR, drivers of small SUVs are involved in more fatal rollover accidents than any other type of vehicle. (November, 1997, pg. 60)
I'm sure we could quote stats all day long back and fourth. It's all about the tradeoff's I do agree. I also do agree that SUV's don't make sence for everyone but a lot do have good reason's (eg towing capacity etc...)
I'm getting sick of seeing SUV's being driving around the city by "soccer mom's". I mean do you "really" need all that size/power to get to work or take the kids to the game? I think it's just a status thing really, kindof like "Hey everyone I've got a million dollars to blow on gas". Big deal, you're killing the environment while you're at it.. I'd wage that %95 of SUV's on the road today havn't even driven on a dirt road let alone on a trail or something like that. When will people wake up?
If the motion goes through and the judge is removed from the case, could it get thrown out? Or is this just another delay untill they get another judge? Anyone with knoledge of the law care to comment..
My name is Brad. My nick is a.out. (Just for you information) Signing a post with "/Brad" is a quick way of saying "end post: Brad".:-)
Walking up to someone and telling them "Man you are a ugly" and thinking it are two seperate things. One of which is socially acceptable, or polite, the other of which is not. On the same hand one of the corrections you made on my post was polite, where you pointed out that you did not understand my sentence, while the obvious typo was not. That was what I considered a flame or a troll. One could mistake your good intentions for a public mockery.
I hope I have cleared up my thoughts for you. I will be more carefull in the future with my grammar and spelling in public forums.
Fluxrad: Exccellent! Your reply is an excellent example of how one should respond to trolls and flames. Even with an attack that personal I was impressed how you handles yourself. I would have been too quick to draw for the flame gun, especially these days on/.
would reactions be different if it was Microsoft who hired IGI against another company?
-If it was Microsoft who did the hiring we'd all be crying bloody murder. -If Microsoft had nothing to do with it it woudn't show up on slashdot. Can you picture the headline: Nortel hires IGI against Acatel? Neither could I, mostly because we wouldn't care. Why? Because a lot of us are all hellbent on beating MSFT into the ground and thus will focus in on all the bad points.
Compiling from src on a Sparc Sun Solaris 2.6 box.. that's what.. freg. But what a feeling when it works with icewm (I hope).. Finally to do away with CDE.. muhahah!
I'm super excited about Evolution cause honestly. I'm getting sick of netscape/mutt/pine etc... .
I had a hard time following that postscript file on the side and since I've studied P and NP stuff I just dug out my notes and hence will spew forth a little background:
P is the set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time. If one problem is in P then the whole class is in P. Nondeterminism: after we do one step we then can decide the next. (bad for parallel algorithms for MPI, MPICH etc.) NP: The set of all problems that can be solved by a nondeterministic algorithm in polynomial time. Well we know that it's infact trivial to prove that P (problems that can be solved in polynomial time) is contained in NP. P = NP ? Well how can we prove this.. NP-Hard: A problem X is NP-hard if every problem in NP is polynomially reducible to X. Then by definition, if any NP-hard problem is ever proved to belong to P, then P == NP!
Don't forget all the guys working very hard at LinuxCE who have Linux booting on a number of diffrent platforms. There's even microwindows and nanogui. It *is* possible to have your MIPS and SH3 devices running Linux but... they need more help right now porting over userland apps. If you have a device and are looking to contribute to an Open Source project this is the one...
Plus I've gotta plug my little thing for connecting Linux and CE..
"We Want Pictures.. We want Pictures.. We want Pictures"
Seriously though: it would be nice to actually see this setup. Don't forget to have CowboyNeal give us an oh so sexy pose near the almost as sexy VA SQL server...:)
But the US also wants to take your Money and they just passed an "IP Charges" Bill. Just one step closer to the US trying to regulate the Internet. When will the realise that this will not work?.. Although a DoS would be very costly ($$) for that l33t h4x0r..;-)
(begin shameless plug) There is also a tool to create a connection between a Linux box and a Windows CE device. It's called SyncLICE. It just sets up a ppp connection between your box and the CE device, creates ipchain rules etc... Check it out Here! (/shameless plug)
I know for a fact, from talking to a Microsoft employee that there *are* people at Microsoft who are pro open-source. Remember when ESR gave a talk at Microsoft a while back in the summer?
Well it seems as though they might be taking some of the good points of his talk (like they would do with ALL of the people that they bring in: and they have a very *large* impressive list of speakers) and applying it possibly to CE.. Why you may ask?? here is my theory:
CE is loosing badly in the PCD market. Palm has taken out the whip and is giving them a good beating. CE is a very modular Operating System that you *can* hack on to some extent. For example let's say that you don't like the graphics subsystem (as in the case of some OEMs) you can rip it out program you own and plug it back in using the hooks that exist in the other modules. Of course the next logical step here is to open some of the source up.
But then again it might not be a PR thing. CE 3.0 is just around the corner. (could this be ths oss release??) With CE 3.0 they are promising some sort of Real Time capablility which would be geared towards the embeded environment. Now wouldn't it make a bit more sence to have an open environment for this kind of thing?
Getting back to MS and open source. Most MS employees took ESR's talk very well but there were two points that some could not get over 1) Security in an open environment is harder: (we all know the downfalls of security though obscurity: sooner or later someone figures it out) 2) Smart people don't work for free making free projects: (actually I heard that someone put up their hand and said "hey: I will never work for free" In which I reply with two things, first think speech not beer, second one if my boxes has been up for 108 days cause it was programmed by someone stupid:)
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Try Canada.. I can't get *any* cool gadgets here. I mean we're still *years* behind the States in respects to gadgets. The UK kicks all of our ass in wireless technology/cool stuff to have. And I'm not even going to talk about Japan, that stuff makes me want to cry...
</rant>
Compaq is also in bed with and the University of Western Ontario building a 48 processor beowulf (alpha+Linux) . Compaq seems to be all hot and bothered about supercomputing as of late.
;)
Now the *exciting news* is that they are teaming together with upto three other university's and build a "Beowulf of Beowulf's" (think 4 of these babys Connected together through *very* fast network connections, so you can submit your job and "it" would decide if there's too much going on at Western it can queue part of your job up at another university. Thus creating a beowulf of beowulf's
Baldric the student run beowulf is also (read hopefully) going to be a part of this with our donation of 50 some nodes (just off the truck) from Sprint Canada. (ok that was a blatent plug
"However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself... KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed."
That's quite a blow to GTK and really sounds like a biased opinion to me. Or is there truth behind this blatent "slap in face" type statement? If it's faster and better I'll run it, but I need some conrete proof inorder to make an educated decision on the matter.
You said it better than I could ;)
:)
/Brad
True at first glance things seem this way but according to consumer report: (Taken from a random Anti-SUV page.)
According to Consumer Reports (CR): "SUVs tend to be tall and massive. Judging by looks alone, they should be
safer than most other types of vehicle -- but looks can deceive. The safety record of SUVs has been spotty at best." It is SUV's high center of gravity, according to CR, that make them less stable as a class than cars. In particular, says CR, drivers of small SUVs are involved in more fatal rollover accidents than any other type of vehicle. (November, 1997, pg. 60)
I'm sure we could quote stats all day long back and fourth. It's all about the tradeoff's I do agree. I also do agree that SUV's don't make sence for everyone but a lot do have good reason's (eg towing capacity etc...)
I'm getting sick of seeing SUV's being driving around the city by "soccer mom's". I mean do you "really" need all that size/power to get to work or take the kids to the game? I think it's just a status thing really, kindof like "Hey everyone I've got a million dollars to blow on gas". Big deal, you're killing the environment while you're at it.. I'd wage that %95 of SUV's on the road today havn't even driven on a dirt road let alone on a trail or something like that. When will people wake up?
If the motion goes through and the judge is removed from the case, could it get thrown out? Or is this just another delay untill they get another judge? Anyone with knoledge of the law care to comment..
My name is Brad. My nick is a.out. (Just for you information) Signing a post with "/Brad" is a quick way of saying "end post: Brad". :-)
Walking up to someone and telling them "Man you are a ugly" and thinking it are two seperate things. One of which is socially acceptable, or polite, the other of which is not. On the same hand one of the corrections you made on my post was polite, where you pointed out that you did not understand my sentence, while the obvious typo was not. That was what I considered a flame or a troll. One could mistake your good intentions for a public mockery.
I hope I have cleared up my thoughts for you. I will be more carefull in the future with my grammar and spelling in public forums.
booya! :)
/.
Fluxrad: Exccellent! Your reply is an excellent example of how one should respond to trolls and flames. Even with an attack that personal I was impressed how you handles yourself. I would have been too quick to draw for the flame gun, especially these days on
/Brad
would reactions be different if it was Microsoft who hired IGI against another company?
-If it was Microsoft who did the hiring we'd all be crying bloody murder.
-If Microsoft had nothing to do with it it woudn't show up on slashdot. Can you picture the headline: Nortel hires IGI against Acatel? Neither could I, mostly because we wouldn't care. Why? Because a lot of us are all hellbent on beating MSFT into the ground and thus will focus in on all the bad points.
Grab them here xyu.dhs.org
Compiling from src on a Sparc Sun Solaris 2.6 box.. that's what .. freg. But what a feeling when it works with icewm (I hope) .. Finally to do away with CDE .. muhahah!
.. .
I'm super excited about Evolution cause honestly. I'm getting sick of netscape/mutt/pine etc.
What you have to do it copy the above ccs code into a file and compile it.
Aw Great.... Now I'm going to get sued by the MPAA...
Microsoft was angry when someone on slashdot said that you can unzip an auto-extracting file with winzip. What next?
I had a hard time following that postscript file on the side and since I've studied P and NP stuff I just dug out my notes and hence will spew forth a little background:
..
P is the set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time.
If one problem is in P then the whole class is in P.
Nondeterminism: after we do one step we then can decide the next. (bad for parallel algorithms for MPI, MPICH etc.)
NP: The set of all problems that can be solved by a nondeterministic algorithm in polynomial time.
Well we know that it's infact trivial to prove that P (problems that can be solved in polynomial time) is contained in NP.
P = NP ?
Well how can we prove this
NP-Hard: A problem X is NP-hard if every problem in NP is polynomially reducible to X.
Then by definition, if any NP-hard problem is ever proved to belong to P, then P == NP!
Don't forget all the guys working very hard at LinuxCE who have Linux booting on a number of diffrent platforms. There's even microwindows and nanogui. It *is* possible to have your MIPS and SH3 devices running Linux but... they need more help right now porting over userland apps. If you have a device and are looking to contribute to an Open Source project this is the one...
Plus I've gotta plug my little thing for connecting Linux and CE..
http://xyu.dhs.org/brad/mac/
Enjoy... (I hope I last for a little while at least..)
Everybody Chant ..
:)
"We Want Pictures.. We want Pictures.. We want Pictures"
Seriously though: it would be nice to actually see this setup. Don't forget to have CowboyNeal give us an oh so sexy pose near the almost as sexy VA SQL server...
But the US also wants to take your Money and they just passed an "IP Charges" Bill. .. Although a DoS would be very costly ($$) for that l33t h4x0r.. ;-)
Just one step closer to the US trying to regulate the Internet. When will the realise that this will not work?
I know I'm not the only one who would like to see pictures of this whole setup :)
And while you're at it get CowboyNeal to give us a sexy pose *on* the servers (grin)
Ya ... it's called encapsulating an FTP packet inside the TCP packet.. duh! I've been doing that for years !! hehe..
(begin shameless plug)
There is also a tool to create a connection between a Linux box and a Windows CE device. It's called SyncLICE.
It just sets up a ppp connection between your box and the CE device, creates ipchain rules etc... Check it out Here!
(/shameless plug)
You'd feel pretty silly if I told you that I was dyslexic. Thanks.
I know for a fact, from talking to a Microsoft employee that there *are* people at Microsoft who are pro open-source. Remember when ESR gave a talk at Microsoft a while back in the summer?
:)
Well it seems as though they might be taking some of the good points of his talk (like they would do with ALL of the people that they bring in: and they have a very *large* impressive list of speakers) and applying it possibly to CE.. Why you may ask?? here is my theory:
CE is loosing badly in the PCD market. Palm has taken out the whip and is giving them a good beating. CE is a very modular Operating System that you *can* hack on to some extent. For example let's say that you don't like the graphics subsystem (as in the case of some OEMs) you can rip it out program you own and plug it back in using the hooks that exist in the other modules. Of course the next logical step here is to open some of the source up.
But then again it might not be a PR thing. CE 3.0 is just around the corner. (could this be ths oss release??) With CE 3.0 they are promising some sort of Real Time capablility which would be geared towards the embeded environment. Now wouldn't it make a bit more sence to have an open environment for this kind of thing?
Getting back to MS and open source. Most MS employees took ESR's talk very well but there were two points that some could not get over
1) Security in an open environment is harder: (we all know the downfalls of security though obscurity: sooner or later someone figures it out)
2) Smart people don't work for free making free projects: (actually I heard that someone put up their hand and said "hey: I will never work for free" In which I reply with two things, first think speech not beer, second one if my boxes has been up for 108 days cause it was programmed by someone stupid
Even Better is the Heart and Crown in the Byward market :) ..
... even better beer ..
Great music.. sing along
(Hope this year it's less than $150 to attend)
Well one thing I do know is that our beowulf cluster runs Debian (Power PC arch).. it has stood up very well. :)
.. ha! It's a good port!
And they said that they just changed a couple compile flags