Kid, not everyone goes to a U of I, MIT, or even your Penn State. Schools like the one I go to betray even the most gifted of their students, and have a much bigger impact on the populace than the top schools in a state. Southern X University, University of Western X, etc have exceptionally weak curriculum, but are all that some of us can afford. Personally, I had to jump ship and go to Sweden to see my first block of code. The semester's only half-over, but I've already written more code and learned more about programming than I have in any given semester before at the University of Southern Indiana. Now that I've started a new batch of classes in the fourth quarter, I can see that, when this semester's done, I'll have done more coding here than I have in my entire career at USI.
When I look back at what I escaped, it's apparent that there's more than overcrowding and cheating to blame. Most American universities don't push a quarter of as hard as they should, and a huge portion of the blame must lay on their shoulders. You can't blame everything on students that haven't ever been challenged/tested/put in a position where they can really learn.
Those universities used to be able to turn out "impressive graduates" from people that hadn't ever SEEN a computer before they went to the university. It's time they stopped coddling the students and started teaching again.
Surely looks like it already IS running Linux! The screenshot's menu bar looks almost exactly like Qtopia/Opie's qt-embedded based framebuffer interface. This thing's gonna kick ass if it gets the same kind of community around it as the Zaurus.
If they're this desperate for workers, is there desperation reflected in wage scales, benefits, etc?
What's a guy make with a freshly-minted bachellaureate in computer science make, working for the military? Where do most of them end up, both in geographical and task-related terms? How much control over where they put you does a new officer have?
I'm a bit confused. The last book I read didn't require memory cards, but to distinguish between that and the internal flash memory I used seems pedantic to say the best. The battery is proprietary, and can cost up to $100.
Solar rechargers are available, but they really don't seem worth the hassle. (Sure would be cool to see THAT under the tree, though)
I'll tell ya one thing, though. It sure is nice to have it glow in the dark.
You are going to need a catheter in your urethra and a rectal probe as well!
Why should he spend that much?
The engineer's dillema rears its ugly head here as much as it does everywhere else in life.
One of
these is every bit as efficient as a catheter bag, and less than 1/24th the cost of a colostomy (and far less permanent). The only (arguable) trade-off is that it's going to be slightly less pretty than a catheter bag, but that depends on the bag being well sealed.
You learn these things, when there's MST3K marathons running.
Folk with fireplaces in their dens might also consider getting a couple of kabob-skewers for saugages, marshamallows, etc. Using those and warm beer, you cut out the need for both a microwave and a dorm fridge.
Working in a group with anyone that's focused on getting their work done normally helps me. It doesn't have to be a pretty girl or a person that's working on the same homework. Being around anyone working hard, and possibly actively reminding you to work if you get too far out of line, is more helpful than anything short of a deadline 2 hours in the future.
Find someone else with the same inability to focus, and set up a relationship where you hold each other accountable for getting your work done on a reasonable schedule, and it'll make all the difference in the world.
ADD/ADHD might be horribly overdiagnosed, but it's overdiagnosed like that because almost everyone has these problems to some extent. It isn't that hard to find someone to do this with.
Can't say I have a room free, as I just left the place, but you might find Russia to your liking.
Stick to Moscow, St. Petersburg, or Niezhnevartosk (Siberia, oil town). Those are the richest cities, per capita. MP3 cds can be bought for 3-4 dollars a pop. Broadband over a shared satellite is metered, but the ISP keeps a local cache of divx films, mp3s, ebooks, etc that probably weighs some 200gb available for free (local traffic doesn't get metered). It also runs a bnetd server, half-life game finder, etc.
Damn nice set up.
Only bad thing is that food, clothing, etc are relatively expensive there (US-like prices, or just under.)
Check Thailand out, if you can't afford to spend US prices without working (damned visas and such)
"There is an app for th Z that gives you a login screen, I have not tested it, so I do not know if it provides user-id with different privledges than root."
There are a number of things about KDE and GNOME that are different enough to spend some time on.
That said, there's absolutely nothing that pisses me off about a Linux book as much as a chunk of it being dedicated to WMs and Desktops.
I have a stack of books from the RH5-RH6 era, and the better ones (mostly focused on shells, entry-level developing, etc) are still incredibly useful now. However, the one or two books released more recently with big KDE 2.0 sections and such are so completely out-of-date and useless that they got banished to the attic.
If the author cares about re-readability and usefulness, he/she has no business filling the book with WM nonsense.
While the ISFDB might, at the moment, be dead again, all of their data is published under the Open Content License. Seems like iblist.org could be building from a much stronger base of information than they are, if they were to do some research before starting this kind of project.
Well, the following is part of an e-mail sent to the iblist.org submissions address:
"You'll be interested to note that the ISFDB data is published under the OpenContent License, as well.
For your site to rival the imdb, it will obviously need to grow considerably, but I find it difficult to believe that your organization can possibly grow to that point without some acquisition of previous data.
http://isfdb.org/whatsnew.html The ISFDB.org site is effectively down at the moment, because their bandwidth costs grew out of line. They are offering all of their data for download in a tarball, as well as the source to the site's cgi-scripts. You would doubtless be able to glean a great deal of information from their database, given the availability of pre-existing scripts to work from.
Beyond that, I would also suggest you contact the hosts, as they are looking for ways to get their (7-year old, well established) site up and running again. Contact them, see if they want to broaden the scope of their project, see what resources you can share, etc.
The rank of the porn over everything else isn't that surprising, but it's incredible that robot-fetish porn accounts for more than the linux traffic on op.net.
This AskSlashdot was pretty timely. I'm in the middle of looking at foreign exchange programs (through ISEP), and was wondering what it's like in Finland, Hong Kong, and the European continent.
The difference is this: I want to know what it's like from a student's perspective, rather than a professional's.
Can a person really cut it in English-language classes in Finland, HK, or wherever without a decent grasp of the host-country's language? How reasonable is it to start studying the language after getting there? Any recommended English-language CS programs?
I want a beowulf cluster of the box running this: "In one extreme case, a single Web site shared its numerical address with 970,411 other sites."
Seriously though, people that are affected by censorship like this, or worse, aren't going to be affected by it. The real offenders are going to be going through open NATs, proxies, etc to get around this. It's only the regular customers and the stupidest of criminals that are affected by censorship.
K.S.R. said, all we need is to be able to follow these people around on television everyday, before and after the flight, and we'll be set. People will love it, as long as the astronauts occasionally got to eat raw rat (or whatever animal they happen to have along for low-G/no-G experimentation)
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars
It's bad to post editorials with spelling and grammatical errors, but it's just about inexcusable to post parody songs that don't match the beat. As I read them, humming the old tunes, I wasn't able to find a single one that fit right.
People, is it really that hard to count syllables?
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseUnAssembledRigh t.jpg www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseOpen1.jp g
Those mirrors won't last long, but they're the most impressive of the pics in the article. Even if the site stays/.ed, you won't be missing much if you get a couple of pics. Only really novel thing explained in the text of the article was where he explained that the CPU was a down-volted xp1900, w/passive cooling.
Did you see that? I've had enlight cases with sides that pop right off. I've had beautiful huge Addtronics cases that have doors that open, on simple hinges, and with a motherboard panel that takes all of 30 seconds to remove.
This man's desk kicks the ass of everything I've seen.
Aside from the time it would take to cut a new vent (he can position a new motherboard to use the current hole in the desk for the vent), this is the easiest to upgrade, most accessible machine I've ever seen.
It would take less time to pop a new PCI card into it than it would to reboot it. All he has to do is pull out a drawer, pop the card in, and he's done.
Buddy, if you don't think Gamecube piracy happens, you're mad. You simply would not believe the amount and price of the games available in the Thai market, for instance.
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I do the opposite, setting all accounts to alias -i. It's nicer that way for me, cause whenever I'm dead sure about anything, I tack the -f onto the command without thinking anyway.
Just wanted to say that the default of GNU/rm w/o any aliases was, in fact, -f. (at least as compiled for debian)
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In debian, rm does default to -f. rm is aliased to "rm -i" by default in all but the superuser account, but just plain rm (which is used by the root account) does not default to interactive mode.
Why should/. pay for a partnership, when they can just append &partner=SOMEOTHERPARTNER to the end of the links and achieve the same effect for free?
Because they probably can't, assuming that SOMEOTHERPARTNER has to pay for it. NYTimes would might be displeased, ja? It is also quite likely that/. wouldn't have to pay very much to obtain Partner status, as NYTimes is likely pulling the majority of its revenue from advertisement. The increased referals from/. would certainly be most welcome.
I can't be the only one that uses google or a reposted text of the article in/. rather than mess with their login system.
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Kid, not everyone goes to a U of I, MIT, or even your Penn State. Schools like the one I go to betray even the most gifted of their students, and have a much bigger impact on the populace than the top schools in a state. Southern X University, University of Western X, etc have exceptionally weak curriculum, but are all that some of us can afford. Personally, I had to jump ship and go to Sweden to see my first block of code. The semester's only half-over, but I've already written more code and learned more about programming than I have in any given semester before at the University of Southern Indiana. Now that I've started a new batch of classes in the fourth quarter, I can see that, when this semester's done, I'll have done more coding here than I have in my entire career at USI.
When I look back at what I escaped, it's apparent that there's more than overcrowding and cheating to blame. Most American universities don't push a quarter of as hard as they should, and a huge portion of the blame must lay on their shoulders. You can't blame everything on students that haven't ever been challenged/tested/put in a position where they can really learn.
Those universities used to be able to turn out "impressive graduates" from people that hadn't ever SEEN a computer before they went to the university. It's time they stopped coddling the students and started teaching again.
Does it run Linux?
Surely looks like it already IS running Linux!
The screenshot's menu bar looks almost exactly like Qtopia/Opie's qt-embedded based framebuffer interface. This thing's gonna kick ass if it gets the same kind of community around it as the Zaurus.
If they're this desperate for workers, is there desperation reflected in wage scales, benefits, etc?
What's a guy make with a freshly-minted bachellaureate in computer science make, working for the military? Where do most of them end up, both in geographical and task-related terms? How much control over where they put you does a new officer have?
I'm a bit confused. The last book I read didn't require memory cards, but to distinguish between that and the internal flash memory I used seems pedantic to say the best. The battery is proprietary, and can cost up to $100.
Solar rechargers are available, but they really don't seem worth the hassle. (Sure would be cool to see THAT under the tree, though)
I'll tell ya one thing, though. It sure is nice to have it glow in the dark.
Oh, and check out the best ebook reader for the Zaurus
All 3 movies in one day uninterrupted?
You are going to need a catheter in your urethra and a rectal probe as well!
Why should he spend that much?
The engineer's dillema rears its ugly head here as much as it does everywhere else in life.
One of these is every bit as efficient as a catheter bag, and less than 1/24th the cost of a colostomy (and far less permanent). The only (arguable) trade-off is that it's going to be slightly less pretty than a catheter bag, but that depends on the bag being well sealed.
You learn these things, when there's MST3K marathons running.
Folk with fireplaces in their dens might also consider getting a couple of kabob-skewers for saugages, marshamallows, etc. Using those and warm beer, you cut out the need for both a microwave and a dorm fridge.
Happy marathoning!
Working in a group with anyone that's focused on getting their work done normally helps me. It doesn't have to be a pretty girl or a person that's working on the same homework. Being around anyone working hard, and possibly actively reminding you to work if you get too far out of line, is more helpful than anything short of a deadline 2 hours in the future.
Find someone else with the same inability to focus, and set up a relationship where you hold each other accountable for getting your work done on a reasonable schedule, and it'll make all the difference in the world.
ADD/ADHD might be horribly overdiagnosed, but it's overdiagnosed like that because almost everyone has these problems to some extent. It isn't that hard to find someone to do this with.
Can't say I have a room free, as I just left the place, but you might find Russia to your liking.
Stick to Moscow, St. Petersburg, or Niezhnevartosk (Siberia, oil town). Those are the richest cities, per capita. MP3 cds can be bought for 3-4 dollars a pop. Broadband over a shared satellite is metered, but the ISP keeps a local cache of divx films, mp3s, ebooks, etc that probably weighs some 200gb available for free (local traffic doesn't get metered). It also runs a bnetd server, half-life game finder, etc.
Damn nice set up.
Only bad thing is that food, clothing, etc are relatively expensive there (US-like prices, or just under.)
Check Thailand out, if you can't afford to spend US prices without working (damned visas and such)
"There is an app for th Z that gives you a login screen, I have not tested it, so I do not know if it provides user-id with different privledges than root."
OpenZaurus supports this out of the box.
There are a number of things about KDE and GNOME that are different enough to spend some time on.
That said, there's absolutely nothing that pisses me off about a Linux book as much as a chunk of it being dedicated to WMs and Desktops.
I have a stack of books from the RH5-RH6 era, and the better ones (mostly focused on shells, entry-level developing, etc) are still incredibly useful now. However, the one or two books released more recently with big KDE 2.0 sections and such are so completely out-of-date and useless that they got banished to the attic.
If the author cares about re-readability and usefulness, he/she has no business filling the book with WM nonsense.
Even if it doesn't run mplayer, there are video players from The Kompany for it, and an xmms port.
While the ISFDB might, at the moment, be dead again, all of their data is published under the Open Content License. Seems like iblist.org could be building from a much stronger base of information than they are, if they were to do some research before starting this kind of project.
Well, the following is part of an e-mail sent to the iblist.org submissions address:
"You'll be interested to note that the ISFDB data is published under the OpenContent License, as well.
For your site to rival the imdb, it will obviously need to grow considerably, but I find it difficult to believe that your organization can possibly grow to that point without some acquisition of previous data.
http://isfdb.org/whatsnew.html
The ISFDB.org site is effectively down at the moment, because their bandwidth costs grew out of line. They are offering all of their data for download in a tarball, as well as the source to the site's cgi-scripts. You would doubtless be able to glean a great deal of information from their database, given the availability of pre-existing scripts to work from.
Beyond that, I would also suggest you contact the hosts, as they are looking for ways to get their (7-year old, well established) site up and running again. Contact them, see if they want to broaden the scope of their project, see what resources you can share, etc.
Good luck,
Sean"
The rank of the porn over everything else isn't that surprising, but it's incredible that robot-fetish porn accounts for more than the linux traffic on op.net.
Amazing..
This AskSlashdot was pretty timely. I'm in the middle of looking at foreign exchange programs (through ISEP), and was wondering what it's like in Finland, Hong Kong, and the European continent.
The difference is this: I want to know what it's like from a student's perspective, rather than a professional's.
Can a person really cut it in English-language classes in Finland, HK, or wherever without a decent grasp of the host-country's language? How reasonable is it to start studying the language after getting there? Any recommended English-language CS programs?
The rest of us are still waiting to get our hands on a C700, you insenstive clod.
I want a beowulf cluster of the box running this:
"In one extreme case, a single Web site shared its numerical address with 970,411 other sites."
Seriously though, people that are affected by censorship like this, or worse, aren't going to be affected by it. The real offenders are going to be going through open NATs, proxies, etc to get around this. It's only the regular customers and the stupidest of criminals that are affected by censorship.
This reminds me:
All we need is reality television!
K.S.R. said, all we need is to be able to follow these people around on television everyday, before and after the flight, and we'll be set. People will love it, as long as the astronauts occasionally got to eat raw rat (or whatever animal they happen to have along for low-G/no-G experimentation)
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars
It's bad to post editorials with spelling and grammatical errors, but it's just about inexcusable to post parody songs that don't match the beat. As I read them, humming the old tunes, I wasn't able to find a single one that fit right.
People, is it really that hard to count syllables?
The makers of those lil portable USB hard drives that also play mp3s have a new product with an LCD that plays divx files.
s /mp3/5b44/
3 /020809/i ndex.html
It's called the Archos Multimedia Jukebox, and costs about $100 more than the mp3 players.
Thinkgeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronic
Tom's Review:
http://www17.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q
Sweet, yes?
Thank God for second chances :)
still rofl'ing
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseUnAssembledRigh t.jpgp g
/.ed, you won't be missing much if you get a couple of pics. Only really novel thing explained in the text of the article was where he explained that the CPU was a down-volted xp1900, w/passive cooling.
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseOpen1.j
Those mirrors won't last long, but they're the most impressive of the pics in the article. Even if the site stays
My God man. Bit of a problem upgrading?
Did you see that? I've had enlight cases with sides that pop right off. I've had beautiful huge Addtronics cases that have doors that open, on simple hinges, and with a motherboard panel that takes all of 30 seconds to remove.
This man's desk kicks the ass of everything I've seen.
Aside from the time it would take to cut a new vent (he can position a new motherboard to use the current hole in the desk for the vent), this is the easiest to upgrade, most accessible machine I've ever seen.
It would take less time to pop a new PCI card into it than it would to reboot it. All he has to do is pull out a drawer, pop the card in, and he's done.
This thing is beautiful.
Buddy, if you don't think Gamecube piracy happens, you're mad. You simply would not believe the amount and price of the games available in the Thai market, for instance.
I do the opposite, setting all accounts to alias -i. It's nicer that way for me, cause whenever I'm dead sure about anything, I tack the -f onto the command without thinking anyway.
Just wanted to say that the default of GNU/rm w/o any aliases was, in fact, -f. (at least as compiled for debian)
In debian, rm does default to -f. rm is aliased to "rm -i" by default in all but the superuser account, but just plain rm (which is used by the root account) does not default to interactive mode.
Why should /. pay for a partnership, when they can just append &partner=SOMEOTHERPARTNER to the end of the links and achieve the same effect for free?
/. wouldn't have to pay very much to obtain Partner status, as NYTimes is likely pulling the majority of its revenue from advertisement. The increased referals from /. would certainly be most welcome.
/. rather than mess with their login system.
Because they probably can't, assuming that SOMEOTHERPARTNER has to pay for it. NYTimes would might be displeased, ja? It is also quite likely that
I can't be the only one that uses google or a reposted text of the article in