Radio Control airplanes are a lot of fun. Lots of cool gear (you should see some of the computerized radios available), gets you a tan (but with minimal exertion), and can fulfill your "need for speed".
My wife and I also took up kite flying together. Before you envision some sedate, lazy, K-Mart delta kite flying (though that can be fun as well), we're flying stunt kites, such as these or these. Some of these are made of fairly exotic materials for extremely light weights, while others pull like trucks. It's even possible to go for a ride with them - three-wheel trikes and hard-pulling kites make for some fast trips across beaches and dry lakebeds.
Perhaps someone could point me to an answer on this very strang problem I've got with rand().
I'm taking an Intro to C++ course, and the assignment is to roll two dice, add the results, and keep track of the frequency of each result from 2-12. Easy right?
I've got a function called roll() that returns (rand()%6)+1, and then in main I have a loop that does "results[roll()+roll()]++" 36000 times.
Pretty straight forward program, and works as expected compiling under Metrowerks on Windows and gcc on a Linux box, but under cygnus (egcs 2.91.57) all of the results are odd. In other words, only 3,5,7,9,11 have any results, the evens are completely skipped.
Added in some cout's to see what was happening, and the roll()'s were alternating, without fail, between even and odd results - all numbers 1-6 were present, but they marched lockstep even-odd.
Presuming there was a problem in cygnus' implementation somewhere, the instructor proceeded to try it on a BSD box (with a later gcc - 2.95, I believe) with exactly the same result.
Searching on google proved fruitless (I was crushed!) - anyone know where I could get more info on this?
An interesting note: when I submitted the article, my last sentence was "Please, no Microsoft 'technologies'.". While I'm quite pleased that my article got accepted, I find it somewhat ironic that this part was censored by people who speak out against censorship.
Unless perhaps the idea was to make the question more generally useful to the/. audience. It's called editorial license, and in this particular case it made sense.
As one who does web design/publishing/programming in a LAMP (great term!) environment as part of my myriad other duties in a school district, it's very interesting to me to see what else is available and used in "the real world". I'm glad the question was generalized a bit.
On a less sarcastic note, remote logging is a very good idea. Security Focus has a new mailing list about Log Analysis that would probably be of some interest to you, as there's been quite a lot of discussion already about remote logging.
You're right about one thing - it does save lots of trees:)
Clearly, you haven't run Tribes 2 under Linux yet - rock solid, looks *great*, and really addicting. I've not tried it under Windows, but the graphics and gameplay under Linux are nothing short of outstanding.
This is really too bad - I don't mind paying cash for games - in fact, it made up the largest portion of my personal software expenses during the last 12 months - and I liked the idea of voting with my pocketbook by purchasing T2 for Linux. Guess it's just an example of a good idea coming out a little too early - sad.
Once he pulls the plug, the theft
stops. What he does after that is a poorly considered act of vengence.
Well put. What if, instead, he merely unplugs all of his own equipment from his own sockets, and then plugs the big, mean, nasty transformer into another one of his own outlets and sends the spike through his own wiring. Without unplugging my extension cord. That seems like a closer parallel to the case we're discussing anyway.
I was too lazy to call the electric company to set up the electric service at my house, so I decided to run an extension cord into the neighbor's house and that seemed to work alright.
Well, the other day the jerk hooks my extension cord up to some big, mean, nasty transformer and sent 100,000 volts into all of my electronic equipment. He didn't contact me or anything!
What do you think, fellow/.'ers, will I win the lawsuit?
You create an image tag pointing to a resource on someone else's server.
The administrator of the other server chooses to save another file with the same name on his server.
You feel that you've been violated?
I know this is going to come off harsh, but you're a moron! When you point to another resource on the net, you're always putting yourself at risk of what may change on that site. When you compound that error by allowing that resource to appear that it's actually part of your site, it's your own damn fault when you end up with egg on your face.
Moral of the story? Download the image and put it on your own server - don't expect your laziness to be an excuse.
We've been very happy with CGPro from Stalker. It supports all of your wishlist, and is a breeze to install, manage, and upgrade.
It's not free, but the price is reasonable for your size operation - $4999 for up to 30,000 accounts, and includes unlimited mailing lists. That includes two years of upgrades, unlimited e-mail support, and a _very_ active mailing list that has a lot of very knowledgable users as well as frequent input from Stalker employees.
Sorry for sounding like a commercial, but we switched from Netscape Messaging Server a year ago and I can't believe how much better life is now:).
Anyway, Stalker is here, and the direct link for Communigate Pro is here. Worth checking out!
Having just completed my degree program at UOP (BSB/IS), I feel like I'm in a pretty good place to reply.
Did I get a good education out of the process? Absolutely. Were there students passed that shouldn't have been? Probably. But what University doesn't do that to some extent?
UOP certainly targets the "non-traditional" student - and does so much better than traditional Universities. I can't recall anything I had to do that required me to make special arrangements around work to accomplish.
The reality is that you get out of education what you put into it - some of my fellow students were merely after a piece of paper - others were frightfully serious about the process.
I would make a strong suggestion to the original questioner - be sure whatever University you choose is accredited by one of the regional accrediting organizations (WASC, NCA, etc.). Many universities may be available online, but without some sort of valid accreditation, some organizations/employers may not honor your degree.
Slashdot Mirror
FORTRAN
COBOL
Perl
Visual Basic
Logo
Sanskrit
My wife and I also took up kite flying together. Before you envision some sedate, lazy, K-Mart delta kite flying (though that can be fun as well), we're flying stunt kites, such as these or these. Some of these are made of fairly exotic materials for extremely light weights, while others pull like trucks. It's even possible to go for a ride with them - three-wheel trikes and hard-pulling kites make for some fast trips across beaches and dry lakebeds.
Hope this piques your interest!
Actually, this isn't the problem - if that were actually the case, I would have received just evens, not odds :)
I'm taking an Intro to C++ course, and the assignment is to roll two dice, add the results, and keep track of the frequency of each result from 2-12. Easy right?
I've got a function called roll() that returns (rand()%6)+1, and then in main I have a loop that does "results[roll()+roll()]++" 36000 times.
Pretty straight forward program, and works as expected compiling under Metrowerks on Windows and gcc on a Linux box, but under cygnus (egcs 2.91.57) all of the results are odd. In other words, only 3,5,7,9,11 have any results, the evens are completely skipped.
Added in some cout's to see what was happening, and the roll()'s were alternating, without fail, between even and odd results - all numbers 1-6 were present, but they marched lockstep even-odd.
Presuming there was a problem in cygnus' implementation somewhere, the instructor proceeded to try it on a BSD box (with a later gcc - 2.95, I believe) with exactly the same result.
Searching on google proved fruitless (I was crushed!) - anyone know where I could get more info on this?
Bill Simon
Grey Davis - thanks for the electric bill, guy! They've at least started sending packets of Vaseline(tm) with the bills now...
None of the above have spammed yet, to my knowledge...
{Yes, that was probably true before as well...}
Goes off mumbling...
That should have been:
</a> and preview are your friends.
*Sigh*
Note to Erris:
and Preview are your friends...
Hey! That's not nice...
Too bad you already have max mod points, because _that_ was the funniest thing I've read on here in weeks!
[All links pulled from google's first page for each letter - sick, ain't it?]
Son, you have _far_ too much time on your hands...
The scary thing is, I agree with you!
Unless perhaps the idea was to make the question more generally useful to the /. audience. It's called editorial license, and in this particular case it made sense.
As one who does web design/publishing/programming in a LAMP (great term!) environment as part of my myriad other duties in a school district, it's very interesting to me to see what else is available and used in "the real world". I'm glad the question was generalized a bit.
My tuppence...
On a less sarcastic note, remote logging is a very good idea. Security Focus has a new mailing list about Log Analysis that would probably be of some interest to you, as there's been quite a lot of discussion already about remote logging.
You're right about one thing - it does save lots of trees
We have 140 Linux based X-Terminals up and running, and this is year 3 of the project.
It is possible :) Props to LTSP for making it almost easy :).
This is really too bad - I don't mind paying cash for games - in fact, it made up the largest portion of my personal software expenses during the last 12 months - and I liked the idea of voting with my pocketbook by purchasing T2 for Linux. Guess it's just an example of a good idea coming out a little too early - sad.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html
It taught me well enough :)
Well put. What if, instead, he merely unplugs all of his own equipment from his own sockets, and then plugs the big, mean, nasty transformer into another one of his own outlets and sends the spike through his own wiring. Without unplugging my extension cord. That seems like a closer parallel to the case we're discussing anyway.
Ain't this fun? ;)
Well, the other day the jerk hooks my extension cord up to some big, mean, nasty transformer and sent 100,000 volts into all of my electronic equipment. He didn't contact me or anything!
What do you think, fellow /.'ers, will I win the lawsuit?
- You create an image tag pointing to a resource on someone else's server.
- The administrator of the other server chooses to save another file with the same name on his server.
- You feel that you've been violated?
I know this is going to come off harsh, but you're a moron! When you point to another resource on the net, you're always putting yourself at risk of what may change on that site. When you compound that error by allowing that resource to appear that it's actually part of your site, it's your own damn fault when you end up with egg on your face.Moral of the story? Download the image and put it on your own server - don't expect your laziness to be an excuse.
Jeesh.
It's not free, but the price is reasonable for your size operation - $4999 for up to 30,000 accounts, and includes unlimited mailing lists. That includes two years of upgrades, unlimited e-mail support, and a _very_ active mailing list that has a lot of very knowledgable users as well as frequent input from Stalker employees.
Sorry for sounding like a commercial, but we switched from Netscape Messaging Server a year ago and I can't believe how much better life is now :).
Anyway, Stalker is here, and the direct link for Communigate Pro is here. Worth checking out!
Did I get a good education out of the process? Absolutely. Were there students passed that shouldn't have been? Probably. But what University doesn't do that to some extent?
UOP certainly targets the "non-traditional" student - and does so much better than traditional Universities. I can't recall anything I had to do that required me to make special arrangements around work to accomplish.
The reality is that you get out of education what you put into it - some of my fellow students were merely after a piece of paper - others were frightfully serious about the process.
I would make a strong suggestion to the original questioner - be sure whatever University you choose is accredited by one of the regional accrediting organizations (WASC, NCA, etc.). Many universities may be available online, but without some sort of valid accreditation, some organizations/employers may not honor your degree.
Hope this helps!