It's just you. Seriously thought, while the article states that they would have saved several hundred thousand dollars by going to NT, they were able to save even MORE money by going with Linux. Also, it appears (and I may be reading too much between the lines here) that they also felt that the programmign aspect of the move would be easier if porting to a *nix-like operating system, rather than to Windows. Just some thoughts from a guy ripping out all the NT server machines at his work and replacing them and the RS6000's with linux boxen.
AKAIK Intel voids the warranty on any chip that has been overclocked. This looks like AMD/Kryotech are demoing a product that they will be selling and providing support on...could be wrong. Of course, they coudl also be showing that AMD is catching up with Intel. 2 months is a HELL of a lot closer than the 6 mo behind they've been historically.
I do apologize for the formatting, if any comes out all fouled up. That's what happens when cutting and pasing email messages:) The following is an email that I just sent off the CNN, hopefully it may delight or piss of some of y'all. But I'm sure that the publicity/. gets in it will help:) Oh, and I also apologize for length. One of the reasons I DON'T really post are that I'm not well known for brevity.
Before I begin, I would like to present a URL that I would like to have someone at CNN take a look at, as I believe it points out, through the comments of hundreds, what Mr's Harris and Klebold's lives MAY have been like. These comments SURELY show how the lives of many of our brightest and creative students are while they endure the misery of high school and college. http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/143824 9.shtml I implore you to read through the comments on this message board, and while some may be no more than flames and unintelligent gibberish, many of them are well thought out pieces of literary art.
The following text is an email which I sent to a reporter at MSNBC. I am also sending it to you, sans his name, as I believe that it may bring some insight into this horrible tragedy. I also hope that it will spur additional research so that the troubles afflicting many of the brightest students in our schools today.
Before The aforementioned text, I would like to tell a brief story about my personal travails in high school during the first half of this decade. As a child, I was always taught the "Golden Rule", to do unto others as you would have them do unto you; and for the first half of my life, that we pretty much how everything worked. Then I turned 11, and entered into the realm of Middle School (one of the worst mistakes our educational systems have wreaked upon students). Those who were obviously studious, intelligent or just plain DIFFERENT from the carbon copy, shallow and stereotypical students were at best ignored, at worst hospitalized. Through Middle School (MS), I went pretty much unscathed, except for the fact that I wasn't among the "prettiest" of children. As such, I endured a considerable amount of ribbing, and in some cases out right hostility. This was compounded by my much higher than average IQ (as tested at age 10, well over 140, and my last test put me at over 160), and my obvious contempt for the cookie cutter molded people around me. Placing an extremely bright child in normal school surroundings will absolutely lead towards one of two situations: an over achiever who garners respect simply for the volume of work done, and the underachiever who is derided by all because they literally skate through with decent grades without trying very hard. This second group of highly intelligent students also tend to suffer from severe feelings of self doubt, and have self esteem issues. These are compounded by their lackadaisical approach towards school, procrastination, et al that come from a lack of feeling both challenged and driven to be truly successful students. I fell into this second group, and while middle school was bad, what happened to me in high school almost killed me (quite literally). In High School, I may have made a serious mistake, socially, in participating in band, both concert and marching. I took great pride in being involved in these activites, however, I was an outsider even within the group that I belonged to. That I was belittled, mentally and even physically abused by my peers would be understatements. To tell the school administration about what was going on would have been absolute social suicide. By my junior year of HS, I had reached absolute low points in my life. I attempted suicide twice, and at one point at a pistol (not owned by any member of my family) pointed to my head...the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger was the love I have for my youngest sibling and only sister.
To this day I still suffer from the effects of an absolutely miserable adolescence. I am the little boy who is always picked last for an athletic team, regardless of the fact that I was usually an above average player, and in fact ran 4 minute miles in HS but COULDN'T GET ON THE TRACK TEAM. This, I believe, is the kind of life that Mr's Harris and Klebold endured until they could endure no more. People "snap" mentally in different ways. Me, I just crawled into a cocoon that took 8 years to begin to break down, they became cold, heartless killers.
I now end my personal remarks to you, dear reader, and hope that you read the following rmearks which I sent to your colleague at MSNBC.
> I have several concerns regarding your recent article on MSNBC's > website concerning the vastly increased watchdogging of children, > especially high schoolers, on the internet. I would also like to bring > to your attention a number of other facets of the whole situation, > including a possible insight into the psyches of the murderers. you may > have already received both e-mail and snail mail along similar lines, > but I hope that my presentation is somewhat more informative for you and > your colleagues. > > 1. It is my opinion that the internet, and the information which can be > gleaned from the internet is not, in any way shape or form, responsible > for this horrid attack. Nor is the information contained on the > internet available only online. I assure you that I can walk into just > about any library in the US and find literature somehow related to > building bombs. The insinuation that the Internet and the availability > of information is at fault is offensive to those of us who make our > livings both using and maintaining it. > > 2. Computer Games are also not at fault, and in fact may very well help > to curb and release some of the anger pent up in those who have dealt > with the kind of torment that these individuals dealt with...possibly > throughout their lives, but more CERTAINLY throughout their shortened > High School careers. I will even say this: if it were NOT for the > release that games such as Doom, Wolfenstein3D (to get a couple of the > shooters available in 1990-1994 when I was in HS), SimCity, Civilization > and myriad others, you may not be reading this e-mail today. > > I'm sure that you have been told, have heard or have even observed just > how cruel kids can be those who do not meet up to their standards of > conformity. Yes, children are cruel. Many, and certainly _NOT_ most > tend to grow out of it by the time they reach high school. The issue > here is that everyone has a breaking point. As I heard President > Clinton say in a quick soundbite I caught on CNN: (paraphrasing) "It's > been said that sticks and stones will break bones, but words will never > hurt you. It's simply not true, and believe so is utter foolishness". > I believe his words were more along the lines of "less than > intelligent", but I blieve mine drive the point home more forcefully. > > It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. As the pen is the > symbolic representation of speach, which is, in turn, the vocal > representation of thought, the logical source is found. Those who would > treat others as so much dust that they would brush from clothes are the > cause of this attack in Colorado. The attack ITSELF is merely a SYMPTOM > OF THE DISEASE. That disease is very simple to see, if one has the > heart to look. > We are living in a society that praises conformity and lack of creative > and original thought, that demonizes the arts, creativity, > non-conformity and all other aspects of individualism so reminiscent of > Orwell's 1984 that it is truly frightening. Have we come to a point > where we should praise those who tell Big Brother that someone just > MIGHT be showing signs of individualism? I pray to God that we have > not, for if we have, then may He help our immortal souls, because we > certainly aren't able to. > > Enough of my tirade, I'm almost as tired typing it as I'm sure you are > in reading it. However, I do have a couple more very quick points I > wish to make. First and foremost is that those who are popular, > regardless of arena, through backstabbing, harrassing and who > dislike/hate/etc those who are "different" from them should be vilified. > Are we not in a state of war in Yugoslavia for a similar reason? It is > my understanding that we are there to stand up against a man who > believes that those who are different than him are no better than > animals. How can we, as Americans, take the moral authority to take on > a man being described as "Hitler-esque" when we have almost the EXACT > same issues going on in our High Schools, Colleges and Universities? > > My final point is to leave with you an URL for your perusal, and > hopefully the comments that you will read there will help bring some > added insight that I may be unable to bring to bear. I implore you to > visit http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249. shtml. If > nothing else, you will read about how literaly hundreds of people around > the world feel about the reaction those in authority here are having. >
Slashdot Mirror
It's just you.
Seriously thought, while the article states that they would have saved several hundred thousand dollars by going to NT, they were able to save even MORE money by going with Linux. Also, it appears (and I may be reading too much between the lines here) that they also felt that the programmign aspect of the move would be easier if porting to a *nix-like operating system, rather than to Windows.
Just some thoughts from a guy ripping out all the NT server machines at his work and replacing them and the RS6000's with linux boxen.
AKAIK Intel voids the warranty on any chip that
has been overclocked. This looks like AMD/Kryotech are demoing a product that they will be selling and providing support on...could be wrong. Of course, they coudl also be showing that AMD is catching up with Intel. 2 months is a HELL of a lot closer than the 6 mo behind they've been historically.
I do apologize for the formatting, if any comes out all fouled up. That's what happens when cutting and pasing email messages :) /. gets in it will help :) Oh, and I also apologize for length. One of the reasons I DON'T really post are that I'm not well known for brevity.
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The following is an email that I just sent off the CNN, hopefully it may delight or piss of some of y'all. But I'm sure that the publicity
Before I begin, I would like to present a URL that I would like to have
someone at CNN take a look at, as I believe it points out, through the
comments of hundreds, what Mr's Harris and Klebold's lives MAY have been
like. These comments SURELY show how the lives of many of our brightest
and creative students are while they endure the misery of high school
and college.
http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/14382
I implore you to read through the comments on this message board, and
while some may be no more than flames and unintelligent gibberish, many
of them are well thought out pieces of literary art.
The following text is an email which I sent to a reporter at MSNBC. I
am also sending it to you, sans his name, as I believe that it may bring
some insight into this horrible tragedy. I also hope that it will spur
additional research so that the troubles afflicting many of the
brightest students in our schools today.
Before The aforementioned text, I would like to tell a brief story about
my personal travails in high school during the first half of this
decade. As a child, I was always taught the "Golden Rule", to do unto
others as you would have them do unto you; and for the first half of my
life, that we pretty much how everything worked. Then I turned 11, and
entered into the realm of Middle School (one of the worst mistakes our
educational systems have wreaked upon students). Those who were
obviously studious, intelligent or just plain DIFFERENT from the carbon
copy, shallow and stereotypical students were at best ignored, at worst
hospitalized. Through Middle School (MS), I went pretty much unscathed,
except for the fact that I wasn't among the "prettiest" of children. As
such, I endured a considerable amount of ribbing, and in some cases out
right hostility. This was compounded by my much higher than average IQ
(as tested at age 10, well over 140, and my last test put me at over
160), and my obvious contempt for the cookie cutter molded people around
me.
Placing an extremely bright child in normal school surroundings will
absolutely lead towards one of two situations: an over achiever who
garners respect simply for the volume of work done, and the
underachiever who is derided by all because they literally skate through
with decent grades without trying very hard. This second group of
highly intelligent students also tend to suffer from severe feelings of
self doubt, and have self esteem issues. These are compounded by their
lackadaisical approach towards school, procrastination, et al that come
from a lack of feeling both challenged and driven to be truly successful
students.
I fell into this second group, and while middle school was bad, what
happened to me in high school almost killed me (quite literally). In
High School, I may have made a serious mistake, socially, in
participating in band, both concert and marching. I took great pride in
being involved in these activites, however, I was an outsider even
within the group that I belonged to. That I was belittled, mentally and
even physically abused by my peers would be understatements. To tell
the school administration about what was going on would have been
absolute social suicide. By my junior year of HS, I had reached
absolute low points in my life. I attempted suicide twice, and at one
point at a pistol (not owned by any member of my family) pointed to my
head...the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger was the love I
have for my youngest sibling and only sister.
To this day I still suffer from the effects of an absolutely miserable
adolescence. I am the little boy who is always picked last for an
athletic team, regardless of the fact that I was usually an above
average player, and in fact ran 4 minute miles in HS but COULDN'T GET ON
THE TRACK TEAM. This, I believe, is the kind of life that Mr's Harris
and Klebold endured until they could endure no more. People "snap"
mentally in different ways. Me, I just crawled into a cocoon that took
8 years to begin to break down, they became cold, heartless killers.
I now end my personal remarks to you, dear reader, and hope that you
read the following rmearks which I sent to your colleague at MSNBC.
> I have several concerns regarding your recent article on MSNBC's
> website concerning the vastly increased watchdogging of children,
> especially high schoolers, on the internet. I would also like to bring
> to your attention a number of other facets of the whole situation,
> including a possible insight into the psyches of the murderers. you may
> have already received both e-mail and snail mail along similar lines,
> but I hope that my presentation is somewhat more informative for you and
> your colleagues.
>
> 1. It is my opinion that the internet, and the information which can be
> gleaned from the internet is not, in any way shape or form, responsible
> for this horrid attack. Nor is the information contained on the
> internet available only online. I assure you that I can walk into just
> about any library in the US and find literature somehow related to
> building bombs. The insinuation that the Internet and the availability
> of information is at fault is offensive to those of us who make our
> livings both using and maintaining it.
>
> 2. Computer Games are also not at fault, and in fact may very well help
> to curb and release some of the anger pent up in those who have dealt
> with the kind of torment that these individuals dealt with...possibly
> throughout their lives, but more CERTAINLY throughout their shortened
> High School careers. I will even say this: if it were NOT for the
> release that games such as Doom, Wolfenstein3D (to get a couple of the
> shooters available in 1990-1994 when I was in HS), SimCity, Civilization
> and myriad others, you may not be reading this e-mail today.
>
> I'm sure that you have been told, have heard or have even observed just
> how cruel kids can be those who do not meet up to their standards of
> conformity. Yes, children are cruel. Many, and certainly _NOT_ most
> tend to grow out of it by the time they reach high school. The issue
> here is that everyone has a breaking point. As I heard President
> Clinton say in a quick soundbite I caught on CNN: (paraphrasing) "It's
> been said that sticks and stones will break bones, but words will never
> hurt you. It's simply not true, and believe so is utter foolishness".
> I believe his words were more along the lines of "less than
> intelligent", but I blieve mine drive the point home more forcefully.
>
> It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. As the pen is the
> symbolic representation of speach, which is, in turn, the vocal
> representation of thought, the logical source is found. Those who would
> treat others as so much dust that they would brush from clothes are the
> cause of this attack in Colorado. The attack ITSELF is merely a SYMPTOM
> OF THE DISEASE. That disease is very simple to see, if one has the
> heart to look.
> We are living in a society that praises conformity and lack of creative
> and original thought, that demonizes the arts, creativity,
> non-conformity and all other aspects of individualism so reminiscent of
> Orwell's 1984 that it is truly frightening. Have we come to a point
> where we should praise those who tell Big Brother that someone just
> MIGHT be showing signs of individualism? I pray to God that we have
> not, for if we have, then may He help our immortal souls, because we
> certainly aren't able to.
>
> Enough of my tirade, I'm almost as tired typing it as I'm sure you are
> in reading it. However, I do have a couple more very quick points I
> wish to make. First and foremost is that those who are popular,
> regardless of arena, through backstabbing, harrassing and who
> dislike/hate/etc those who are "different" from them should be vilified.
> Are we not in a state of war in Yugoslavia for a similar reason? It is
> my understanding that we are there to stand up against a man who
> believes that those who are different than him are no better than
> animals. How can we, as Americans, take the moral authority to take on
> a man being described as "Hitler-esque" when we have almost the EXACT
> same issues going on in our High Schools, Colleges and Universities?
>
> My final point is to leave with you an URL for your perusal, and
> hopefully the comments that you will read there will help bring some
> added insight that I may be unable to bring to bear. I implore you to
> visit http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249
> nothing else, you will read about how literaly hundreds of people around
> the world feel about the reaction those in authority here are having.
>