OK, I guess it's official now. Hacker = Cracker and good linux programmers are just good linux programmers. It's sad that mass media has finally triumped over the geeks.
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He's a fucking piss ant that deserves to be in jail. While we're all trying to accomplish something using computers as the tools that they are, he and those like him do nothing but add to the overall cost (in terms of time) of using a computer.
Yah, I know the argument -- guys like him show us the holes, blah blah blah---how about showing us by fixing them or starting your own consulting company.
Crackers are nothing more than talented people with out enough imagination to create something useful.
I just love those commercials about how the new digital service doesn't have static. Well sure it doesn't because if the signal isn't there you get no sound at all. Personally I'd rather have static than nothing at all!
Great, first we had vapor software, then vapor computer hardware, now vapor autos. Of course, when these come out next week, they will be obsolite since we will all be in our flying cars (you know the ones Popular science said were around the corner in 1960)
I had 8 of 12 Abit BE6-II (Pentium III - Slot1) boards die just after 1 year of operation. I noticed that the some of the capacitors had ooozed, but not being electrically inclined, I assumed that it was only cosmetic.
Could this or other fundamental defects be the new "Y2K" problem?
Anybody know why mozzila 1.2 beta can't block the advertisement image on the cnet link? When I right click on it, it says it is already blocked--but I'm seeing it?
For my hometown map I got the following sizes exported from the sig viewer, then corel. sig 8 MB tif 216 MB tif(lzw compressed) 161 MB png 185 MB jpg (high quality) 34 MB
Since this report is from the BBC I would assume they are using the british definition of 10^12, but that seems impossibly large.
From WordNet (r) 1.7:
billion
1: (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one
followed by 12 zeros [syn: one million million, 1000000000000]
2: (in the United States) the number that is represented as a
one followed by 9 zeros [syn: one thousand million, 1000000000]
The appalling inefficiency in the aerospace industry is also a bit of a driving factor. Due to an accident of history tying them to ICBMs, the evolution of space vehicles has wound up tending towards a local optimum that is in a completely different area than better global solutions, and it doesn't seem likely to break out of the current context. The aerospace industry needs a fresh reboot. There is an order of magnitude improvement available in low hanging fruit.
John, please lay off the crack pipe. I guess your the only one in an industry of hundreds of thousands of the brightest engineers, scientist and very shrewd businessmen that has thought there could be a better way? Put the pipe down please.
Nanotubes go flash bang wallop
19:00 25 April 02 NewScientist.com news service
Taking a snapshot of carbon nanotubes using an ordinary camera flash can cause them to emit a loud pop and then suddenly burst into flame.
Scientists say this unique explosive phenomenon may lead to new means of manufacturing nanoscale carbon materials and even remote-control devices for small explosive charges.
Pulickel Ajayan and his team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, have been at work since one of his students accidentally sparked a tiny explosion by photographing a bundle of single-walled carbon nanotubes. "It was a complete accident," Ajayan told New Scientist.
Researchers around the world are exploring the potential that carbon nanotubes could have for a wide range of super-strong materials and nanoscale circuits. Ganapathiraman Ramanath, also at Rensselaer Polytechnic, says that the latest discovery "will serve as a starting point for developing nanotube-based actuators and sensors that rely on remote activation and triggering."
Ultra-absorbent
Ajayan says the explosion occurs because the black carbon nanotubes absorb light so efficiently that, when it is converted into heat, the heat cannot dissipate quickly enough across bunched-up tubes. However, only the single-walled variety of nanotubes catch fire. Those with multiple walls do not explode - the researchers are unsure why.
Video of flashlit nanotube explosion (744kB download)
The initial popping noise is generated by the heating of the oxygen inside and between the tubes, which causes a shock wave. And when the temperature of carbon reaches between 600C and 700C it oxidises sparking combustion.
When the researchers tried the experiment in the absence of oxygen they found that the tubes were transformed into different nanoscopic shapes, some reminiscent of cone-shaped "nanohorns".
"It's a very nice surprise," says Angel Rubio, an expert in carbon nanotubes at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. "Because it's the only carbon material that exhibits this ignition property."
My chemistry prof. at Va Tech (I forget his name) gargled liquid nitrogen repeatedly in front of all 400 of us in class. The vapor easily shot 12ft above his head. I was in the front row when he spit and the boiling beads vaporized at my feet.
And yet you still haven't defined what OMAP is. I searched google and found the same "informative" site you posted. Yet no definition of the acronym. WTF? I'm serious. Thanks in advance.
And I quote "But according to Dauger, Linux clusters require a PhD to set up and to run." Yeah, I guess there wouldn't be any qualified people amoung those running Tokamak fusion simulations or 100 million mutually interacting particle simulations.
A diskless linux system is cake to setup and as far as different kernels are concerned, the article is clueless, you can use LamMPI to mix different platforms (ie sun,sgi,intel linux, alpha linux) in a single cluster.
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Wow, somebody actually read katz stories. I blocked them in the options setup years ago!
"Oh bother," said Pooh, as he hid Piglet's mangled corpse. dbishop
Jesus, with a sig like that this guy is complaining about "gory violence" in movies!
It works with Mozilla 1.3a
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
OK, I guess it's official now.
Hacker = Cracker
and good linux programmers are just good linux programmers.
It's sad that mass media has finally triumped over the geeks.
He's a fucking piss ant that deserves to be in jail. While we're all trying to accomplish something using computers as the tools that they are, he and those like him do nothing but add to the overall cost (in terms of time) of using a computer.
Yah, I know the argument -- guys like him show us the holes, blah blah blah---how about showing us by fixing them or starting your own consulting company.
Crackers are nothing more than talented people with out enough imagination to create something useful.
I just love those commercials about how the new digital service doesn't have static. Well sure it doesn't because if the signal isn't there you get no sound at all. Personally I'd rather have static than nothing at all!
A lame complaint from a 13 yr-old who is struggling with exponential notation is INSIGHTFUL?
Great, first we had vapor software, then vapor computer hardware, now vapor autos. Of course, when these come out next week, they will be obsolite since we will all be in our flying cars (you know the ones Popular science said were around the corner in 1960)
I had 8 of 12 Abit BE6-II (Pentium III - Slot1) boards die just after 1 year of operation. I noticed that the some of the capacitors had ooozed, but not being electrically inclined, I assumed that it was only cosmetic.
Could this or other fundamental defects be the new "Y2K" problem?
Anybody know why mozzila 1.2 beta can't block the advertisement image on the cnet link?
When I right click on it, it says it is already blocked--but I'm seeing it?
For my hometown map I got the following sizes exported from the sig viewer, then corel.
sig 8 MB
tif 216 MB
tif(lzw compressed) 161 MB
png 185 MB
jpg (high quality) 34 MB
Since his company competes with Mosix I expect he'll say go to http://scyld.com/
One good reason is the wide availability of Fortran compilers. g77 won't do it for production codes.
The guy's got a half finished Sam Adams on the assembly counter!
beer
Ya gotta love these guys!
http://web.archive.org/web/20010606162657/www.drgi bson.com/towers/
They are 40 years old but still a great and unique introduction to the foundations of physics.
Many of the lectures in mp3 and pdf format are currently being posted to news:alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word
If you can buy them in your neighbourhood.
I read up on this a while back. :)
Now, if I could just get my hands on one
Speaking of Apex...zdnet just announced the're being sued !
Since this report is from the BBC I would assume they are using the british definition of 10^12, but that seems impossibly large.
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From WordNet (r) 1.7
billion
1: (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one
followed by 12 zeros [syn: one million million, 1000000000000]
2: (in the United States) the number that is represented as a
one followed by 9 zeros [syn: one thousand million, 1000000000]
John, please lay off the crack pipe. I guess your the only one in an industry of hundreds of thousands of the brightest engineers, scientist and very shrewd businessmen that has thought there could be a better way? Put the pipe down please.
Nanotubes go flash bang wallop
19:00 25 April 02 NewScientist.com news service
Taking a snapshot of carbon nanotubes using an ordinary camera flash can cause them to emit a loud pop and then suddenly burst into flame.
Scientists say this unique explosive phenomenon may lead to new means of manufacturing nanoscale carbon materials and even remote-control devices for small explosive charges.
Pulickel Ajayan and his team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, have been at work since one of his students accidentally sparked a tiny explosion by photographing a bundle of single-walled carbon nanotubes. "It was a complete accident," Ajayan told New Scientist.
Researchers around the world are exploring the potential that carbon nanotubes could have for a wide range of super-strong materials and nanoscale circuits. Ganapathiraman Ramanath, also at Rensselaer Polytechnic, says that the latest discovery "will serve as a starting point for developing nanotube-based actuators and sensors that rely on remote activation and triggering."
Ultra-absorbent
Ajayan says the explosion occurs because the black carbon nanotubes absorb light so efficiently that, when it is converted into heat, the heat cannot dissipate quickly enough across bunched-up tubes. However, only the single-walled variety of nanotubes catch fire. Those with multiple walls do not explode - the researchers are unsure why.
Video of flashlit nanotube explosion (744kB download)
The initial popping noise is generated by the heating of the oxygen inside and between the tubes, which causes a shock wave. And when the temperature of carbon reaches between 600C and 700C it oxidises sparking combustion.
When the researchers tried the experiment in the absence of oxygen they found that the tubes were transformed into different nanoscopic shapes, some reminiscent of cone-shaped "nanohorns".
"It's a very nice surprise," says Angel Rubio, an expert in carbon nanotubes at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. "Because it's the only carbon material that exhibits this ignition property."
Journal Reference: Science (vol 296, p 705)
Will Knight
My chemistry prof. at Va Tech (I forget his name) gargled liquid nitrogen repeatedly in front of all 400 of us in class. The vapor easily shot 12ft above his head. I was in the front row when he spit and the boiling beads vaporized at my feet.
And yet you still haven't defined what OMAP is. I searched google and found the same "informative" site you posted. Yet no definition of the acronym. WTF? I'm serious. Thanks in advance.
Not!! Sorry, but is it just me who would like arcane acronyms defined once and a while. This one wasn't even on everything2.com
And I quote "But according to Dauger, Linux clusters require a PhD to set up and to run."
Yeah, I guess there wouldn't be any qualified people amoung those running Tokamak fusion simulations or 100 million mutually interacting particle simulations.
A diskless linux system is cake to setup and as far as different kernels are concerned, the article is clueless, you can use LamMPI to mix different platforms (ie sun,sgi,intel linux, alpha linux) in a single cluster.
Disclaimer: I have a Ph.D.