thats the best solution for em - doorstops. while we're at it can we obsolete AS/400s as well ? I've used both and both of em (VMS & OS/400) have to be the most damn unfriendly OSes to use - EVER. hey ibm - how bout dumping those midrange machines and replacing em with AIX boxen ? Or better yet - offer trade ups for old VAXen to alphas and AS/400s to S/390s.
its not memory you dolt. tried to create a file greater than 2 GB on a 32 bit platform ? you cant. tried using a database ? see those huge files ? yup. thats right. you need 64 bits.
ok..ok...i know about latex. i like word (inspite of the fact it crashes all the time, four times a day and takes 10 minutes to load ONE chapter...the thesis is broken up into chapters each with their own DOC file since word crashed on me and refused to load more than one chapter when it was in a big file) because its simple. Latex has a steep learning curve (yes i know about lyx but it isnt that good...yet) and the thought of learning ONE more thing (after all the X/MOTIF/OpenGL stuff i had to go thru for implementing image processing on a unix box in C with multithreaded parallel processing on multiple RISC machines...) was a bit too much. besides, almost everyone has word....and linux wasnt all that mature when i wrote my thesis...so there was no staroffice. and anyway, all i had was a 200MHz pentium pro with NT Server/Office on it..which was also being pounded on by four other grad students.
i use scp to copy the rpm files over, use ssh to login to the box with a script and install files by running rpm -Uvh etc etc by piping the stuff in thru the script. its pretty secure that way and works nicely. also easy to have a set of commands for doing various simple things and letting the script pipe those with a command option. i.e. script install whatever.rpm installs the whatever.rpm file, script cp file1 file2 copies the file etc etc.
I also use procmail to do some grunt work (weird huh?)...for example if i want to clean the print q of server 26 i can mail root@server26 with the header as COMMAND: DELETE PRINTQ and a procmail script will see the COMMAND: in the header and do a simple lprm -Plp -...ok..im half asleep as i type this..but i hope im making some sense. im a uni admin BTW. i've got machine with weird configs to look after so it might not suit your problem...none of my machines are the same.
2.4 uses netfilter...as i recall FreeBSD/OpenBSD all use the same thing. i think the syntax is pretty much the same so you might try looking at their netfilter docs.
Your library/university sells it to UMI. UMI is selling it for research/scientific purposes only. thus your thesis is in the search. most libraries/universities have contracts with UMI.
lets just say it was a tier 1 ranked institution (by usnews as of 1999). and its somewhere near the top of the tier 1's...no lower than third place.:)
yup...my thesis had a lot of raw data (as was necessary in this case - it was based on computing the data using various algorithms and comparing performance/compute cost/suitability to the problem domain etc etc). in addition there was a major software component (75K+ lines in C - typed with pico i might add) and a fairly large explanation of the software including proofs of the maths used, more graphs, pictures, matlab analysis (ugh! - i hate matlab), even more graphs..etc..etc...you get the idea.
It was fairly well organised tho :
/ - 2 megs of autorun stuff plus a pretty HTML start page/images/proposal/timeline
/thesis - the basic 250+ page written document - around 100 megs (M$ word...yes...i know..)
/software - around 20 megs (source + various binaries, some precompiled stuff for those unable/unwilling to recompile)
/utils - 40 megs of various utilities and junk (conversion of data, data handling stuff etc etc)
/help - around 30 megs of help documents (pretty pictures, interactive shit, animations, screenshots etc etc)
/base - 250 megs or so of data in an unprocessed base which could be loaded into the software
/dump - 180 megs or so of processed data as proofs
/misc - 70 megs of various junk (matlab files, graphs, simple test stuff to validate the software, assorted libraries for building the software, support frameworks etc etc.
yup. mine is not on there. mine was dumped to a CDROM since it wouldnt fit on website (all of 250+ pages or 600 megs compressed with software/notes/images/presentations etc) and printed. i dont see anyone trying to put that much data online in any case...85K x 600Megs is a LOT of data
moral of the story : write a really BIG thesis. it should stop pilfering for now anyway...my unis library has a big stack of thesises which completely fill a really big room...its worth seeing.
its very easy to prevent criminals removing it. implant it next to the spinal column with a tiny (a few ounces) of explosive or primer (the stuff used to make gunpowder ignite in a bullet). with a small capacitor to store charge and a small simple dead mans switch device (the capacitor discharges in a burst after electroical contact is removed or the devices is moved away from the muscles powering it) could detonate the primer, severing the spinal column of the criminal. now severing the spinal column is a bad thing and most criminals would be rather reluctant to remove the device....
of course, none of this is likely to happen. the way i see it...around 20 years for device to be refined..another 10 to stamp out opposition from/.ers, liberty/privacy groups...they'll probably start implanting death row inmates first...and then another 20 or so before its widespread....the way i figure it..its got to be at least 50 odd years before we see anything like it in common use...should be after my time..so i dont think i care.
initial public offerings. when a company wants to go public they float a number of shares and sell em to the public. this gives them capital to build their business....or to cash out and run as most internet companies do. see http://www.fuckedcompany.com for a more enlightning view of the whole business.
when all the major bugs are fixed probably. you still cant write to the flash on the ipaq from linux. its still fairly limited in some areas (too much memory/flash used by linux for example - although thats getting better).
Every self respecting ISP puts a QoS guarantee in their contract. bash em HARD with a good lawyer..most of the time a good letter will do it...you should be able to get a refund of your contract based on the breakage of their QoS guarantees. Once an ISP has to refund money, theyre usually very good about future service. i've seen it happen on more than one occasion.
just have a simple click thru EULA/ terms of use style license as the user logs into the terminal and make sure your legal ass is covered. business should only care about CYA policies anyway. as long as you dont get sued who the hell cares ?
fiddling around with a hobby OS with a 30 year old architecture IS appropriate if no other progress has been made is 30 odd years. in this case OSes and basic CS research on OS architectures has basically stagnated. no new alternatives exist since its too complex for undergrads and you dont get funding for OS research at the grad/post grad level. i should know - im a sysadmin at a university. with meager research budgets..you have to do basic research on linux type systems. and so does NASA.
hey..suck always had a weird layout...generates more ad revenue in this cutthroat software industry. of course ads can be blocked..and it does make suck easier to read.
you might want to look at fuckedcompany.com for a more....entertaining look at the industry.
he was fired by AJT not by NASA. in any event, if youre company is dependant on NASA and some employee complains to them, what are you expected to do ? he should have simply kept protesting internally instead of phoning the inspector general at NASA which ius what he did.
pulse jets still need a compressor..plus an external starter. usually this is a major pain..no restarts in flight etc...they also are limited in thrust and the micro explosions of the pulses cause damage internally to the engine.
heres a fairly good modern design with a relatively long life and is much safer : http://www.gtba.cnuce.cnr.it/GT2000.HTM
jets suck gas (or RC fuel) like anything. with twin jets i doubt it would make it off the ground.
you dont need artificial horizon, altimeter or airspeed...its not a full aircraft. a simple camera mounted to the front, tx and rx (slave the camera to a different tx/rx than the aircraft controls...and use a different battery..if it runs out you have half a chance of getting the model back with a regular controller) with a regular controller and small tv is enough. beware of the video signal interference with the controller signals (shield em). usually it take about $400 or so to do it on the cheap.
you do it in the HTML.:).as i said, i do list boxes, select boxes etc dynamically..any element can be dynamic. you just need to think about your fundamental assumptions. i'd say more but im under an NDA.
sun already has an advantage over HP - PARISC is dying and everyone knows it. IA-64 is an annoying ISA - its HUGE. the result is the chips run *really* hot and slow. if AMD can come out with SMP systems using AMDs version of the much faster and simpler instruction set, then AMD will beat intel for the first time. and thats gotta hurt intels bottom line - finally.
yup. but they have no official standing so that restricts em to a minority. what would be kewl would be a.gnu or.oss or.null or.bbs type domain officially ICANN accredited.
ugh. please dont. you have no idea how frigging ANNOYING it is to code visually. i used to work on objectime on irix boxes (basically a drag and drop UML tool with RPL for coding inside the boxes) which generated C++ code at the end. Since all our boxes were on NFS, it used to take 10 minutes to save the bloody picture (if the objectime application didnt crash and corrupt the files - the VM was bloody unstable). if it crashed, the entire application would be destroyed. backups were a nightmare with source files running into dozens of megabytes (each block of source is a visual image thingy - try and read that with anything other than objectime). each. ever tried to backup gigabytes of *new* data every DAY ? ever tried to get IRIX stable with HUGE FREAKING NFS TRANSFERS every few SECONDS ?? gimme a vt100 with a green glowing text screen, pico/vi/emacs and java or gcc. i'll take that over visual coding any day.
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thats the best solution for em - doorstops. while we're at it can we obsolete AS/400s as well ? I've used both and both of em (VMS & OS/400) have to be the most damn unfriendly OSes to use - EVER. hey ibm - how bout dumping those midrange machines and replacing em with AIX boxen ? Or better yet - offer trade ups for old VAXen to alphas and AS/400s to S/390s.
its not memory you dolt. tried to create a file greater than 2 GB on a 32 bit platform ? you cant. tried using a database ? see those huge files ? yup. thats right. you need 64 bits.
ok..ok...i know about latex. i like word (inspite of the fact it crashes all the time, four times a day and takes 10 minutes to load ONE chapter ...the thesis is broken up into chapters each with their own DOC file since word crashed on me and refused to load more than one chapter when it was in a big file) because its simple. Latex has a steep learning curve (yes i know about lyx but it isnt that good...yet) and the thought of learning ONE more thing (after all the X/MOTIF/OpenGL stuff i had to go thru for implementing image processing on a unix box in C with multithreaded parallel processing on multiple RISC machines...) was a bit too much. besides, almost everyone has word....and linux wasnt all that mature when i wrote my thesis...so there was no staroffice. and anyway, all i had was a 200MHz pentium pro with NT Server/Office on it..which was also being pounded on by four other grad students.
i use scp to copy the rpm files over, use ssh to login to the box with a script and install files by running rpm -Uvh etc etc by piping the stuff in thru the script. its pretty secure that way and works nicely. also easy to have a set of commands for doing various simple things and letting the script pipe those with a command option. i.e. script install whatever.rpm installs the whatever.rpm file, script cp file1 file2 copies the file etc etc.
I also use procmail to do some grunt work (weird huh?)...for example if i want to clean the print q of server 26 i can mail root@server26 with the header as COMMAND: DELETE PRINTQ and a procmail script will see the COMMAND: in the header and do a simple lprm -Plp -...ok..im half asleep as i type this..but i hope im making some sense. im a uni admin BTW. i've got machine with weird configs to look after so it might not suit your problem...none of my machines are the same.
2.4 uses netfilter...as i recall FreeBSD/OpenBSD all use the same thing. i think the syntax is pretty much the same so you might try looking at their netfilter docs.
Your library/university sells it to UMI. UMI is selling it for research/scientific purposes only. thus your thesis is in the search. most libraries/universities have contracts with UMI.
lets just say it was a tier 1 ranked institution (by usnews as of 1999). and its somewhere near the top of the tier 1's...no lower than third place. :)
yup...my thesis had a lot of raw data (as was necessary in this case - it was based on computing the data using various algorithms and comparing performance/compute cost/suitability to the problem domain etc etc). in addition there was a major software component (75K+ lines in C - typed with pico i might add) and a fairly large explanation of the software including proofs of the maths used, more graphs, pictures, matlab analysis (ugh! - i hate matlab), even more graphs..etc..etc...you get the idea.
It was fairly well organised tho :
/ - 2 megs of autorun stuff plus a pretty HTML start page/images/proposal/timeline
/thesis - the basic 250+ page written document - around 100 megs (M$ word...yes...i know..)
/software - around 20 megs (source + various binaries, some precompiled stuff for those unable/unwilling to recompile)
/utils - 40 megs of various utilities and junk (conversion of data, data handling stuff etc etc)
/help - around 30 megs of help documents (pretty pictures, interactive shit, animations, screenshots etc etc)
/base - 250 megs or so of data in an unprocessed base which could be loaded into the software
/dump - 180 megs or so of processed data as proofs
/misc - 70 megs of various junk (matlab files, graphs, simple test stuff to validate the software, assorted libraries for building the software, support frameworks etc etc.
yup. mine is not on there. mine was dumped to a CDROM since it wouldnt fit on website (all of 250+ pages or 600 megs compressed with software/notes/images/presentations etc) and printed. i dont see anyone trying to put that much data online in any case...85K x 600Megs is a LOT of data
moral of the story : write a really BIG thesis. it should stop pilfering for now anyway...my unis library has a big stack of thesises which completely fill a really big room...its worth seeing.
dunk yer keyboard in vodka. you can even drink it afterwards (hic!). plus you have a good excuse for all those vodka bottles under your desk...
its very easy to prevent criminals removing it. implant it next to the spinal column with a tiny (a few ounces) of explosive or primer (the stuff used to make gunpowder ignite in a bullet). with a small capacitor to store charge and a small simple dead mans switch device (the capacitor discharges in a burst after electroical contact is removed or the devices is moved away from the muscles powering it) could detonate the primer, severing the spinal column of the criminal. now severing the spinal column is a bad thing and most criminals would be rather reluctant to remove the device.... ...around 20 years for device to be refined..another 10 to stamp out opposition from /.ers, liberty/privacy groups...they'll probably start implanting death row inmates first...and then another 20 or so before its widespread....the way i figure it..its got to be at least 50 odd years before we see anything like it in common use...should be after my time..so i dont think i care.
of course, none of this is likely to happen. the way i see it
initial public offerings. when a company wants to go public they float a number of shares and sell em to the public. this gives them capital to build their business....or to cash out and run as most internet companies do. see http://www.fuckedcompany.com for a more enlightning view of the whole business.
when all the major bugs are fixed probably. you still cant write to the flash on the ipaq from linux. its still fairly limited in some areas (too much memory/flash used by linux for example - although thats getting better).
novalogics games all use the voxelspace engine and are really kewl. novalogic.com
Every self respecting ISP puts a QoS guarantee in their contract. bash em HARD with a good lawyer..most of the time a good letter will do it...you should be able to get a refund of your contract based on the breakage of their QoS guarantees. Once an ISP has to refund money, theyre usually very good about future service. i've seen it happen on more than one occasion.
just have a simple click thru EULA/ terms of use style license as the user logs into the terminal and make sure your legal ass is covered. business should only care about CYA policies anyway. as long as you dont get sued who the hell cares ?
fiddling around with a hobby OS with a 30 year old architecture IS appropriate if no other progress has been made is 30 odd years. in this case OSes and basic CS research on OS architectures has basically stagnated. no new alternatives exist since its too complex for undergrads and you dont get funding for OS research at the grad/post grad level. i should know - im a sysadmin at a university. with meager research budgets..you have to do basic research on linux type systems. and so does NASA.
hey..suck always had a weird layout...generates more ad revenue in this cutthroat software industry. of course ads can be blocked..and it does make suck easier to read. ....entertaining look at the industry.
you might want to look at fuckedcompany.com for a more
he was fired by AJT not by NASA. in any event, if youre company is dependant on NASA and some employee complains to them, what are you expected to do ? he should have simply kept protesting internally instead of phoning the inspector general at NASA which ius what he did.
now if we had SMP althons in 64 bit mode clocked at 1+GHz i'd be *really happy*....hey amd, wheres my 2/4/8 CPU mobos ?
pulse jets still need a compressor..plus an external starter. usually this is a major pain..no restarts in flight etc...they also are limited in thrust and the micro explosions of the pulses cause damage internally to the engine.
heres a fairly good modern design with a relatively long life and is much safer : http://www.gtba.cnuce.cnr.it/GT2000.HTM
jets suck gas (or RC fuel) like anything. with twin jets i doubt it would make it off the ground. you dont need artificial horizon, altimeter or airspeed...its not a full aircraft. a simple camera mounted to the front, tx and rx (slave the camera to a different tx/rx than the aircraft controls...and use a different battery..if it runs out you have half a chance of getting the model back with a regular controller) with a regular controller and small tv is enough. beware of the video signal interference with the controller signals (shield em). usually it take about $400 or so to do it on the cheap.
you do it in the HTML. :) .as i said, i do list boxes, select boxes etc dynamically..any element can be dynamic. you just need to think about your fundamental assumptions. i'd say more but im under an NDA.
sun already has an advantage over HP - PARISC is dying and everyone knows it. IA-64 is an annoying ISA - its HUGE. the result is the chips run *really* hot and slow. if AMD can come out with SMP systems using AMDs version of the much faster and simpler instruction set, then AMD will beat intel for the first time. and thats gotta hurt intels bottom line - finally.
yup. but they have no official standing so that restricts em to a minority. what would be kewl would be a .gnu or .oss or .null or .bbs type domain officially ICANN accredited.
ugh. please dont. you have no idea how frigging ANNOYING it is to code visually. i used to work on objectime on irix boxes (basically a drag and drop UML tool with RPL for coding inside the boxes) which generated C++ code at the end. Since all our boxes were on NFS, it used to take 10 minutes to save the bloody picture (if the objectime application didnt crash and corrupt the files - the VM was bloody unstable). if it crashed, the entire application would be destroyed. backups were a nightmare with source files running into dozens of megabytes (each block of source is a visual image thingy - try and read that with anything other than objectime). each. ever tried to backup gigabytes of *new* data every DAY ? ever tried to get IRIX stable with HUGE FREAKING NFS TRANSFERS every few SECONDS ?? gimme a vt100 with a green glowing text screen, pico/vi/emacs and java or gcc. i'll take that over visual coding any day.