Does the College Board have any way to normalize scores between tests given in different languages? Or are they only looking for relative scores among people taking the same tests?
egreB is reading at a threshold greater than -1, and didn't see the anonymous flamebait that "You're All Wrong" was responding to, which said something to the effect of "it needs the extra RAM to run a modern desktop, cuntbag". Not a very useful response.
Now, getting back to the question, I assume it uses some of the RAM to make a/var and/or/tmp ramdisk, which isn't necessary on a read/write hard drive based system (such as your 48 MB machine).
PSTN vs. POTS isn't an American vs. British thing. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is the public phone network used ing your country (or the world), it consists of many large switches all kinds of different phone connections, including optical fiber, satellite, undersea cable, frame relay, T1, and even POTS (plain old telephone service), which is a simple twisted pair carrying one analog phone conversation and enough voltage to ring a heavy electromechanical bell.
The PSTN is like the telephone version of the Intranet, and a PBX would be the telephone version of a LAN.
> I just got a new Kyocera three days ago, and I'll tell ya > what, its got the best sound of any cell phone I have ever > heard, and the interface is a breeze.
Amen to that. I use Sprint, and in my home town (Cambridge, MA), the sound is better than my cordless landline phones at home.
MUCH better than the Motorola POS I had before (their super-tiny, and super thowable, "v" series).
The Kyocera also has analog support, which may shound anacrhonistic, but to someone who spends most of the winter in Vermont, has to check in with work periodically, it's a blessing.
> I hope the new 7135 is still usable as an external modem. > That might not be the case if its USB-based (at least not > for Linux).
Huh? Maybe it's time for you to upgrade from kernel 2.0.38... I had a Visor before I got my Kyocera 6035, and had no problems with the USB aspects of it, even on 2.2.17.
What would _really_ be nice is if it were usable as an external modem over IR. I have a laptop with IR, and always sync over IR. If I could use the modem over IR, I wouldn't have to lug around a serial cable.
I was hoping someone would mention this. If I didn't see it, I was going to post links to this story myself.
As a GTA3 fan myself, and an occasional Boston driver, I often find myself coming up with "alternative" ways to deal with the traffic and aggressive drivers. I've never acted on any of these thoughts, and they actually make driving a bit more tolerable (since in my mind I'm planning carjackings and escape routes while waiting at stoplights).
Ten minutes is apparently longer then the slashdot editors spend proofreading this article.
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Yeah, but what if you don't need a Mac running MacOS? You restart the Mac (or it crashes), and everyone loses connectivity. Also, you can't connect external antennas to airport cards (but with Airport 1.3, Lucent Orinoco cards are treated like airport cards, so that would solve that problem).
And the "Mac with an Airport card" that can stand in for a $300 access point will likely cost at least $1000.
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Actually, most wireless 802.11 NIC's don't. That functionality is disabled in the card's firmware. My best guess as to why is to prevent users from building their own wireless to wired bridges with cheap ($130 or so) PCMCIA cards, instead of purchasing more expensive purpose-built bridges ($300+).
Now, on topic: I like the boot messages. It gives some history and culture regarding Linux. If someone wants to make them optional, I don't have a problem with it, but for all my servers I plan to keep them enabled, so I can spot problems in the boot as they happen (drive not being detected, etc.). The only time we reboot the Linux machines at my company (about 20 desktops, and about 25 servers) is when there's a problem, and the messages help in debugging (not just what doesn't work, but also what does).
As for the parent post, ftp, if you use Kerberized ftp clients and servers, uses secure authentication, and can optionally encrypt the data. UNIX and Mac ftp clients are available, as well as UNIX ftp daemons. Recent RedHat distributions even come with MIT Kerberos V.
I took a month off to go to New Zealand this past winter (well, winter in the US; summer in NZ).
I had no net and or even telephone contact with the rest of the world when I was there (except for a couple phone calls to my family). Once I left the US, my goal was to make it as if I fell off the face of the earth.
It was well worth it. I spent the first week back trying to remember how to type.
I've bought machines from both Dell and Penguin with Linux pre-loaded. In all cases, I've wiped the HD and reinstalled. For workstation machines, I have RedHat kickstart install scripts that install only the packages I want (including some of my own packages), configures networking (NIS, DHCP, etc.), fixes config files to my company's settings (printers, NFS mountpoints).
There are still reasons I prefer buying machines with Linux, though. I know the hardware will be supported (soundcards in particular). I give the included printed Linux documentation to whoever will be using the computer, and I let people borrow the included CD's if they want to install Linux on their home machines.
I"ve been doing this for a while. I've got a 386 (25MHz, 6 MB RAM) and a 486 (33 MHz, 16 MB RAM) both running 2.2.5. I compiled their kernels on my PII 450 in an NFS exported directory, doing the make bzImage and make modules on the PII, then did the make modules_install and copied over the zImage (or bzImage, I forget which I used) on the 386/486.
They've been up for months since then, with no problems.
Out of curioisity, does anyone know how long it would take to compile a 2.2.5 kernel, and about a dozen modules, on a 25 MHz 386 with 6 MB of RAM?
Pine on my system works like this already. When I press C-x to send a message, I have the option of sending it signed, signed/encrypted, or neither. When I receive a message that has been encrypted, it's automatically sent through pgp, I'm prompted for my passphrase, and I can view the message. If it's signed, I'll see a confirmation that the signature matches the public key I have in my keyring for that person.
B5 does have a steeper "learning curve" than ds9, tng, or voyager, but that's due to the depth of the story. It takes a couple episodes to get into the story, but once you're hooked, you're hanging on every episode. (It didn't hurt that some of my friends were die hard B5 fans, including my girlfriend who ran the ISN website.)
I particularly liked the foreshadowing and flashbacks that are mostly lacking in the star trek series.
The last couple Dell's I've bought for my company have attempted to perform a network boot (BOOTP, IIRC) if they couldn't find an operating system on a floppy, CD-ROM, or hard drive. I've never actually tried to use this feature, but it's an option in the BIOS, and I've seen machines go through the motions when powered up with blank HD's.
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Duh. My bad. For some reason I was thinking of the Achievement Tests, where you get a score out of 800.
AP, now I remember, 1 through 5, you generrally need a 4 or 5 to get college credit, etc.
Thanks for clarifying.
Does the College Board have any way to normalize scores between tests given in different languages? Or are they only looking for relative scores among people taking the same tests?
egreB is reading at a threshold greater than -1, and didn't see the anonymous flamebait that "You're All Wrong" was responding to, which said something to the effect of "it needs the extra RAM to run a modern desktop, cuntbag". Not a very useful response.
/var and/or /tmp ramdisk, which isn't necessary on a read/write hard drive based system (such as your 48 MB machine).
Now, getting back to the question, I assume it uses some of the RAM to make a
PSTN vs. POTS isn't an American vs. British thing. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is the public phone network used ing your country (or the world), it consists of many large switches all kinds of different phone connections, including optical fiber, satellite, undersea cable, frame relay, T1, and even POTS (plain old telephone service), which is a simple twisted pair carrying one analog phone conversation and enough voltage to ring a heavy electromechanical bell.
The PSTN is like the telephone version of the Intranet, and a PBX would be the telephone version of a LAN.
> I just got a new Kyocera three days ago, and I'll tell ya
> what, its got the best sound of any cell phone I have ever
> heard, and the interface is a breeze.
Amen to that. I use Sprint, and in my home town (Cambridge, MA), the sound is better than my cordless landline phones at home.
MUCH better than the Motorola POS I had before (their super-tiny, and super thowable, "v" series).
The Kyocera also has analog support, which may shound anacrhonistic, but to someone who spends most of the winter in Vermont, has to check in with work periodically, it's a blessing.
-Ryan
> I hope the new 7135 is still usable as an external modem.
> That might not be the case if its USB-based (at least not
> for Linux).
Huh? Maybe it's time for you to upgrade from kernel 2.0.38... I had a Visor before I got my Kyocera 6035, and had no problems with the USB aspects of it, even on 2.2.17.
What would _really_ be nice is if it were usable as an external modem over IR. I have a laptop with IR, and always sync over IR. If I could use the modem over IR, I wouldn't have to lug around a serial cable.
-Ryan
I was hoping someone would mention this. If I didn't see it, I was going to post links to this story myself.
As a GTA3 fan myself, and an occasional Boston driver, I often find myself coming up with "alternative" ways to deal with the traffic and aggressive drivers. I've never acted on any of these thoughts, and they actually make driving a bit more tolerable (since in my mind I'm planning carjackings and escape routes while waiting at stoplights).
-Ryan
WBCN 104.1 MHz FM in Boston carries Stern.
They're on the web, too.
...and much longer than I spent proofreading my post.
I meant to write "...longer than the slashdot editors spent proofreading..."
Ten minutes is apparently longer then the slashdot editors spend proofreading this article.
Yeah, but what if you don't need a Mac running MacOS? You restart the Mac (or it crashes), and everyone loses connectivity. Also, you can't connect external antennas to airport cards (but with Airport 1.3, Lucent Orinoco cards are treated like airport cards, so that would solve that problem).
And the "Mac with an Airport card" that can stand in for a $300 access point will likely cost at least $1000.
-Ryan
Actually, most wireless 802.11 NIC's don't. That functionality is disabled in the card's firmware. My best guess as to why is to prevent users from building their own wireless to wired bridges with cheap ($130 or so) PCMCIA cards, instead of purchasing more expensive purpose-built bridges ($300+).
Have you ever built a Linux kernel? There is exactly one, quite non-mythical, ".config" file involved, located in /usr/src/linux/.config
Depends on the kernel you're running. You'll need one of these packages:
/usr/src/linux/configs/:
/usr/src/linux/configs/
(RedHat 6.x) kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.2.1
(RedHat 7.0) kernel-source-2.2.19-7.0.1
(RedHat 7.x) kernel-source-2.4.3-12
Look in
[tryanc@dialup ~]$ rpm -q kernel-headers
kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.2.1
[tryanc@dialup ~]$ ls
kernel-2.2.19-i386-BOOT.config
kernel-2.2.19-i586.config
kernel-2.2.19-i386-smp.config
kernel-2.2.19-i686-enterprise.config
kernel-2.2.19-i386.config
kernel-2.2.19-i686-smp.config
kernel-2.2.19-i586-smp.config
kernel-2.2.19-i686.config
[tryanc@dialup ~]$
Now, on topic: I like the boot messages. It gives some history and culture regarding Linux. If someone wants to make them optional, I don't have a problem with it, but for all my servers I plan to keep them enabled, so I can spot problems in the boot as they happen (drive not being detected, etc.). The only time we reboot the Linux machines at my company (about 20 desktops, and about 25 servers) is when there's a problem, and the messages help in debugging (not just what doesn't work, but also what does).
-Ryan
So what is this? First "Fight Club" post or something?
As for the parent post, ftp, if you use Kerberized ftp clients and servers, uses secure authentication, and can optionally encrypt the data. UNIX and Mac ftp clients are available, as well as UNIX ftp daemons. Recent RedHat distributions even come with MIT Kerberos V.
Check out http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www
We use all these programs at my company (i'm the sysadmin), and they work very well.
-Ryan
Heh heh.
I took a month off to go to New Zealand this past winter (well, winter in the US; summer in NZ).
I had no net and or even telephone contact with the rest of the world when I was there (except for a couple phone calls to my family). Once I left the US, my goal was to make it as if I fell off the face of the earth.
It was well worth it. I spent the first week back trying to remember how to type.
I've bought machines from both Dell and Penguin with Linux pre-loaded. In all cases, I've wiped the HD and reinstalled. For workstation machines, I have RedHat kickstart install scripts that install only the packages I want (including some of my own packages), configures networking (NIS, DHCP, etc.), fixes config files to my company's settings (printers, NFS mountpoints).
There are still reasons I prefer buying machines with Linux, though. I know the hardware will be supported (soundcards in particular). I give the included printed Linux documentation to whoever will be using the computer, and I let people borrow the included CD's if they want to install Linux on their home machines.
Ryan
I"ve been doing this for a while. I've got a 386 (25MHz, 6 MB RAM) and a 486 (33 MHz, 16 MB RAM) both running 2.2.5. I compiled their kernels on my PII 450 in an NFS exported directory, doing the make bzImage and make modules on the PII, then did the make modules_install and copied over the zImage (or bzImage, I forget which I used) on the 386/486.
They've been up for months since then, with no problems.
Out of curioisity, does anyone know how long it would take to compile a 2.2.5 kernel, and about a dozen modules, on a 25 MHz 386 with 6 MB of RAM?
--Ryan Cleary
Here's a readme file describing how.
--Ryan
B5 does have a steeper "learning curve" than ds9, tng, or voyager, but that's due to the depth of the story. It takes a couple episodes to get into the story, but once you're hooked, you're hanging on every episode. (It didn't hurt that some of my friends were die hard B5 fans, including my girlfriend who ran the ISN website.)
I particularly liked the foreshadowing and flashbacks that are mostly lacking in the star trek series.
So, is anyone else out there watching Crusade?
--Ryan
The last couple Dell's I've bought for my company have attempted to perform a network boot (BOOTP, IIRC) if they couldn't find an operating system on a floppy, CD-ROM, or hard drive. I've never actually tried to use this feature, but it's an option in the BIOS, and I've seen machines go through the motions when powered up with blank HD's.