Thanks for making it clear what is really going on. It sounds like a good idea to me. From my subjective observation of the Hancock Library about 90% of student activity is dedicated to using the computers to research articles, run programs and writeup assignments.
The books and journals are priceless, but are not that heavily used. Most essays reference recent artilces that are mostly online. I personally use books or old journal articles for historical context in the Introduction. It is great to have access to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for example, which I have used a couple of times. As I said, Priceless.
For convenience though, poring through printed abstracts twenty years ago has nothing on the power of good search tools.
I haven't read this book but I have read "Confessions". St Augustine in the late 5th Century wrote of the impreciseness of time, especially when defining the present. Actions remembered are past. Are they real? The present is immeasurable as it lies between the past and the future. The future does not exist and passes into the past which again does not exist but in memories and consequences of actions.
Perhaps the discrete quantisation of time by a computer clock and the act of recording logs at the time of events overcomes the issue? No, again the computer logs are recorded after the event. In the case of a disk log write, a very long time after the event (in the scale of the computer clock quanta). Lots of things can happen in that time to potentially change the record. Add in network logging and it is real ancient news.
That is quite a lot of fields you have studied. I'd like to hear more. I don't know much about these things but I did study a bit of geology and biology. Please tell me more about plate tectonics. It sounds interesting. I haven't looked at mathematical statistics lately. Perhaps you could explain these figures you quoted.
It is true that Sun seems to have made some improvements. Weren't they supposed to fix ufs with Solaris 10? DOn't get me wrong. Solaris pays a lot of bills.
Solaris scale better then the others and runs well on 64-way multiprocessor systems
This Linux box scales to 64 processors. So does This AIX/Linux box.
Wouldn't that be fantastic. My family gives me a hard time for coming back from holidays with rocks and pictures of rocks. Rocks everywhere on the moon! Unfortunately, the cost would go up in multiples, if not an order of magnitude. It costs a lot more in fuel hence incresed craft size and landing craft, take off etc.
BTW, if we could mod sigs, I'd give your's a (Score:5 Funny)
I played Star Trek on a teletype too I visited my brother's campus in the late 70's and he let me use his student login. They had a PDP8. I was frugal with my Long-Range scans because it took up so much paper. It was a lot less tedious on the VAX at my campus with VT terminals! When I started my first job, there was a box of cards in the corner of the bosses office. That was a backup of the "binary image" for Star Trek that ran on the IBM 370/168 we used.
My first year and a bit of learning to program was with punched cards on a Cyber with NOS/BE. I loved the sound of the machines, thier robustness and the definitive finality of each keystroke. The uni then bought a couple of VAX 11/780s with 128k RAM(boy did they thrash before the memory upgrade) and 60 to 80 terminals each. Sitting down at a terminal and marvelling at erasing my mistyped characters instead of throwing a faulty card out was mesmerising. I spent over an hour playing with the keyboud, just moving the magical cursor all over the screen. I marvelled at the brilliance of the people who programmed the cursor controls and devised the screen fonts. Wow.
An input record was written for a reason. If there is a problem with the input, the reason needs to be investigated. Data integrity is very important. If it doesn't fit your specs, that is a problem. A user abend gets everyone's attention before bad data corrupts your database. This is the mainframe mindset I was taught.
You are right. Better comparative figures are based on PPP(Purchasing Power Parity). Here is the latest (2002) from the UN Development Program, http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/cty/cty_f_BGR. html You would need to check more recent GDP figures to get an idea of where the PPP would be today for Bulgaria.
The Commonwealth Bank's Netbank works fine on MacOSX, Linux, Solaris and others. It stores all information server-side, with export (and now) import facilities. It was redesigned from a Windows-only system and it is all the better for it. Simpler for all users. The realilty is with a little up-front design and attention to standards, the need for extensive testing is limited to specific cases only.
Art to me reveals itself when it, by its existence, evokes an insight into something greater then the obvious and mundane. I feel transformed after wandering through an art gallery, finishing a well written book that touched me or listening to music that "struck a chord". It is not just the finished product, but the human effort to achieve that product that moves me. The continuous practice of the musician, the inspiration and perspiration of the composer and writer. The baffling achievement of the artist. Glancing at my bookshelf, I see the "Linux Programming Bible by John Goerzen" with its rational layout and copious sample code. I can use it as a reference for "how to do X", but it does not move me. OTOH, TAOCP by Knuth does move me. Even comparing the complexity of the typesetting and the painstaking efforts of the TAOCP author to create the typesetting language in the first place!
As for programming as art, one has to decide whether a utilitarian outcome can invoke a trascendental experience. I think good building architecture hints at this, however it is not often that the architect is the one who implements the design. Maybe programming can only be art when the design and the implementation are conceived and delivered by the same person. This precludes the large "sausage factory code" and includes a lot of single author creations such as Perl, Python, TeX, Emacs (regardless of subsequent contributions by others).
What about suing all those nuclear power plants altering the mass of the earth, delaying the inevitable lengthening of the days. Of course Astrology already accounts for the lengthening of days over time, right?
You've tries all the free ones? Including Eclipse? Perhaps you'd like to write a review yourself. I noticed my PHP editor of choice is not on the list. GNU Emacs. It naturally has a PHP-mode.
Jon Kovalic's Musk Rat Ramblings alerted me to this fellow. I was never a great Wesley fan. I certainly watched TNG, with Patrick Stewart being my favourite actor on the show. Oh and those figure-hugging suits on the ladies. Sad but true;-) I was tickled when I saw the appearance of the alt.w.m.d.d.d newsgroup. Obviously Wil wasn't, and on reflection, rightly so. My interest in Star trek waned towards the end and I forced myself to watch DS-9 for a season or so.
Compare the processor counts too. Larger Altix configurations are certainly possible. It is up to the sales dudes at SGI to wiin the bigger contracts. The list, quite rightly, reflects both technology and marketing prowess. They are certainly "in the game" with their technology.
Good advice, even from an AC. Do something you can look back with pride and satisfaction. The money is secondary and follows the passion. I can understand the stress of debt, but as life continues, chances are you will have debt in other forms. Learn to live with it and don't let it become a tyrant that dictates what yo really need to do.
Excellent point
NeXT had an impressively innovative, but short, applications inventory that were not available on the less functional windows and mac boxes. Improv and Pages were two of them. Improv came out on other platforms later but it didn't do that well in the general marketplace.
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Thanks for making it clear what is really going on. It sounds like a good idea to me. From my subjective observation of the Hancock Library about 90% of student activity is dedicated to using the computers to research articles, run programs and writeup assignments.
The books and journals are priceless, but are not that heavily used. Most essays reference recent artilces that are mostly online. I personally use books or old journal articles for historical context in the Introduction. It is great to have access to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for example, which I have used a couple of times. As I said, Priceless.
For convenience though, poring through printed abstracts twenty years ago has nothing on the power of good search tools.
I guess it depends on your definition of the use of the word "and" here. I myself think it is obvious that Linux is running on some desktops.
Insightful? I'd call it Funny. I laughed out loud reading your post. How about "Insightfully Funny".
Here are some quotes from the article that should answer your question.
Having implemented Linux across the company's servers half a decade ago, ...
I think it is clear that all the servers run Linux and so do a lot of the desktops.
I haven't read this book but I have read "Confessions". St Augustine in the late 5th Century wrote of the impreciseness of time, especially when defining the present. Actions remembered are past. Are they real? The present is immeasurable as it lies between the past and the future. The future does not exist and passes into the past which again does not exist but in memories and consequences of actions.
Perhaps the discrete quantisation of time by a computer clock and the act of recording logs at the time of events overcomes the issue? No, again the computer logs are recorded after the event. In the case of a disk log write, a very long time after the event (in the scale of the computer clock quanta). Lots of things can happen in that time to potentially change the record. Add in network logging and it is real ancient news.
That is quite a lot of fields you have studied. I'd like to hear more. I don't know much about these things but I did study a bit of geology and biology. Please tell me more about plate tectonics. It sounds interesting. I haven't looked at mathematical statistics lately. Perhaps you could explain these figures you quoted.
And what stratum would those controllers be?
It is true that Sun seems to have made some improvements. Weren't they supposed to fix ufs with Solaris 10? DOn't get me wrong. Solaris pays a lot of bills.
Solaris scale better then the others and runs well on 64-way multiprocessor systems
This Linux box scales to 64 processors. So does This AIX/Linux box.
Wouldn't that be fantastic. My family gives me a hard time for coming back from holidays with rocks and pictures of rocks. Rocks everywhere on the moon! Unfortunately, the cost would go up in multiples, if not an order of magnitude. It costs a lot more in fuel hence incresed craft size and landing craft, take off etc.
BTW, if we could mod sigs, I'd give your's a (Score:5 Funny)
I played Star Trek on a teletype too I visited my brother's campus in the late 70's and he let me use his student login. They had a PDP8. I was frugal with my Long-Range scans because it took up so much paper. It was a lot less tedious on the VAX at my campus with VT terminals! When I started my first job, there was a box of cards in the corner of the bosses office. That was a backup of the "binary image" for Star Trek that ran on the IBM 370/168 we used.
My first year and a bit of learning to program was with punched cards on a Cyber with NOS/BE. I loved the sound of the machines, thier robustness and the definitive finality of each keystroke. The uni then bought a couple of VAX 11/780s with 128k RAM(boy did they thrash before the memory upgrade) and 60 to 80 terminals each. Sitting down at a terminal and marvelling at erasing my mistyped characters instead of throwing a faulty card out was mesmerising. I spent over an hour playing with the keyboud, just moving the magical cursor all over the screen. I marvelled at the brilliance of the people who programmed the cursor controls and devised the screen fonts. Wow.
An input record was written for a reason. If there is a problem with the input, the reason needs to be investigated. Data integrity is very important. If it doesn't fit your specs, that is a problem. A user abend gets everyone's attention before bad data corrupts your database. This is the mainframe mindset I was taught.
You are right. Better comparative figures are based on PPP(Purchasing Power Parity). Here is the latest (2002) from the UN Development Program, http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/cty/cty_f_BGR. html You would need to check more recent GDP figures to get an idea of where the PPP would be today for Bulgaria.
The Commonwealth Bank's Netbank works fine on MacOSX, Linux, Solaris and others. It stores all information server-side, with export (and now) import facilities. It was redesigned from a Windows-only system and it is all the better for it. Simpler for all users. The realilty is with a little up-front design and attention to standards, the need for extensive testing is limited to specific cases only.
Only in his imagination :-). Mod parent funny!
Art to me reveals itself when it, by its existence, evokes an insight into something greater then the obvious and mundane. I feel transformed after wandering through an art gallery, finishing a well written book that touched me or listening to music that "struck a chord". It is not just the finished product, but the human effort to achieve that product that moves me. The continuous practice of the musician, the inspiration and perspiration of the composer and writer. The baffling achievement of the artist. Glancing at my bookshelf, I see the "Linux Programming Bible by John Goerzen" with its rational layout and copious sample code. I can use it as a reference for "how to do X", but it does not move me. OTOH, TAOCP by Knuth does move me. Even comparing the complexity of the typesetting and the painstaking efforts of the TAOCP author to create the typesetting language in the first place! As for programming as art, one has to decide whether a utilitarian outcome can invoke a trascendental experience. I think good building architecture hints at this, however it is not often that the architect is the one who implements the design. Maybe programming can only be art when the design and the implementation are conceived and delivered by the same person. This precludes the large "sausage factory code" and includes a lot of single author creations such as Perl, Python, TeX, Emacs (regardless of subsequent contributions by others).
What about suing all those nuclear power plants altering the mass of the earth, delaying the inevitable lengthening of the days. Of course Astrology already accounts for the lengthening of days over time, right?
Yahoo employ Rasmus Lerdorf. He is the author of PHP. They use a lot of front end servers. See here for an architecture discussion.
You've tries all the free ones? Including Eclipse? Perhaps you'd like to write a review yourself. I noticed my PHP editor of choice is not on the list. GNU Emacs. It naturally has a PHP-mode.
Jon Kovalic's Musk Rat Ramblings alerted me to this fellow. I was never a great Wesley fan. I certainly watched TNG, with Patrick Stewart being my favourite actor on the show. Oh and those figure-hugging suits on the ladies. Sad but true ;-) I was tickled when I saw the appearance of the alt.w.m.d.d.d newsgroup. Obviously Wil wasn't, and on reflection, rightly so. My interest in Star trek waned towards the end and I forced myself to watch DS-9 for a season or so.
Great response Wil. Thanks.
When I went to school, a hacker was someone who could never break 100. In fact, they had trouble getting the ball off the tee most times. Young'uns.
Compare the processor counts too. Larger Altix configurations are certainly possible. It is up to the sales dudes at SGI to wiin the bigger contracts. The list, quite rightly, reflects both technology and marketing prowess. They are certainly "in the game" with their technology.
Good advice, even from an AC. Do something you can look back with pride and satisfaction. The money is secondary and follows the passion. I can understand the stress of debt, but as life continues, chances are you will have debt in other forms. Learn to live with it and don't let it become a tyrant that dictates what yo really need to do.
Correct.
Excellent point NeXT had an impressively innovative, but short, applications inventory that were not available on the less functional windows and mac boxes. Improv and Pages were two of them. Improv came out on other platforms later but it didn't do that well in the general marketplace.