At the junior college I attended (http://www.llcc.edu/), there were two types of computer science degrees. The first was the A.A.S. which was the applied degree. The second (the one you would be interested in) was the A.S. degree.
The A.S. usually has the transferrable credits. In my case, almost all of my courses transferred. LLCC (Lincoln Land Community College) is almost right next door to the University of Illinois at Springfield and they have a close working relationship. Most of the people that attend LLCC go on to attend UIS, so the courses are designed accordingly. My advice would be to seek out a junior college that has a similar set up. Also, be sure to talk to the college advisors since very often they will have access to the course catalogues for other state schools.
Don't be afraid to call any prospective universities and speak to an advisor. Explain that you will be a transfer student and ask if there are courses that you can take at your current school that will transfer. Sometimes the person with whom you speak will be the same person that determines what courses the school will accept as transfer credit.
Also, junior colleges are much cheaper than four-year institutions. In Illinois, if you get a A.A. or an A.S. at a junior college, then usually any general education requirements that you would have needed to fulfill at the university level are considered completed. See if you can take advantage of any similar arrangements in your location.
I know that quite a few of my friends that play America's Army: Online use a program called TeamSpeak from http://www.teamspeak.org . I can't vouch for its stability, but I haven't heard any complains from them.
For those that care, there is even a Linux client and server.
1) Linux doesn't scale to large SMP systems yet. I think 2.6 is supposed to make it nicely to 16 processors.
2.6 will be using the O(1) scheduler which SGI has successfully used to make Linux scale to 64 processors, and should be able to scale further in a linear fashion.
2) Recently most (all?) of the big Unix vendors have included mainframe-style partitioning. You can do that with Linux on IBM zSeries and pSeries (and maybe iSeries), but you need another OS acting as the executive.
I think one of the main advantages to having UML (User-Mode Linux) will be able to have Linux running on top of Linux, and be able to create environments similar to these partitions you mention.
I remember taking apart the Data Checker system that was manufactured by National Semiconductor in 1979 which I acquired from my highschool. It had some of the largest capaciters I've ever seen. The largest one was probably around 4 inches in diameter. If only I had had this guy's idea first....:)
It completely amazes me how much pressure the windows in skyscrapers must face if your stated engineer says that similar skyscrapers experience winds of the same strenght as the airplane impacts.
Thanks for twisting my comment into a Microsoft bash. Of course, everybody on slashdot is against Microsoft. Didn't you know that? We all hate their guts and suspect they will do everything they can to keep their image of evil.
Then again, they might be like any other software company and make mistakes such as not checking to see if raw access will be overwriting data on another OS's partition. Hmrph!
(Moderators, mod me as you will, I don't post enough to care.)
Does anybody else get nervous about letting Windows have raw access to the same hard disk that some other OS might also be installed on? I wonder if Microsoft will make any effort to put in controls so that the database stays in its own partition.
Anyone else have any idea what they might do? Afterall, that'd be one way of attacking its number one threat: erase it.
RMS has ideas and though some may argue that they are extreme, he isn't afraid to do something about them. Him running for a position on the GNOME Foundation's board of directors is a perfect example.
Where would one find information on learning to apply this technology to new games? I saw an earlier post which said the poster had used it for a massively multiplayer online game. I'm very interested in trying to use this technology. Any links about how to implement this or something similar would be highly appreciated.
Hopefully I'm not pulling all of this out of my caboose. What I learned in highschool is that DNA is a blueprint. That's all I learned about it. I did learn about Gregor Mendel (read the article if you need a refreshing on who I'm talking about) and I couldn't figure out how such strict rules about dominant and recessive genes could produce the variety of species we have.
If dominant and recessive genes really were so binary in nature (D | R = D, R | R = R, D | D = D, etc) then unless there was more imbreeding going on, all recessive genes would've eventually gone away and we would all be the same.
Alas, like the article says, this isn't the case. It is a rather horrifying thought that everything can be known about you through your DNA. It is also a rather upsetting thought that all of your choices that you make in life could be pre-determined by your DNA. Tests do show (as stated by the article), however, that a persons environment has a large affect on how s/he turns out.
It is for this reason that I think of DNA as merely being a blueprint. Just like the blueprint to a house, you can view it and see how it is supposed to be, but the houses environment plays a large role in how it turns out (method used to prevent water from coming in the basement, type of roofing used, etc.).
I've heard one of the best things about the Linux community is that it likes to help new members.
That said, I'd like to list a few places where you could get help if you need it.
On IRC you can use the server irc.openprojects.net and join the channels #linuxhelp , #linpeople , or #redhat . (To get on irc you can use kvirc, bitchx, x-chat, or whatever else might have came with Redhat)
You could also check out the documents at http://www.linuxdoc.org
Or if you can't figure it out through those sources you could try the linux man pages (type man man)
As a last resort you could contact me at errolevel@geek.com or on irc.dal.net in #qbasic.
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Actually, DCI has ExxonMobil as a client.
At the junior college I attended (http://www.llcc.edu/), there were two types of computer science degrees. The first was the A.A.S. which was the applied degree. The second (the one you would be interested in) was the A.S. degree.
The A.S. usually has the transferrable credits. In my case, almost all of my courses transferred. LLCC (Lincoln Land Community College) is almost right next door to the University of Illinois at Springfield and they have a close working relationship. Most of the people that attend LLCC go on to attend UIS, so the courses are designed accordingly. My advice would be to seek out a junior college that has a similar set up. Also, be sure to talk to the college advisors since very often they will have access to the course catalogues for other state schools.
Don't be afraid to call any prospective universities and speak to an advisor. Explain that you will be a transfer student and ask if there are courses that you can take at your current school that will transfer. Sometimes the person with whom you speak will be the same person that determines what courses the school will accept as transfer credit.
Also, junior colleges are much cheaper than four-year institutions. In Illinois, if you get a A.A. or an A.S. at a junior college, then usually any general education requirements that you would have needed to fulfill at the university level are considered completed. See if you can take advantage of any similar arrangements in your location.
Does anybody know what distributions are affected by this vulnerability?
The last PHP update (which is where the vulnerability lies) for Debian Woody is from July 20th.
I know that quite a few of my friends that play America's Army: Online use a program called TeamSpeak from http://www.teamspeak.org . I can't vouch for its stability, but I haven't heard any complains from them.
For those that care, there is even a Linux client and server.
Jared Lash
Cool!
I remember taking apart the Data Checker system that was manufactured by National Semiconductor in 1979 which I acquired from my highschool. It had some of the largest capaciters I've ever seen. The largest one was probably around 4 inches in diameter. If only I had had this guy's idea first.... :)
Suddenly my DSL no longer seems fast enough.
she keeps asking me why I want to free my null pointer in the sex routine.
It went something like this:
:) Sorry if I screwed it up. :)
/her/* ; do touch "$i" ; done
"The thing I want to see most is for Larry Wall to give Bill Gates a perl necklace."
Laugh! It's supposed to be funny.
I'd like to leave you with this: for i in
Thanks for twisting my comment into a Microsoft bash. Of course, everybody on slashdot is against Microsoft. Didn't you know that? We all hate their guts and suspect they will do everything they can to keep their image of evil.
Then again, they might be like any other software company and make mistakes such as not checking to see if raw access will be overwriting data on another OS's partition. Hmrph!
(Moderators, mod me as you will, I don't post enough to care.)
Does anybody else get nervous about letting Windows have raw access to the same hard disk that some other OS might also be installed on? I wonder if Microsoft will make any effort to put in controls so that the database stays in its own partition.
Anyone else have any idea what they might do? Afterall, that'd be one way of attacking its number one threat: erase it.
RMS has ideas and though some may argue that they are extreme, he isn't afraid to do something about them. Him running for a position on the GNOME Foundation's board of directors is a perfect example.
Where would one find information on learning to apply this technology to new games? I saw an earlier post which said the poster had used it for a massively multiplayer online game. I'm very interested in trying to use this technology. Any links about how to implement this or something similar would be highly appreciated.
Hopefully I'm not pulling all of this out of my caboose. What I learned in highschool is that DNA is a blueprint. That's all I learned about it. I did learn about Gregor Mendel (read the article if you need a refreshing on who I'm talking about) and I couldn't figure out how such strict rules about dominant and recessive genes could produce the variety of species we have.
If dominant and recessive genes really were so binary in nature (D | R = D, R | R = R, D | D = D, etc) then unless there was more imbreeding going on, all recessive genes would've eventually gone away and we would all be the same.
Alas, like the article says, this isn't the case. It is a rather horrifying thought that everything can be known about you through your DNA. It is also a rather upsetting thought that all of your choices that you make in life could be pre-determined by your DNA. Tests do show (as stated by the article), however, that a persons environment has a large affect on how s/he turns out.
It is for this reason that I think of DNA as merely being a blueprint. Just like the blueprint to a house, you can view it and see how it is supposed to be, but the houses environment plays a large role in how it turns out (method used to prevent water from coming in the basement, type of roofing used, etc.).
Maybe someone could hack this to make his/her motherboard automatically work at getting first post!
...and I was going buy more ram with my $50 :-/
I've heard one of the best things about the Linux community is that it likes to help new members. That said, I'd like to list a few places where you could get help if you need it. On IRC you can use the server irc.openprojects.net and join the channels #linuxhelp , #linpeople , or #redhat . (To get on irc you can use kvirc, bitchx, x-chat, or whatever else might have came with Redhat) You could also check out the documents at http://www.linuxdoc.org Or if you can't figure it out through those sources you could try the linux man pages (type man man) As a last resort you could contact me at errolevel@geek.com or on irc.dal.net in #qbasic.