I'd like to know if Mac OS X uses the Altivec instructions to their full potential. For example, the article mentions that a heavily loaded server can benefit greatly from Altivec if the TCP checksum algorithm uses it. Does OS X TCP stack do this?
Last summer, I crossed the U.S.-Canada border weekly, crossing via the Peace Bridge in Buffalo or the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. Most of the time when returning to the USA, I was asked a lot of questions: My citizenship, where I was in Canada, for how long, what I was bringing back, if I owned the vehicle, where I lived, if I was a student, and how I knew the other people in the vehicle. Other times, I was simply asked my citizenship and waved by, without the custom's officer even asking for my photo ID. Entering Canada is generally far easier; Usually I got it down to a routine where I don't even wait for the customs officer to speak, I simply say "US Citizen, staying for a few hours, nothing to declare" and they respond "Have a nice day." Canadian customs officials always seem so much more pleasant. They actually smile, too.
Exactly. There's little doubt that fool who leaked the information had, at some point in time, signed NDA's and trade secret agreements. Information that belongs to a company should stay within that company. This person deserves nothing less than to be sued, and hopefully they learn a lesson. Information assets are extremely valuable and need to be protected.
I type this on a Celeron 266 that has been running rock solid stable since my sophomore or junior year in high school. And I'm now a senior in college! You're not kiddin', those old Celerons were an overclockers dream!
This wasn't my mistake, but my younger sister's. She spilled a full glass of Kool-Aid on my mom's HP desktop tower.
Later on, the computer seemed to work, but after about an hour, the monitor went black. My mom figured that the monitor got burnt out, since "the kool-aid landed on the monitor cords." I opened the tower to find Kool-Aid all over the motherboard. With a razor blade and some patience, I was able to remove the Kool-Aid from between the motherboard traces. Apparently, dried Kool-Aid is a decent conductor! I powered it back up and viola! The computer works.:) Never underestimate the power of a razor blade!
I don't bother with technology or computer magazines. I read two magazines on a regular basis: "Trains" and "Model Railroader." Obviously, I'm a railfan. Am I alone?
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I currently have five invites; anyone who would like an invite, send me an e-mail at axr7993@rit.edu... first five will get one.
I got my first cell phone about two months ago, and I went with tmobile. What a mistake that was. The coverage in upstate New York is horrible, unless you're inside of the city limits of Buffalo or Rochester. I am now jealous of my friends, who have Verizon, and pay as much as I do and get twice the number of minutes, but more important, service wherever they go. As soon as I leave any of the major interstates, I'm out of luck and have no service.
Fuck tmobile if you live in NY, go with Verizon or ANYONE but Tmobile. Learn from my mistake.
Exactly. Google (and the entire internet) are accessible from the comfort of our homes. Going to the library to research requires getting up and actually going there. While traditional methods of research certainly have their merits, nothing beats the convenience of Google.
Bullshit. I download from I2Hub all the time (several times per day), often from other universities, and my transfer rates almost always exceed 500kb/sec. I've also pulled well over 1MBit/sec from other universities, although in the neighborhood of 500kb/sec is most usual.
I'm curious, does anyone have advice for a students (I'm a 4th year CE) seeking co-op jobs? My program, which is five years, consists of a year of co-op work, which I must find on my own. Finding co-op jobs has *not* been easy over the past few years for myself and students in my major. It's tough to market yourself toward specific job listings, as we have no real experience thus far. The approach has been the typical send out 100 resumes and cross your fingers.
I am a computer engineer, and I do need a parallel or serial port. I am stuck in the fsckin Windows world, because a large amount of the software I require is win32 only. (Although, a lot of it is migrating to Linux.) Quite often, you'll buy an evaluation board that has serial/parallel to download code with to test out a new chip (such as one I recently purchased for the TI 6711 DSP chip, and also the Spartan2E eval board).
My point: Serial and parallel are not DEAD. Perhaps they're not as widely used as they used to be, but they sure as hell are not dead.
I've found, as a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, having a wireless campus has allows me to more easily waste my idle time surfing the web, chatting on IRC or AIM, etc., instead of browsing through class notes, or doing homework with a pencil and paper. A perfect example of this is our Crossroads Cafeteria. It's so easy for me to surf the web while eating lunch as a result of wired access, when I should be reviewing notes or spending my time otherwise. Perhaps it's self-discipline and not the wireless access that's the problem, but I've really found nothing good about it.
Um, no. I'm an RIT Comp. Eng. student right now, in my 5th year, (4 year program + 1 year co-op) and let me tell you, your degree isn't going to be worth a damn. Good luck finding a job when you graduate.
Everyone is telling you to hire an electrician, a professional. Take their advice. Don't try to do this yourself and don't put the cover back on and just "forget" about this. If the wiring is that bad, that a slight jiggle pops half of the breakers, there are already serious problems and it needs to be fixed *NOW*, regardless of your need for an additional 220V line.
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I'd like to know if Mac OS X uses the Altivec instructions to their full potential. For example, the article mentions that a heavily loaded server can benefit greatly from Altivec if the TCP checksum algorithm uses it. Does OS X TCP stack do this?
Given that this is slashdot, I'd bet most of us "fly virgin" whenever we're in the air... we don't need a damn sticker. :)
Last summer, I crossed the U.S.-Canada border weekly, crossing via the Peace Bridge in Buffalo or the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. Most of the time when returning to the USA, I was asked a lot of questions: My citizenship, where I was in Canada, for how long, what I was bringing back, if I owned the vehicle, where I lived, if I was a student, and how I knew the other people in the vehicle. Other times, I was simply asked my citizenship and waved by, without the custom's officer even asking for my photo ID. Entering Canada is generally far easier; Usually I got it down to a routine where I don't even wait for the customs officer to speak, I simply say "US Citizen, staying for a few hours, nothing to declare" and they respond "Have a nice day." Canadian customs officials always seem so much more pleasant. They actually smile, too.
Exactly. There's little doubt that fool who leaked the information had, at some point in time, signed NDA's and trade secret agreements. Information that belongs to a company should stay within that company. This person deserves nothing less than to be sued, and hopefully they learn a lesson. Information assets are extremely valuable and need to be protected.
I live 18 miles from the lake in New York, and on a clear day, I can see Toronto. It shows up very nicely at night.
Hopefully some of these jobs are entry level positions for recent graduates, or internships and cooperative education positions.
MOD PARENT UP!!
Honestly, I don't mind the colors at all. I find them to be easy on the eyes and not at all distracting.
The "spikes" you are referring to are probably just electrical noise?
I type this on a Celeron 266 that has been running rock solid stable since my sophomore or junior year in high school. And I'm now a senior in college! You're not kiddin', those old Celerons were an overclockers dream!
This wasn't my mistake, but my younger sister's. She spilled a full glass of Kool-Aid on my mom's HP desktop tower.
:) Never underestimate the power of a razor blade!
Later on, the computer seemed to work, but after about an hour, the monitor went black. My mom figured that the monitor got burnt out, since "the kool-aid landed on the monitor cords." I opened the tower to find Kool-Aid all over the motherboard. With a razor blade and some patience, I was able to remove the Kool-Aid from between the motherboard traces. Apparently, dried Kool-Aid is a decent conductor! I powered it back up and viola! The computer works.
I don't bother with technology or computer magazines. I read two magazines on a regular basis: "Trains" and "Model Railroader." Obviously, I'm a railfan. Am I alone?
I currently have five invites; anyone who would like an invite, send me an e-mail at axr7993@rit.edu ... first five will get one.
I got my first cell phone about two months ago, and I went with tmobile. What a mistake that was. The coverage in upstate New York is horrible, unless you're inside of the city limits of Buffalo or Rochester. I am now jealous of my friends, who have Verizon, and pay as much as I do and get twice the number of minutes, but more important, service wherever they go. As soon as I leave any of the major interstates, I'm out of luck and have no service.
Fuck tmobile if you live in NY, go with Verizon or ANYONE but Tmobile. Learn from my mistake.
You can do integer division by simply multiplying and then shifting. Usually, it's just two instructions.
Exactly. Google (and the entire internet) are accessible from the comfort of our homes. Going to the library to research requires getting up and actually going there. While traditional methods of research certainly have their merits, nothing beats the convenience of Google.
Bullshit. I download from I2Hub all the time (several times per day), often from other universities, and my transfer rates almost always exceed 500kb/sec. I've also pulled well over 1MBit/sec from other universities, although in the neighborhood of 500kb/sec is most usual.
Here in Rochester NY, about half of the 20oz bottles I've purchased from vending machines have been winners. I've put them all into tunerecycler.
I'm curious, does anyone have advice for a students (I'm a 4th year CE) seeking co-op jobs? My program, which is five years, consists of a year of co-op work, which I must find on my own. Finding co-op jobs has *not* been easy over the past few years for myself and students in my major. It's tough to market yourself toward specific job listings, as we have no real experience thus far. The approach has been the typical send out 100 resumes and cross your fingers.
I am a computer engineer, and I do need a parallel or serial port. I am stuck in the fsckin Windows world, because a large amount of the software I require is win32 only. (Although, a lot of it is migrating to Linux.) Quite often, you'll buy an evaluation board that has serial/parallel to download code with to test out a new chip (such as one I recently purchased for the TI 6711 DSP chip, and also the Spartan2E eval board).
My point: Serial and parallel are not DEAD. Perhaps they're not as widely used as they used to be, but they sure as hell are not dead.
I've found, as a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, having a wireless campus has allows me to more easily waste my idle time surfing the web, chatting on IRC or AIM, etc., instead of browsing through class notes, or doing homework with a pencil and paper. A perfect example of this is our Crossroads Cafeteria. It's so easy for me to surf the web while eating lunch as a result of wired access, when I should be reviewing notes or spending my time otherwise. Perhaps it's self-discipline and not the wireless access that's the problem, but I've really found nothing good about it.
... we all have backdoors! Nobody will ever figure out the password to my backdoor though!
Um, no. I'm an RIT Comp. Eng. student right now, in my 5th year, (4 year program + 1 year co-op) and let me tell you, your degree isn't going to be worth a damn. Good luck finding a job when you graduate.
The lighter memory usage and faster startup times sound very nice. Maybe not essential, but nice.
Everyone is telling you to hire an electrician, a professional. Take their advice. Don't try to do this yourself and don't put the cover back on and just "forget" about this. If the wiring is that bad, that a slight jiggle pops half of the breakers, there are already serious problems and it needs to be fixed *NOW*, regardless of your need for an additional 220V line.