a) can provide some sort of proof that you are in
fact a graduate student pursuing a PhD in a field that would require such a server
b) are willing to pay shipping charges
-and-
c) don't mind that it doesn't have a CDROM
Then I have an AMD K6-2 450 with 64MB of ram and a 4gig hard drive that you can HAVE... be warned it is an oldish Aptiva, but still very workable.
shattersword@hotmail.com
I have been testing ever since I first heard whispers of this bug this morning and both of my test machines (one VIA KT266A/AthlonXP, one 440BX/dual pentium-II) which use ReiserFS seem completely unaffected... More after continued testing.
The question "can video games be art or are they simply an entertainment medium?" (more or less) was posed above. I'd like to remind/.ers that many people get a great deal of entertainment from going to art museums. As to code being skilled labor, in many cases (i.e. Michelangelo) art was the profession of the artist, who would be hired and paid for by one or another rich noble. A medium does not have to be A) boring or B) originally done as a hobby to be art. Think about it.
From what I remember of my American National Government classes patents can only be held for 17 years anyway. So I think I'll just sit here on top of my pentium 90 until 2018 when all of these standards will be free again! (err... assuming they still have electrical outlets in 2019. eep! that's a creepy thought)
Wow am I glad that you have so much time on your hands that you can't think of anything better to do than wait around Ctrl-F5-ing slashdot so you can tell everyone that you have the first post... Do I hear your scripts calling?
Yeah really, Slack was my first real linux distro back in the days when you had to have extensive knowledge of C/C++ just to get the thing installed. I have tried almost every flavor that I could find, but all of their cute little utilities that do things "automatically" for you have just never really worked as well as simply knowing how things work behind the scenes. I don't deny that slack isn't for everyone... most people simply don't care enough to bother learning what goes where, but for those who are ready to move beyond linuxconf *cough, cough*...
Maybe Windows doesn't run on top of DOS anymore (I am tempted to say that I have my doubts;-) ), but at least in XP they brought back the ability to create a DOS bootdisk! (a feature that I wanted to repeatedly kick Win2k for not having....)... maybe I'm being redundant, who knows?
It is largely a good idea, but as we are all aware it could very easily be abused. Your suggestion (whoever you are this time Anonymous Coward) of secret searches and/or repeated searches (not to mention planting evidence) is nearly ludicrous considering that those things would still be highly illegal and punishable by law. If anything, this is intended to help protect the innocent by hindering criminals avoiding the law!
Check it out if you like. CSMaster
It's all done with C++ CGIs.
I'm not opposing your statement, I'm upholding it only you left out a piece. C++ is really great for some things, but in certain cases you need scripting languages (even scripts generated on the fly by c++ programs). =)
A while back I was required to do an extensive research paper and a presentation on a particular programming language. The language I was assigned was Ruby...mostly because my professor at the time had heard it mentioned once and really knew nothing about it. I will regret that encounter until the day I die.
When I researched it (and I'll admit that this WAS a longish time ago) there were NO books published in english on the subject and all I had to go on was the tiny bit of documentation that came with the distrobution.
Anyway, here's my point. I benchmarked Ruby against various other programming languages doing a very very simple loop in which an integer variable was incremented from 1 to 1 million. It was marked against Perl, Python, and (unfairly) C++. The results were rather interesting.
C++ approx. 1.01 seconds
Perl approx. 18.3 seconds
Python approx. 21.2 seconds
Ruby approx 47 seconds
Does anyone other than me see the problem with that?
You may think it foolish of me to say this, but I will say it anyway...
I am a programmer by profession and have been for several years and for several different companies (some of which I know that all of you have heard of). During that time I have met perhaps five people who chose to program because they like to program rather than because it is a fairly lucrative field. Among the second group there have been accountants, tax preparers, real estate agents, et cetera. It isn't that they couldn't make money (even a lot of money) elsewhere, it is that they decided that it would be quicker if they could program (I personally envy some of them their training in other areas... I love to program but I would love to make the kind of money that a CPA does).
I suppose my point is that out of work programmers largely would not be "unemployable" in their "chosen field", but instead may be unemployable only in one of several.
Slashdot Mirror
There is an error in the article regarding the
Shutte AK31 V3.1. They state that the FSB clock
speed maxes out at 133Mhz, this is incorrect.
The Shuttle AK31 V3.1 supports FSB speeds up to
166Mhz! I have 2 of them, both with
the latest bios version. Both of them support a
166Mhz FSB. Anyway, that's all.
if you
a) can provide some sort of proof that you are in
fact a graduate student pursuing a PhD in a field that would require such a server
b) are willing to pay shipping charges
-and-
c) don't mind that it doesn't have a CDROM
Then I have an AMD K6-2 450 with 64MB of ram and a 4gig hard drive that you can HAVE... be warned it is an oldish Aptiva, but still very workable.
shattersword@hotmail.com
I have been testing ever since I first heard whispers of this bug this morning and both of my test machines (one VIA KT266A/AthlonXP, one 440BX/dual pentium-II) which use ReiserFS seem completely unaffected... More after continued testing.
The question "can video games be art or are they simply an entertainment medium?" (more or less) was posed above. I'd like to remind /.ers that many people get a great deal of entertainment from going to art museums. As to code being skilled labor, in many cases (i.e. Michelangelo) art was the profession of the artist, who would be hired and paid for by one or another rich noble. A medium does not have to be A) boring or B) originally done as a hobby to be art. Think about it.
From what I remember of my American National Government classes patents can only be held for 17 years anyway. So I think I'll just sit here on top of my pentium 90 until 2018 when all of these standards will be free again! (err... assuming they still have electrical outlets in 2019. eep! that's a creepy thought)
When we at OBU started getting that way
we did this: CSMaster
Don't give up! Life doesn't always suck!
Wow am I glad that you have so much time on your hands that you can't think of anything better to do than wait around Ctrl-F5-ing slashdot so you can tell everyone that you have the first post... Do I hear your scripts calling?
(apologies to moderators)
Yeah really, Slack was my first real linux distro back in the days when you had to have extensive knowledge of C/C++ just to get the thing installed. I have tried almost every flavor that I could find, but all of their cute little utilities that do things "automatically" for you have just never really worked as well as simply knowing how things work behind the scenes. I don't deny that slack isn't for everyone... most people simply don't care enough to bother learning what goes where, but for those who are ready to move beyond linuxconf *cough, cough*...
Maybe Windows doesn't run on top of DOS anymore (I am tempted to say that I have my doubts ;-) ), but at least in XP they brought back the ability to create a DOS bootdisk! (a feature that I wanted to repeatedly kick Win2k for not having....)... maybe I'm being redundant, who knows?
But honestly though...
It is largely a good idea, but as we are all aware it could very easily be abused. Your suggestion (whoever you are this time Anonymous Coward) of secret searches and/or repeated searches (not to mention planting evidence) is nearly ludicrous considering that those things would still be highly illegal and punishable by law. If anything, this is intended to help protect the innocent by hindering criminals avoiding the law!
Check it out if you like.
CSMaster
It's all done with C++ CGIs.
I'm not opposing your statement, I'm upholding it only you left out a piece. C++ is really great for some things, but in certain cases you need scripting languages (even scripts generated on the fly by c++ programs). =)
A while back I was required to do an extensive research paper and a presentation on a particular programming language. The language I was assigned was Ruby...mostly because my professor at the time had heard it mentioned once and really knew nothing about it. I will regret that encounter until the day I die. When I researched it (and I'll admit that this WAS a longish time ago) there were NO books published in english on the subject and all I had to go on was the tiny bit of documentation that came with the distrobution. Anyway, here's my point. I benchmarked Ruby against various other programming languages doing a very very simple loop in which an integer variable was incremented from 1 to 1 million. It was marked against Perl, Python, and (unfairly) C++. The results were rather interesting. C++ approx. 1.01 seconds Perl approx. 18.3 seconds Python approx. 21.2 seconds Ruby approx 47 seconds Does anyone other than me see the problem with that?
You may think it foolish of me to say this, but I will say it anyway... I am a programmer by profession and have been for several years and for several different companies (some of which I know that all of you have heard of). During that time I have met perhaps five people who chose to program because they like to program rather than because it is a fairly lucrative field. Among the second group there have been accountants, tax preparers, real estate agents, et cetera. It isn't that they couldn't make money (even a lot of money) elsewhere, it is that they decided that it would be quicker if they could program (I personally envy some of them their training in other areas... I love to program but I would love to make the kind of money that a CPA does). I suppose my point is that out of work programmers largely would not be "unemployable" in their "chosen field", but instead may be unemployable only in one of several.