I wish when I was in high-school (10+ years ago) and now Latin was still required. So many languages and technical terms are based on Latin that if you know Latin, you can actually figure out a lot just by looking at the roots of the words. Just like spelling, another important facet of knowledge that has fallen by the wayside.
Indeed, NetBSD is quite bare-boned, at least that's what I've noticed from the few installs I've done. Everyone says how bare-bones OpenBSD is, but it's actually quite full-featured compared to the other BSDs and Linux distributions. With OpenBSD, you really have a full-featured general-purpose server right out of the box (just edit rc.conf to suit) whereas NetBSD does require more in-depth configuration. But it's a great learning experience, and once you're done you know exactly what's on the machine and what it's doing. By the way, I find NetBSD to be a screamingly fast OS. Even more so than FreeBSD. Given the similarity among the BSDs, it's surprising that performance differences are so noticeable.
Speaking of the CDW ads, what is "Fred" supposed to do, just buy new stuff from CDW whenever someone has a problem? A well-qualified monkey could do that. However, some of the lines are quite true to life. How about "I think I brought down the internet."
Meanwhile, the internet (and swelling need for bandwidth) makes bunker technology highly desirable.
Actually, you're referring to two different parties. The bunkers are obsolete to the industry, but highly desirable to hobbyists. Same thing with computer hardware: those big Vaxen and other minis and workstations are long since obsolete to the industry, but desirable to hobbyists that can now get them for next to nothing.
Spot on - I work in mechanical engineering. No wonder I tend to think engineers are somewhat empowered. In the mechanical field, it's easy - if something doesn't work, you fix it. Before it goes out. It's such a simple concept, that I naturally assumed it applied to other areas of engineering/development.
Alright, I know that engineers don't have as much influence over the final product as marketing or management, but with as many engineers as Microsoft likely employs, and for the 10+ years that Windows has been around, one might think the products, and they haven't yet been able to engineers would have some influence by now. Am I wrong? Are the brilliant Microsoft engineers simply forced to badly engineer Microsoft influence the final outcome of any products? These bright engineers are forced to ignore their engineering instincts and botch products? I simply find it difficult to believe that if the engineers really are so good, they would be completely stifled for so long.
...broadband Internet access should become part of a city's infrastructure
It may be a good idea in terms of lowering prices and increasing access (to neighborhoods that currently don't have any broadband options) but anything that's part of a city's infrastructure will be regulated as such. Not to mention that Big Brother won't have to go far to log and snoop on your browsing habits, etc. I can imagine way too much potential for abuse in such a scenario.
Did you have classes in telephone or television use when you were in school?
That analogy does not work, because for the most part, telephones and televisions aren't used by teachers to teach their students, to provide communications between teachers and students, or to expose the students to real-world practices.
Computers are used in all of these functions. Computers are used (in the real world) in the fields taught in school. Sure, kids have to read math textbooks to learn the basics, but they also have to be exposed to mathematics as it is practiced by mathematicians (which involves computers.) Imagine taking a metal shop class, for example. You might get taught the basics of machining with a standard Bridgeport mill, hand cranks and all, but ideally you would also be exposed to CNC mills, since CNC is a rapidly developing technology in the machining industry, much like computers are in many/most other industries.
Plus, the use of computers and the internet enables teachers and students to more easily and frequently communicate with each other. The level of communication (email/chat/IM) when computers are part of the mix is much higher than when students and teachers had to either meet in person or use the telephone (I tried to avoid both myself.)
Finally, how about lecture notes? How obvious is that one? Instead of hand-scrawled notes on a transparency or blackboard, how about crisp, clean, easy to read lecture notes in a PowerPoint presentation? And wouldn't it be nice to download that presentation if you missed class?
Or, as has been said in the past, go and download something from Sun. They've got pretty good connectivity (actually they have their own mirrors); I generally download from Sun at the full rated speed of my connection, whereas if you are downloading anything from a Linux mirror site, you may be limited by their bandwidth. YMMV. Obviously, this is an extremely unscientific exercise, but if you are seeing numbers in the ballpark (about 170-175KBytes/sec observed) it's a decent yardstick.
I believe this article is intended more for the home user. Setting aside the legal and ethical aspects of the article, it might be interesting to have a PIX firewall at home (once again, if it were legal/ethical.) That said, anyone who builds one of these things for company use deserves whatever he gets. Nevermind the fact that you won't be able to get Cisco support for one of these contraptions, if you get caught doing this you'll be in big trouble.
Not to mention it's not supported, if something happens Cisco will not come to your aid.
Get real... Do you seriously think someone who goes ahead and builds one of these homebrew PIXs thinks they will get support if they call Cisco? That's like stealing a car and expecting to have warranty work done on the car. Besides, anyone who builds one of these things is most likely knowledgeable enough to not want or need to call Cisco for support.
On the other hand, many people think that "real technology people" are the ones who have "the latest cell phone" or who buy "the latest PC." On the contrary, the real geeks/hackers are the ones who realize that it doesn't matter whether or not you have "the latest $device," rather it's what you are capable of doing with $device. As far as the suits go, I think that as Linux has made inroads into big business, Linux and its proponents are being taken seriously enough that the rest of the "suits" would like or expect to see Linux people wearing suits.
IMO (n.b. I haven't looked at the relevant RFCs).org makes a lot of sense for individuals with domains for personal use. Individuals having.com domains never made sense to me, since.com refers to commercial entities. Subconsciously, whenever I see an individual with a.com domain, it seems ambiguous as to whether it is truly just an individual, or if they have some commercial intent. One might argue that.org makes no sense for individuals, either, since.org is meant to refer to non-profit organizations. However, in my eyes,.org simply makes sense for any organization/individual that is not a commercial entity.
... once a year the EE department at Purdue would toss CRTs from the top of a parking garage
Where I went, there was a tradition of tossing just about whatever the hell we had off the top of the parking garage, whenever we felt like it. Of course, it wasn't sanctioned by any department, so it was usually a "drop, watch, and run" affair.
Bread yeast doesn't go through rigorous quality control like beer yeast, so it's generally a mish-mash of various pure and wild yeast strains and bacteria, or whatever else is in the ambient air. Bread yeast is optimized for fast reproduction, with explosive growth compared to most yeast used in beer. Yeast used in beer, however, generally consists of pure cultures, e.g. if one is brewing an English style ale, a yeast strain would be selected that is similar to that used in English breweries. Beer yeasts are distinguished by the subtle flavor characteristics they impart to the finished beer and the conditions under which they are to be used. In other words, if you were to pick a beer yeast to make bread, you would want to pick a yeast that reprodices very quickly, say a German ale yeast. As for sourdough, IIRC sourdough starters contain certain strains of bacteria that produce the sourness.
One can be a halfway-decent cook by simply using good/interesting recipes and not making any mistakes. I don't consider myself a good cook, but I can follow a recipe precisely and produce the dish the way it was intended. However, being a truly good cook involves being adept at all of the techniques, plus creativity. Good cooks/chefs are known for their specialties, not how well they can prepare a standard dish.
I'll use a recipe as a guideline and use rough estimates
My point exactly; recipes are good as guidelines, but you usually end up with something boring unless you add your own touch to it. On the other hand, you have to know where to change things and where not to change. You also have to know how those changes are going to change the final product.
From the technical background of the project: No tailwind will be needed although there probably will be one.
they have checked out the duration of the power source by flying it over their back yard for that amount of time - hardly a major proposition.
Again, from the article: His models currently hold records for... duration (33.67 hrs)...
So, to recap, this flight will not be aided substantially by tailwinds, although the more tailwind the better, and it will also set a new distance record.
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I wish when I was in high-school (10+ years ago) and now Latin was still required. So many languages and technical terms are based on Latin that if you know Latin, you can actually figure out a lot just by looking at the roots of the words. Just like spelling, another important facet of knowledge that has fallen by the wayside.
eubonics
"Eubonics?" What's that, game show speak? Coined by several Bob Eubanks devotees?
Hmm... NAMBLA... perv... does your "office" happen to be a Catholic church? :)
Uhh... did you mean converse and necessarily?
Indeed, NetBSD is quite bare-boned, at least that's what I've noticed from the few installs I've done. Everyone says how bare-bones OpenBSD is, but it's actually quite full-featured compared to the other BSDs and Linux distributions. With OpenBSD, you really have a full-featured general-purpose server right out of the box (just edit rc.conf to suit) whereas NetBSD does require more in-depth configuration. But it's a great learning experience, and once you're done you know exactly what's on the machine and what it's doing. By the way, I find NetBSD to be a screamingly fast OS. Even more so than FreeBSD. Given the similarity among the BSDs, it's surprising that performance differences are so noticeable.
Speaking of the CDW ads, what is "Fred" supposed to do, just buy new stuff from CDW whenever someone has a problem? A well-qualified monkey could do that. However, some of the lines are quite true to life. How about "I think I brought down the internet."
Actually, you're referring to two different parties. The bunkers are obsolete to the industry, but highly desirable to hobbyists. Same thing with computer hardware: those big Vaxen and other minis and workstations are long since obsolete to the industry, but desirable to hobbyists that can now get them for next to nothing.
One nitpick: IIRC it would be CPU #0 - CPU #63
Spot on - I work in mechanical engineering. No wonder I tend to think engineers are somewhat empowered. In the mechanical field, it's easy - if something doesn't work, you fix it. Before it goes out. It's such a simple concept, that I naturally assumed it applied to other areas of engineering/development.
Alright, I know that engineers don't have as much influence over the final product as marketing or management, but with as many engineers as Microsoft likely employs, and for the 10+ years that Windows has been around, one might think the products, and they haven't yet been able to engineers would have some influence by now. Am I wrong? Are the brilliant Microsoft engineers simply forced to badly engineer Microsoft influence the final outcome of any products? These bright engineers are forced to ignore their engineering instincts and botch products? I simply find it difficult to believe that if the engineers really are so good, they would be completely stifled for so long.
It may be a good idea in terms of lowering prices and increasing access (to neighborhoods that currently don't have any broadband options) but anything that's part of a city's infrastructure will be regulated as such. Not to mention that Big Brother won't have to go far to log and snoop on your browsing habits, etc. I can imagine way too much potential for abuse in such a scenario.
Uhhh... or should it be TerroristXP?
That analogy does not work, because for the most part, telephones and televisions aren't used by teachers to teach their students, to provide communications between teachers and students, or to expose the students to real-world practices.
Computers are used in all of these functions. Computers are used (in the real world) in the fields taught in school. Sure, kids have to read math textbooks to learn the basics, but they also have to be exposed to mathematics as it is practiced by mathematicians (which involves computers.) Imagine taking a metal shop class, for example. You might get taught the basics of machining with a standard Bridgeport mill, hand cranks and all, but ideally you would also be exposed to CNC mills, since CNC is a rapidly developing technology in the machining industry, much like computers are in many/most other industries.
Plus, the use of computers and the internet enables teachers and students to more easily and frequently communicate with each other. The level of communication (email/chat/IM) when computers are part of the mix is much higher than when students and teachers had to either meet in person or use the telephone (I tried to avoid both myself.)
Finally, how about lecture notes? How obvious is that one? Instead of hand-scrawled notes on a transparency or blackboard, how about crisp, clean, easy to read lecture notes in a PowerPoint presentation? And wouldn't it be nice to download that presentation if you missed class?
Or, as has been said in the past, go and download something from Sun. They've got pretty good connectivity (actually they have their own mirrors); I generally download from Sun at the full rated speed of my connection, whereas if you are downloading anything from a Linux mirror site, you may be limited by their bandwidth. YMMV. Obviously, this is an extremely unscientific exercise, but if you are seeing numbers in the ballpark (about 170-175KBytes/sec observed) it's a decent yardstick.
I believe this article is intended more for the home user. Setting aside the legal and ethical aspects of the article, it might be interesting to have a PIX firewall at home (once again, if it were legal/ethical.) That said, anyone who builds one of these things for company use deserves whatever he gets. Nevermind the fact that you won't be able to get Cisco support for one of these contraptions, if you get caught doing this you'll be in big trouble.
Get real... Do you seriously think someone who goes ahead and builds one of these homebrew PIXs thinks they will get support if they call Cisco? That's like stealing a car and expecting to have warranty work done on the car. Besides, anyone who builds one of these things is most likely knowledgeable enough to not want or need to call Cisco for support.
Reminds me of Santa Cruz skateboards.
On the other hand, many people think that "real technology people" are the ones who have "the latest cell phone" or who buy "the latest PC." On the contrary, the real geeks/hackers are the ones who realize that it doesn't matter whether or not you have "the latest $device," rather it's what you are capable of doing with $device. As far as the suits go, I think that as Linux has made inroads into big business, Linux and its proponents are being taken seriously enough that the rest of the "suits" would like or expect to see Linux people wearing suits.
IMO (n.b. I haven't looked at the relevant RFCs) .org makes a lot of sense for individuals with domains for personal use. Individuals having .com domains never made sense to me, since .com refers to commercial entities. Subconsciously, whenever I see an individual with a .com domain, it seems ambiguous as to whether it is truly just an individual, or if they have some commercial intent. One might argue that .org makes no sense for individuals, either, since .org is meant to refer to non-profit organizations. However, in my eyes, .org simply makes sense for any organization/individual that is not a commercial entity.
Maybe if people would stop takin' old monitors out to th' field and shootin' 'em full o' lead, things would be diff'rent
Where I went, there was a tradition of tossing just about whatever the hell we had off the top of the parking garage, whenever we felt like it. Of course, it wasn't sanctioned by any department, so it was usually a "drop, watch, and run" affair.
Bread yeast doesn't go through rigorous quality control like beer yeast, so it's generally a mish-mash of various pure and wild yeast strains and bacteria, or whatever else is in the ambient air. Bread yeast is optimized for fast reproduction, with explosive growth compared to most yeast used in beer. Yeast used in beer, however, generally consists of pure cultures, e.g. if one is brewing an English style ale, a yeast strain would be selected that is similar to that used in English breweries. Beer yeasts are distinguished by the subtle flavor characteristics they impart to the finished beer and the conditions under which they are to be used. In other words, if you were to pick a beer yeast to make bread, you would want to pick a yeast that reprodices very quickly, say a German ale yeast. As for sourdough, IIRC sourdough starters contain certain strains of bacteria that produce the sourness.
My point exactly; recipes are good as guidelines, but you usually end up with something boring unless you add your own touch to it. On the other hand, you have to know where to change things and where not to change. You also have to know how those changes are going to change the final product.
From the technical background of the project:
No tailwind will be needed although there probably will be one.
Again, from the article:
His models currently hold records for
So, to recap, this flight will not be aided substantially by tailwinds, although the more tailwind the better, and it will also set a new distance record.
You're absolutely right, although I don't think a RAM drive or a solid state drive fits in with the context of the original question.