I think you make an important distinction. I attended two traditional brick-and-mortar undergraduate state universities in engineering and math/computer science. I wouldn't characterize the learning as "outstanding" at either, since I did learn a lot more on the job. However, the quality between these and the UofPhx where I got my masters was astounding.
I didn't learn anything. I learned a few things in an accounting class that helps me with budgeting for a non-profit I'm involved with. But most of the work was busy work - reading and posting messages to a Outlook-based message forum. We also had to do 4-5 page papers each week, but the grading was very lax. There was also a lot of group work. Now, I think that this is a good idea since it mimicks the real world where in IT there is a lot of team work required. However, it was very inconsistent with the people who were in my group, and there was no choice on our part of whom to be in groups with.
The biggest frustration was not any hands-on learning. It was all writing papers about databases, networks, operating systems, etc. There wasn't any actual logging into a database, a network switch, a server, or even writing a single line of code. Fortunately, I took it upon myself for my capstone project to do some actual coding and complete a project, rather than the usual writing again.
So now, I'm stuck with $56k of student loans I'm struggling to pay back.
I had a professor who would take all quizzes and tests back after we had looked how they were graded. This procedure of his was documented in the syllabus, but didn't make it any less a pain in the butt. He didn't want his tests ending up in a test file but it made it hard to study the material you were weak on.
It made it that much more difficult when I felt he was singling me out by putting questions on tests that I had missed in on the quizzes.
I looked into it actually and it turns out a big problem with it is Canon, whose when I checked last, only made their SDK available for Windows and it was a closed source product. I tried plugging her camera into the trusty Linux box last with OpenSuse 10, and it was like flying into total darkness. Now that you've jogged my memory a bit, I'll have to try it now that I'm onto Ubuntu.
Interesting - I've plugged two different Canon models into both gthumb and f-spot and had them work (the second was a Rebel XTi) perfectly.
One nice feature of f-spot is the ability to open up a picture with gimp, and have your changes be versioned inside f-spot. I realize that there is more that the proprietary apps do with the integration, but it can be this simple too.
There is a lot of metadata associated with photos, such as date/time, shutter specifics, camera model, etc. that are stored in the EXIF (and other) sections of the file (jpeg, raw, tiff, etc.).
Keeping track of this, plus adding your own custom metadata (captions, tags, etc.) is the job of the photo management software. If you have thousands of photos (like my professional photographer wife does) it becomes essential to use some sort of manager, and Aperture is Apple's version.
One feature that typically has been missing from linux programs is the ability to handle raw format files, though there has been progress on this front.
Maybe I'm missing something, but one thing I like about some of the other programs (even F-Spot) was the ability to version files, and it seems that digiKam doesn't do it. Or is there a kipi plugin for that?
Print to a samba printer, and before CUPS deletes the file copy it over to another location, and voila - you have either the postscript or PCL source of your sheet music!
Okay, enough of the photoshop vs. gimp talk. How about an area of real comparison? How does gimp compare to photoshop with use of a tablet, like a wacom? What about Paint.NET? Or the Corel products? Do they take advantage of the pressure sensitivity? Last I checked, gimp did not, photoshop did. Don't know about the others. Or maybe gimp on linux can, but not gimp on windows.
Let's stop talking about theoretical uses, and try and answer a REAL question.
What about google earth? You can download all kinds of contributed 3D models of buildings. There is enough detail that you could figure out how to blow up a skyscraper and have it fall into another one, if you were so inclined. Will this be banned next??
Plus, how many high schools have models in google earth already?
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I'd have to disagree. Beyond the normal rules of the road, there isn't any cooperation between the drivers. Now, if the drivers were chained together to pull a really large load, then there would be cooperation of the same magnitude that geeks use when cracking DRM.
Save off your home directory, and any tweaks you may have to the OS (packages, configuration, etc) should be in your kickstart file. New machine? No problem. Works on servers, works on laptops.
I was brought in on a large project for a major moving company (you would recognize the trucks on the interstate) where performance problems were killing the business. The shipping industry is very complicated, and the rules and regulations required by the states and by the federal government easily fill several inches of books stacked up. How to codify all those requirements? Anyway, the end-users were seeing such bad response time that they had to add additional shifts in the off-periods to be able to get all their work done. Since it was a very complicated multi-tier environment (db, application servers, citrix, WANs, etc.) I thought I'd sit with the users to see what they were seeing. As the user went through the process of inputting a form from a piece of paper that was filled out by an agent at the customer's home, I was astounded at one point when the user opened up her drawer and pulled out a slide-rule like device that she then did a calculation on just to type it into an input field! Whoever had done the systems analysis of this application had done a really poor job! That really made an impression on me.
(The performance problem was due to a DBA insisting that he didn't need to pin the SGA of the database in memory).
Not only that, but we spend more than the next fifteen countries combined. The amount we spend on "defense" is astounding, especially as it relates to current threats and priorities in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Religion and science, faith and reason, don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. While raised Catholic, I tend to be very science oriented (which probably impacted my geekiness) and if I had to pin down my views, would tend towards Deism, not unlike Thomas Jefferson. While many people have trouble reconciling faith and reason, both are welcome at my UU church, and since I started attending and being involved, my stress level has definitely gone down.
I find articles like the one posted quite suspect. Legacy hardware can easily run WinXP as well, and there is Virtual PC for the hard core legacy apps that can be tightly wrapped in the new OSes security...
I am just astounded by the lack of interest in this approach. We have a product development group here that has to support the products on OSes going back to Windows 3.1, with a large number of win95 and win98 customers. No, I kid you not. Our customers all over the world vary from large companies to small mom and pop shops, and the smaller ones tend not to upgrade at all. So in a server consolidation measure I proposed, loading up 60 of these servers into VMware guests running on just a few beefy machines. The parent is right: the security can be managed at the host level, putting the guests behind NAT. But why aren't more people doing this sort of thing for their 'vintage' OSes and product support needs? I guess it's inertia - if it's still working the way it is, don't change it.
Oh and how does the sever product compare to Workstation... is it the same?
VMware seems to put all the "good stuff" in Workstation and then it filters down into the GSX, ESX and now VMware Server products. So workstation is at 5.5.x and has features that are not available yet, but most importantly, the format of the virtual machines is backwards compatible with VMware Server. That is, you must create a legacy vm in workstation if you want to use it elsewhere. However, they are all upwards compatable so that anything will run on workstation. Just a gotcha to keep an eye out for.
I've been using moho for a couple of years now. The features can't be beat:
- runs on linux
- scriptable with lua
- great forum
- particles
- bones (inverse kinematics) as you noticed
- batch rendering
- 2.5d (move camera and 2d objects around in 3d space)
- import 3d objects
It's a great program, I use it every day for animation, for creating DVD menus, for creating swf files, just about everything.
Having been one of those who not only has written dozens of letters to many elected officials, protested, mobilized my neighbors, started website communities, and even created two movies. I think that the right thing to do *is* to create a game like this to get the word out. The average person doesn't care about politics, but a game like this is something that will spark interest. The only way to get our rights back is to influence a large number of people. The game will influence a large number of people.
I tend to agree with the above post: "do as I say, not as I do" is a big mistake of managers. Also, it is an apt description of the difference between a manager and a leader. But as I have just finished my Masters from University of Phoenix (MS-CIS, and not all that helpful, btw) there was one book that we read that was helpful.
It is a little centered towards a development crew, but I think all of the ideas work well for any kind of IT management. I highly recommend it, and have several people who've read my copy. I've even thought about giving it to some of my previous managers anonymously.
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I think you make an important distinction. I attended two traditional brick-and-mortar undergraduate state universities in engineering and math/computer science. I wouldn't characterize the learning as "outstanding" at either, since I did learn a lot more on the job. However, the quality between these and the UofPhx where I got my masters was astounding.
I didn't learn anything. I learned a few things in an accounting class that helps me with budgeting for a non-profit I'm involved with. But most of the work was busy work - reading and posting messages to a Outlook-based message forum. We also had to do 4-5 page papers each week, but the grading was very lax. There was also a lot of group work. Now, I think that this is a good idea since it mimicks the real world where in IT there is a lot of team work required. However, it was very inconsistent with the people who were in my group, and there was no choice on our part of whom to be in groups with.
The biggest frustration was not any hands-on learning. It was all writing papers about databases, networks, operating systems, etc. There wasn't any actual logging into a database, a network switch, a server, or even writing a single line of code. Fortunately, I took it upon myself for my capstone project to do some actual coding and complete a project, rather than the usual writing again.
So now, I'm stuck with $56k of student loans I'm struggling to pay back.
I definitely would NOT recommend UofPhoenix.
Try splunk. This should do exactly what you need - a way to "grep" through all the logs intelligently.
I had a professor who would take all quizzes and tests back after we had looked how they were graded. This procedure of his was documented in the syllabus, but didn't make it any less a pain in the butt. He didn't want his tests ending up in a test file but it made it hard to study the material you were weak on.
It made it that much more difficult when I felt he was singling me out by putting questions on tests that I had missed in on the quizzes.
Was I the only one who read it as " Full Immersion Coding Comes To Desktop PCs" ?
I had a picture in my head of a waterproof system. Perhaps it's a metaphor for coding while drinking a microbrew....
I looked into it actually and it turns out a big problem with it is Canon, whose when I checked last, only made their SDK available for Windows and it was a closed source product. I tried plugging her camera into the trusty Linux box last with OpenSuse 10, and it was like flying into total darkness. Now that you've jogged my memory a bit, I'll have to try it now that I'm onto Ubuntu.
Interesting - I've plugged two different Canon models into both gthumb and f-spot and had them work (the second was a Rebel XTi) perfectly.
One nice feature of f-spot is the ability to open up a picture with gimp, and have your changes be versioned inside f-spot. I realize that there is more that the proprietary apps do with the integration, but it can be this simple too.
Has anyone tried to run this under wine? The wine app db only has old entries for this media management package.
There is a lot of metadata associated with photos, such as date/time, shutter specifics, camera model, etc. that are stored in the EXIF (and other) sections of the file (jpeg, raw, tiff, etc.).
Keeping track of this, plus adding your own custom metadata (captions, tags, etc.) is the job of the photo management software. If you have thousands of photos (like my professional photographer wife does) it becomes essential to use some sort of manager, and Aperture is Apple's version.
One feature that typically has been missing from linux programs is the ability to handle raw format files, though there has been progress on this front.
Maybe I'm missing something, but one thing I like about some of the other programs (even F-Spot) was the ability to version files, and it seems that digiKam doesn't do it. Or is there a kipi plugin for that?
The way around this:
Print to a samba printer, and before CUPS deletes the file copy it over to another location, and voila - you have either the postscript or PCL source of your sheet music!
Okay, enough of the photoshop vs. gimp talk. How about an area of real comparison? How does gimp compare to photoshop with use of a tablet, like a wacom? What about Paint.NET? Or the Corel products? Do they take advantage of the pressure sensitivity? Last I checked, gimp did not, photoshop did. Don't know about the others. Or maybe gimp on linux can, but not gimp on windows.
Let's stop talking about theoretical uses, and try and answer a REAL question.
What about google earth? You can download all kinds of contributed 3D models of buildings. There is enough detail that you could figure out how to blow up a skyscraper and have it fall into another one, if you were so inclined. Will this be banned next??
Plus, how many high schools have models in google earth already?
I'd have to disagree. Beyond the normal rules of the road, there isn't any cooperation between the drivers. Now, if the drivers were chained together to pull a really large load, then there would be cooperation of the same magnitude that geeks use when cracking DRM.
Please mod parent up - the only thing these sites are doing is forcing customers to their competitors. As well as pissing off the /. crowd.
Save off your home directory, and any tweaks you may have to the OS (packages, configuration, etc) should be in your kickstart file. New machine? No problem. Works on servers, works on laptops.
Thought you said... features that SPAMmers etc. are relaying on stop working.
I was brought in on a large project for a major moving company (you would recognize the trucks on the interstate) where performance problems were killing the business. The shipping industry is very complicated, and the rules and regulations required by the states and by the federal government easily fill several inches of books stacked up. How to codify all those requirements? Anyway, the end-users were seeing such bad response time that they had to add additional shifts in the off-periods to be able to get all their work done. Since it was a very complicated multi-tier environment (db, application servers, citrix, WANs, etc.) I thought I'd sit with the users to see what they were seeing. As the user went through the process of inputting a form from a piece of paper that was filled out by an agent at the customer's home, I was astounded at one point when the user opened up her drawer and pulled out a slide-rule like device that she then did a calculation on just to type it into an input field! Whoever had done the systems analysis of this application had done a really poor job! That really made an impression on me.
(The performance problem was due to a DBA insisting that he didn't need to pin the SGA of the database in memory).
Not only that, but we spend more than the next fifteen countries combined. The amount we spend on "defense" is astounding, especially as it relates to current threats and priorities in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Religion and science, faith and reason, don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. While raised Catholic, I tend to be very science oriented (which probably impacted my geekiness) and if I had to pin down my views, would tend towards Deism, not unlike Thomas Jefferson. While many people have trouble reconciling faith and reason, both are welcome at my UU church, and since I started attending and being involved, my stress level has definitely gone down.
- runs on linux
- scriptable with lua
- great forum
- particles
- bones (inverse kinematics) as you noticed
- batch rendering
- 2.5d (move camera and 2d objects around in 3d space)
- import 3d objects
It's a great program, I use it every day for animation, for creating DVD menus, for creating swf files, just about everything.
Having been one of those who not only has written dozens of letters to many elected officials, protested, mobilized my neighbors, started website communities, and even created two movies. I think that the right thing to do *is* to create a game like this to get the word out. The average person doesn't care about politics, but a game like this is something that will spark interest. The only way to get our rights back is to influence a large number of people. The game will influence a large number of people.
I tend to agree with the above post: "do as I say, not as I do" is a big mistake of managers. Also, it is an apt description of the difference between a manager and a leader. But as I have just finished my Masters from University of Phoenix (MS-CIS, and not all that helpful, btw) there was one book that we read that was helpful.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
It is a little centered towards a development crew, but I think all of the ideas work well for any kind of IT management. I highly recommend it, and have several people who've read my copy. I've even thought about giving it to some of my previous managers anonymously.