I've booted linux 2.4 on a 486 with 4 meg of ram and an 80 meg harddisk, didn't get X, but w/ 10 times the amount of ram and 40 times the disk space, you should be golden.
If the video card gives you trouble, just use the generic VGA driver
Unfortunatly I doubt there is one easy way of keeping P2P unpoisoned. It's one of those thorny issues that appear simple but really turn out to big bastards, like cryptography.
One day a student came to Moon and said: "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons."
Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector...
[Ed. note: Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.]
To protect against charges of having simply (and illegally) copied IBM's BIOS, Phoenix reverse-engineered it using what's called a "clean room," or "Chinese wall," approach. First, a team of engineers studied the IBM BIOS--about 8KB of code--and described everything it did as completely as possible without using or referencing any actual code. Then Phoenix brought in a second team of programmers who had no prior knowledge of the IBM BIOS and had never seen its code. Working only from the first team's functional specifications, the second team wrote a new BIOS that operated as specified.
The most important thing is to really know yourself. I'm the kind of person who can pick certain things up and they stick, so some courses didn't require me to study. A few of the more liberal art oriented classes demanded alot more of my time for studying. Spend the first year of college learning about how best to take care of your self. Now is the time to do it.
"This above all, to thine own self be true" - Prometheus, Hamlet
I attended CU Boulder last year and I couldn't get WWV either. Even living in the tallest structers in Boulder didn't help (Williams Village).
As far as dead spots in general go, AM radio is low enough frequency that it will bounce off of clouds and the lower atmosphere, which creates gaps where the signal is being reflected.
Higher performance applications call for probing. It's a little harder to program though. One of my CS professors worked on speech recognition for IBM and they used hash tables for n-gram language modeling, and probed using double hasing I believe. The largest problem with probing is removal, but their program didn't actually remove anything from the table.
Not at all, the algorithims are from seperate families. GIF and PNG are lossless compression, while JPEG uses discreet cosine transform (lossy) I believe. I could be wrong however. As for having an open alternative to JPEG, I think JPEG2000 is supposed to fit the bill.
I didn't know about his book till you told me (and I'm getting it) but I love his show (they can be goofy at times, but once they settle down, you can really learn stuff). His chocolate cookie episode was great, which explained how different flours and fats affected the outcome.
I've been using Debian for almost a year now, and I couldn't be happier. As for the article making it seem that you can't get the latest goodies from Debian, that may have been misleading.
The Debian team maintains 3 branches, Stable, Testing, and Unstable. While Stable uses Kernel 2.2 and XFree86 3, Testing gives you kernel 2.4.16, XFree86 4, and other, up-to-date goodies.
My only complaint about Debain is that the install can be painful, especially to those used to more graphical oriented tools. But the fact that you can burn a 30meg CD and do an install over the internet is very nice (netinst), and once you get used to apt-get, you'll wonder how you got by without it.
I like a little advertising, it can enhance the realism. But it's very easy to take it too far (see MAC and Me for a good example of when a movie takes it too far), or to pander to the company.
Imagine how cool it would be to drive the weinermobile in GTA3, but Oscar Mayer probably would make it so you couldn't run over pedestrians in it.
God that was hard. Seriously folks, ask before you go off shouting about Linux being terrible. 9 out of 10 complaints I've recieved have been about problems that have solutions. I know some can be arcane, but hop on IRC or e-mail a guru before assuming.
Two psychiatrists (whose names escape me) noticed that after having seizures, patients would become more docile. They also noticed that in slaughter houses when the cattle where killed by means of a sledge hammer to the head, they appeared to have seizures.
Realizing that they couldn't strike people over the head too often before permanent damage resulted, they resorted to electrical shocks, and electro-shock therapy was born.
A good example of why having multiple projects is good comes from EGCS and GCC. After GCC 1 was released it was realised that major code changes would need to be made to advance it. Thusly GCC 2 was born. However, another group had split and worked on the EGCS compiler. The EGCS compiler turned out to be so superior it was adopted, and replaced the original GCC 2.
You say you have 10 years experience, which in this industry counts for a lot. However, if it comes down to someone with 5 years employment experience and a degree, vs. you with the 10 years, you might have competition.
The two most important things that college teaches is problem solving and that you'll be able to complete a project.
Unfortunatly some of the fault rests with the government in this case. They really don't leave the company that much of a choice, either sue the people who are using it in a generic way, or lose substantial rights to the mark.
Would it be acceptable to debian policy if we inserted a crontab by default into potato that emailed bill.gates@microsoft.com every morning with an email that read, "Don't worry, linux is a fad..."
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Try a different shell, Ash will be quicker then bash, at that level, I was getting slowed down by my prompt being swapped in and out of memory.
I've booted linux 2.4 on a 486 with 4 meg of ram and an 80 meg harddisk, didn't get X, but w/ 10 times the amount of ram and 40 times the disk space, you should be golden.
If the video card gives you trouble, just use the generic VGA driver
I was reminded of one of the AI Koans
Another good article
Sorry, I meant to say that clean room engineering is legal
I hope they do great, the wit and intelligence in Lucas Arts adventure games are unmatched. I know I'll buy a copy.
The familiar distro (for ARM based PDAs, mostly iPaq's) counted on this heavily I believe, for your handheld.
The most important thing is to really know yourself. I'm the kind of person who can pick certain things up and they stick, so some courses didn't require me to study. A few of the more liberal art oriented classes demanded alot more of my time for studying. Spend the first year of college learning about how best to take care of your self. Now is the time to do it.
"This above all, to thine own self be true" - Prometheus, Hamlet
FORTRAN is used in high performance scientific computing. The language allows for high parrelelization.
I attended CU Boulder last year and I couldn't get WWV either. Even living in the tallest structers in Boulder didn't help (Williams Village).
As far as dead spots in general go, AM radio is low enough frequency that it will bounce off of clouds and the lower atmosphere, which creates gaps where the signal is being reflected.
Higher performance applications call for probing. It's a little harder to program though. One of my CS professors worked on speech recognition for IBM and they used hash tables for n-gram language modeling, and probed using double hasing I believe. The largest problem with probing is removal, but their program didn't actually remove anything from the table.
Not at all, the algorithims are from seperate families. GIF and PNG are lossless compression, while JPEG uses discreet cosine transform (lossy) I believe. I could be wrong however. As for having an open alternative to JPEG, I think JPEG2000 is supposed to fit the bill.
I didn't know about his book till you told me (and I'm getting it) but I love his show (they can be goofy at times, but once they settle down, you can really learn stuff). His chocolate cookie episode was great, which explained how different flours and fats affected the outcome.
I've been using Debian for almost a year now, and I couldn't be happier. As for the article making it seem that you can't get the latest goodies from Debian, that may have been misleading.
The Debian team maintains 3 branches, Stable, Testing, and Unstable. While Stable uses Kernel 2.2 and XFree86 3, Testing gives you kernel 2.4.16, XFree86 4, and other, up-to-date goodies.
My only complaint about Debain is that the install can be painful, especially to those used to more graphical oriented tools. But the fact that you can burn a 30meg CD and do an install over the internet is very nice (netinst), and once you get used to apt-get, you'll wonder how you got by without it.
I like a little advertising, it can enhance the realism. But it's very easy to take it too far (see MAC and Me for a good example of when a movie takes it too far), or to pander to the company.
Imagine how cool it would be to drive the weinermobile in GTA3, but Oscar Mayer probably would make it so you couldn't run over pedestrians in it.
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God that was hard. Seriously folks, ask before you go off shouting about Linux being terrible. 9 out of 10 complaints I've recieved have been about problems that have solutions. I know some can be arcane, but hop on IRC or e-mail a guru before assuming.
Can't they let someone have a vulnerability all to themselves?
It was only the cows that didn't immediatly die that had the seizures, sometimes the blows wouldn't kill the animal.
Two psychiatrists (whose names escape me) noticed that after having seizures, patients would become more docile. They also noticed that in slaughter houses when the cattle where killed by means of a sledge hammer to the head, they appeared to have seizures.
Realizing that they couldn't strike people over the head too often before permanent damage resulted, they resorted to electrical shocks, and electro-shock therapy was born.
Destroying our credibility as fast as we can.
A good example of why having multiple projects is good comes from EGCS and GCC. After GCC 1 was released it was realised that major code changes would need to be made to advance it. Thusly GCC 2 was born. However, another group had split and worked on the EGCS compiler. The EGCS compiler turned out to be so superior it was adopted, and replaced the original GCC 2.
You say you have 10 years experience, which in this industry counts for a lot. However, if it comes down to someone with 5 years employment experience and a degree, vs. you with the 10 years, you might have competition.
The two most important things that college teaches is problem solving and that you'll be able to complete a project.
Unfortunatly some of the fault rests with the government in this case. They really don't leave the company that much of a choice, either sue the people who are using it in a generic way, or lose substantial rights to the mark.
have something similar, I remember reading something about slashdot's host setup
From the debian fortune program
Would it be acceptable to debian policy if we inserted a crontab by default into potato that emailed bill.gates@microsoft.com every morning with an email that read, "Don't worry, linux is a fad..."