And who types into text boxes anyway? Don't we all just install mozex and use our favourite editor? I'm typing this in emacs. M-x ispell-buffer. Sorted.
And of course your tax is paying towards their kids' education, and if you live somewhere with a decent welfare system, your tax is probably paying for their birth. Parental tax breaks mean you are paying for their food as well. How unselfish can you get?
Some people have commented that this is only happening in developed nations. But if it happens all over teh globe, would that make it a Peter Pan-demic?
Our Windows 2003 TS servers have a much longer uptime than our Linux servers that are accessed from our lab. Simply because fewer people choose to use the Windows service....
...if I want a laptop that runs a modern linux (say, Ubuntu 6.06) with all the goodies working - suspend and hibernate, wireless networking, power management, external video - without having to compile a new (often patched) kernel like I've had to in the past?
Do any laptop manufacturers supoprt linux now?
I guess its back to trawling www.tuxmobile.org....
If catwalk (TG's automatic DB front-end) had been working when I was exploring web frameworks a few months ago I probably would have gone with TurboGears.
Python programmers can get the same kind of experience without learning a new languge with Django. Yes there are differences to RoR but the productivity gains are there. Django gives you database/object linkage, templates, views and all that, and a free and very very usable database interface generated from your model spec.
Oh, of course there's a big backlash against web frameworks these days isn't there?
Thinstation is so nicely customizable. We've converted two labs now, and the big big win is that you can make the labs multi-platform without needing a reboot.
A rack of dells, some Windows TS 2003, some Linux (Ubuntu), and then you write a custom 'chooser' that runs on Thinstation and lets the users decide.
We avoided Windows License Hell because our central IT services have a TS license server. Doesn't avoid Application License Hell though. We cant get Version 15 of Random Stats Package working because it only lets you run on the console with its license restrictions, until Central IT Services set up a license manager...
Do it. We had one lab of 25 people logged into one Windows box (dual 2.6GHz/4G RAM I think) and all running Matlab, Firefox, and the CPU didn't hit 60% (and I dont think thats because the network was the bottleneck). 95% of the time people are just wondering what key to press next in a lab environment.
One common thing I've found when I've been writing is that if a sentence starts to read a bit clunky, dont try and patch it - rewrite it! Sometimes as more than one sentence. So many academic papers I read have long, rambling sentences that take too long to parse and understand. Keep it short. Snappy. Make each sentence comprehensible in itself.
It also helps to really study written material. Perhaps get your students to proofread each other's papers?
And never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Back in 1992 I got a tour of the Atlas Computing Centre in the UK (I was doing a particle physics course at nearby RAL). We got to touch the Cray. Ooh geek heaven. Anyway, in the foyer was part of one of their first computers, the Atlas 1. It looked like a modular synth, all cables and patch leads. The guide then told us there were only three of these left - this one here, one behind glass in the Science Museum in London, and one other......currently doing Air Traffic Control for Heathrow Airport. He wasn't joking.
You dont have to eat ScuttleMonkey's doings. There's an option on the slashdot preferences to only see stories from certain (sub-?) editors. I'm not sure if CmdrTaco counts how popular editors are, but I'd like to see the statistics:)
So, if you dont want SM's stories, vote with your mouse...
Surely premature ejaculation *is* where everything works "out of the box". Sheesh, if you're going to be juvenile at least have a giggle at the word 'box'.
I'm not sure he addresses the contention that the whole nuclear power lifecycle, from mining the uranium to decommissioning end-of-life power stations, is a net producer of CO2.
I suspect this is just because we still have fossil fuel-based mining machinery and transport systems, but if we can switch them all to electricity (or hydrogen power derived from electricity) generated from nuclear power then that might squash that objection.
A small shop unit opened up on our campus last year selling cheap laptops, mobile phones etc etc. Legend has it that a fresher wandered in to get a network card for his PC to connect to his residence room network point and was sold a token ring card. The legend does not tell if it was ISA or S-BUS, or what the newbie did to his motherboard to connect it. But doubtless the tale will grow in the telling...
Hey dont knock it. They did a fine job, my elbow is good enough I can still do chinups, and only when the consultant mentioned it (on my last visit to the orthopaedics and physiotherapy unit) did I even *think* about the cost.
Sure there's this big number on my payslip that gets deducted to pay for all this, but its far less than any private healthcare system and it works pretty well.
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And who types into text boxes anyway? Don't we all just install mozex and use our favourite editor? I'm typing this in emacs. M-x ispell-buffer. Sorted.
You've obviously not seen how much a state pension is in this country (UK). Compare that with the cost of 13 years of full-time education...
And of course your tax is paying towards their kids' education, and if you live somewhere with a decent welfare system, your tax is probably paying for their birth. Parental tax breaks mean you are paying for their food as well. How unselfish can you get?
Some people have commented that this is only happening in developed nations. But if it happens all over teh globe, would that make it a Peter Pan-demic?
Our Windows 2003 TS servers have a much longer uptime than our Linux servers that are accessed from our lab. Simply because fewer people choose to use the Windows service....
...if I want a laptop that runs a modern linux (say, Ubuntu 6.06) with all the goodies working - suspend and hibernate, wireless networking, power management, external video - without having to compile a new (often patched) kernel like I've had to in the past?
Do any laptop manufacturers supoprt linux now?
I guess its back to trawling www.tuxmobile.org....
Of course anyone using Internet Explorer all this time wouldn't notice any difference precisely because it continues to ignore all the standards :)
If catwalk (TG's automatic DB front-end) had been working when I was exploring web frameworks a few months ago I probably would have gone with TurboGears.
The docs say its 'slated for 0.9'...
Python programmers can get the same kind of experience without learning a new languge with Django. Yes there are differences to RoR but the productivity gains are there. Django gives you database/object linkage, templates, views and all that, and a free and very very usable database interface generated from your model spec.
Oh, of course there's a big backlash against web frameworks these days isn't there?
But will they conform strictly to an existing blog API or do what they did with LDAP and mutate it into something not quite compatible?
Thinstation is so nicely customizable. We've converted two labs now, and the big big win is that you can make the labs multi-platform without needing a reboot.
A rack of dells, some Windows TS 2003, some Linux (Ubuntu), and then you write a custom 'chooser' that runs on Thinstation and lets the users decide.
We avoided Windows License Hell because our central IT services have a TS license server. Doesn't avoid Application License Hell though. We cant get Version 15 of Random Stats Package working because it only lets you run on the console with its license restrictions, until Central IT Services set up a license manager...
Do it. We had one lab of 25 people logged into one Windows box (dual 2.6GHz/4G RAM I think) and all running Matlab, Firefox, and the CPU didn't hit 60% (and I dont think thats because the network was the bottleneck). 95% of the time people are just wondering what key to press next in a lab environment.
Barry
One common thing I've found when I've been writing is that if a sentence starts to read a bit clunky, dont try and patch it - rewrite it! Sometimes as more than one sentence. So many academic papers I read have long, rambling sentences that take too long to parse and understand. Keep it short. Snappy. Make each sentence comprehensible in itself.
It also helps to really study written material. Perhaps get your students to proofread each other's papers?
And never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Any rock jocks out there want to put up some new routes?
Can you imagine something like F1 racing but with electric cars? Much less noise and rapid battery changing instead of refueling.
I suspect you'd have to put speakers in the cars to make the Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeowwwwww noises or it just wouldn't be acceptible.
And it will look like this...
yes, its the world championship snooker at the moment, so BBC2 stops everything for green baize action...
BBC 2.0!
Coincidentally, I did this spoof over the weekend. Guess what was on TV all the time...
BBC 2.0
Needs more rounded corners though...
Back in 1992 I got a tour of the Atlas Computing Centre in the UK (I was doing a particle physics course at nearby RAL). We got to touch the Cray. Ooh geek heaven. Anyway, in the foyer was part of one of their first computers, the Atlas 1. It looked like a modular synth, all cables and patch leads. The guide then told us there were only three of these left - this one here, one behind glass in the Science Museum in London, and one other... ...currently doing Air Traffic Control for Heathrow Airport. He wasn't joking.
You dont have to eat ScuttleMonkey's doings. There's an option on the slashdot preferences to only see stories from certain (sub-?) editors. I'm not sure if CmdrTaco counts how popular editors are, but I'd like to see the statistics :)
So, if you dont want SM's stories, vote with your mouse...
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You're thinking of 'Erect Elephant'...
Ah, but thanks to DRM in the future you wont be able to put these things onto your new shiny 750Gb HD :)
Surely premature ejaculation *is* where everything works "out of the box". Sheesh, if you're going to be juvenile at least have a giggle at the word 'box'.
Ah ha. This is the kind of report I was looking for:
http://www.uic.com.au/nip100.htm
I'm not sure he addresses the contention that the whole nuclear power lifecycle, from mining the uranium to decommissioning end-of-life power stations, is a net producer of CO2.
I suspect this is just because we still have fossil fuel-based mining machinery and transport systems, but if we can switch them all to electricity (or hydrogen power derived from electricity) generated from nuclear power then that might squash that objection.
B
A small shop unit opened up on our campus last year selling cheap laptops, mobile phones etc etc. Legend has it that a fresher wandered in to get a network card for his PC to connect to his residence room network point and was sold a token ring card. The legend does not tell if it was ISA or S-BUS, or what the newbie did to his motherboard to connect it. But doubtless the tale will grow in the telling...
Hey dont knock it. They did a fine job, my elbow is good enough I can still do chinups, and only when the consultant mentioned it (on my last visit to the orthopaedics and physiotherapy unit) did I even *think* about the cost.
Sure there's this big number on my payslip that gets deducted to pay for all this, but its far less than any private healthcare system and it works pretty well.